In the nine years it took to make “The Zone of Interest,” director Jonathan Glazer singles out his visit to the real-life home of Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), the commandant of Auschwitz, as the breakthrough moment the film started to come together.
“It was a very physical experience for me,” said Glazer of standing at the wall separating the Höss’ yard and the concentration camp. The intensity of the feeling would only grow and guide the film’s development. While on the Toolkit podcast, Glazer explained how in recent years his wife Rachel Penfold has helped him start to understand his creative process. “She said it’s like I’m chasing that feeling, to put that physical feeling on screen, and the images and the film is the sort of scaffolding that supports that feeling.”
For a filmmaker whose process rivals Kubrick’s in the years of methodical planning, we...
“It was a very physical experience for me,” said Glazer of standing at the wall separating the Höss’ yard and the concentration camp. The intensity of the feeling would only grow and guide the film’s development. While on the Toolkit podcast, Glazer explained how in recent years his wife Rachel Penfold has helped him start to understand his creative process. “She said it’s like I’m chasing that feeling, to put that physical feeling on screen, and the images and the film is the sort of scaffolding that supports that feeling.”
For a filmmaker whose process rivals Kubrick’s in the years of methodical planning, we...
- 1/15/2024
- by Chris O'Falt and Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Roberto Benigni, who won an Oscar for best actor in 1999 for “Life Is Beautiful,” is set to return to the big screen after a seven-year hiatus to play Mastro Geppetto in a live-action version of “Pinocchio” to be directed by Matteo Garrone.
Shooting on the previously announced film is set to start in the first quarter of 2019 on location in Italy’s Lazio, Tuscany and Puglia regions.
The casting of Benigni as Geppetto in Garrone’s live-action adaptation of “Pinocchio” was announced Friday, just days after the news that Guillermo del Toro is to make a stop-motion animated musical version for Netflix of Carlo Collodi’s classic about a puppet that comes to life. In 2002, Benigni directed and played the lead role in his own live-action adaptation of “Pinocchio,” which flopped at the U.S. box office.
Benigni’s last directorial effort is “The Tiger and the Snow,” in 2005, in which he also starred.
Shooting on the previously announced film is set to start in the first quarter of 2019 on location in Italy’s Lazio, Tuscany and Puglia regions.
The casting of Benigni as Geppetto in Garrone’s live-action adaptation of “Pinocchio” was announced Friday, just days after the news that Guillermo del Toro is to make a stop-motion animated musical version for Netflix of Carlo Collodi’s classic about a puppet that comes to life. In 2002, Benigni directed and played the lead role in his own live-action adaptation of “Pinocchio,” which flopped at the U.S. box office.
Benigni’s last directorial effort is “The Tiger and the Snow,” in 2005, in which he also starred.
- 10/26/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
A live-action film version of Carlo Collodi’s classic tale “Pinocchio” to be helmed by Italian director Matteo Garrone is back on, and in pre-production with a mid-November start date. Garrone will helm and HanWay Films founder Jeremy Thomas produce and sell internationally outside Italy and France. The on-off project sees the director-producer pair reunite after “Tale of Tales” and this year’s “Dogman,” the urban western that plays in competition at Cannes.
“Pinocchio” was put on hiatus while Garrone and Thomas were on “Dogman” but it is now going ahead. Mark Coulier of Coulier Creatures is on board for character design and prosthetics. A double Oscar and BAFTA-winner, he replaces Mark Dudman who was set to for an earlier version of the project. Rachel Penfold and her company One of Us, which worked on “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” will handle VFX. Casting is under way on the Italian-language picture.
“Pinocchio” was put on hiatus while Garrone and Thomas were on “Dogman” but it is now going ahead. Mark Coulier of Coulier Creatures is on board for character design and prosthetics. A double Oscar and BAFTA-winner, he replaces Mark Dudman who was set to for an earlier version of the project. Rachel Penfold and her company One of Us, which worked on “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” will handle VFX. Casting is under way on the Italian-language picture.
- 5/10/2018
- by Stewart Clarke and Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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