Coproduction Office has acquired international rights to the catalogue of acclaimed post-War East German filmmaker Konrad Wolf. The Paris and Berlin-based company is working with Defa Foundation and Defa Distribution, part of a German government-run group of film studios founded in the late 1940s to restore Wolf’s 14 features to commemorate the centenary of his birth in 2025.
Wolf’s anti-fascist film Sterne (Stars) won him a Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 1959 and his 1964 feature Divided Heaven captured the complexities of life in divided Germany. His 1971 drama Goya Of The Hard Way to Enlightenment,was a biopic of the Spanish painter.
Wolf’s anti-fascist film Sterne (Stars) won him a Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 1959 and his 1964 feature Divided Heaven captured the complexities of life in divided Germany. His 1971 drama Goya Of The Hard Way to Enlightenment,was a biopic of the Spanish painter.
- 2/9/2024
- ScreenDaily
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Babylon (Damien Chazelle)
Those seeking an insightful exploration of cinema history in Hollywood’s Golden Age or a nuanced, affecting character study on the lives within this early era will mostly like be disappointed by Damien Chazelle’s latest. Babylon is a brash, bombastic, unwieldy comic opera conveyed with enough bad taste and directorial panache that it—refreshingly—registers as a refutation of the well-mannered prestige drama to which these kinds of nostalgic odes often conform. And while there’s a touch of wistfulness in regards to the communal power of big-screen cinema, the film is more defined by an acidic unsentimentality, both when it comes to its characters and the precarious world they inhabit. Capturing the mad, violent clash of high...
Babylon (Damien Chazelle)
Those seeking an insightful exploration of cinema history in Hollywood’s Golden Age or a nuanced, affecting character study on the lives within this early era will mostly like be disappointed by Damien Chazelle’s latest. Babylon is a brash, bombastic, unwieldy comic opera conveyed with enough bad taste and directorial panache that it—refreshingly—registers as a refutation of the well-mannered prestige drama to which these kinds of nostalgic odes often conform. And while there’s a touch of wistfulness in regards to the communal power of big-screen cinema, the film is more defined by an acidic unsentimentality, both when it comes to its characters and the precarious world they inhabit. Capturing the mad, violent clash of high...
- 7/21/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Mubi has announced its lineup of streaming offerings for next month, including the exclusive streaming premiere of Lars von Trier’s The Idiots in a new 4K restoration, Céline Devaux’s anti-romcom Everybody Loves Jeanne, and Tyler Taormina’s Happer’s Comet.
Additional selections include three films by Wong Kar Wai, a Robert Altman double feature, four works by Jacques Rivette, plus shorts by Mia Hansen-Løve and Yorgos Lanthimos.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
July 1 – Synecdoche, New York, directed by Charlie Kaufman
July 2 – 2046, directed by Wong Kar Wai | As Time Goes By: Three by Wong Kar Wai
July 3 – The Exiles, directed by Kent MacKenzie
July 4 – Ivansxtc, directed by Bernard Rose
July 5 – Un Pur Esprit, directed by Mia Hansen-Løve | Short Films Big Names
July 6 – Contemporary Color, directed by Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross | Turn It Up: Music on Film
July 7 – The Idiots, directed by Lars von Trier...
Additional selections include three films by Wong Kar Wai, a Robert Altman double feature, four works by Jacques Rivette, plus shorts by Mia Hansen-Løve and Yorgos Lanthimos.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
July 1 – Synecdoche, New York, directed by Charlie Kaufman
July 2 – 2046, directed by Wong Kar Wai | As Time Goes By: Three by Wong Kar Wai
July 3 – The Exiles, directed by Kent MacKenzie
July 4 – Ivansxtc, directed by Bernard Rose
July 5 – Un Pur Esprit, directed by Mia Hansen-Løve | Short Films Big Names
July 6 – Contemporary Color, directed by Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross | Turn It Up: Music on Film
July 7 – The Idiots, directed by Lars von Trier...
- 6/26/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Italian producer Luciano Sovena, who was instrumental to bringing early works by several of Italy’s now-prominent auteurs such as Alice Rohrwacher, Luciano Frammartino, and Saverio Costanzo, to the big screen, has died. He was 73.
News of Sovena’s sudden death was announced on Sunday by the Rome and Lazio Film Commission Foundation, of which he was president. The cause of death was not disclosed.
The foundation paid tribute to Sovena as “A great and generous professional; a friend of Italian cinema,” in a statement. It went on to note that he was “Ironic, ‘simpatico’ and open to everyone.”
Prior to heading Rome’s film commission – which runs Italy’s top regional film fund – Sovena was for a long stretch managing director of Italy’s state film entity Istituto Luce.
In both of these roles, “He had become a reference point for the world that he loved: the world of...
News of Sovena’s sudden death was announced on Sunday by the Rome and Lazio Film Commission Foundation, of which he was president. The cause of death was not disclosed.
The foundation paid tribute to Sovena as “A great and generous professional; a friend of Italian cinema,” in a statement. It went on to note that he was “Ironic, ‘simpatico’ and open to everyone.”
Prior to heading Rome’s film commission – which runs Italy’s top regional film fund – Sovena was for a long stretch managing director of Italy’s state film entity Istituto Luce.
In both of these roles, “He had become a reference point for the world that he loved: the world of...
- 5/14/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
One of the most important labs out there for first and second-time filmmakers, the TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) have thrown coin towards 10 projects for the 2023 edition of its FeatureLab training programme. Seven of the projects are debut features.
Screen Daily also adds: Twenty-one participants will take part across the 10 projects, including 12 women and nine men from 10 different countries. They will participate in two week-long residential modules in June and November respectively; plus an online module in September. Training experts include filmmakers Laura Citarella and Michelangelo Frammartino.
TorinoFilmLab FeatureLab 2023 projects:
Lionel (Sp)
Dir-scr: Carlos Saiz
Prod. Ana Valls for Blur
A distant father tries to get closer to his son, Lionel, suggesting a road trip to France.…...
Screen Daily also adds: Twenty-one participants will take part across the 10 projects, including 12 women and nine men from 10 different countries. They will participate in two week-long residential modules in June and November respectively; plus an online module in September. Training experts include filmmakers Laura Citarella and Michelangelo Frammartino.
TorinoFilmLab FeatureLab 2023 projects:
Lionel (Sp)
Dir-scr: Carlos Saiz
Prod. Ana Valls for Blur
A distant father tries to get closer to his son, Lionel, suggesting a road trip to France.…...
- 5/5/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
2023 edition has received a record number of applications.
Italy’s TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) has selected 10 projects for the 2023 edition of its FeatureLab training programme, for first or second film projects at an advanced development stage.
The 2023 iteration received a record 172 applications, from which one animation, one documentary and eight fiction projects have been chosen. Seven of the projects are debut feature, with three second films.
Scroll down for the selected projects
Two of the projects have previously participated in Tfl programmes: Irene Moray’s debut Sealskin, a Spanish feature set in a world where women are vanishing; and Francesco Romano’s debut The White House,...
Italy’s TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) has selected 10 projects for the 2023 edition of its FeatureLab training programme, for first or second film projects at an advanced development stage.
The 2023 iteration received a record 172 applications, from which one animation, one documentary and eight fiction projects have been chosen. Seven of the projects are debut feature, with three second films.
Scroll down for the selected projects
Two of the projects have previously participated in Tfl programmes: Irene Moray’s debut Sealskin, a Spanish feature set in a world where women are vanishing; and Francesco Romano’s debut The White House,...
- 5/5/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Il Buco (Michelangelo Frammartino)
With Il Buco, Michelangelo Frammartino returns to the Calabrian countryside 12 years after Le Quattro Volte. Oscillating between a shepherd slowly dying and a nearby cave-diving expedition, Frammartino and cinematographer Renata Berta capture the movement inside their static frames with elegance. A soccer ball is kicked back and forth over the cave entrance, upping the stakes of an errant kick, burning magazine pages float down into the darkness illuminating the cave depths for the explorers and the audience—Il Buco is an experiential ode to death as the final frontier. – Caleb H.
Where to Stream: The Criterion Channel
Contemporary Japan
A new series focusing on recent(ish) Japanese cinema features exclusive streaming homes for films by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Hirokazu Koreeda,...
Il Buco (Michelangelo Frammartino)
With Il Buco, Michelangelo Frammartino returns to the Calabrian countryside 12 years after Le Quattro Volte. Oscillating between a shepherd slowly dying and a nearby cave-diving expedition, Frammartino and cinematographer Renata Berta capture the movement inside their static frames with elegance. A soccer ball is kicked back and forth over the cave entrance, upping the stakes of an errant kick, burning magazine pages float down into the darkness illuminating the cave depths for the explorers and the audience—Il Buco is an experiential ode to death as the final frontier. – Caleb H.
Where to Stream: The Criterion Channel
Contemporary Japan
A new series focusing on recent(ish) Japanese cinema features exclusive streaming homes for films by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Hirokazu Koreeda,...
- 1/6/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
What will be your first movie of 2023? If you’re reading this it’s likely you put some (let’s be honest: too much) thought into what commences the cinematic year. The Criterion Channel’s January lineup will put some good things front and center: they’re launching a 20-film cinema verité series that highlights all major figures of the form; an eight-film Mike Leigh retrospective that focuses on his little-seen, lesser-discussed BBC features produced between 1973 and 1984; a series on Abbas Kiarostami’s studies of childhood; and because you’ve either seen Eo or have it marked to watch, Jerzy Skolimowski’s three most-acclaimed films should be of equal note.
Another 2022 favorite, Il Buco, will have its streaming premiere alongside Kamikaze Hearts, the Depardieu-led Cyrano de Bergerac, and the recent restoration of Lodge Kerrigan’s Keane. The sole Criterion Edition for this month is 3 Women, while some notable recent documentaries—The American Sector,...
Another 2022 favorite, Il Buco, will have its streaming premiere alongside Kamikaze Hearts, the Depardieu-led Cyrano de Bergerac, and the recent restoration of Lodge Kerrigan’s Keane. The sole Criterion Edition for this month is 3 Women, while some notable recent documentaries—The American Sector,...
- 12/20/2022
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
As various critics groups and awards bodies dole out their top films of the year, it can be hard to parse which ones are actually worth paying attention to. One such list has arrived today with Film Comment’s annual end-of-year survey. Revealed at a special live talk last night, in an unexpected but welcome surprise, David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future topped the list, which also included Jerzy Skolimowski’s Eo, Charlotte Wells’s Aftersun, two by Hong Sangsoo, and more. They also revealed their top undistributed films list, which included David Easteal’s The Plains, Bertrand Bonello’s Coma, and Laura Citarella’s Trenque Lauquen.
“That the winner of this year’s poll is a strange, gory, apocalyptic film about a future where art and humanity are both on the precipice of extinction is a striking reflection of what we’re seeking from cinema in 2022,” said Film...
“That the winner of this year’s poll is a strange, gory, apocalyptic film about a future where art and humanity are both on the precipice of extinction is a striking reflection of what we’re seeking from cinema in 2022,” said Film...
- 12/15/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Edward Berger’s All Quiet On The Western Front and Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast top the European Film Academy’s Excellence Awards honoring achievement in the arts and crafts categories, the winners of which were announced on Wednesday.
Belfast won best European Production Design for Jim Clay, whose credits include Children Of Men, for which he won a Bafta in 2006, and Murder On The Orient Express.
The drama, set against the backdrop of the beginnings of “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland in 1969, also won best European Costume Design for Charlotte Walter
Netflix-backed German WWI drama All Quiet On The Western Front won best European Make-up & Hair for Heike Merker, and Best European Special Effects for Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller and Markus Frank.
In other categories, best European Cinematography was won by Kate McCullough for her work on Colm Bairéad’s Irish-language drama The Quiet Girl.
Best...
Belfast won best European Production Design for Jim Clay, whose credits include Children Of Men, for which he won a Bafta in 2006, and Murder On The Orient Express.
The drama, set against the backdrop of the beginnings of “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland in 1969, also won best European Costume Design for Charlotte Walter
Netflix-backed German WWI drama All Quiet On The Western Front won best European Make-up & Hair for Heike Merker, and Best European Special Effects for Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller and Markus Frank.
In other categories, best European Cinematography was won by Kate McCullough for her work on Colm Bairéad’s Irish-language drama The Quiet Girl.
Best...
- 11/23/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Click here to read the full article.
Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, Jerzy Skolimowski’s donkey drama Eo and Colm Bairéad’s Irish period drama piece The Quiet Girl are among the winners of the 2022 European Film Awards in the craft categories.
Belfast, a poignant and sentimental black-and-white portrayal of Branagh’s childhood growing up in Northern Ireland, won two EFAs, with Jim Clay taking best European production design and Charlotte Walter winning for best European costume design.
Kate McCullough won best European cinematography for her lensing of The Quiet Girl — Ireland’s submission for the 2023 best international film Oscar. The film depicts a shy and withdrawn child who begins to emerge from her shell during a summer stay with relatives in rural Ireland.
Pawel Mykietyn won best European score for his music to Eo, Poland’s Academy Award hopeful, which follows the adventures of a donkey traveling across Poland and Italy.
Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, Jerzy Skolimowski’s donkey drama Eo and Colm Bairéad’s Irish period drama piece The Quiet Girl are among the winners of the 2022 European Film Awards in the craft categories.
Belfast, a poignant and sentimental black-and-white portrayal of Branagh’s childhood growing up in Northern Ireland, won two EFAs, with Jim Clay taking best European production design and Charlotte Walter winning for best European costume design.
Kate McCullough won best European cinematography for her lensing of The Quiet Girl — Ireland’s submission for the 2023 best international film Oscar. The film depicts a shy and withdrawn child who begins to emerge from her shell during a summer stay with relatives in rural Ireland.
Pawel Mykietyn won best European score for his music to Eo, Poland’s Academy Award hopeful, which follows the adventures of a donkey traveling across Poland and Italy.
- 11/23/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed In Competition(Jury: Julianne Moore, Mariano Cohn, Leonardo di Costanzo, Audrey Diwan, Leila Hatami, Kazuo Ishiguro, Rodrigo Sorogoyen)Golden Lion – All The Beauty And The Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)Silver Lion (Grand Jury Prize) – Saint Omer (Alice Diop)Silver Lion (Best Director) – Luca Guadagnino (Bones & All)Coppa Volpi for Best Actress – Cate Blanchett (Tár)Coppa Volpi for Best Actor – Colin Farrell (The Banshees Of Inisherin)Best Screenplay – Martin McDonagh (The Banshees Of Inisherin)Special Jury Prize – No Bears (Jafar Panahi)Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor or Actress – Taylor Russell (Bones & All)Orizzonti(Jury: Isabel Coixet, Laura Bispuri, Antonio Campos, Sofia Djama, Edourad Waintrop)Orizzonti Award for Best Film – World War III (Houman Seyedi)Orizzonti Award for Best Director – Vera (Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel)Special Orizzonti Jury Prize – Bread And Salt (Damian Kocur)Orizzonti Award for Best Actress – Vera Gemma (Vera)Orizzonti Award for...
- 9/10/2022
- MUBI
The 2022 Venice Film Festival has awarded Laura Poitras’ “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” the Golden Lion for Best Film, with Colin Farrell and Cate Blanchett landing the Coppa Volpi for Best Actor and Best Actress.
The Silver Lion for Best Director went to Luca Guadagnino for “Bones and All.” The cannibal love story also saw co-star Taylor Russell win the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress.
In addition to Farrell, “The Banshees of Inisherin” won the award for Best Screenplay for writer-director Martin McDonagh. The film, which follows an abrupt fallout between two best friends (“In Bruges” co-stars Farrell and Brendan Gleeson), received a 13-minute standing ovation at its Tuesday premiere. Meanwhile, Blanchett won her second Volpi Cup (following her performance as Bob Dylan in 2007’s “I’m Not There”) for playing the world-renowned composer at the center of Todd Field’s “Tár.”
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The Silver Lion for Best Director went to Luca Guadagnino for “Bones and All.” The cannibal love story also saw co-star Taylor Russell win the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress.
In addition to Farrell, “The Banshees of Inisherin” won the award for Best Screenplay for writer-director Martin McDonagh. The film, which follows an abrupt fallout between two best friends (“In Bruges” co-stars Farrell and Brendan Gleeson), received a 13-minute standing ovation at its Tuesday premiere. Meanwhile, Blanchett won her second Volpi Cup (following her performance as Bob Dylan in 2007’s “I’m Not There”) for playing the world-renowned composer at the center of Todd Field’s “Tár.”
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- 9/10/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
Venice Competition jury president Julianne Moore was speaking at today’s press conference.
Curation is an essential function of film festivals, according to Venice Competition jury president Julianne Moore.
“Curation matters so much,” said Moore, speaking at the opening press conference for the 2022 festival. “Venice is people gathering this extraordinary work for us all to discover.”
The US actress described her first experience of curation, through her local cinema as a 10-year-old in Juneau, Alaska, where she saw John Cassavetes’ 1971 film Minnie And Moskowitz.
Moore said her reaction was, “What is this? What is this world out there? How do I fit in?...
Curation is an essential function of film festivals, according to Venice Competition jury president Julianne Moore.
“Curation matters so much,” said Moore, speaking at the opening press conference for the 2022 festival. “Venice is people gathering this extraordinary work for us all to discover.”
The US actress described her first experience of curation, through her local cinema as a 10-year-old in Juneau, Alaska, where she saw John Cassavetes’ 1971 film Minnie And Moskowitz.
Moore said her reaction was, “What is this? What is this world out there? How do I fit in?...
- 8/31/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The first 30 titles in the running for the EFAs have been announced.
The first 30 titles in the running for the 2022 European Film Awards have been revealed with a second wave of titles due to be announced in September.
Scroll down for first selection of films
The titles include Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winner Triangle Of Sadness, Carla Simón’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Alcarras and Kenneth Branagh’s Oscar-winner Belfast. Also selected is Colm Bairéad’s The Quiet Girl, which is Ireland’s submission for the best international feature Oscar.
Further Cannes award winners to make the first...
The first 30 titles in the running for the 2022 European Film Awards have been revealed with a second wave of titles due to be announced in September.
Scroll down for first selection of films
The titles include Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winner Triangle Of Sadness, Carla Simón’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Alcarras and Kenneth Branagh’s Oscar-winner Belfast. Also selected is Colm Bairéad’s The Quiet Girl, which is Ireland’s submission for the best international feature Oscar.
Further Cannes award winners to make the first...
- 8/18/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Michelangelo Frammartino was also named president of the Luigi de Laurentiis award.
Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet has been named president of the Horizons jury for the Venice Film Festival (August 31 - September 10).
Coixet’s credentials include My Life Without Me, The Secret Life Of Words and The Bookshop. Most recently her documentary The Yellow Ceiling was introduced at Cannes Marché 2022 slate.
Joining her on the jury is Italian director Laura Bispuri; US filmmaker Antonio Campos; Algerian filmmaker Sofia Djama and former Cannes’ Directors Fortnight director Edouard Waintrop.
The Horizons section awards seven prizes in total in all major categories including a special jury prize.
Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet has been named president of the Horizons jury for the Venice Film Festival (August 31 - September 10).
Coixet’s credentials include My Life Without Me, The Secret Life Of Words and The Bookshop. Most recently her documentary The Yellow Ceiling was introduced at Cannes Marché 2022 slate.
Joining her on the jury is Italian director Laura Bispuri; US filmmaker Antonio Campos; Algerian filmmaker Sofia Djama and former Cannes’ Directors Fortnight director Edouard Waintrop.
The Horizons section awards seven prizes in total in all major categories including a special jury prize.
- 7/20/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Spanish director Isabel Coixet will preside over the international jury of the Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti competition at the upcoming edition running from August 31 to September 10.
The director knows Orizzonti well having world premiered her 2005 drama The Secret Life Of Words in the section, ahead of it winning four Spanish Goya awards the following year.
More recent credits include The Bookshop, which also swept the Goyas in 2017, winning best director, film and adapted screenplay, and Spanish and English-language romantic drama It Snows In Benidorm, starring Timothy Spall.
She will be by Italian filmmaker Laura Bispuri, whose third film The Peacock’s Paradise played in Orizzonti last year, and US director Antonio Campus, whose recent credits include HBO show The Staircase.
Further members include Sofia Djama, the Algerian director of The Blessed, for which lead Lyna Khoudri won the Orizzonti Best Actress Award in 2017 and former Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Delegate General Edouard Waintrop.
The director knows Orizzonti well having world premiered her 2005 drama The Secret Life Of Words in the section, ahead of it winning four Spanish Goya awards the following year.
More recent credits include The Bookshop, which also swept the Goyas in 2017, winning best director, film and adapted screenplay, and Spanish and English-language romantic drama It Snows In Benidorm, starring Timothy Spall.
She will be by Italian filmmaker Laura Bispuri, whose third film The Peacock’s Paradise played in Orizzonti last year, and US director Antonio Campus, whose recent credits include HBO show The Staircase.
Further members include Sofia Djama, the Algerian director of The Blessed, for which lead Lyna Khoudri won the Orizzonti Best Actress Award in 2017 and former Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Delegate General Edouard Waintrop.
- 7/20/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Click here to read the full article.
Spanish director Isabel Coixet (The Bookshop, My Life Without Me) will head up the competition jury for the Orizzonti, or Horizons, section of this year’s Venice International Film festival, organizers unveiled on Wednesday.
The Secret Life of Words helmer will be joined by Italian director Laura Bispuri (Sworn Virgin, Daughter of Mine); American filmmaker Antonio Campos (The Staircase, The Devil All the Time); Algerian director Sofia Djama, whose feature debut, The Blessed, screened in Oizzonti last year, winning the best actress honor for star Lyna Khoudri; and French journalist and critic Edouard Waintrop, who most recently was artistic director at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight section.
The Orizzonti jury will present awards for best film, best director, a jury prize, best actor and actress, best screenplay and a best short film honor, picking from the titles selected for the Venice sidebar this year.
Venice...
Spanish director Isabel Coixet (The Bookshop, My Life Without Me) will head up the competition jury for the Orizzonti, or Horizons, section of this year’s Venice International Film festival, organizers unveiled on Wednesday.
The Secret Life of Words helmer will be joined by Italian director Laura Bispuri (Sworn Virgin, Daughter of Mine); American filmmaker Antonio Campos (The Staircase, The Devil All the Time); Algerian director Sofia Djama, whose feature debut, The Blessed, screened in Oizzonti last year, winning the best actress honor for star Lyna Khoudri; and French journalist and critic Edouard Waintrop, who most recently was artistic director at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight section.
The Orizzonti jury will present awards for best film, best director, a jury prize, best actor and actress, best screenplay and a best short film honor, picking from the titles selected for the Venice sidebar this year.
Venice...
- 7/20/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Spanish director Isabel Coixet, known for prizewinning works such as “The Secret Life of Words” and “The Bookshop,” will preside over the jury of the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons (Orizonti) section dedicated to more cutting-edge works.
Coixet will be joined on the Horizons jury by Italian director Laura Bispuri; U.S. director and producer Antonio Campos, who most recently created, wrote and directed HBO Max series “The Staircase,” starring Colin Firth, Toni Collette and Juliette Binoche; Algerian director Sofia Djama, whose first feature “The Blessed” won the 2017 Horizons best actress award for Lyna Khoudri; and former Cannes Director’s Fortnight chief Edouard Waintrop.
Additionally, Italian director Michelangelo Frammartino, who was in Venice last year with “Il Buco,” will preside over the jury for the “Luigi de Laurentiis” award for best first work across all Venice sections, which is worth 100,000.
Joining Frammartino on the Venice jury for best first work...
Coixet will be joined on the Horizons jury by Italian director Laura Bispuri; U.S. director and producer Antonio Campos, who most recently created, wrote and directed HBO Max series “The Staircase,” starring Colin Firth, Toni Collette and Juliette Binoche; Algerian director Sofia Djama, whose first feature “The Blessed” won the 2017 Horizons best actress award for Lyna Khoudri; and former Cannes Director’s Fortnight chief Edouard Waintrop.
Additionally, Italian director Michelangelo Frammartino, who was in Venice last year with “Il Buco,” will preside over the jury for the “Luigi de Laurentiis” award for best first work across all Venice sections, which is worth 100,000.
Joining Frammartino on the Venice jury for best first work...
- 7/20/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
‘Top Gun: Maverick’ is now the highest-grossing title of the year at the UK-Ireland box office, overtaking ’Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness’.
Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (June 10 - 12) Total gross to date Week 1. Jurassic World Dominion (Universal) £12.1m £12.1m 1 2. Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount)
£5.6m £50.1m 3 3. Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness (Disney)
£397,350 £41.5m 6 4. Everything Everywhere All At Once (A24)
£205,252 £4.5m 5 5. Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Paramount)
£182,000 £26.5m 11
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.22
Universal’s Jurassic World Dominion has strutted straight to the top of the UK-Ireland box office in its opening weekend, taking £12.1m from 709 locations.
This...
Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (June 10 - 12) Total gross to date Week 1. Jurassic World Dominion (Universal) £12.1m £12.1m 1 2. Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount)
£5.6m £50.1m 3 3. Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness (Disney)
£397,350 £41.5m 6 4. Everything Everywhere All At Once (A24)
£205,252 £4.5m 5 5. Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Paramount)
£182,000 £26.5m 11
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.22
Universal’s Jurassic World Dominion has strutted straight to the top of the UK-Ireland box office in its opening weekend, taking £12.1m from 709 locations.
This...
- 6/13/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
‘All My Friends Hate Me’, ‘Earwig’ and ‘Il Buco’ also open this weekend.
Jurassic World Dominion is hoping to snare the top spot from Top Gun: Maverick at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office, after two weeks at the number one for Paramount’s Tom Cruise hit.
Universal is distributing Jurassic World Dominion at 708 sites – Universal’s fourth biggest UK-Ireland opening of all time, behind No Time To Die (772),Downton Abbey: A New Era (746) and Downton Abbey (730). The Colin Trevorrow-directed title opened with 55m from early markets last week, and expands to North America, UK/Ireland, China, France, Germany, Australia and Spain this weekend.
Jurassic World Dominion is hoping to snare the top spot from Top Gun: Maverick at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office, after two weeks at the number one for Paramount’s Tom Cruise hit.
Universal is distributing Jurassic World Dominion at 708 sites – Universal’s fourth biggest UK-Ireland opening of all time, behind No Time To Die (772),Downton Abbey: A New Era (746) and Downton Abbey (730). The Colin Trevorrow-directed title opened with 55m from early markets last week, and expands to North America, UK/Ireland, China, France, Germany, Australia and Spain this weekend.
- 6/10/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
With no dialogue, Michelangelo Frammartino portrays a daring Calabrian cave dive as a moving meditation on the passage of time
Italian film-maker Michelangelo Frammartino, creator of the subtle and beautiful movie Le Quattro Volte (The Four Seasons), has returned with his first substantial feature in 12 years. It is effectively another silent movie: a mysterious, wordless evocation of Calabria in southern Italy, notionally set in the early 60s but actually unfolding in something like geological time. The dead-slow, dead-calm Il Buco (The Hole) is similar to Le Quattro Volte in style and substance, and incidentally restates a trope from that film: the ageing, unwell shepherd, played by a nonprofessional, whose craggy face is itself a kind of microcosmic landscape on which the camera lingers in closeup.
But where Le Quattro Volte was populated almost entirely by animals, their lives unhurriedly transcribed by Frammartino’s camera, here we get human visitors from the big city,...
Italian film-maker Michelangelo Frammartino, creator of the subtle and beautiful movie Le Quattro Volte (The Four Seasons), has returned with his first substantial feature in 12 years. It is effectively another silent movie: a mysterious, wordless evocation of Calabria in southern Italy, notionally set in the early 60s but actually unfolding in something like geological time. The dead-slow, dead-calm Il Buco (The Hole) is similar to Le Quattro Volte in style and substance, and incidentally restates a trope from that film: the ageing, unwell shepherd, played by a nonprofessional, whose craggy face is itself a kind of microcosmic landscape on which the camera lingers in closeup.
But where Le Quattro Volte was populated almost entirely by animals, their lives unhurriedly transcribed by Frammartino’s camera, here we get human visitors from the big city,...
- 6/7/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
This review of “‘Il Buco” was first published May 12, 2022, before its debut in New York City.
In 1961, a group of young Italian speleologists — scientists and researchers who study caves — journeyed deep into a heart-shaped crack in the Earth in the Calabrian valley. Michelangelo Frammartino’s “Il Buco” (“The Hole”), a painstakingly accurate recreation of this expedition, is nothing short of miraculous, and one of the year’s best films.
The film begins with the juxtaposition of an elderly shepherd tending to his flock on the side of the mountain, as villagers in a nearby town watch a television presentation on the construction of the Pirelli Tower in Milan. The television sits outside, its footage fuzzy. This is a village that lingers, still, in the old world, with stone houses carved into the side of the mountain. Soon, a busload of speleologists arrive from the North, from Piedmont, to climb deep into the Earth.
In 1961, a group of young Italian speleologists — scientists and researchers who study caves — journeyed deep into a heart-shaped crack in the Earth in the Calabrian valley. Michelangelo Frammartino’s “Il Buco” (“The Hole”), a painstakingly accurate recreation of this expedition, is nothing short of miraculous, and one of the year’s best films.
The film begins with the juxtaposition of an elderly shepherd tending to his flock on the side of the mountain, as villagers in a nearby town watch a television presentation on the construction of the Pirelli Tower in Milan. The television sits outside, its footage fuzzy. This is a village that lingers, still, in the old world, with stone houses carved into the side of the mountain. Soon, a busload of speleologists arrive from the North, from Piedmont, to climb deep into the Earth.
- 5/20/2022
- by Fran Hoepfner
- The Wrap
Michelangelo Frammartino on Nicola Lanza, the shepherd in Il Buco (The Hole): “His face seems like the bark of a tree; it seems created by the stones of the Pollino.”
When I spoke with Michelangelo Frammartino in 2013 at the Tribeca Film Festival MoMA PS1 world première of Alberi, hosted by Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer, I mentioned that he should check out James Turrell’s Meeting on the third floor. Now in 2022 he sees the connection to Meeting and the opening shot by cinematographer Renato Berta in Il Buco (The Hole), co-written with Giovanna Giuliani and produced by Marco Serrecchia.
Michelangelo Frammartino with Anne-Katrin Titze and the rock on shepherds: “They have this ability to never appear, and therefore they are the voice of the mountain.”
Bird sounds start the film, as we see the sky from below, from the perspective of a cave with a vaguely horseshoe-shaped opening. The...
When I spoke with Michelangelo Frammartino in 2013 at the Tribeca Film Festival MoMA PS1 world première of Alberi, hosted by Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer, I mentioned that he should check out James Turrell’s Meeting on the third floor. Now in 2022 he sees the connection to Meeting and the opening shot by cinematographer Renato Berta in Il Buco (The Hole), co-written with Giovanna Giuliani and produced by Marco Serrecchia.
Michelangelo Frammartino with Anne-Katrin Titze and the rock on shepherds: “They have this ability to never appear, and therefore they are the voice of the mountain.”
Bird sounds start the film, as we see the sky from below, from the perspective of a cave with a vaguely horseshoe-shaped opening. The...
- 5/19/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Michelangelo Frammartino’s Il Buco (The Hole), co-written with Giovanna Giuliani, looks tenderly, elegantly, discerningly at humanity’s topsy-turvy preoccupations through the expert eye of the great cinematographer Renato Berta (an Alain Resnais regular). Bird sounds start the film, as we see the sky from below, from the perspective of a cave with a vaguely horseshoe-shaped opening.
Upside-down trees resemble the Alberi, men in traditional tree costumes, featured in Frammartino’s fabulous installation film which had its world premiere at MoMA PS1 during the Tribeca Film Festival in 2013, and where I first spoke to Michelangelo after being introduced by Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer at the reception. I mentioned to him then the art installation called Meeting by James Turrell, which consists of a waiting room with a hole in the ceiling from where one can observe the changes in the New York City sky as they happen approximately...
Upside-down trees resemble the Alberi, men in traditional tree costumes, featured in Frammartino’s fabulous installation film which had its world premiere at MoMA PS1 during the Tribeca Film Festival in 2013, and where I first spoke to Michelangelo after being introduced by Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer at the reception. I mentioned to him then the art installation called Meeting by James Turrell, which consists of a waiting room with a hole in the ceiling from where one can observe the changes in the New York City sky as they happen approximately...
- 5/16/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Frammartino Digs Deep, But Barely Scratches the Surface
Michelangelo Frammartino’s Il Buco (“The Hole”) is a meditative journey into the center of the earth, replete with some of the year’s most gorgeous visuals and transportive sound design. The film recreates a real cave expedition in 1961, Calabria, Italy—observed by a weathered shepherd (Paolo Cossi) and his livestock, with whom he converses in guttural bursts that echo across the rocky hillsides.
Frammartino’s last feature was the quietly absorbing Le Quattro Volte (2011): unhurried, painterly cinema, much like Il Buco. For those who need drama, however, this intentionally opaque and plotless film may prove challenging: Frammartino—in tandem with cinematographer Renato Berta and sound designer Simone Paolo Olivero—delivers cinematic poetry … but ultimately, there’s more surface than depth.…...
Michelangelo Frammartino’s Il Buco (“The Hole”) is a meditative journey into the center of the earth, replete with some of the year’s most gorgeous visuals and transportive sound design. The film recreates a real cave expedition in 1961, Calabria, Italy—observed by a weathered shepherd (Paolo Cossi) and his livestock, with whom he converses in guttural bursts that echo across the rocky hillsides.
Frammartino’s last feature was the quietly absorbing Le Quattro Volte (2011): unhurried, painterly cinema, much like Il Buco. For those who need drama, however, this intentionally opaque and plotless film may prove challenging: Frammartino—in tandem with cinematographer Renato Berta and sound designer Simone Paolo Olivero—delivers cinematic poetry … but ultimately, there’s more surface than depth.…...
- 5/13/2022
- by Dylan Kai Dempsey
- IONCINEMA.com
It’s one of busiest opening weeks in some time for indie releases with Neon (Pleasure), Bleecker Street (Montana Story), IFC Midnight (The Innocents) and Roadside Attractions (Family Camp) in theaters — even as the imminent closure of the Landmark Pico underscores just how arthouses are struggling to win back core demos.
Also out, Grasshopper Films presents Michelangelo Frammartino’s Venice Special Jury Prize-winner Il Buco; Greenwich Entertainment documentary Mau is the first feature-length treatment on design visionary Bruce Mau; and Trafalgar Entertainment offers a remastered version of Lasse Hallstrom’s Abba: The Movie, which follows the group’s hugely successful 1977 Australian tour.
Roadside’s faith-based comedy Family Camp is the widest specialty release on over 850 screens. It’s the first feature from The Skit Guys — Tommy Woodard and Eddie James – targeting “family member from eight to eighty.” Two polar-opposite families find themselves sharing a cabin and vying for a coveted...
Also out, Grasshopper Films presents Michelangelo Frammartino’s Venice Special Jury Prize-winner Il Buco; Greenwich Entertainment documentary Mau is the first feature-length treatment on design visionary Bruce Mau; and Trafalgar Entertainment offers a remastered version of Lasse Hallstrom’s Abba: The Movie, which follows the group’s hugely successful 1977 Australian tour.
Roadside’s faith-based comedy Family Camp is the widest specialty release on over 850 screens. It’s the first feature from The Skit Guys — Tommy Woodard and Eddie James – targeting “family member from eight to eighty.” Two polar-opposite families find themselves sharing a cabin and vying for a coveted...
- 5/13/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Michelangelo Frammartino’s new feature, Il buco, is his first that can be rightfully labelled a period piece. Set in the early sixties, it reenacts a legendary caving expedition that saw a handful of young speleologists travel from Turin to Calabria and descend down the Bifurto Abyss—a 700 meters deep cave then thought to be the third largest on Earth. But the Italian director’s filmography (a protean body of work spanning shorts and three features) has always hailed from its own anachronistic planet, one where time seems to work differently—if it does work at all. His first two features were ostensibly set in the present, but the rural Calabria they immortalized looked like a universe telegraphed from the past. Ancestral rituals, slow-paced routines, and pastoral landscapes where humans are almost camouflaged against plants and animals; to be walking into Frammartino’s films is to experience a kind of temporal dissonance,...
- 5/12/2022
- MUBI
Slyly and majestically bringing a sense of documentary-like authenticity to his humbling, spiritual portraits of the ways humankind and nature intersect, Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Frammartino has crafted a compact, staggering body of work. Over a decade after Le Quattro Volte, he returns with Il Buco, a 1960s-set exploration of Europe’s deepest cave in the untouched Calabrian hinterland that also gives much time to the surrounding community and the technology booming both near and far.
As the film arrives in theaters courtesy Grasshopper Film, I spoke with Frammartino about the structure of his work, attention to the landscape, the humbling feeling of seeing cave exploration, and his inspirations in Italian cinema and beyond.
The Film Stage: The structure of this film is quite unique in how you establish the town first, with the ways of life and the influence of television at the time. You get to know the place before we really dive deeper,...
As the film arrives in theaters courtesy Grasshopper Film, I spoke with Frammartino about the structure of his work, attention to the landscape, the humbling feeling of seeing cave exploration, and his inspirations in Italian cinema and beyond.
The Film Stage: The structure of this film is quite unique in how you establish the town first, with the ways of life and the influence of television at the time. You get to know the place before we really dive deeper,...
- 5/12/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
In 2007, Michelangelo Frammartino was scouting locations for Le Quattro Volte in Alessandria del Carretto, whose mayor took him to the Bifurto Abyss, one of the world’s deepest caves. That, along with a follow-up expedition in 2016, planted the seed for Il Buco, Frammartino’s third feature. In the time since, Frammartino has become an avid speleologist, and Il Buco is ostensibly a recreation of the initial exploration of Bifurto in 1961, at the outset of Italy’s “economic miracle.” Frammartino juxtaposes it with the day-to-day life of an aging shepherd, giving the film an elegiac tone as it mixes pastoral myth […]
The post Shooting in 100 Humidity: Michelangelo Frammartino on Il Buco first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post Shooting in 100 Humidity: Michelangelo Frammartino on Il Buco first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 5/12/2022
- by Forrest Cardamenis
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
In 2007, Michelangelo Frammartino was scouting locations for Le Quattro Volte in Alessandria del Carretto, whose mayor took him to the Bifurto Abyss, one of the world’s deepest caves. That, along with a follow-up expedition in 2016, planted the seed for Il Buco, Frammartino’s third feature. In the time since, Frammartino has become an avid speleologist, and Il Buco is ostensibly a recreation of the initial exploration of Bifurto in 1961, at the outset of Italy’s “economic miracle.” Frammartino juxtaposes it with the day-to-day life of an aging shepherd, giving the film an elegiac tone as it mixes pastoral myth […]
The post Shooting in 100 Humidity: Michelangelo Frammartino on Il Buco first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post Shooting in 100 Humidity: Michelangelo Frammartino on Il Buco first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 5/12/2022
- by Forrest Cardamenis
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
When we think of slow cinema, some names that immediately come to mind are Andrei Tarkovsky and Robert Bresson. Along with these names come thoughts of vast quiet landscapes and voiceovers ruminating on some of life’s more profound mysteries. More recently, we associate this filmmaking with Apichatpong Weerasethakul. However, with the release of the trailer for “Il Buco,” it seems like it is due time for Michelangelo Frammartino to take his rightful place amongst cinema’s most pensive directors.
Continue reading ‘Il Buco’ Trailer: Michelangelo Frammartino’s Wondrous Slow Cinema Continues To Artfully Mystify at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Il Buco’ Trailer: Michelangelo Frammartino’s Wondrous Slow Cinema Continues To Artfully Mystify at The Playlist.
- 5/3/2022
- by Rosa Martinez
- The Playlist
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Titane (2021).Actor Vincent Lindon has been announced as the president of this year's Cannes competition jury, leading a group that includes Rebecca Hall, Deepika Padukone, Jeff Nichols, and Joachim Trier. The festival has also added several pleasant surprises to the lineup: films by Serge Bozon, Albert Serra, Louis Garrel, Patricio Guzmán, and more.Subscribe to our limited-edition, print-only Notebook magazine by April 30 to secure your copy of Issue 1, featuring a conversation between Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Yoshitomo Nara, a carte blanche contribution by Christopher Doyle, and much more.Recommended VIEWINGAbove: I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) .Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation has launched a virtual screening room for restored films, called the Restoration Screening Room. The fun begins with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1945 film I Know Where I'm Going!, which will be available for...
- 4/27/2022
- MUBI
The summer season is upon us and, per each year, we’ve dug beyond studio offerings (though a few potential highlights remain) to present an in-depth look at what should be on your radar. From festival winners of the past year to selections coming straight from Cannes to genre delights to some high-flying spectacles, there’s more than enough to anticipate.
Check out our picks below and return for monthly updates as more is sure to be added to the calendar.
Happening (Audrey Diwan; May 6)
Diwan’s sophomore feature is an unglamorous, straightforward film that tells a simple story about an ordinary girl. It is also the single most intense, shatteringly empathetic thing I’ve seen all year. Carried by Anamaria Vartolomei’s fiercely committed performance, the ’60s-set drama takes on the subject of unintended pregnancy and illustrates how far from a political / religious issue it can be when it happens to you.
Check out our picks below and return for monthly updates as more is sure to be added to the calendar.
Happening (Audrey Diwan; May 6)
Diwan’s sophomore feature is an unglamorous, straightforward film that tells a simple story about an ordinary girl. It is also the single most intense, shatteringly empathetic thing I’ve seen all year. Carried by Anamaria Vartolomei’s fiercely committed performance, the ’60s-set drama takes on the subject of unintended pregnancy and illustrates how far from a political / religious issue it can be when it happens to you.
- 4/27/2022
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
One of the most ravishing, enveloping theatrical experiences I had last year was with Michelangelo Frammartino’s long-awaited return, Il Buco. The latest film from the Le Quattro Volte director depicts a 1960s expedition to explore Europe’s deepest cave, 700 meters below Eath, located in southern Italy. The Venice winner and NYFF selection was picked up by Grasshopper Film and now the new trailer has arrived ahead of a May 13 theatrical release.
David Katz said in his review, “Caves… whence we came from––and for Italian auteur Michelangelo Frammartino’s latest work Il Buco––towards which we return. The fixation with caves and speleology in this film hint at the sometimes-regressive nature of that discipline. In human evolutionary terms, it’s like retracing one’s steps: going back towards the darkness, our primitive homes before homo sapiens could colonize other terrains. As a candidate for geographical mapping, is there such an urgent sense of utility?...
David Katz said in his review, “Caves… whence we came from––and for Italian auteur Michelangelo Frammartino’s latest work Il Buco––towards which we return. The fixation with caves and speleology in this film hint at the sometimes-regressive nature of that discipline. In human evolutionary terms, it’s like retracing one’s steps: going back towards the darkness, our primitive homes before homo sapiens could colonize other terrains. As a candidate for geographical mapping, is there such an urgent sense of utility?...
- 4/27/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
For “Il Buco,” “El Quattro Volte” filmmaker Michelangelo Frammartino found the perfect metaphor in a deep, dark cave — and then, he got stuck in it. He was 700 meters inside the Bifurto Abyss, a large cave in the south of Italy, when a flood trapped him and his crew there during filming. That’s just one of the wild stories to emerge from Frammartino’s experience shooting the film, which won three prizes in Venice last year. Now, Grasshopper Film releases the movie May 13 in New York and in L.A. May 20. Exclusively on IndieWire, watch the trailer for the film below.
Here’s the synopsis: During the economic boom of the 1960s, Europe’s highest building is being built in Italy’s prosperous North. At the other end of the country, young speleologists explore Europe’s deepest cave in the untouched Calabrian hinterland. The bottom of the Bifurto Abyss, 700 meters below Earth,...
Here’s the synopsis: During the economic boom of the 1960s, Europe’s highest building is being built in Italy’s prosperous North. At the other end of the country, young speleologists explore Europe’s deepest cave in the untouched Calabrian hinterland. The bottom of the Bifurto Abyss, 700 meters below Earth,...
- 4/26/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
A call for submissions is open until May 2 to create initial short list of filmmakers with first feature works.
The Locarno Film Festival has launched the Locarno Residency, aimed at supporting emerging filmmakers aged under 40 as they develop their first features.
The initiative will offer tutorial assistance, development support and a screenwriting programme to three directors of any nationality, who are in the process of developing a first fiction or non-fiction work of more than 60 minutes in length.
Ten shortlisted filmmakers and their projects, selected by Locarno’s artistic team, will attend a special pitching session in Locarno, during the festival’s 75th edition,...
The Locarno Film Festival has launched the Locarno Residency, aimed at supporting emerging filmmakers aged under 40 as they develop their first features.
The initiative will offer tutorial assistance, development support and a screenwriting programme to three directors of any nationality, who are in the process of developing a first fiction or non-fiction work of more than 60 minutes in length.
Ten shortlisted filmmakers and their projects, selected by Locarno’s artistic team, will attend a special pitching session in Locarno, during the festival’s 75th edition,...
- 3/15/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The films by audiovisual artist Yuri Ancarani have often emerged from the interstices of documentary and fiction, but nowhere has that divide felt more porous than in his latest, Atlantide. A close-up study of teenage life on Sant’Erasmo, an island on the edges of the Venice lagoon, the film follows a smattering of teens as they fritter away their adolescence chasing each other aboard modified barchini (speedboats) in a quest to become the fastest rider this side of the Adriatic. Among them is Daniele (Daniele Barison), the closest Atlantide comes to a protagonist. A sullen teen with high cheekbones and a sorrowful gaze, his barchino races and tumultuous relationship with girlfriend Maila (Maila Dabalà) offer something of a narrative backbone Ancarani returns to in between all the film’s meanderings. But Atlantide, much like its predecessors, doesn’t unspool as a linear three-act drama so much as a succession of images and vignettes.
- 3/14/2022
- MUBI
Revisiting last year's introduction when putting together 2021's favorites, it is with a shock to realize how little has changed in the wildly disrupted world of cinema under the shroud of the pandemic. The urge to copy-and-paste the whole shebang is quite tempting indeed.What can we say about this year, 2021? We got a little more used to long-term instability. Cinemas and festivals re-opened, only for some to close again. We, like many, ventured carefully out into the world to finally see films again with audiences, all kinds: nervous ones, uproarious ones, spartan ones, and delighted ones. It was an experience both anxious and joyous. We also doubled down on the challenges, but also the pleasures, of home viewing: of virtual cinemas and virtual festivals, of straight to streaming premieres, of trying to capture a social joy in semi-isolation by connecting with others over experiences shared and disparate.The long...
- 12/27/2021
- MUBI
“The Girlfriend Experience” director Lodge Kerrigan’s 2004 movie “Keane,” starring Damian Lewis and Abigail Breslin, is getting a 4K restoration and a U.S. theatrical release.
Grasshopper Film snapped up distribution rights to the critically acclaimed pic, which is executive produced by Steven Soderbergh and produced by Andrew Fierberg. “Keane” — in 4K — will premiere in cinemas in early 2022, followed by releases on VOD, TV and home video. (The movie received a limited theatrical release in New York back in 2005.)
“Keane” turns on William Keane (Lewis) who is struggling to cope six months after his six-year-old daughter was abducted from New York City’s Port Authority Bus Terminal while traveling with him. Repeatedly drawn to the site of the abduction, Keane wanders the bus station, compulsively replaying the events of that fateful day as if hoping to change the outcome. When one day he meets a financially strapped woman, Lynn Bedik...
Grasshopper Film snapped up distribution rights to the critically acclaimed pic, which is executive produced by Steven Soderbergh and produced by Andrew Fierberg. “Keane” — in 4K — will premiere in cinemas in early 2022, followed by releases on VOD, TV and home video. (The movie received a limited theatrical release in New York back in 2005.)
“Keane” turns on William Keane (Lewis) who is struggling to cope six months after his six-year-old daughter was abducted from New York City’s Port Authority Bus Terminal while traveling with him. Repeatedly drawn to the site of the abduction, Keane wanders the bus station, compulsively replaying the events of that fateful day as if hoping to change the outcome. When one day he meets a financially strapped woman, Lynn Bedik...
- 12/14/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Italy’s Torino Film Festival, the pre-eminent event for young directors and indie cinema — now being revamped after going virtual due to the pandemic — will somewhat symbolically kick off its upcoming 39th edition with the international premiere of “Sing 2” with director Garth Jennings in tow.
“It’s a hymn to going back into movie theaters,” says Torino artistic director Stefano Francia di Celle on choosing the animated musical comedy, featuring more than 40 rock, rap and pop tunes, as opener for the Nov. 26-Dec. 4 event. It will be Italy’s first festival held in venues with 100% seating capacity since Covid-19 struck.
“Sing 2,” he points out, is also only the second feature helmed by Jennings, who cut his teeth in the indie world making videos for many of the best pop acts of the 1990s such as Blur, Radiohead and Beck, before he was able to get Universal on board for his impressive “Sing” debut.
“It’s a hymn to going back into movie theaters,” says Torino artistic director Stefano Francia di Celle on choosing the animated musical comedy, featuring more than 40 rock, rap and pop tunes, as opener for the Nov. 26-Dec. 4 event. It will be Italy’s first festival held in venues with 100% seating capacity since Covid-19 struck.
“Sing 2,” he points out, is also only the second feature helmed by Jennings, who cut his teeth in the indie world making videos for many of the best pop acts of the 1990s such as Blur, Radiohead and Beck, before he was able to get Universal on board for his impressive “Sing” debut.
- 11/25/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The 39th edition of Torino Film Festival, Italy’s preeminent event for young directors and indie cinema, kicks off Friday with the international premiere of “Sing 2.” It is the country’s first festival held in venues with 100% seating capacity since Covid-19 struck, and it will also be the first in-person edition assembled by artistic director Stefano Francia di Celle, who debuted last year with an online event, due to the pandemic. Di Celle is now rebooting Torino for the present-day digital age.
The festival, which rose to international prominence under current Venice topper Alberto Barbera, has always been geared toward giving visibility to promising newcomers. These have included Luca Guadagnino, Michelangelo Frammartino (“Il Buco”) and Pietro Marcello (“Martin Eden”), who got a crucial early boost from their launches there. Di Celle’s vision going forward, he told Variety, is rooted in what he calls its “militant” tradition, but he...
The festival, which rose to international prominence under current Venice topper Alberto Barbera, has always been geared toward giving visibility to promising newcomers. These have included Luca Guadagnino, Michelangelo Frammartino (“Il Buco”) and Pietro Marcello (“Martin Eden”), who got a crucial early boost from their launches there. Di Celle’s vision going forward, he told Variety, is rooted in what he calls its “militant” tradition, but he...
- 11/24/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg (Iffmh) has very much captured the social, cultural and political zeitgeist with this year’s film selections, exploring such themes as female empowerment, HIV/AIDS and the post-Soviet collapse of Ukraine.
“The festival doesn’t work in topics, we are trying to show the best films, but the interesting thing is that the topics come to us through the films,” says Iffmh director Sascha Keilholz. “Obviously we are sensitive to the whole range and diversity that can be had in cinema.”
Indeed, this year’s films in the On the Rise competition section and supplemental Pushing the Boundaries sidebar, which showcases cutting-edge works by young and established filmmakers, ended up sharing unmistakable themes. Many new female voices are putting their mark in Eastern European film with stories of women rebelling against patriarchy and male structures, for example, Keilholz points out. “That was quite striking for us.
“The festival doesn’t work in topics, we are trying to show the best films, but the interesting thing is that the topics come to us through the films,” says Iffmh director Sascha Keilholz. “Obviously we are sensitive to the whole range and diversity that can be had in cinema.”
Indeed, this year’s films in the On the Rise competition section and supplemental Pushing the Boundaries sidebar, which showcases cutting-edge works by young and established filmmakers, ended up sharing unmistakable themes. Many new female voices are putting their mark in Eastern European film with stories of women rebelling against patriarchy and male structures, for example, Keilholz points out. “That was quite striking for us.
- 11/9/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
To the uninitiated, Princess Diana biopic “Spencer” might appear like the quintessential British film, albeit with a Chilean director and an American star. But it is, in fact, German, Simone Baumann, managing director of German Films, says. It’s a German-u.K. co-production to be exact, but shot in Germany, with a German producer, Komplizen Film, on board, and 70% of the financing was German.
Other German co-productions this year include Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” with Studio Babelsberg as a co-producer, as well as a host of arthouse films not in the German language, such as Leos Carax’s “Annette,” which was co-produced by Detailfilm, Michelangelo Frammartino’s “Il Buco,” co-produced by Essential Filmproduktion, and Tatiana Huezo’s “Prayers for the Stolen,” co-produced by Match Factory Productions.
At AFM, there are 31 German productions and co-productions screening, represented by nine German sales companies, gathered under the German Films umbrella. German...
Other German co-productions this year include Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” with Studio Babelsberg as a co-producer, as well as a host of arthouse films not in the German language, such as Leos Carax’s “Annette,” which was co-produced by Detailfilm, Michelangelo Frammartino’s “Il Buco,” co-produced by Essential Filmproduktion, and Tatiana Huezo’s “Prayers for the Stolen,” co-produced by Match Factory Productions.
At AFM, there are 31 German productions and co-productions screening, represented by nine German sales companies, gathered under the German Films umbrella. German...
- 11/1/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Festival
The Italian Cultural Institute in London, La Biennale di Venezia and Curzon have teamed for ‘From Venice to London,’ a season where seven films from Venezia 78 will be shown at Curzon cinemas across London from Nov. 18-22.
“The Lost Daughter,” directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal will open the season and “The Hand of God,” directed by Paolo Sorrentino, will close it. The other selections include “Qui rido io,” directed by Mario Martone; “La santa piccola, directed by Silvia Brunelli, “La ragazza ha volato, directed by Wilma Labate,” “Il buco,” directed by Michelangelo Frammartino; and “Ariaferma,” directed by Leonardo Di Costanzo.
President of the Venice Biennale Roberto Cicutto said: “This year the selection has been praised for its exceptional artistic quality. We are sure the London audience will appreciate its high calibre.”
Katia Pizzi, director of the Italian Cultural Institute in London, added: “It’s my special pleasure to welcome to...
The Italian Cultural Institute in London, La Biennale di Venezia and Curzon have teamed for ‘From Venice to London,’ a season where seven films from Venezia 78 will be shown at Curzon cinemas across London from Nov. 18-22.
“The Lost Daughter,” directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal will open the season and “The Hand of God,” directed by Paolo Sorrentino, will close it. The other selections include “Qui rido io,” directed by Mario Martone; “La santa piccola, directed by Silvia Brunelli, “La ragazza ha volato, directed by Wilma Labate,” “Il buco,” directed by Michelangelo Frammartino; and “Ariaferma,” directed by Leonardo Di Costanzo.
President of the Venice Biennale Roberto Cicutto said: “This year the selection has been praised for its exceptional artistic quality. We are sure the London audience will appreciate its high calibre.”
Katia Pizzi, director of the Italian Cultural Institute in London, added: “It’s my special pleasure to welcome to...
- 10/22/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The Venice Film Festival, the Italian Cultural Institute in London, and exhibitor Curzon are tying up on London screening series From Venice To London (18 – 22 November).
Seven films from Venezia 78 have been chosen to be shown in London with appearances by filmmakers and cast.
The Lost Daughter, directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, will be the opening night film on the 18 November and The Hand of God, directed by Paolo Sorrentino, will be closing the series on 22 November.
The seven films that have been handpicked are the following:
The Lost Daughter – Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal
The Hand of God – Directed by Paolo Sorrentino
Qui Rido Io – Directed by Mario Martone
La Santa Piccola – Directed by Silvia Brunelli
La Ragazza Ha Volato – Directed by Wilma Labate
Il Buco – Directed by Michelangelo Frammartino
Ariaferma – Directed by Leonardo Di Costanzo
President of The Venice Biennale Roberto Cicutto said: “We are delighted to partner with the Italian...
Seven films from Venezia 78 have been chosen to be shown in London with appearances by filmmakers and cast.
The Lost Daughter, directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, will be the opening night film on the 18 November and The Hand of God, directed by Paolo Sorrentino, will be closing the series on 22 November.
The seven films that have been handpicked are the following:
The Lost Daughter – Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal
The Hand of God – Directed by Paolo Sorrentino
Qui Rido Io – Directed by Mario Martone
La Santa Piccola – Directed by Silvia Brunelli
La Ragazza Ha Volato – Directed by Wilma Labate
Il Buco – Directed by Michelangelo Frammartino
Ariaferma – Directed by Leonardo Di Costanzo
President of The Venice Biennale Roberto Cicutto said: “We are delighted to partner with the Italian...
- 10/22/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Covid-related travel restrictions have made Busan’s film market a more Korean affair. But, having gone virtual, that does not have to be the case.
Some 22 European sales companies, more than in 2020, will wake part at the Asian Contents & Film Market which kicks off Monday. They are helped by the annual Europe! Umbrella for European World sales and by Film Sales Support.
The online umbrella stand sees the participation of: LevelK and TrustNordisk form Denmark; Media Move and New Europe Film Sales from Poland; Films Boutique, The Match Factory, Picture Tree International, m-appeal, Sola Media and Pluto Film from Germany; Minerva Pictures, Intramovies, Fandango Film Sales, True Colours and Tvco from Italy; Latido and Filmax and newcomers Begin Again Films, Moonrise Pictures, Feel Content and Feel Sales; from Spain; and Heretic from Greece.
Highlights include Hungary’s Cannes competition entrant “The Story of My Wife” by Ildiko Enyedì, represented by...
Some 22 European sales companies, more than in 2020, will wake part at the Asian Contents & Film Market which kicks off Monday. They are helped by the annual Europe! Umbrella for European World sales and by Film Sales Support.
The online umbrella stand sees the participation of: LevelK and TrustNordisk form Denmark; Media Move and New Europe Film Sales from Poland; Films Boutique, The Match Factory, Picture Tree International, m-appeal, Sola Media and Pluto Film from Germany; Minerva Pictures, Intramovies, Fandango Film Sales, True Colours and Tvco from Italy; Latido and Filmax and newcomers Begin Again Films, Moonrise Pictures, Feel Content and Feel Sales; from Spain; and Heretic from Greece.
Highlights include Hungary’s Cannes competition entrant “The Story of My Wife” by Ildiko Enyedì, represented by...
- 10/11/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
New York-based distribution company Grasshopper Film and Gratitude Films have jointly acquired U.S. distribution rights to Italian director Michelangelo Frammartino’s Venice Special Jury Prize winner “Il Buco,” about a group of speleologists who in 1961 discover Europe’s deepest cave.
The deal was negotiated by Ryan Krivoshey of Grasshopper Film with Nadine Rothschild of Paris and Berlin-based Coproduction Office on the eve of the U.S. premiere of “Il Buco” at the New York Film Festival.
Gratitude, which is based in Los Angeles and Mumbai, is headed by Anu Rangachar, a producer and the former programmer for the Mumbai Film Festival.
With “Il Buco” Frammartino, whose dialogue-free “Le Quattro Volte” made a global splash in 2010, has segued with another similarly eclectic pic that has no dialogue or music.
His latest work reconstructs the young cave scientists’ journey to explore the depth of the Bifurto Abyss, 700 meters below Earth in the pristine Calabrian hinterland.
The deal was negotiated by Ryan Krivoshey of Grasshopper Film with Nadine Rothschild of Paris and Berlin-based Coproduction Office on the eve of the U.S. premiere of “Il Buco” at the New York Film Festival.
Gratitude, which is based in Los Angeles and Mumbai, is headed by Anu Rangachar, a producer and the former programmer for the Mumbai Film Festival.
With “Il Buco” Frammartino, whose dialogue-free “Le Quattro Volte” made a global splash in 2010, has segued with another similarly eclectic pic that has no dialogue or music.
His latest work reconstructs the young cave scientists’ journey to explore the depth of the Bifurto Abyss, 700 meters below Earth in the pristine Calabrian hinterland.
- 10/10/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Above: US release poster for Flee. Illustrations by Mikkel Sommer and Kenneth Ladekjaer; art direction by Martin Hultman.Since 2010, on the last Friday of every September, I have gathered all the posters for the films in the main slate of the New York Film Festival. Last year, six months into the pandemic, I didn’t do it. There was a New York Film Festival, and there was a main slate, but with most of the films only screening online, it just didn’t seem like the real thing and my heart wasn’t in it. This year the NYFF is back and entirely Irl and, although we’re still not out of the pandemic woods, I feel that the wonderful new poster for Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s Flee is emblematic of the moment: people, lots of them,, coming together. Aside from the Flee poster, the highlights of this year would...
- 9/24/2021
- MUBI
This Friday, the 59th New York Film Festival kicks off, boasting one of the finest festival lineups of 2021. With highlights from Sundance, Cannes, Berlinale, Telluride, and premieres of their own, the annual event is back in person both at Film at Lincoln Center and, for the first time, across the city.
To kick off our coverage, we’ve rounded up some essential, perhaps under-the-radar (at least in relation to a certain sci-fi blockbuster) selections from the festival, ranging from new releases to restorations. If you’re in the area, one can also see all available tickets here.
A Chiara (Jonas Carpignano)
Writer-director Jonas Carpignano completes his Calabrian trilogy with A Chiara, an enthralling drama about a teenage girl coming to terms with her family’s role in the mafia, which won the Europa Cinema Label at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. With a documentary-like authenticity, this is a touching, powerful...
To kick off our coverage, we’ve rounded up some essential, perhaps under-the-radar (at least in relation to a certain sci-fi blockbuster) selections from the festival, ranging from new releases to restorations. If you’re in the area, one can also see all available tickets here.
A Chiara (Jonas Carpignano)
Writer-director Jonas Carpignano completes his Calabrian trilogy with A Chiara, an enthralling drama about a teenage girl coming to terms with her family’s role in the mafia, which won the Europa Cinema Label at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. With a documentary-like authenticity, this is a touching, powerful...
- 9/23/2021
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
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