French multi-hyphenate Amanda Sthers (“Holy Lands”) has recruited the U.K.’s Kelly Reilly, Italy’s Pierfrancesco Favino and France’s Jean Reno for English-language romantic drama “Promises,” set in Italy and London, which started shooting in Rome on Monday.
Based on Sthers’ novel by the same title, “Promises” turns on an unfulfilled love affair between Alexander, played by Favino — who won best actor at Venice last year for his role in Italian drama “Padrenostro” — and Laura, played by Reilly.
Commenting on her casting choices, Sthers in a statement noted that she grew up watching movies from around the globe and therefore “allowed myself to choose talent over everything else, and wanted the global sentiment of the film reflected in casting.”
“Together, Favino and Reilly look like a quintessential cinematic couple bringing a sense of timelessness to our story,” Sthers added.
Rounding out the cast are Cara Theobold (“Downton Abbey...
Based on Sthers’ novel by the same title, “Promises” turns on an unfulfilled love affair between Alexander, played by Favino — who won best actor at Venice last year for his role in Italian drama “Padrenostro” — and Laura, played by Reilly.
Commenting on her casting choices, Sthers in a statement noted that she grew up watching movies from around the globe and therefore “allowed myself to choose talent over everything else, and wanted the global sentiment of the film reflected in casting.”
“Together, Favino and Reilly look like a quintessential cinematic couple bringing a sense of timelessness to our story,” Sthers added.
Rounding out the cast are Cara Theobold (“Downton Abbey...
- 3/23/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The Video Essay is a joint project of Mubi and Filmadrid Festival Internacional de Cine. Film analysis and criticism found a completely new and innovative path with the arrival of the video essay, a relatively recent form that already has its own masters and is becoming increasingly popular. The limits of this discipline are constantly expanding; new essayists are finding innovative ways to study the history of cinema working with images. With this non-competitive section of the festival both Mubi and Filmadrid will offer the platform and visibility the video essay deserves. The seven selected works will be shown during the dates of Filmadrid (June 8 - 17, 2017) on Mubi’s cinema publication, the Notebook. Also there will be a free public screening of the selected works during the festival. The selection was made by the programmers of Mubi and Filmadrid.Telefoni NeriA video essay by Hannah LeißAs a reaction to the...
- 6/9/2017
- MUBI
Film director who found international success with We All Loved Each Other So Much and A Special Day, starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni
Ettore Scola, who has died aged 84, was the last in the direct line of great Italian film directors who descended from the neo-realists of the 1940s. “The inequalities and corruption of Italian society have always been a rich source of inspiration for my cinema, which I inherited from the neo-realists,” remarked Scola, who generally used satire and farce to pour scorn on the Italian social-democratic regimes from the 1960s onwards. Many of his “Italian style” films, the majority of which had ambivalent main characters played by Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman and Nino Manfredi, take place against a background of historic events.
Typical was Scola’s first international success, We All Loved Each Other So Much (C’eravamo Tanto Amati, 1975), in which three men from different backgrounds...
Ettore Scola, who has died aged 84, was the last in the direct line of great Italian film directors who descended from the neo-realists of the 1940s. “The inequalities and corruption of Italian society have always been a rich source of inspiration for my cinema, which I inherited from the neo-realists,” remarked Scola, who generally used satire and farce to pour scorn on the Italian social-democratic regimes from the 1960s onwards. Many of his “Italian style” films, the majority of which had ambivalent main characters played by Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman and Nino Manfredi, take place against a background of historic events.
Typical was Scola’s first international success, We All Loved Each Other So Much (C’eravamo Tanto Amati, 1975), in which three men from different backgrounds...
- 1/26/2016
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Legendary Italian film director Ettore Scola died on Tuesday. He was 84. The five-time Academy Award nominee was pronounced dead at a hospital in Rome after falling ill two days earlier, according to the Associated Press. Scola’s “A Special Day,” costarring Sophia Loren, won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1978. Among his other achievements was “We All Loved Each Other So Much,” a definitive look at post-World War II Italy. Also Read: Glenn Frey's Death: Hollywood Remembers Eagles Legend “ leaves an enormous hole in Italian culture,” Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said of the director’s passing.
- 1/20/2016
- by Matt Donnelly
- The Wrap
Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni star in a serious drama about two outsiders in Mussolini's Rome of 1938, an ordinary housewife and a political undesirable. They have a lot in common, as it turns out. Writer-director Ettore Scola condemnation of an oppressive authoritarian state, addresses the most basic human rights violations. A Special Day Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 778 1977 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 107 min. / Una giornata particolare / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date October 13, 2015 / 39.95 Starring Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd. Cinematography Pasqualino De Santis Film Editor Raimondo Crociani Original Music Armando Trovajoli Written by Ettore Scola, Ruggero Maccari, Maurizio Costanzo Produced by Carlo Ponti Directed by Ettore Scola
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Veteran Italian screenwriter and director Ettore Scola's best-known movie in the U.S. is 1974's We All Loved Each Other So Much, but my instant favorite is this 1977 drama. Movies about life under Fascism usually gravitate toward extreme,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Veteran Italian screenwriter and director Ettore Scola's best-known movie in the U.S. is 1974's We All Loved Each Other So Much, but my instant favorite is this 1977 drama. Movies about life under Fascism usually gravitate toward extreme,...
- 11/3/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
14th Mumbai Film Festival (Mff) announced its complete lineup today in a press conference. Mff will be held from October 18th to 25th at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (Ncpa) and Inox, Nariman Point, Liberty Cinemas, Marine Lines as the main festival venues and Cinemax, Andheri and Cinemax Sion as the satellite venues. Click here to watch trailers and highlights from the festival.
Here is the complete list of films to be screened during the festival (October 18-25)
International Competition for the First Feature Films of Directors
1. From Tuesday To Tuesday (De Martes A Martes)
Dir.: Gustavo Fernandez Triviño (Argentina / 2012 / Col. / 111′)
2. The Last Elvis (El Último Elvis)
Dir.: Armando Bo (Argentina / 2012 / Col. / 91′)
3. The Sapphires
Dir.: Wayne Blair (Australia / 2012 / Col. / 103′)
4. The Wall (Die Wand)
Dir.: Julian Pölsler (Austria-Germany / 2012 / Col. / 108′)
5. Teddy Bear (10 timer til Paradis)
Dir.: Mads Matthiesen (Denmark / 2012 / Col. / 93′)
6. Augustine
Dir.: Alice Winccour (France / 2012 / Col.
Here is the complete list of films to be screened during the festival (October 18-25)
International Competition for the First Feature Films of Directors
1. From Tuesday To Tuesday (De Martes A Martes)
Dir.: Gustavo Fernandez Triviño (Argentina / 2012 / Col. / 111′)
2. The Last Elvis (El Último Elvis)
Dir.: Armando Bo (Argentina / 2012 / Col. / 91′)
3. The Sapphires
Dir.: Wayne Blair (Australia / 2012 / Col. / 103′)
4. The Wall (Die Wand)
Dir.: Julian Pölsler (Austria-Germany / 2012 / Col. / 108′)
5. Teddy Bear (10 timer til Paradis)
Dir.: Mads Matthiesen (Denmark / 2012 / Col. / 93′)
6. Augustine
Dir.: Alice Winccour (France / 2012 / Col.
- 9/24/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
C'eravamo tanto amati (Ettore Scola, 1974)
The film that had the greatest effect on me was C'eravamo tanto amati (We All Loved Each Other So Much) by Ettore Scola. It's the story of a group of friends torn apart by events in their lives. They have been together through the second world war as part of the Resistance; they have great hopes and aspirations. But within the group two people love each other and the man who is in love leaves to marry someone else for money. He becomes a lawyer, powerful and rich, but he cannot stop thinking about the woman he abandoned.
One day, he is in Rome. There's a traffic jam, so he's rolled up his sleeves, trying to direct cars. He sees his old friends go past – the woman he loved with his best friend, the two of them now an item. They think he's been reduced to begging in the street.
The film that had the greatest effect on me was C'eravamo tanto amati (We All Loved Each Other So Much) by Ettore Scola. It's the story of a group of friends torn apart by events in their lives. They have been together through the second world war as part of the Resistance; they have great hopes and aspirations. But within the group two people love each other and the man who is in love leaves to marry someone else for money. He becomes a lawyer, powerful and rich, but he cannot stop thinking about the woman he abandoned.
One day, he is in Rome. There's a traffic jam, so he's rolled up his sleeves, trying to direct cars. He sees his old friends go past – the woman he loved with his best friend, the two of them now an item. They think he's been reduced to begging in the street.
- 12/11/2011
- by Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy
- The Guardian - Film News
Famed Italian director Ettore Scola is retiring at the age of 80 - because he's too old to deal with the bureaucracy involved in making a modern movie.
The celebrated filmmaker, known for his work on We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974) and Sophia Loren's A Special Day (1977), reveals that he recently axed plans to work on a new project with French actor Gerard Depardieu and is instead calling time on his lengthy career.
In an interview with Italy's Il Tempo newspaper, he says, "I was about to shoot a film with Depardieu. Everything was ready but in the end I didn't feel like doing it anymore.
"I didn't want to become one of those old ladies who wear high heels and lipstick just to keep youthful company."
And Scola admits the limitations placed on directors by movie studio bosses nowadays had a lot to do with his decision to quit.
He adds, "My experience in the filmmaking world is not what it used to be: easy and happy. There are production and distribution requirements that I can no longer identify with.
"To me it is crucial to retain that freedom of choice, that freedom to give up. I was beginning to play by rules that no longer allowed me to feel free.
"Nowadays, it's the market that chooses for you. It was always an important factor but there was more space for autonomy. Producers were more willing to experiment and take risks."...
The celebrated filmmaker, known for his work on We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974) and Sophia Loren's A Special Day (1977), reveals that he recently axed plans to work on a new project with French actor Gerard Depardieu and is instead calling time on his lengthy career.
In an interview with Italy's Il Tempo newspaper, he says, "I was about to shoot a film with Depardieu. Everything was ready but in the end I didn't feel like doing it anymore.
"I didn't want to become one of those old ladies who wear high heels and lipstick just to keep youthful company."
And Scola admits the limitations placed on directors by movie studio bosses nowadays had a lot to do with his decision to quit.
He adds, "My experience in the filmmaking world is not what it used to be: easy and happy. There are production and distribution requirements that I can no longer identify with.
"To me it is crucial to retain that freedom of choice, that freedom to give up. I was beginning to play by rules that no longer allowed me to feel free.
"Nowadays, it's the market that chooses for you. It was always an important factor but there was more space for autonomy. Producers were more willing to experiment and take risks."...
- 8/30/2011
- WENN
One of Italy's leading screenwriters, he worked on 140 films
One of Italy's most respected and prolific screenwriters, Furio Scarpelli, who has died aged 90, worked on the scripts of about 140 films, sometimes without a credit, and received three shared Oscar nominations, for I Compagni (The Organiser, 1963), Casanova '70 (1965) and Il Postino (1994). Scarpelli enjoyed a lengthy writing partnership, from 1949 until 1985, with Agenore Incrocci, also known as Age. The pair collaborated on the 1958 film I Soliti Ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street), about a team of makeshift thieves, which owed much of its success to the brilliant comic characterisations. The film, starring Vittorio Gassman and Marcello Mastroianni, helped to launch the genre of commedia all'italiana ("comedy Italian-style").
Scarpelli was born in Rome. His Neapolitan father, Filiberto, was a satirical writer who founded a humorous magazine, Il Travaso delle Idee. Furio began his own career as a cartoonist. It was after the second world war,...
One of Italy's most respected and prolific screenwriters, Furio Scarpelli, who has died aged 90, worked on the scripts of about 140 films, sometimes without a credit, and received three shared Oscar nominations, for I Compagni (The Organiser, 1963), Casanova '70 (1965) and Il Postino (1994). Scarpelli enjoyed a lengthy writing partnership, from 1949 until 1985, with Agenore Incrocci, also known as Age. The pair collaborated on the 1958 film I Soliti Ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street), about a team of makeshift thieves, which owed much of its success to the brilliant comic characterisations. The film, starring Vittorio Gassman and Marcello Mastroianni, helped to launch the genre of commedia all'italiana ("comedy Italian-style").
Scarpelli was born in Rome. His Neapolitan father, Filiberto, was a satirical writer who founded a humorous magazine, Il Travaso delle Idee. Furio began his own career as a cartoonist. It was after the second world war,...
- 5/17/2010
- by John Francis Lane
- The Guardian - Film News
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is among the restored works that will be shown at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival. The Sydney Pollack-directed 1969 classic will be shown among works Almost a Man (Un uomo a meta), Come Back Africa, Miss Else (Fraulein Else), My Sister Eileen, We Loved Each Other So Much (C'eravamo tanto amati), and a group of short independent films made by New York teens from 1964-1974. The Midnight selection will screen Japanese films Infection (Kansen) and Premonition (Yogen), Germany's Antibodies (Antikorper), and U.S. films Reeker and Modify. The Wide Angle selection will showcase 25 narratives and docus by emerging worldwide talent, and the Showcase selection will offer 24 new films and special programs from around the world that have been screened at other U.S. film festivals but have not been shown in New York.
- 3/15/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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