Donald Sutherland has written his autobiography, which goes by the name Made Up, But Still True. More details on it here.
In a film career that’s covered seven decades, Donald Sutherland hasn’t been shy of memorable roles and terrific performances. For the most part though, he’s been letting his acting do the talking. Now though, he’s telling his life story in his autobiography, which is going to be on sale before the year is out.
Entitled Made Up, But Still True, we’re promised a book that’s going to be candid and unpredictable, and also one that reflects on an incredible career.
It’s being published by Penguin in the UK on 12th November 2024, and it’s gone up for pre-order now.
You can find out more on the book, and order a copy, right here.
Penguin has issued a synopsis for the book too,...
In a film career that’s covered seven decades, Donald Sutherland hasn’t been shy of memorable roles and terrific performances. For the most part though, he’s been letting his acting do the talking. Now though, he’s telling his life story in his autobiography, which is going to be on sale before the year is out.
Entitled Made Up, But Still True, we’re promised a book that’s going to be candid and unpredictable, and also one that reflects on an incredible career.
It’s being published by Penguin in the UK on 12th November 2024, and it’s gone up for pre-order now.
You can find out more on the book, and order a copy, right here.
Penguin has issued a synopsis for the book too,...
- 4/30/2024
- by Simon Brew
- Film Stories
Fans of legendary actor Donald Sutherland will soon have the opportunity to lick his backside, as the 88-year-old will be honored with a stamp from Canada Post.
Speaking with The Canadian Press (via CTV News), Donald Sutherland was undoubtedly humbled and showed that, despite being on the cusp of his 90s, he still has a sense of humor. “It’s the biggest thing to me…I kept saying: ‘I’m a Canadian and now I’m a Canadian stamp…This is really something. I think just now when I said it, all the hair stood up on my arms. But it is cold in here.”
The stamp, which you can see below, shows a profile of Donald Sutherland behind with a list of some of his notable films – Klute, M*A*S*H, Klute, Fellini’s Casanova, Ordinary People, The Italian Job, and The Hunger Games – along with French translations.
On their decision to honor Donald Sutherland,...
Speaking with The Canadian Press (via CTV News), Donald Sutherland was undoubtedly humbled and showed that, despite being on the cusp of his 90s, he still has a sense of humor. “It’s the biggest thing to me…I kept saying: ‘I’m a Canadian and now I’m a Canadian stamp…This is really something. I think just now when I said it, all the hair stood up on my arms. But it is cold in here.”
The stamp, which you can see below, shows a profile of Donald Sutherland behind with a list of some of his notable films – Klute, M*A*S*H, Klute, Fellini’s Casanova, Ordinary People, The Italian Job, and The Hunger Games – along with French translations.
On their decision to honor Donald Sutherland,...
- 10/22/2023
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
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 major release of the week, Saif Ali Khan?s Jawaani Jaaneman, which was expected to be a sort of a comeback for Saif (more so due to his sterling negative act in the blockbuster Tanhaji), failed to keep up to the expectations. The opening day saw a 10 percent start with a small pick up during the latter shows, resulting in a 3 crore plus opening day.?
Having said that, with Saif in his ?comfort zone?, back in (mature) ?Casanova image and favourable reviews, the film is expected to see a decent weekend haul, ?despite limited screening.
The other release, ?Himesh Reshammiya?s Happy Hardy And Heer saw a so-so start.?
Meanwhile, last Friday?s dance extravaganza, Remo Fernandez directed Varun-Shraddha starrer, Street Dancer 3D, could not quite build on a 40 crore weekend as it ended the opening week netting 54-55 crore. And just as we had said in our regular box-office report,...
Having said that, with Saif in his ?comfort zone?, back in (mature) ?Casanova image and favourable reviews, the film is expected to see a decent weekend haul, ?despite limited screening.
The other release, ?Himesh Reshammiya?s Happy Hardy And Heer saw a so-so start.?
Meanwhile, last Friday?s dance extravaganza, Remo Fernandez directed Varun-Shraddha starrer, Street Dancer 3D, could not quite build on a 40 crore weekend as it ended the opening week netting 54-55 crore. And just as we had said in our regular box-office report,...
- 2/1/2020
- GlamSham
Sneak Peek footage, plus images from the new adventure drama "In Search Of Fellini", directed by Taron Lexton, starring Maria Bello, Ksenia Solo, and Mary Lynn Rajskub, opening September 15, 2017:
"...a shy small-town Ohio girl who loves movies but dislikes reality, discovers the delightfully bizarre films of 'Federico Fellini' and sets off on a strange, beautiful journey across Italy to find him..."
Federico Fellini was an Italian film director, screenwriter noted for his distinct style "...that blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness..."
In a career spanning almost fifty years, Fellini won the 'Palme d'Or' for the feature "La Dolce Vita", was nominated for twelve Academy Awards, and directed four motion pictures that won Oscars in the category of 'Best Foreign Language Film'. In 1993, he was awarded an honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement.
Besides "La Dolce Vita" and "8½", his other well-known films include "La Strada", "Nights of Cabiria...
"...a shy small-town Ohio girl who loves movies but dislikes reality, discovers the delightfully bizarre films of 'Federico Fellini' and sets off on a strange, beautiful journey across Italy to find him..."
Federico Fellini was an Italian film director, screenwriter noted for his distinct style "...that blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness..."
In a career spanning almost fifty years, Fellini won the 'Palme d'Or' for the feature "La Dolce Vita", was nominated for twelve Academy Awards, and directed four motion pictures that won Oscars in the category of 'Best Foreign Language Film'. In 1993, he was awarded an honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement.
Besides "La Dolce Vita" and "8½", his other well-known films include "La Strada", "Nights of Cabiria...
- 8/18/2017
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Fellini Satyricon
Written by Federico Fellini and Bernardino Zapponi (adaptation and screenplay) and Brunello Rondi (additional screenplay)
Directed by Federico Fellini
Italy, 1969
It’s somewhat surprising that in 1971, Federico Fellini was nominated for a best director Academy Award for Fellini Satyricon. To say the least, it’s a very un-Oscar type of film, especially by today’s standards. But it is a film, an exceptional one, that truly from start to finish conveys the creative imagination of its directorial guiding force. So perhaps in that regard, the nomination makes sense. This very rationale is also the reason why Fellini remains one of the greatest of all film directors, and why Fellini Satyricon, though not at all his best work, nevertheless remains so fascinating and precious. As its title suggests, the movie explicitly expresses the personal vision of its director—more than his name above the title, Fellini’s name was the title.
Written by Federico Fellini and Bernardino Zapponi (adaptation and screenplay) and Brunello Rondi (additional screenplay)
Directed by Federico Fellini
Italy, 1969
It’s somewhat surprising that in 1971, Federico Fellini was nominated for a best director Academy Award for Fellini Satyricon. To say the least, it’s a very un-Oscar type of film, especially by today’s standards. But it is a film, an exceptional one, that truly from start to finish conveys the creative imagination of its directorial guiding force. So perhaps in that regard, the nomination makes sense. This very rationale is also the reason why Fellini remains one of the greatest of all film directors, and why Fellini Satyricon, though not at all his best work, nevertheless remains so fascinating and precious. As its title suggests, the movie explicitly expresses the personal vision of its director—more than his name above the title, Fellini’s name was the title.
- 3/3/2015
- by Jeremy Carr
- SoundOnSight
The Austin Film Society has a few more screenings of the restored version of Herzog's Nosferatu this weekend. You can catch it this evening and again on Sunday at the Marchesa. The same can be said of Truffaut's Bed & Board, while the acclaimed new release Let The Fire Burn screens on Tuesday for Doc Nights. Richard Linklater had to travel to Berlin for a screening of his new film Boyhood, so he's recorded a special video introduction to Wednesday evening's 35mm presentation of Valley Girl and Lars Nilsen will hold down the post-film discussion with Louis Black.
The Alamo Ritz is bringing West Side Story back to the big screen for the next week, just in time to get you ready for Valentine's Day. They'll be screening a 70mm print, presumably the same one that played last year which was in absolutely beautiful condition. Also at the Ritz this week:...
- 2/7/2014
- by Matt Shiverdecker
- Slackerwood
I'm 50/50 on Terry Gilliam and I'd actually expect most film fans are, largely because he's one of our most imaginative filmmakers, making it nearly impossible to like everything he makes. I suspect, however, there's a level of respect we all have for Gilliam that we don't reserve for other filmmakers, which is why we remain interested in whatever he has coming next, no matter how much we loved or hated what came before it. With his next film, The Zero Theorum, arriving in the UK this March (a U.S. release is still pending), Jessica Kiang at The Playlist had a chance to talk to the writer/director about the films that have influenced him and as well as a few he couldn't quite bear and it's an and enlightening enjoyable read. I'm going to suggest you click here to read his thoughts, but here's the list with a couple...
- 2/4/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Today, we're featuring Donald Sutherland and Blanche Baker circa 1981. Some of Sutherland's more notable movie roles have included offbeat soldiers in popular war movies such as The Dirty Dozen, Mash and Kelly's Heroes, as well as a diverse range of characters in other noted films such as, Fellini's Casanova, Klute, Don't Look Now, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, JFK, Ordinary People, Pride amp Prejudice, and The Hunger Games. He is the father of actor Kiefer Sutherland. Hi Broadway credits include Lolita and Buck White. In 1980, Baker originated the lead role of a 12-year-old girl loved by a pedophile in Edward Albee's stage adaption of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita.
- 5/29/2013
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games movie The Hunger Games: Behind Tobey Maguire / Kirsten Dunst's Spider-man, Christopher Nolan / Christian Bale's The Dark Knight If estimates are accurate, The Hunger Games has already become Lionsgate's biggest box-office hit ever. By Sunday evening it'll have surpassed Michael Moore's Palme d'Or winner Fahrenheit 9/11, the current Lionsgate champ — thanks to Disney's Michael Eisner, who refused to release the anti-George W. Bush/Iraq War film. Moore's political documentary cumed at $119.19 million in 2004 (or about $152 million today). The Hunger Games is also the biggest March blockbuster ever, far surpassing (in both box-office receipts and ticket sales) Tim Burton / Johnny Depp / Mia Wasikowska's Alice in Wonderland's $116.1 million. In fact, it's the biggest non-summer opening ever, ahead of New Moon and Breaking Dawn Part 1. It's also officially the biggest opening for a non-sequel ever, though as pointed out above, Spider-Man sold more...
- 3/26/2012
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
The Hunger Games: Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne The Hunger Games Box Office: Behind Christopher Nolan / Christian Bale's The Dark Knight, Tobey Maguire / Kirsten Dunst's Spider-man 3 The Hunger Games averaged $16,497 at 4,137 locations. Without taking inflation into account, that's the fourth-highest opening-day per-theater average ever, behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (which had the added advantage of 3D surcharges), New Moon, and Breaking Dawn 1. Even while ignoring IMAX surcharges, if inflation is taken into account The Hunger Games falls behind a handful of other titles, such as The Dark Knight ($15,384; $17,014 today) and George Lucas / Ewan McGregor / Natalie Portman's Revenge of the Sith ($13,661 in 2005; $16,912 today), which opened at 3,661 locations. Distributed by Lionsgate, The Hunger Games will surely become the studio's biggest box-office hit ever — possibly by Sunday evening. Michael Moore's Palme d'Or winner Fahrenheit 9/11 is the current Lionsgate champ — thanks to Disney's Michael Eisner,...
- 3/24/2012
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Jennifer Lawrence, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, The Hunger Games The Hunger Games should open with approximately $66 million at 4,137 locations in North America on Friday, according to Deadline.com. West Coast showings haven't been tallied yet, so figures could go up or down somewhat before official studio estimates are released Saturday morning. According to Deadline's "sources," The Hunger Games will likely score around $138 million by Sunday evening — placing it on a par with the most recent Twilight movie, Bill Condon's The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, while easily surpassing (both in box-office receipts and ticket sales) the Tim Burton / Johnny Depp / Mia Wasikowska fantasy Alice in Wonderland — $116.1 million at 3,728 locations in 2010 — to become the biggest March blockbuster ever. Now, if The Hunger Games truly reaches $138 million, it'll have collected less than 50% of its total weekend take on opening day: a rarity for such big openers, though the vast majority of...
- 3/24/2012
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
tuesday top ten returns! It's for the list-maker in me and the list-lover in you
The Cannes film festival wrapped this weekend (previous posts) and the most recent Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, The Secret in Their Eyes is still in the midst of a successful Us run. That Oscar winning Argentinian film came to us from director Juan Jose Campanella. It's his second film to be honored by the Academy (Son of the Bride was nominated ten years back). The Academy voters obviously like Campanella and in some ways he's a Hollywood guy. When he's not directing Argentinian Oscar hopefuls he spends time making Us television with episodes of Law & Order, House and 30 Rock under his belt.
So let's talk foreign-language auteurs. Who does Oscar love most?
[The film titles discussed in this article will link to Netflix pages -- if available -- should you be curious to see the films]
Best Director winners Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) and Milos Forman
(Amadeus and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
Please Note:...
The Cannes film festival wrapped this weekend (previous posts) and the most recent Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, The Secret in Their Eyes is still in the midst of a successful Us run. That Oscar winning Argentinian film came to us from director Juan Jose Campanella. It's his second film to be honored by the Academy (Son of the Bride was nominated ten years back). The Academy voters obviously like Campanella and in some ways he's a Hollywood guy. When he's not directing Argentinian Oscar hopefuls he spends time making Us television with episodes of Law & Order, House and 30 Rock under his belt.
So let's talk foreign-language auteurs. Who does Oscar love most?
[The film titles discussed in this article will link to Netflix pages -- if available -- should you be curious to see the films]
Best Director winners Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) and Milos Forman
(Amadeus and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
Please Note:...
- 5/31/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
World On A Wire
Second Sight
It's always something of a treat when a visionary director tackles science fiction. Kubrick's 2001, Godard's Alphaville, Verhoeven's Robocop are all fine examples; even flops such as David Lynch's Dune are often very interesting failures. Rainer Werner Fassbinder's adaptation of Daniel F Galouye's 1964 proto-virtual reality thriller Simulcron Three, is an unmitigated success. Unavailable almost since its first broadcast on German TV in 1973, the film has built up a strong reputation, which it more than lives up to. Dr Stiller (Klaus Löwitsch) takes over command of a breakthrough computer program after the mysterious death of the previous boss. The project has created a large, virtual world inhabited by over 10,000 "identity units" – simulated human characters with artificial intelligence, oblivious to their true nature. We've had a lot of films dealing with similar concepts since (The Matrix being the most obvious), but few have truly engaged...
Second Sight
It's always something of a treat when a visionary director tackles science fiction. Kubrick's 2001, Godard's Alphaville, Verhoeven's Robocop are all fine examples; even flops such as David Lynch's Dune are often very interesting failures. Rainer Werner Fassbinder's adaptation of Daniel F Galouye's 1964 proto-virtual reality thriller Simulcron Three, is an unmitigated success. Unavailable almost since its first broadcast on German TV in 1973, the film has built up a strong reputation, which it more than lives up to. Dr Stiller (Klaus Löwitsch) takes over command of a breakthrough computer program after the mysterious death of the previous boss. The project has created a large, virtual world inhabited by over 10,000 "identity units" – simulated human characters with artificial intelligence, oblivious to their true nature. We've had a lot of films dealing with similar concepts since (The Matrix being the most obvious), but few have truly engaged...
- 5/14/2010
- by Phelim O'Neill
- The Guardian - Film News
Famed feminist writer Germaine Greer once enjoyed an affair with legendary Italian moviemaker Federico Fellini.
The Female Eunuch author claims to have struck up a romance with La Dolce Vita director after he invited her to Italy in 1975 to audition for a role in his 1976 movie Fellini's Casanova.
Greer turned down the part, but subsequently enjoyed a brief relationship with the critically-acclaimed filmmaker, who was married to actress Giulietta Masina from 1943 until his death in 1993.
The author revealed the affair in an article written for Britain's Guardian newspaper, insisting she decided to divulge the details of the secret romance after seeing Oscar-nominated 2009 movie Nine, which was based on Fellini's semi-autobiographical 1963 film 8 1/2.
She writes, "I caught glimpses of Penelope Cruz in a flounced red baby-doll nightie... and Sophia Loren looking like an Aztec mask, and Daniel Day-Lewis getting 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 (Nine) screenplay."
She goes on to describe her first sexual encounter with the moviemaker, but admits the romance eventually fizzled out because of her hectic schedule.
She adds, "The relationship was self-limiting because I wasn't available... Sexual athletes are tuppence a dozen. Fellini was a many-sided genius. I do not hope to meet his like again."...
The Female Eunuch author claims to have struck up a romance with La Dolce Vita director after he invited her to Italy in 1975 to audition for a role in his 1976 movie Fellini's Casanova.
Greer turned down the part, but subsequently enjoyed a brief relationship with the critically-acclaimed filmmaker, who was married to actress Giulietta Masina from 1943 until his death in 1993.
The author revealed the affair in an article written for Britain's Guardian newspaper, insisting she decided to divulge the details of the secret romance after seeing Oscar-nominated 2009 movie Nine, which was based on Fellini's semi-autobiographical 1963 film 8 1/2.
She writes, "I caught glimpses of Penelope Cruz in a flounced red baby-doll nightie... and Sophia Loren looking like an Aztec mask, and Daniel Day-Lewis getting 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 (Nine) screenplay."
She goes on to describe her first sexual encounter with the moviemaker, but admits the romance eventually fizzled out because of her hectic schedule.
She adds, "The relationship was self-limiting because I wasn't available... Sexual athletes are tuppence a dozen. Fellini was a many-sided genius. I do not hope to meet his like again."...
- 4/12/2010
- WENN
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
ROME -- Italian film producer Goffredo Lombardo, a patriarch of Italian cinema whose 101-year-old production company Titanus has been responsible for some of the country's most famous films over the last 60 years, died in Rome on Wednesday. He was 84. Lombardo's father Gustavo started Titanus in 1904. Sophia Loren won the Academy Award for best actress for her performance in the company's 1960 film La Ciociara (Two Women), directed by Vittorio De Sica. Luchino Visconti's Rocco e i suoi Fratelli (Rocco and his Brothers) won a Golden Lion in Venice in 1960 and Fellini's Casanova won an Oscar for best costume design.
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