Michiel van Erp’s Casanova drama ‘A Beautiful Imperfection’ stars Jonah Hauer-King and Dar Zuzovsky.
German sales outfit Global Screen has added two new titles to its busy Cannes market line-up.
The Munich-based company has taken on international rights, excluding Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Italy, for Michiel van Erp’s A Beautiful Imperfection, a romantic costume drama telling the story of the love affair between a young woman and the notorious Italian adventurer and womaniser Giacomo Casanova.
The project is in post-production and Global Screen will have a first promo for pre-sales at the Cannes Market.
Jonah Hauer-King stars as...
German sales outfit Global Screen has added two new titles to its busy Cannes market line-up.
The Munich-based company has taken on international rights, excluding Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Italy, for Michiel van Erp’s A Beautiful Imperfection, a romantic costume drama telling the story of the love affair between a young woman and the notorious Italian adventurer and womaniser Giacomo Casanova.
The project is in post-production and Global Screen will have a first promo for pre-sales at the Cannes Market.
Jonah Hauer-King stars as...
- 5/3/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Italy’s Kino Produzioni, the indie shingle that co-produced 2022 Berlin Golden Bear winner “Alcarràs,” is ramping up production with new films by emerging Italian filmmakers Carlo Sironi, Laura Luchetti and Irene Dionisio, as well as also Dutch director Michiel Van Erp and Argentine filmmakers María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat.
“We reached a turning point last year that started out well with the ‘Alcarràs’ victory,” said Kino chief Giovanni Pompili, speaking at the EFM. He noted that in 2022, the Rome-based outfit shot four films, “which for us was pretty challenging, but worked out well.”
Meanwhile, the Kino team has grown. Producer Lara Costa-Calzado, who has been working for a decade between the U.S. and Europe on films such as Eliza Hittman’s Silver Bear winner “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” Sally Potter’s “The Roads Not Taken” and Halina Rejin’s “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” has joined Kino as head of production.
“We reached a turning point last year that started out well with the ‘Alcarràs’ victory,” said Kino chief Giovanni Pompili, speaking at the EFM. He noted that in 2022, the Rome-based outfit shot four films, “which for us was pretty challenging, but worked out well.”
Meanwhile, the Kino team has grown. Producer Lara Costa-Calzado, who has been working for a decade between the U.S. and Europe on films such as Eliza Hittman’s Silver Bear winner “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” Sally Potter’s “The Roads Not Taken” and Halina Rejin’s “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” has joined Kino as head of production.
- 2/18/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Nino Rota’s soundtrack for Federico Fellini’s 1976 film “Il Casanova,” which is getting a re-release via Italian record label Cam Sugar, has been a favorite of Alexandre Desplat’s ever since the Oscar-winning French composer first listened to it at 15 years old.
The magnificently staged film stars Donald Sutherland as the legendary 18th-century Venetian adventurer Giacomo Casanova, who sought wealthy patrons and sexual encounters as he traveled from Venice to Paris, London, Germany, Rome and Austria, where he makes love to a mechanical doll.
The 27 remastered tracks on Rota’s “Casanova” score are being re-released by Cam Sugar in collaboration with Decca Records on Feb. 10, both digitally and on vinyl. They feature compositions on the edge of classical and electronic music, making use of a wide range of instruments including harpsichord, vibraphone and electric piano.
Rota, who scored most of Fellini’s films, including “La Dolce Vita” and “8 1/2,...
The magnificently staged film stars Donald Sutherland as the legendary 18th-century Venetian adventurer Giacomo Casanova, who sought wealthy patrons and sexual encounters as he traveled from Venice to Paris, London, Germany, Rome and Austria, where he makes love to a mechanical doll.
The 27 remastered tracks on Rota’s “Casanova” score are being re-released by Cam Sugar in collaboration with Decca Records on Feb. 10, both digitally and on vinyl. They feature compositions on the edge of classical and electronic music, making use of a wide range of instruments including harpsichord, vibraphone and electric piano.
Rota, who scored most of Fellini’s films, including “La Dolce Vita” and “8 1/2,...
- 2/3/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The English-language Dutch film is now shooting in Italy and the Netherlands.
UK actor Aneurin Barnard, whose credits include TV series Peaky Blinders and Dunkirk, and Israel’s Dar Zuzovsky have joined the cast of Dutch director Michiel Van Erp’s costume drama A Beautiful Imperfection, about Casanova and the woman with whom he falls in love.
Barnard is set to play Casanova’s brother Barrnard while Zuzovsky has been cast as Maria, the woman with whom Giacomo Casanova (the more famous of the Casanova brothers) is played by Jonah Hauer-King.
The film is based on the novel In Lucia...
UK actor Aneurin Barnard, whose credits include TV series Peaky Blinders and Dunkirk, and Israel’s Dar Zuzovsky have joined the cast of Dutch director Michiel Van Erp’s costume drama A Beautiful Imperfection, about Casanova and the woman with whom he falls in love.
Barnard is set to play Casanova’s brother Barrnard while Zuzovsky has been cast as Maria, the woman with whom Giacomo Casanova (the more famous of the Casanova brothers) is played by Jonah Hauer-King.
The film is based on the novel In Lucia...
- 6/9/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Michiel van Erp’s ’A Beautiful Imperfection’ will be an English-language romantic drama.
Dutch Filmworks has pre-bought Benelux rights to and is co-producing Michiel van Erp’s 5.7m (€5.5m) English-language romantic drama A Beautiful Imperfection.
Shooting started this week in Amsterdam and Italy on the film, which tells the story of the love affair between a young woman and Italian adventurer and libertine Giacomo Casanova.
The producer is Maarten Swart of Kaap Holland Film, with Eyeworks Film & TV Drama and Italy’s Kino Produzioni. Backers are the Netherlands Film Fund, Flanders’s Audiovisual Fund (Vaf), CoBo Fund and broadcaster Avrotros.
Dutch Filmworks has pre-bought Benelux rights to and is co-producing Michiel van Erp’s 5.7m (€5.5m) English-language romantic drama A Beautiful Imperfection.
Shooting started this week in Amsterdam and Italy on the film, which tells the story of the love affair between a young woman and Italian adventurer and libertine Giacomo Casanova.
The producer is Maarten Swart of Kaap Holland Film, with Eyeworks Film & TV Drama and Italy’s Kino Produzioni. Backers are the Netherlands Film Fund, Flanders’s Audiovisual Fund (Vaf), CoBo Fund and broadcaster Avrotros.
- 5/19/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Michiel van Erp’s ’A Beautiful Imperfection’ will be an English-language romantic drama.
Dutch Filmworks has pre-bought Benelux rights to and is co-producing Michiel van Erp’s 5.7m (€5.5m) English-language romantic drama A Beautiful Imperfection.
Shooting started this week in Amsterdam and Italy on the film, which tells the story of the love affair between a young woman and Italian adventurer and libertine Giacomo Casanova.
The producer is Maarten Swart of Kaap Holland Film, with Eyeworks Film & TV Drama and Italy’s Kino Produzioni. Backers are the Netherlands Film Fund, Flanders’s Audiovisual Fund (Vaf), CoBo Fund and broadcaster Avrotros.
Dutch Filmworks has pre-bought Benelux rights to and is co-producing Michiel van Erp’s 5.7m (€5.5m) English-language romantic drama A Beautiful Imperfection.
Shooting started this week in Amsterdam and Italy on the film, which tells the story of the love affair between a young woman and Italian adventurer and libertine Giacomo Casanova.
The producer is Maarten Swart of Kaap Holland Film, with Eyeworks Film & TV Drama and Italy’s Kino Produzioni. Backers are the Netherlands Film Fund, Flanders’s Audiovisual Fund (Vaf), CoBo Fund and broadcaster Avrotros.
- 5/19/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The number of films about Giacomo Casanova is legion, which makes the question “why another one?” especially relevant. What insight can be found to kindle enough interest to pour reportedly more than $7.5 million into a retelling of the great diarist’s life? Given Benoît Jacquot’s success with his earlier costume drama “Farewell, My Queen,” based on Chantal Thomas’ novel, perhaps he thought a new angle could be found together with Thomas, this time credited as main scriptwriter. How odd then that their vision imagines a world of predatory hormonally-charged females all throwing themselves at a lackluster, aging roué who shows more gusto wolfing down food than rutting around skirts.
Is this the Casanova for the early 21st century? A man famed among peers for his charisma and broad intelligence, companion of Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin, reduced to a lovesick sad-sack pining after a capricious young prostitute whose physical attributes...
Is this the Casanova for the early 21st century? A man famed among peers for his charisma and broad intelligence, companion of Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin, reduced to a lovesick sad-sack pining after a capricious young prostitute whose physical attributes...
- 7/14/2021
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
“The Beauty Of Decadence”
By Raymond Benson
The year 2020 is the 100th anniversary of Federico Fellini’s birth, and the home video world is seeing many restored and re-released titles from the maestro’s catalog. The Criterion Collection has just released a 14-movie box set, for example, but that exquisite package does not contain many of Fellini’s post-1973 titles because of rights issues.
Enter Kino Lorber. Their Kino Classics imprint has released on Blu-ray a gorgeously restored edition of Fellini’s Casanova (1976; released in the U.S. in early 1977). It was a big budget extravaganza capitalizing on the success of Fellini’s masterpiece, Amarcord (1973; released in the U.S. in 1974), which won the Oscar for Foreign Film of 1974 and was nominated for Best Director for ’75—yes, those eligibility rules are complicated.
Casanova was immediately a curiosity because Fellini cast none other than Donald Sutherland in the role of the notorious womanizer,...
By Raymond Benson
The year 2020 is the 100th anniversary of Federico Fellini’s birth, and the home video world is seeing many restored and re-released titles from the maestro’s catalog. The Criterion Collection has just released a 14-movie box set, for example, but that exquisite package does not contain many of Fellini’s post-1973 titles because of rights issues.
Enter Kino Lorber. Their Kino Classics imprint has released on Blu-ray a gorgeously restored edition of Fellini’s Casanova (1976; released in the U.S. in early 1977). It was a big budget extravaganza capitalizing on the success of Fellini’s masterpiece, Amarcord (1973; released in the U.S. in 1974), which won the Oscar for Foreign Film of 1974 and was nominated for Best Director for ’75—yes, those eligibility rules are complicated.
Casanova was immediately a curiosity because Fellini cast none other than Donald Sutherland in the role of the notorious womanizer,...
- 12/3/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Kicking off on Jan. 17 with the world premiere of Philippe de Chauveron’s “Serial Bad Weddings 2,” the 21st edition of the UniFrance Rendez-Vous in Paris will showcase a flurry of French comedies, biopics and a raft of documentaries.
The Rendez-Vous in Paris, organized by the promotion org UniFrance, will take place over five days and will bring together 481 buyers from 56 countries, as well as 45 French sales companies.
Besides “Serial Bad Weddings 2,” the sequel of the smash hit film which grossed over $148 million, the anticipated comedy highlights set to have their market premieres at the Rendez-Vous include Hugo Gelin’s “Love at Second Sight,” Philippe Lacheau’s “City Hunter,” Eric Lavaine’s “No Filter,” Lisa Azuelos’s “Sweetheart,” Louis-Julien Petit’s “Invisibles” and Bertrand Blier’s “Heavy Duty.”
Sold by Studiocanal, “Love at Second Sight” is a romantic comedy which marks Gelin’s follow-up to the Omar Sy starrer “Two is a Family.
The Rendez-Vous in Paris, organized by the promotion org UniFrance, will take place over five days and will bring together 481 buyers from 56 countries, as well as 45 French sales companies.
Besides “Serial Bad Weddings 2,” the sequel of the smash hit film which grossed over $148 million, the anticipated comedy highlights set to have their market premieres at the Rendez-Vous include Hugo Gelin’s “Love at Second Sight,” Philippe Lacheau’s “City Hunter,” Eric Lavaine’s “No Filter,” Lisa Azuelos’s “Sweetheart,” Louis-Julien Petit’s “Invisibles” and Bertrand Blier’s “Heavy Duty.”
Sold by Studiocanal, “Love at Second Sight” is a romantic comedy which marks Gelin’s follow-up to the Omar Sy starrer “Two is a Family.
- 1/10/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Continually stretching his acting muscles, John Malkovich brings a gravitas few other actors can offer. For Casanova Variations, which is finally getting a release today after touring festivals, the actor gets experimental in meta fashion. Coming from director Michael Sturminger, the story follows Italy’s infamous womanizer Giacomo Casanova in what has been described as cinematic adaptation of a “chamber opera play.”
However, that’s only one strand of the story, as it also stars Malkovich preparing for the stage play, with references of his past work. Today we’re pleased to premiere an exclusive from the film, which depicts a scene from the performance, leading to a duel. Looking like a playful retelling of the Italian adventurer’s life, as well as an ideal showcase for Malkovich’s chops, see our exclusive clip below along with the trailer for the film also starring Veronica Ferres, Florian Boesch, Miah Persson,...
However, that’s only one strand of the story, as it also stars Malkovich preparing for the stage play, with references of his past work. Today we’re pleased to premiere an exclusive from the film, which depicts a scene from the performance, leading to a duel. Looking like a playful retelling of the Italian adventurer’s life, as well as an ideal showcase for Malkovich’s chops, see our exclusive clip below along with the trailer for the film also starring Veronica Ferres, Florian Boesch, Miah Persson,...
- 2/7/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
"The Furniture," by Daniel Walber, is our weekly series on Production Design. You can click on the images to see them in magnified detail. Since the Honorary Oscars are handed out next week, here's a Donald Sutherland film for you!
Federico Fellini didn’t much like Giacomo Casanova, the famously amorous subject of his meandering fantasy-biopic. The director may not have liked Donald Sutherland, either. The actor was required to shave his head and sport both a false nose and a false chin to play the long-winded lover. The costumes aren’t especially flattering either. Fellini’s Casanova is an erotic descent into Hell, a grotesque pageant of 18th century moral abandon. It frequently borders on the disgusting.
It was also on the edge of Oscar’s attention, sliding into only two categories. While Fellini’s Casanova did win for its costumes, its production design missed out entirely. Anyone betting...
Federico Fellini didn’t much like Giacomo Casanova, the famously amorous subject of his meandering fantasy-biopic. The director may not have liked Donald Sutherland, either. The actor was required to shave his head and sport both a false nose and a false chin to play the long-winded lover. The costumes aren’t especially flattering either. Fellini’s Casanova is an erotic descent into Hell, a grotesque pageant of 18th century moral abandon. It frequently borders on the disgusting.
It was also on the edge of Oscar’s attention, sliding into only two categories. While Fellini’s Casanova did win for its costumes, its production design missed out entirely. Anyone betting...
- 11/6/2017
- by Daniel Walber
- FilmExperience
Directed by Delicatessen's Jean-Pierre Jeunet and written by The Americans' Stu Zicherman, new Amazon pilot Casanova is worth a watch...
One of two dramatic pilots to land on Amazon Prime recently, Casanova stars Diego Luna as the eponymous Venetian, recently escaped from imprisonment in the Doge’s palace and on the run to Paris, determined to right his ways and prove himself to be more than his debaucheries. All, however, does not go to plan. He immediately falls into the political game of the French court, finding himself caught between the ongoing machinations of Madame Pompadour (Bojana Novokovic) and his old friend, de Bernis (Ben Daniels).
When you think of Giacomo Casanova, sex is probably the first thing that comes to mind. His infamous debaucheries and reputation for seduction have formed the basis for various adaptations, including the rambunctious BBC version with David Tennant in the title role.
One of two dramatic pilots to land on Amazon Prime recently, Casanova stars Diego Luna as the eponymous Venetian, recently escaped from imprisonment in the Doge’s palace and on the run to Paris, determined to right his ways and prove himself to be more than his debaucheries. All, however, does not go to plan. He immediately falls into the political game of the French court, finding himself caught between the ongoing machinations of Madame Pompadour (Bojana Novokovic) and his old friend, de Bernis (Ben Daniels).
When you think of Giacomo Casanova, sex is probably the first thing that comes to mind. His infamous debaucheries and reputation for seduction have formed the basis for various adaptations, including the rambunctious BBC version with David Tennant in the title role.
- 8/14/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Well, if you're not going to see "Fantastic Four" this weekend, there's something else you can do to whittle away a few hours. Amazon is dropping a handful of new pilots on their service today, and as usual, it's up to viewers to vote and share feedback in order to help determine which one will get green-lit. Among those hoping to connect with potential viewers is Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Casanova." Diego Luna leads the erotic drama about the famed master of seduction who can't help but put his moves on the opposite sex. This trailer and clip from the show reveals that "Casanova" promises to be uh, busty.... Here's the official synopsis: Casanova chronicles a little-known period in the life of one of 18th century’s most famous playboys. Exiled from his beloved Venice, renowned playboy Giacomo Casanova (Luna) flees to Paris at the dawn of the Enlightenment in hopes...
- 8/7/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Amazon Instant Video
While Netflix is the streaming service that grabs all the headlines and is making the traditional TV networks and movie studios sweat, Amazon has quietly been building up its own catalogue of original shows to provide some serious competition.
Amazon Studios was launched back in 2010, with the aim of producing a host of content new and exclusive to its Amazon Instant Video service, but it wasn’t until 2013 that the first pilots appeared. Their model was different in that they released all of these online, and what went to series was largely based on the reception they got from audiences. Thus quite high-profile shows like the Zombieland TV series and Onion News Empire didn’t make the grade, while the John Goodman starring Alpha House was their first hit.
Since then it has gotten a lot more confident, and last year released the sitcom Transparent. It featured...
While Netflix is the streaming service that grabs all the headlines and is making the traditional TV networks and movie studios sweat, Amazon has quietly been building up its own catalogue of original shows to provide some serious competition.
Amazon Studios was launched back in 2010, with the aim of producing a host of content new and exclusive to its Amazon Instant Video service, but it wasn’t until 2013 that the first pilots appeared. Their model was different in that they released all of these online, and what went to series was largely based on the reception they got from audiences. Thus quite high-profile shows like the Zombieland TV series and Onion News Empire didn’t make the grade, while the John Goodman starring Alpha House was their first hit.
Since then it has gotten a lot more confident, and last year released the sitcom Transparent. It featured...
- 8/4/2015
- by James Hunt
- Obsessed with Film
Amazon is pushing ahead with another show in its drive to add more original content via its pilot system. The company has an untitled series about 18th century lover Giacomo Casanova in the works with Diego Luna set to play the romantic scoundrel and Jean-Pierre Jeunet on to direct the initial episode. With Ben Daniels, Miranda Richardson, Bojana Novakovic and Amelia Clarkson also aboard to star, the Casanova series – assuming it makes it past the pilot selection process – will chronicle the life of the renaissance man best known for his philandering ways but who also served as a spy for the French government. The pilot kicks off with him escaping Venice’s most impenetrable prison and moves to Paris with just the shirt on his back, determined to change his ways.Stu Zicherman has written the first script and Jeunet plans to shoot it soon in Paris, Venice and Hungary.
- 4/9/2015
- EmpireOnline
An untitled series about the life of the legendary ladies' man Giacomo Casanova is shaping up to be one of Amazon Studios' biggest titles yet. The online video producer has named Jean-Pierre Jeunet as the series' director, with Diego Luna nabbing the lead role.
The series, executive produced by Electus Entertainment, will star Luna as the titular character, who leaves Venice in order to pursue a new life in France. Two-time Academy Award nominee Miranda Richardson will play alongside him as Marquise d’Urfé, Casanova's Parisian client.
Jeunet, whose filmography spans nearly 25 years, will provide an experienced hand behind the camera. The Frenchman is best known for directing Amélie, which was nominated for five Academy Awards back in 2001.
Luna's most famous role also came in 2001, in the road movie Y Tu Mama Tambien. His co-star in that film, Gael Garcia Bernal, has also taken the lead role in an Amazon series.
The series, executive produced by Electus Entertainment, will star Luna as the titular character, who leaves Venice in order to pursue a new life in France. Two-time Academy Award nominee Miranda Richardson will play alongside him as Marquise d’Urfé, Casanova's Parisian client.
Jeunet, whose filmography spans nearly 25 years, will provide an experienced hand behind the camera. The Frenchman is best known for directing Amélie, which was nominated for five Academy Awards back in 2001.
Luna's most famous role also came in 2001, in the road movie Y Tu Mama Tambien. His co-star in that film, Gael Garcia Bernal, has also taken the lead role in an Amazon series.
- 4/8/2015
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Amazon and Electus have set the cast for the Giacomo Casanova drama pilot, which is being directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie). Diego Luna (Elysium, Y Tu Mamá También) has been tapped for the title role, with Bojana Novakovic, Miranda Richardson, Ben Daniels and Amelia Clarkson co-starring. The untitled project, which is currently filming in Europe, chronicles a little-known period in the life of the famous 18th century renaissance man. Known…...
- 4/8/2015
- Deadline TV
John Malkovich spoke about privacy, playing himself in films and Casanova as he presented the world premiere of his latest work, Casanova Variations, at the 62nd San Sebastian International Film Festival on Monday. The film, directed by Michael Sturminger, combines layers of theater and opera to reflect on the last years of Giacomo Casanova and features Malkovich as a character using his own name, as well as playing the famous seducer. See more: 35 of 2014's Most Anticipated Movies Referring to one of the film's themes — how myth differs from personal reality — Malkovich said privacy for him as
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- 9/22/2014
- by Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Casanova Variations has released its first trailer.
John Malkovich plays Giacomo Casanova and himself in Michael Sturminger's film.
The film tells two stories from the life of the famous lothario, whose name is synonymous with romance and seduction.
It also tells a tale of the production of The Giacomo Variations stage play, which Sturminger directed and Malkovich starred in.
Malkovich famously played a fictionalised version of himself once before in Spike Jonze's 1999 film Being John Malkovich.
Veronica Ferres, Florian Boesch, Miah Persson, Anna Prohaska, Maria João Bastos, Lola Naymark, Kerstin Avemo, Kate Lindsey, Fanny Ardant and Jonas Kaufmann also feature in the film.
Casanova Variations is expected to be released in 2015.
John Malkovich plays Giacomo Casanova and himself in Michael Sturminger's film.
The film tells two stories from the life of the famous lothario, whose name is synonymous with romance and seduction.
It also tells a tale of the production of The Giacomo Variations stage play, which Sturminger directed and Malkovich starred in.
Malkovich famously played a fictionalised version of himself once before in Spike Jonze's 1999 film Being John Malkovich.
Veronica Ferres, Florian Boesch, Miah Persson, Anna Prohaska, Maria João Bastos, Lola Naymark, Kerstin Avemo, Kate Lindsey, Fanny Ardant and Jonas Kaufmann also feature in the film.
Casanova Variations is expected to be released in 2015.
- 9/22/2014
- Digital Spy
Watch: First Trailer For Period Drama 'Casanova Variations' Starring John Malkovich And Fanny Ardant
John Malkovich won acclaim in 1988 for wearing a wig in Stephen Frears’ “Dangerous Liaisons,” and he’s going that route again in “Casanova Variations.” In case you were wondering what that looks like in this day and age, there’s now a new trailer for this film about the greatest seduction artist of all time. Directed by Michael Sturminger, who adapted his own stage play (“The Giacomo Variations”), the film tells a pair of stories about Giacomo Casanova, the Italian writer and adventurer who was so famous for his affairs that his name became synonymous with smooth-talking lotharios and womanizers the world over. He was linked to, among others, Marie Antoinette and Catherine the Great. The guy got around. The live version has been described as “a chamber opera play,” featuring the music of Casanova’s contemporaries like Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte, and that aspect certainly comes through in this trailer.
- 9/19/2014
- by Brent McKnight
- The Playlist
Seven films will compete for the top prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
The films in the running for the Golden Shell at the 62nd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sep 19-27) have been unveiled.
The seven titles are:
Casanova Variations, Michael Sturminger (Fr-Aus-Ger)
Silent Heart, Bille August (Den)
Phoenix, Christian Petzold (Ger)
The New Girlfriend, François Ozon (Fra)
Haemoo, Shim Sung-Bo (S Kor)
Eden, Mia Hansen-Løve (Fra)
The Drop, Michaël R. Roskam (Us)
New titles to join them in the Official Selection will be announced next week.
Casanova Variations stars John Malkovich stars as the legendary seducer. Based on Histoire de ma vie by Giacomo Casanova and with arias from W.A. Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte, his story is told both through fiction and on-stage performances to reveal stories of his adventures and fear of death.
The Drop marks the Us debut of Belgian filmmaker Roskam, who arrived on the scene with muscular drama Bullhead. The film...
The films in the running for the Golden Shell at the 62nd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sep 19-27) have been unveiled.
The seven titles are:
Casanova Variations, Michael Sturminger (Fr-Aus-Ger)
Silent Heart, Bille August (Den)
Phoenix, Christian Petzold (Ger)
The New Girlfriend, François Ozon (Fra)
Haemoo, Shim Sung-Bo (S Kor)
Eden, Mia Hansen-Løve (Fra)
The Drop, Michaël R. Roskam (Us)
New titles to join them in the Official Selection will be announced next week.
Casanova Variations stars John Malkovich stars as the legendary seducer. Based on Histoire de ma vie by Giacomo Casanova and with arias from W.A. Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte, his story is told both through fiction and on-stage performances to reveal stories of his adventures and fear of death.
The Drop marks the Us debut of Belgian filmmaker Roskam, who arrived on the scene with muscular drama Bullhead. The film...
- 8/7/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The menage-a-trois has a long and storied history. I’m assuming that’s the case, anyway, because few historians have bothered to write down when and where people first started doing R-rated things to each other in threes rather than twos. There are surprisingly few cave paintings on the matter. But we do know that by the fifth century, the idea of three people romantically entangled was not entirely unheard of, to the point where three-way situations were a small but recognizable part of pop culture (on the ancient Greek equivalent of the E! network). And by the 1700s, three-way sex was all the rage with upper crust Europeans in powdered wigs (wig powder, naturally, is a potent aphrodisiac). Famed Italian loverboy Giacomo Casanova first lost his virginity in such an arrangement. Various dukes (William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire) and Counts (Adolf Frederik Munck) are also famous for committing this salacious act. And...
- 5/12/2014
- by Adam Bellotto
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Cannes slate includes Michael Sturminger’s Casanova Variations.
Paolo Branco’s Paris-based Alfama Films has hired former Le Pacte executive Elisabeth Perlié to head up its international sales and distribution activities.
“I’ve been brought into give some direction to the sales and distribution teams which have been working without a manager for the past few months,’ said Perlié.
At Cannes, Perlié and her sales team will be focusing on two titles: Mathieu Amalric’s The Blue Room and Michael Sturminger’s Casanova Variations.
Actor and director Amalric’s adaptation of a novel by French crime-writer Georges Simenon, about an illicit love affair that takes a murderous turn, will premiere in Un Certain Regard.
Alfama will also give buyers a sneak preview of Michael Sturminger’s Casanova Variations, starring John Malkovich as the Italian womaniser Giacomo Casanova, in the Cannes Marché.
“It’s a select preview for buyers ahead of a festival premiere this summer,” said Perlié...
Paolo Branco’s Paris-based Alfama Films has hired former Le Pacte executive Elisabeth Perlié to head up its international sales and distribution activities.
“I’ve been brought into give some direction to the sales and distribution teams which have been working without a manager for the past few months,’ said Perlié.
At Cannes, Perlié and her sales team will be focusing on two titles: Mathieu Amalric’s The Blue Room and Michael Sturminger’s Casanova Variations.
Actor and director Amalric’s adaptation of a novel by French crime-writer Georges Simenon, about an illicit love affair that takes a murderous turn, will premiere in Un Certain Regard.
Alfama will also give buyers a sneak preview of Michael Sturminger’s Casanova Variations, starring John Malkovich as the Italian womaniser Giacomo Casanova, in the Cannes Marché.
“It’s a select preview for buyers ahead of a festival premiere this summer,” said Perlié...
- 5/7/2014
- ScreenDaily
All you ever wanted to know about Bond – his earliest memory, his most treasured possession, his most unappealing habit. Don't miss William Boyd's interview with 007
James Bond was born in 1924. His father was Andrew Bond, a Scottish engineer who worked for the Vickers armament firm, and his mother, Monique, was Swiss, née Delacroix. Bond was initially educated abroad and became fluent in German and French. His parents, however, died in a tragic climbing accident when Bond was 11 years old. He was sent to Eton, and spent only two terms there before being expelled. The rest of his secondary education took place in Scotland, at Fettes College, Edinburgh, his father's old school. Bond left school at the age of 17 in 1941, and, lying about his age, joined a branch of what would become the Ministry of Defence. He ended the war with the rank of commander in the Special Branch of...
James Bond was born in 1924. His father was Andrew Bond, a Scottish engineer who worked for the Vickers armament firm, and his mother, Monique, was Swiss, née Delacroix. Bond was initially educated abroad and became fluent in German and French. His parents, however, died in a tragic climbing accident when Bond was 11 years old. He was sent to Eton, and spent only two terms there before being expelled. The rest of his secondary education took place in Scotland, at Fettes College, Edinburgh, his father's old school. Bond left school at the age of 17 in 1941, and, lying about his age, joined a branch of what would become the Ministry of Defence. He ended the war with the rank of commander in the Special Branch of...
- 9/28/2013
- by William Boyd
- The Guardian - Film News
Spanish director Albert Serra with his Locarno's Golden Leopard for Story of My Death (Historia de la Meva Mort) The much-heralded Catalan-language drama Story of My Death (Historia de la Meva Mort), Albert Serra’s dreamlike interpretation of the life and demise of the infamous 18th-century Venetian libertine and adventurer Giacomo Casanova, won the 2013 Locarno Film Festival’s Golden Leopard at the weekend (17 August).
Vicenc Altaio plays Casanova in Story Of My Death, which won the Golden Leopard at Locarno Originally touted for Cannes earlier in the year, it created a Locarno buzz right from its initial screening.
It marks the first time a Spanish film has won the top award in the festival's 66-year history.
A Portuguese title won the jury prize - What Now? Remind Me (E Agora? Lembra-Me), Joaquim Pinto’s story of his own battle against HIV and Hepatitis C.
The Leopard award for Best Director...
Vicenc Altaio plays Casanova in Story Of My Death, which won the Golden Leopard at Locarno Originally touted for Cannes earlier in the year, it created a Locarno buzz right from its initial screening.
It marks the first time a Spanish film has won the top award in the festival's 66-year history.
A Portuguese title won the jury prize - What Now? Remind Me (E Agora? Lembra-Me), Joaquim Pinto’s story of his own battle against HIV and Hepatitis C.
The Leopard award for Best Director...
- 8/18/2013
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Rome – The much-heralded Historia de la Meva Mort (Story of My Death), Alberto Serra’s eerie and dreamlike interpretation of famous 18th-century Venetian libertine and adventurer Giacomo Casanova, won the Locarno Film Festival’s main prize Saturday. The Catalan-language film, which had been rumored to be headed to Cannes earlier in the year, created a buzz after premiering last Tuesday and was immediately tapped as one of the favorites for the prestigious Golden Leopard honor. Locarno Review: The Story of My Death (Historia de la meva mort) It was the first time a Spanish film ever won the
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- 8/17/2013
- by Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The title of Spanish director Albert Serra's fourth feature, "The Story of My Death," presents a sardonic riff on 18th century Italian Renaissance man Giacomo Casanova. His memoir, "Story of My Life," recounts his lively travels across Europe and encounters with fellow luminaries of his era like Voltaire and Rousseau. But Serra sets those recollections aside in favor of a dryly introspective look at Casanova's dwindling command over his legacy as it starts to fray when faced with changing times, a force manifested in the form of Dracula. Unsurprisingly for the director of "Birdsong" -- a black-and-white, digital video depiction of the Three Wise Men that famously includes an eight-minute static shot of nothing but the subjects wandering across an empty desert plane -- Serra has made a slow, cryptic work heavy with metaphor and implication but also riddled with details. Yet it's oddly Serra's most accessible work, the...
- 8/13/2013
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
London, Mar 31: Bored and exiled in the pine forests of rural Bohemia, far from the cities and the women he had loved and left, the ageing Giacomo Casanova spent his final years writing his memoirs.
The Venice he grew up in no longer existed. The Paris he loved was riddled with revolution. Writing was, he said in the preface, "the only remedy I could think of to keep me from going mad or dying of grief".
The book, Histoire de Ma Vie (Story of My Life), published two decades after his death in 1798, would ensure that the man whose name was to become synonymous with womanising did not vanish into obscurity.
Until.
The Venice he grew up in no longer existed. The Paris he loved was riddled with revolution. Writing was, he said in the preface, "the only remedy I could think of to keep me from going mad or dying of grief".
The book, Histoire de Ma Vie (Story of My Life), published two decades after his death in 1798, would ensure that the man whose name was to become synonymous with womanising did not vanish into obscurity.
Until.
- 3/31/2013
- by Lohit Reddy
- RealBollywood.com
Heath Ledger's Venetian seducer is hitched to a screenplay that neuters his anecdotes and emasculates his lovers
Director: Lasse Hallström
Entertainment grade: C–
History grade: E
Giacomo Casanova was a preacher, a soldier, a professional gambler, a violinist, a faith-healer, a translator, a spy and a librarian – though he is remembered as a seducer.
Reputation
"10,000 pages, my life and loves," says the elderly Casanova at the beginning of the film. "Just about one woman for every page." The real Casanova's memoirs, History of My Life, ran to 3,800 folio pages. There is nowhere near one woman for every page. The memoirs record sex with between 122 and 136 women, depending on how you tally the numbers in a couple of orgies, and with several men. Casanova lost his virginity aged 16 and lived till he was 73, so that's fewer than three lovers a year. Quite chaste for the 18th century.
Religion
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Director: Lasse Hallström
Entertainment grade: C–
History grade: E
Giacomo Casanova was a preacher, a soldier, a professional gambler, a violinist, a faith-healer, a translator, a spy and a librarian – though he is remembered as a seducer.
Reputation
"10,000 pages, my life and loves," says the elderly Casanova at the beginning of the film. "Just about one woman for every page." The real Casanova's memoirs, History of My Life, ran to 3,800 folio pages. There is nowhere near one woman for every page. The memoirs record sex with between 122 and 136 women, depending on how you tally the numbers in a couple of orgies, and with several men. Casanova lost his virginity aged 16 and lived till he was 73, so that's fewer than three lovers a year. Quite chaste for the 18th century.
Religion
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- 11/4/2010
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
Potential Films is offering our readers season passes for Carlos Saura’s I, Don Giovanni.
The film is a drama based on the life of 18th century Italian lyricist Lorenzo da Ponte, who collaborated with Mozart on his Don Giovanni opera.
Venice, 1763. Writer Lorenzo da Ponte is leading a very cavalier life. Originally a priest, his numerous affairs result in him being sent into exile in Vienna.
Supported by his friend and mentor Giacomo Casanova, da Ponte is introduced in Vienna to the King’s favourite composer, Salieri, and a newcomer named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Seeing an opportunity to undermine his rival’s ascension, Salieri tricks Mozart into hiring this unknown libertine as his librettist. But da Ponte’s own nature and sentimental wanderings in Vienna only inspire the composer, and lead to one of Mozart’s most bold and powerful compositions: Don Giovanni.
I, Don Giovanni opens on May 6 (Melbourne,...
The film is a drama based on the life of 18th century Italian lyricist Lorenzo da Ponte, who collaborated with Mozart on his Don Giovanni opera.
Venice, 1763. Writer Lorenzo da Ponte is leading a very cavalier life. Originally a priest, his numerous affairs result in him being sent into exile in Vienna.
Supported by his friend and mentor Giacomo Casanova, da Ponte is introduced in Vienna to the King’s favourite composer, Salieri, and a newcomer named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Seeing an opportunity to undermine his rival’s ascension, Salieri tricks Mozart into hiring this unknown libertine as his librettist. But da Ponte’s own nature and sentimental wanderings in Vienna only inspire the composer, and lead to one of Mozart’s most bold and powerful compositions: Don Giovanni.
I, Don Giovanni opens on May 6 (Melbourne,...
- 5/4/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Working on a podcast called the Criterion Cast, several directors will be consistently reference because of their multiple entries within the Criterion Collection, and deserve every ounce of recognition. One of these filmmakers, without question, is Federico Fellini. Just recently covering his wonderful film Amarcord and in the past few weeks with news of La Dolce Vita maybe not having actual owners and a new print on the way for it’s 50th anniversary, it was only a matter of time before something else came along.
Which is why it’s wonderful to see that some of his greatest works are going to be shown on the big screen once again at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on June 16th to the 27th. The films being shown are I vitelloni, 8 ½, La strada, Nights of Cabiria, Amarcord, and Juliet of the Spirits in all new 35mm prints.
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Which is why it’s wonderful to see that some of his greatest works are going to be shown on the big screen once again at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on June 16th to the 27th. The films being shown are I vitelloni, 8 ½, La strada, Nights of Cabiria, Amarcord, and Juliet of the Spirits in all new 35mm prints.
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- 4/30/2010
- by James McCormick
- CriterionCast
Among the movies available during the long hours of my flight from London to Sydney was Rob Marshall's Nine, a reworking of Fellini's 8½. As I flicked back and forth through the menu, I caught glimpses of Penélope Cruz in a flounced red baby-doll nightie with a built-in push-up bra – could we have worn such things in the 1960s? – and Sophia Loren looking like an Aztec mask, and Daniel Day-Lewis getting in and out of bed with his trousers on, but I was not tempted. I will not have my Fellini rewritten by Arthur Kopit, who wrote the musical, or Anthony Minghella or Michael Tolkin, who wrote the screenplay.
In the summer of 1975, Paola Roli, one of the casting directors for Fellini's Casanova, suggested that he try me for the part of the giantess. I was a fan from way back, so, though I didn't want the part, and...
In the summer of 1975, Paola Roli, one of the casting directors for Fellini's Casanova, suggested that he try me for the part of the giantess. I was a fan from way back, so, though I didn't want the part, and...
- 4/12/2010
- by Germaine Greer
- The Guardian - Film News
Yes there are other films we're excited to see in this final Tiff line-up announcement - Alejandro Amenábar's Agora, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done by Werner Herzog - but let's face it the chance to see John Hillcoat's adaptation of the The Road two months early is just so damn cool that we had to give it top billing here.
You can check out the full Galas and Special Presentation line-ups after the break, or learn more about the entire festival over at the official Tiff site.
Galas
Agora Alejandro Amenábar, Spain
North American Premiere
In the fourth century, while Egypt was under the Roman Empire, violent religious upheaval in the streets of Alexandria spills over into the city’s famous library. Trapped inside its walls, the brilliant astronomer Hypatia (Rachel Weisz) and her disciples fight to save the wisdom of the ancient world. Among...
You can check out the full Galas and Special Presentation line-ups after the break, or learn more about the entire festival over at the official Tiff site.
Galas
Agora Alejandro Amenábar, Spain
North American Premiere
In the fourth century, while Egypt was under the Roman Empire, violent religious upheaval in the streets of Alexandria spills over into the city’s famous library. Trapped inside its walls, the brilliant astronomer Hypatia (Rachel Weisz) and her disciples fight to save the wisdom of the ancient world. Among...
- 8/13/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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