Pact marks Netflix’s first global deal for an Italian movie, according to producers.
Netflix has boarded global rights, excluding Italy, to Italian romantic comedy Slam: Tutto Per Una Ragazza, the adaptation of the 2008 Nick Hornby novel Slam.
Netflix has picked up rights to the film in 189 territories - where it will be labeled a ‘Netflix original’ on its April 15 release - while in Italy the film will have a theatrical and home entertainment release (March 23) through Universal. Netflix also has SVoD rights to the film in Italy.
According to producers, the deal marks Netflix’s first global deal for an entirely Italian movie.
Slam, which premiered at the Torino Film Festival last November, is produced by Rai Cinema and Indigo Film (The Great Beauty).
The deal was revealed today by the film’s producers at a press event in Rome.
Jasmine Trinca (Miele) and Luca Marinelli (They Call Me Jeeg) star in the feature which is directed...
Netflix has boarded global rights, excluding Italy, to Italian romantic comedy Slam: Tutto Per Una Ragazza, the adaptation of the 2008 Nick Hornby novel Slam.
Netflix has picked up rights to the film in 189 territories - where it will be labeled a ‘Netflix original’ on its April 15 release - while in Italy the film will have a theatrical and home entertainment release (March 23) through Universal. Netflix also has SVoD rights to the film in Italy.
According to producers, the deal marks Netflix’s first global deal for an entirely Italian movie.
Slam, which premiered at the Torino Film Festival last November, is produced by Rai Cinema and Indigo Film (The Great Beauty).
The deal was revealed today by the film’s producers at a press event in Rome.
Jasmine Trinca (Miele) and Luca Marinelli (They Call Me Jeeg) star in the feature which is directed...
- 3/7/2017
- ScreenDaily
Donald Sutherland, Arnaud Desplechin, Vanessa Paradis among those to join president George Miller.
The 69th Cannes Film Festival jury, presided over by Mad Max director George Miller, will be made up of eight luminaries of world cinema, from Iran, Denmark, United States, Italy, France, Canada and Hungary.
The jury, made up of four women and four men, will comprise a collection of directors, actors and writers. They will decide on the prizes for the 21 films in Competition.
The jury:
George Miller – President
(Director, Writer, Producer – Australia)
Arnaud Desplechin (Director, Writer – France)
Kirsten Dunst (Actress– United States)
Valeria Golino (Actress, Director, Writer, Producer – Italia)
Mads Mikkelsen (Actor – Denmark)
László Nemes (Director, Writer – Hungaria)
Vanessa Paradis (Actress, Singer – France)
Katayoon Shahabi (Producer – Iran)
Donald Sutherland (Actor – Canada)
Arnaud Desplechin, Director, Writer (France)
Arnaud Desplechin became an official competitor at Cannes with The Sentinel, his first feature film. He then made My Sex Life… or How I Got...
The 69th Cannes Film Festival jury, presided over by Mad Max director George Miller, will be made up of eight luminaries of world cinema, from Iran, Denmark, United States, Italy, France, Canada and Hungary.
The jury, made up of four women and four men, will comprise a collection of directors, actors and writers. They will decide on the prizes for the 21 films in Competition.
The jury:
George Miller – President
(Director, Writer, Producer – Australia)
Arnaud Desplechin (Director, Writer – France)
Kirsten Dunst (Actress– United States)
Valeria Golino (Actress, Director, Writer, Producer – Italia)
Mads Mikkelsen (Actor – Denmark)
László Nemes (Director, Writer – Hungaria)
Vanessa Paradis (Actress, Singer – France)
Katayoon Shahabi (Producer – Iran)
Donald Sutherland (Actor – Canada)
Arnaud Desplechin, Director, Writer (France)
Arnaud Desplechin became an official competitor at Cannes with The Sentinel, his first feature film. He then made My Sex Life… or How I Got...
- 4/25/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Donald Sutherland, Arnaud Desplechin, Vanessa Paradis among those to join president George Miller.
The 69th Cannes Film Festival, presided over by Mad Max director George Miller, will comprise eight luminaries of world cinema, from Iran, Denmark, United States, Italy, France, Canada and Hungary.
The jury, made up of four women and four men, comprises directors, actors and writers.
The jury:
George Miller – President
(Director, Writer, Producer – Australia)
Arnaud Desplechin (Director, Writer – France)
Kirsten Dunst (Actress– United States)
Valeria Golino (Actress, Director, Writer, Producer – Italia)
Mads Mikkelsen (Actor – Denmark)
László Nemes (Director, Writer – Hungaria)
Vanessa Paradis (Actress, Singer – France)
Katayoon Shahabi (Producer – Iran)
Donald Sutherland (Actor – Canada)
Arnaud Desplechin, Director, Writer (France)
Arnaud Desplechin became an official competitor at Cannes with The Sentinel, his first feature film. He then made My Sex Life… or How I Got into an Argument, which introduced a new generation of actors. The artists in his films have regularly been awarded the most...
The 69th Cannes Film Festival, presided over by Mad Max director George Miller, will comprise eight luminaries of world cinema, from Iran, Denmark, United States, Italy, France, Canada and Hungary.
The jury, made up of four women and four men, comprises directors, actors and writers.
The jury:
George Miller – President
(Director, Writer, Producer – Australia)
Arnaud Desplechin (Director, Writer – France)
Kirsten Dunst (Actress– United States)
Valeria Golino (Actress, Director, Writer, Producer – Italia)
Mads Mikkelsen (Actor – Denmark)
László Nemes (Director, Writer – Hungaria)
Vanessa Paradis (Actress, Singer – France)
Katayoon Shahabi (Producer – Iran)
Donald Sutherland (Actor – Canada)
Arnaud Desplechin, Director, Writer (France)
Arnaud Desplechin became an official competitor at Cannes with The Sentinel, his first feature film. He then made My Sex Life… or How I Got into an Argument, which introduced a new generation of actors. The artists in his films have regularly been awarded the most...
- 4/25/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
We have what should now be the full line-up for the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, featuring many of our most-anticipated films of the year. Coming next in line is the announcement of the competition jury, which director George Miller will be presiding over, returning to Cannes after delivering one of the best films of the festival last year, Mad Max: Fury Road.
Made up of four women and five men, they include Arnaud Desplechin (returning after last year’s My Golden Days), Kristen Dunst, Italian actress Valeria Golino, Mad Mikkelsen (Cannes Best Actor winner for The Hunt), Grand Prix-winning Son of Saul director László Nemes, actress/singer Vanessa Paradis, Iranian producer Katayoon Shahabi, as well as actor Donald Sutherland. Check out their biographies below as we look forward to seeing what they award the Palme d’Or, and beyond.
Arnaud Desplechin, Director, Writer (France)
Arnaud Desplechin became an official competitor at Cannes with The Sentinel,...
Made up of four women and five men, they include Arnaud Desplechin (returning after last year’s My Golden Days), Kristen Dunst, Italian actress Valeria Golino, Mad Mikkelsen (Cannes Best Actor winner for The Hunt), Grand Prix-winning Son of Saul director László Nemes, actress/singer Vanessa Paradis, Iranian producer Katayoon Shahabi, as well as actor Donald Sutherland. Check out their biographies below as we look forward to seeing what they award the Palme d’Or, and beyond.
Arnaud Desplechin, Director, Writer (France)
Arnaud Desplechin became an official competitor at Cannes with The Sentinel,...
- 4/25/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The juries have been announced for the 2015 Marrakech Int. Film Fest, and the Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola) will be in good company. A cinephile’s wet dream, the 15th edition will include an astute set of mostly auteur filmmakers with Anton Corbijn, Naomi Kawase, Thomas Vinterberg, Jean-Pierre Jeunet along with, mostly actor but also director Sergio Castellitto, Richa Chadda (Gangs of Wasseypur), Olga Kurylenko and Amal Ayouch.
The Cinécoles Jury (short films comp) includes a who’s who of talent with
The White Knights (recently shown at Tiff) helmer Joachim Lafosse being joined by actor Niels Schneider (Xavier Dolan’s Heartbeats), actress and director Valeria Golino (Miele), actress and filmmaker Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (A Castle in Italy), local filmmaker Saâd Chraïbi and the bee’s knee’s actress from Bird People in Anaïs Demoustier. The festival kicks of on the 4th until the 12th of December.
The Cinécoles Jury (short films comp) includes a who’s who of talent with
The White Knights (recently shown at Tiff) helmer Joachim Lafosse being joined by actor Niels Schneider (Xavier Dolan’s Heartbeats), actress and director Valeria Golino (Miele), actress and filmmaker Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (A Castle in Italy), local filmmaker Saâd Chraïbi and the bee’s knee’s actress from Bird People in Anaïs Demoustier. The festival kicks of on the 4th until the 12th of December.
- 11/9/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Girlhood, White God and The Wonders among the finalists announced in Karlovy Vary; 2013 audience winner revealed.
The official selection of films competing for the European Parliament’s 2014 Lux Prize has been unveiled at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff).
At a packed event on the terrace of Kv’s Hotel Thermal on Sunday night, the 10 films were unveiled by Lux Prize co-ordinator Doris Pack, European Parliament member Olga Sehnalova and Kviff artistic director Karel Och, who is also a member of the Lux Prize selection panel.
The 10 films are:
Girlhood (Bande De Filles)
Céline Sciamma – France
White God (Feher Isten)
Kornél Mundruczó – Hungary, Germany, Sweden
Beautiful Youth (Hermosa Juventud)
Jaime Rosales – Spain, France
Ida
Pawel Pawlikowski – Poland, Denmark
Stations Of The Cross (Kreuzweg)
Dietrich Brüggemann – Germany, France
The Wonders (Le Meraviglie)
Alice Rohrwacher – Italy, Switzerland, Germany
Macondo
Sudabeh Mortezai – Austria
Class Enemy (Razredni Sovraznik)
Rok Biček – Slovenia
Force Majeure (Turist)
Ruben Östlund – Sweden, Denmark, France...
The official selection of films competing for the European Parliament’s 2014 Lux Prize has been unveiled at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff).
At a packed event on the terrace of Kv’s Hotel Thermal on Sunday night, the 10 films were unveiled by Lux Prize co-ordinator Doris Pack, European Parliament member Olga Sehnalova and Kviff artistic director Karel Och, who is also a member of the Lux Prize selection panel.
The 10 films are:
Girlhood (Bande De Filles)
Céline Sciamma – France
White God (Feher Isten)
Kornél Mundruczó – Hungary, Germany, Sweden
Beautiful Youth (Hermosa Juventud)
Jaime Rosales – Spain, France
Ida
Pawel Pawlikowski – Poland, Denmark
Stations Of The Cross (Kreuzweg)
Dietrich Brüggemann – Germany, France
The Wonders (Le Meraviglie)
Alice Rohrwacher – Italy, Switzerland, Germany
Macondo
Sudabeh Mortezai – Austria
Class Enemy (Razredni Sovraznik)
Rok Biček – Slovenia
Force Majeure (Turist)
Ruben Östlund – Sweden, Denmark, France...
- 7/7/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Jasmine Trinca and Carlo Cecchi as Honey and Grimaldi in Miele. "It's very interesting how Valeria used music. It is not at all a score." Valeria Golino's first-rate debut feature Honey (Miele) is about breaking boundaries, looking at boundaries. It is the second film following Paolo Sorrentino's Oscar-winning The Great Beauty to receive support in the Us from the newly created partnership "Cinema Made In Italy" programme created by the Instituto Luce-Cinecittà, the Italian Trade Commission and Emerging Pictures.
Honey is played with subtle layers of emotion by Jasmine Trinca who gives the character a searching physicality and the strength of appetite to move forward. We get to glimpse into the life of a young woman who has created a world of rituals for herself. Honey's job is to provide aid to the terminally ill to end their life with dignity.
In New York, Jasmine and I discussed...
Honey is played with subtle layers of emotion by Jasmine Trinca who gives the character a searching physicality and the strength of appetite to move forward. We get to glimpse into the life of a young woman who has created a world of rituals for herself. Honey's job is to provide aid to the terminally ill to end their life with dignity.
In New York, Jasmine and I discussed...
- 3/21/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Irene (Jasmine Trinca) lives alone by the ocean and has a peculiar job -- assisting deaths in terminally ill patients and their families by observing and providing poison used in putting down sick pets. Assisted suicide is a taboo subject in deeply religious Italy. The drug is illegal, so she has to travel down to Mexico once every month to get it. Having lost her mother to illness when she was young, Irene is somewhat of an idealist, believing that she's doing a good deed. With her cold facade, she hides her emotions remarkably well when carrying out her job -- using her work name Miele (Honey), she usually stays with the dying person, reminding them constantly that it's not too late to change their...
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- 3/6/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Italian actress Valeria Golino (Rain Man, Hot Shots!, Indian Runner, Respiro among others) makes an assured directorial debut with Honey/Miele, a drama about a woman who assists suicides for a living. It's a beautiful film that plays out like a great piece of music, accompanied by strong performances. It was quite nerve-wracking for me to meet Golino because I had a crush on her since I was young. Still stunning with her penetrating green eyes, kinky curls and smokey voice, she made my job of concentrating on my notes very difficult. But soon her unguarded candidness and enthusiasm got the better of me and we had a great conversation (I hope).Twitch: You are an established actor, working with a lot of different directors throughout your...
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- 3/6/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Honey (Miele) star Jasmine Trinca, Anne-Katrin Titze with director Valeria Golino in New York: "As soon as I see glass, I want to film it."
Following a whirlwind celebration of Paolo Sorrentino's win for The Great Beauty as Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' award ceremony on Sunday, I met up with Valeria Golino to discuss her debut feature Honey (Miele). We spoke about breaking boundaries, the meaning of rabbits, the Virgin Mary, Frank Sinatra and Alice In Wonderland.
Honey is played with subtle layers of emotion by Jasmine Trinca who gives the character a searching physicality and the strength of appetite to move forward. We get to glimpse into the life of a young woman who created a world of rituals for herself. Her job is to provide aid to the terminally ill to end their life with dignity. Her personality...
Following a whirlwind celebration of Paolo Sorrentino's win for The Great Beauty as Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' award ceremony on Sunday, I met up with Valeria Golino to discuss her debut feature Honey (Miele). We spoke about breaking boundaries, the meaning of rabbits, the Virgin Mary, Frank Sinatra and Alice In Wonderland.
Honey is played with subtle layers of emotion by Jasmine Trinca who gives the character a searching physicality and the strength of appetite to move forward. We get to glimpse into the life of a young woman who created a world of rituals for herself. Her job is to provide aid to the terminally ill to end their life with dignity. Her personality...
- 3/5/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
If Michael Haneke's "Amour" presented death as a sobering inevitability, one that will test the bounds of our ability to love, actress Valeria Golino has a slightly more nuanced perspective in her directorial debut "Miele." While the subject of euthanasia is the entryway into the story, Golino wisely strays from turning her film into an Issues Movie, and instead opts to explore death both as a vessel for closure and a window into appreciating the life we have. The Noomi Rapace-esque Jasmine Trinca (all cropped hair, switchblade scowl and tomboy figure) leads the film as Irene, aka the titular Miele (meaning honey), her code name when she's on the job as an assisted suicide practitioner. Since assisted suicide is illegal in Italy, it requires almost Lisbeth Salander-ish levels of covert maneuvers. She travels to Mexico once a month and smuggles back veterinary grade barbiturates which she uses as part of her procedures,...
- 3/5/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Honey (Miele) Emerging Pictures Director: Valeria Golino Screenplay: Angela Del Fabbro Cast: Jasmine Trinca, Carlo Cecchi, Libero De Rienzo, Vinicio Marchioni, Laia Forte, Roberto De Francesco, Barbara Ronchi, Masssimiliano, Claudio Guain, Valeria Bilello Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 2/27/14 Opens: March 7, 2014 For all we know, Dr. Kevorkian is chatting amiably now with some of the folks he dispatched at their request, but though Dr. Death is not with us here in Earth any longer, the subject of assisted suicide comes up now and then. In the U.S. Oregon has been the leader among the progressive states that rationally allow people to do what they want with their own [ Read More ]
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- 2/28/2014
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Emerging Pictures recently announced “Cinema Made In Italy,” a major new initiative between Istituto Luce- Cinecittà, the Italian Trade Commission and Emerging Pictures that will pro-vide distribution and marketing support to five major Italian films with the goal of broadening the audience for Italian cinema in the United States. Emerging will oversee the initiative and distribute Gianni Amelio’s L’Intrepido, Marco Bellocchio’s Dormant Beauty, Bernardo Bertolucci’s Me And You and Valeria Golino’s Honey in 2014.
These four recent Italian works will receive marketing and distribution support from a fund created by Istituto Luce- Cinecittà and the Italian Trade Commission. The first film in the series was Paolo Sorrentino’s masterful Academy Award nominated The Great Beauty. Since it was released by Janus Films with support from the Cinema Made In Italy program, it has become one of the most acclaimed foreign language films of the year. It also won the Golden Globe, European Film Award and is nominated for the BAFTA and Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film.
All five films will receive a nationwide release. Theaters will be announced shortly. Each of the films will have a full marketing and publicity campaign overseen by Emerging Pictures and supported by Istituto Luce-Cinecittà and the Italian Trade Commission.
Ira Deutchman, Managing Partner of Emerging Pictures, said, “Italian cine- ma has always captured the imagination of American audiences since the hey-day of Fellini, Pasolini, Visconti, De Sica and Rossellini. Our goal is to create a marketing and distribution initiative that will allow new Italian films to regularly enter the marketplace with a presence and to help create an ongoing new audience. We’re thrilled to be working with Istituto Luce-Cinecittà and the Italian Trade Commission to create this truly groundbreaking program.”
“Luce Cinecitta' is proud to test this new way to promote Italian cinema abroad,” said Istituto Luce-Cinecitta’ Chief Executive Officer Roberto Cicut- to. “Thanks to the funds provided by the Ministry of Economic Development and The Italian Trade Commission (Agenzia Ice) in addition to those provid- ed by the Ministry of Culture in partnership with Emerging Pictures, we will be able to give the largest theatrical distribution to recent Italian titles direct- ed by very prestigious auteurs. Italian cinema is well known worldwide for its glorious past and for such great contemporary directors as Bertolucci, Bellocchio, Moretti, Sorrentino, Garrone, Amelio and others. This new platform will give our movies the chance to be seen in a wide array of theaters throughout the U.S., and not just in specialized art houses in a few big cities. The recent outstanding success of Sorrentino's ‘Great Beauty,’ a Janus release, with our support, shows there is great potential here for Italian cinema. We look for- ward to increasing the availability of Italian films to our American friends.”
Dr. Carlo Angelo Bocchi, Trade Commissioner, Italian Trade Commission, said, "We have been working in the past two years with all the institutions mentioned by Roberto with two main goals: to get the Italian movie industry as the most important made-in-Italy tool for the commercial promotion of our country in the U.S., to try to reach the widest possible audience for viewing Italian movies. The support of different public institutions was central to building a project that was from the outset commercial: the movie industry is quintessentially important to promoting wine, food, fashion, design, technology, tourism and Italian style, together with the expression of our cultural values, trends and innovations. Italian cinema provides a single, comprehensive tool for achieving that meaningful goal. With ‘The Great Beauty,’ our first film, Cinema Made in Italy makes its debut in 25 cities, in more than 100 theaters in 15 states. This far-reaching exposure is exactly what we were searching for in our partnership with Emerging Pictures, and we are very happy that this first film in our Italian movie series is already appearing throughout the United States.”
About Emerging Pictures
Emerging Pictures, managed by Barry Rebo and Ira Deutchman, is the pre- mier all-digital Specialty Film and Alternative Content network of theaters in the United States. The company delivers independent films, cultural pro- grams and special events to a network of approximately 400 North American venues encompassing traditional art houses, museums and performing arts centers as well as commercial multiplexes including Allen Theatres, Angelika/ Reading Theatres, Big Cinemas, Bow Tie Cinemas, Marcus Theatres, Carmike Cinemas, Digiplex Destination Cinemas, Harkins Theatres, Laemmle Theaters, Muvico Theaters, Regency Theatres and others. The company also distributes live and captured live performances worldwide of the Bolshoi Ballet and some of the world’s foremost opera houses, including Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, under its Ballet in Cinema and Opera in Cinema brands.
About Istituto Luce-Cinecitta
Istituto Luce - Cinecittà (www.cinecittaluce.it) is the state-owned company whose main shareholder is the Italian Ministry for Culture. Istituto Luce - Cinecittà’s institutional work includes promoting Italian cinema both at home and abroad by means of projects dedicated to the great directors of the past and their classic films, as well contemporary ones. During the main In- ternational Film Festivals Istituto Luce - Cinecittà prepares multifunctional spaces that help to the promotion of our cinematography and it is the refer- ence place for all Italian and foreign operators Istituto Luce - Cinecittà holds one of the most important film and photographic archive both of its own pro- ductions, and private collections and acquisitions from a variety of sources. Istituto Luce - Cinecittà also distributes films made by Italian and European directors and guarantees they are given an adequate release on the national market. The team for the promotion of contemporary cinema continues to col- laborate with all of the major film festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Toronto, Shanghai, Tokyo, Locarno, New York , London, etc, by orga- nizing the national selections, the presence of Italian films and artists in the various festivals, and providing an expository and promotional space within all the major International film markets. We are also involved with the orga- nization of numerous events which take place in countries with strong com- mercial potential such as : The Italian cinema festival in Tokyo, Open Roads – New Italian cinema in New York, Cinema Italian Style in Los Angeles, The Festival of Italian cinema of Barcelona and The Mittelcinemafest. Istituto
Luce - Cinecittà also owns a film library, Cineteca, which contains around 3000 titles of the most significant Italian film productions, subtitled in foreign languages, which serve in promoting Italian culture at major national and in- ternational Institutes around the world. Istituto Luce - Cinecittà is also re- sponsible for editing a daily news magazine on-line: CinecittàNews (news.cinecitta.com) which delivers the latest breaking news on the principal activities involving Italian cinema as well as its developing legislative and in- stitutional aspects.
About The Italian Trade Commission The Ice-Italian Trade Promotion Agency is the government organization which promotes the internationalization of the Italian companies, in line with the strategies of the Ministry for Economic Development. Ice provides in- formation, support and advice to Italian and foreign companies. In addition to its Rome headquarters, Ice operates worldwide from a large network of Trade Promotion Offices linked to Italian embassies and consulates and work- ing closely with local authorities and businesses. Ice provides a wide range of services overseas helping Italian and foreign businesses to connect with each other
About The Films
Dormant Beauty (Bella Addormentata)
Release Date: Tbc Director: Marco Bellocchio Producer: Riccardo Tozzi, Fabio Conversi, Marco Chimenz, Giovanni Sta- bilini
Screenplay: Marco Bellocchio, Veronica Raimo, Stefano Rulli Cast: Toni Servillo, Isabelle Huppert, Alba Rohrwacher Festivals: Venice 2012, Toronto 2012
Three stories, taking place over the course of a few days, involving a con- science-stricken politician, an obsessive mother and two young protestors on different sides, are skillfully interwoven in this gripping, beautifully realized film. Set against the background of the emotional and controversial real-life 2008 euthanasia case of Eluana Englaro, Dormant Beauty is a subtle and complex depiction of recent Italian history.
The Great Beauty
(released by Janus Films) - In Release Director: Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo) Producer: Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima Screenwriter: Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello Cast: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferrili, Carlo Buccirosso, Iaia Forte, Pamela Villoresi, Galatea Ranzi with Massimo de Francovich, Roberto Herlitzka, and with Isabella Ferrari Festivals: Cannes (Competition) 2013, Toronto 2013, AFI 2013, Italy’s Official Entry to the 2014 Academy Awards Awards: 4 European Film Award nominations (Picture, Director, Screenplay, Actor and winner for Best Editing), Best Foreign Film nominee for British In- dependent Film Awards
Journalist Jep Gambardella (the dazzling Toni Servillo, Il Divo and Go- Morrah) has charmed and seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades. Since the legendary success of his one and only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and social circles, but when his sixty-fifth birthday coincides with a shock from the past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the extravagant nightclubs, parties, and cafés to find Rome in all its glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Honey (Miele)
Release Date: March 7, 2014 Director: Valeria Golino Producer: Viola Prestieri, Riccardo Scamarcio, Anne-Dominique Toussaint, Raphael Berdugo Screenplay: Valeria Golino, Valia Santella, Francesca Marciano, from the novel by Angela Del Fabbro with the same title Cast: Jasmine Trinca, Carlo Cecchi, Libero De Rienzo, Vinicio Marchioni, Iaia Forte, Roberto De Francesco, Barbara Ronchi, Claudio Guain, Teresa Acerbis, Valeria Bilello, Massimiliano Iacolucci Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard) 2013, Toronto 2013 Prizes: Winner Special Mention from the Ecumenical Jury, Cannes 2013 Nominated for European Discovery at the European Film Awards 2013
Actress Valeria Golino makes her directing debut with Honey. Irene lives alone on the coastline outside Rome. To her father and her married lover, she’s a student. In reality, she often travels to Mexico where she can legally buy a powerful barbiturate. Working under the name of Miele ("Honey"), her clandestine job is to help terminally-ill people to die with dignity by giving them the drug. One day she supplies a new “client” with a fatal dose, only to find out he’s perfectly healthy but tired of life. Irene is determined not to be responsible for his suicide. From this point on, Irene and Grimaldi are unwill- ingly locked in an intense and moving relationship which will change Irene’s life forever.
L’Intrepido
Release Date - To Be Confirmed Director: Gianni Amelio Producer: Carlo Degli Esposti Screenplay: Gianni Amelio, Davide Lantieri Cast: Antonio Albanese, Sandra Ceccarelli, Livia Rossi, Gabriele Rendina, Alfonso Santagata
Festivals: Venice 2013, Toronto 2013
Set in modern day Milan, this is a Chaplinesque odyssey through the world of work – every type of work, but primarily unskilled manual labor – seen through the eyes of a kind, middle-aged man who takes on every conceivable temporary job in order to be useful and have self respect. This really is a por- trait of the highs and lows of modern life. At its heart is a sympathetic man (Antonio Albanese) who, despite loneliness and personal family problems, es- pecially around his gifted but troubled musician son, remains defiantly opti- mistic even when terrible things happen to him and the people he meets.
Me And You (Io E Te)
Release Date: To Be Confirmed
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci Screenplay: Bernardo Bertolucci, Niccolo Ammaniti, Umberto Contarello Producer: Mario Gianani Cast: Tea Falco, Jacopo Olmo Antinori Festivals: Cannes, Toronto
Lorenzo, a solitary 14-year-old with difficulties relating to his daily life and the world around him, chooses to spend a week hidden in the basement of his house. But Lorenzo’s fragile and rebellious stepsister, Olivia, appears at her brother’s place of refuge and disturbs the quiet.
These four recent Italian works will receive marketing and distribution support from a fund created by Istituto Luce- Cinecittà and the Italian Trade Commission. The first film in the series was Paolo Sorrentino’s masterful Academy Award nominated The Great Beauty. Since it was released by Janus Films with support from the Cinema Made In Italy program, it has become one of the most acclaimed foreign language films of the year. It also won the Golden Globe, European Film Award and is nominated for the BAFTA and Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film.
All five films will receive a nationwide release. Theaters will be announced shortly. Each of the films will have a full marketing and publicity campaign overseen by Emerging Pictures and supported by Istituto Luce-Cinecittà and the Italian Trade Commission.
Ira Deutchman, Managing Partner of Emerging Pictures, said, “Italian cine- ma has always captured the imagination of American audiences since the hey-day of Fellini, Pasolini, Visconti, De Sica and Rossellini. Our goal is to create a marketing and distribution initiative that will allow new Italian films to regularly enter the marketplace with a presence and to help create an ongoing new audience. We’re thrilled to be working with Istituto Luce-Cinecittà and the Italian Trade Commission to create this truly groundbreaking program.”
“Luce Cinecitta' is proud to test this new way to promote Italian cinema abroad,” said Istituto Luce-Cinecitta’ Chief Executive Officer Roberto Cicut- to. “Thanks to the funds provided by the Ministry of Economic Development and The Italian Trade Commission (Agenzia Ice) in addition to those provid- ed by the Ministry of Culture in partnership with Emerging Pictures, we will be able to give the largest theatrical distribution to recent Italian titles direct- ed by very prestigious auteurs. Italian cinema is well known worldwide for its glorious past and for such great contemporary directors as Bertolucci, Bellocchio, Moretti, Sorrentino, Garrone, Amelio and others. This new platform will give our movies the chance to be seen in a wide array of theaters throughout the U.S., and not just in specialized art houses in a few big cities. The recent outstanding success of Sorrentino's ‘Great Beauty,’ a Janus release, with our support, shows there is great potential here for Italian cinema. We look for- ward to increasing the availability of Italian films to our American friends.”
Dr. Carlo Angelo Bocchi, Trade Commissioner, Italian Trade Commission, said, "We have been working in the past two years with all the institutions mentioned by Roberto with two main goals: to get the Italian movie industry as the most important made-in-Italy tool for the commercial promotion of our country in the U.S., to try to reach the widest possible audience for viewing Italian movies. The support of different public institutions was central to building a project that was from the outset commercial: the movie industry is quintessentially important to promoting wine, food, fashion, design, technology, tourism and Italian style, together with the expression of our cultural values, trends and innovations. Italian cinema provides a single, comprehensive tool for achieving that meaningful goal. With ‘The Great Beauty,’ our first film, Cinema Made in Italy makes its debut in 25 cities, in more than 100 theaters in 15 states. This far-reaching exposure is exactly what we were searching for in our partnership with Emerging Pictures, and we are very happy that this first film in our Italian movie series is already appearing throughout the United States.”
About Emerging Pictures
Emerging Pictures, managed by Barry Rebo and Ira Deutchman, is the pre- mier all-digital Specialty Film and Alternative Content network of theaters in the United States. The company delivers independent films, cultural pro- grams and special events to a network of approximately 400 North American venues encompassing traditional art houses, museums and performing arts centers as well as commercial multiplexes including Allen Theatres, Angelika/ Reading Theatres, Big Cinemas, Bow Tie Cinemas, Marcus Theatres, Carmike Cinemas, Digiplex Destination Cinemas, Harkins Theatres, Laemmle Theaters, Muvico Theaters, Regency Theatres and others. The company also distributes live and captured live performances worldwide of the Bolshoi Ballet and some of the world’s foremost opera houses, including Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, under its Ballet in Cinema and Opera in Cinema brands.
About Istituto Luce-Cinecitta
Istituto Luce - Cinecittà (www.cinecittaluce.it) is the state-owned company whose main shareholder is the Italian Ministry for Culture. Istituto Luce - Cinecittà’s institutional work includes promoting Italian cinema both at home and abroad by means of projects dedicated to the great directors of the past and their classic films, as well contemporary ones. During the main In- ternational Film Festivals Istituto Luce - Cinecittà prepares multifunctional spaces that help to the promotion of our cinematography and it is the refer- ence place for all Italian and foreign operators Istituto Luce - Cinecittà holds one of the most important film and photographic archive both of its own pro- ductions, and private collections and acquisitions from a variety of sources. Istituto Luce - Cinecittà also distributes films made by Italian and European directors and guarantees they are given an adequate release on the national market. The team for the promotion of contemporary cinema continues to col- laborate with all of the major film festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Toronto, Shanghai, Tokyo, Locarno, New York , London, etc, by orga- nizing the national selections, the presence of Italian films and artists in the various festivals, and providing an expository and promotional space within all the major International film markets. We are also involved with the orga- nization of numerous events which take place in countries with strong com- mercial potential such as : The Italian cinema festival in Tokyo, Open Roads – New Italian cinema in New York, Cinema Italian Style in Los Angeles, The Festival of Italian cinema of Barcelona and The Mittelcinemafest. Istituto
Luce - Cinecittà also owns a film library, Cineteca, which contains around 3000 titles of the most significant Italian film productions, subtitled in foreign languages, which serve in promoting Italian culture at major national and in- ternational Institutes around the world. Istituto Luce - Cinecittà is also re- sponsible for editing a daily news magazine on-line: CinecittàNews (news.cinecitta.com) which delivers the latest breaking news on the principal activities involving Italian cinema as well as its developing legislative and in- stitutional aspects.
About The Italian Trade Commission The Ice-Italian Trade Promotion Agency is the government organization which promotes the internationalization of the Italian companies, in line with the strategies of the Ministry for Economic Development. Ice provides in- formation, support and advice to Italian and foreign companies. In addition to its Rome headquarters, Ice operates worldwide from a large network of Trade Promotion Offices linked to Italian embassies and consulates and work- ing closely with local authorities and businesses. Ice provides a wide range of services overseas helping Italian and foreign businesses to connect with each other
About The Films
Dormant Beauty (Bella Addormentata)
Release Date: Tbc Director: Marco Bellocchio Producer: Riccardo Tozzi, Fabio Conversi, Marco Chimenz, Giovanni Sta- bilini
Screenplay: Marco Bellocchio, Veronica Raimo, Stefano Rulli Cast: Toni Servillo, Isabelle Huppert, Alba Rohrwacher Festivals: Venice 2012, Toronto 2012
Three stories, taking place over the course of a few days, involving a con- science-stricken politician, an obsessive mother and two young protestors on different sides, are skillfully interwoven in this gripping, beautifully realized film. Set against the background of the emotional and controversial real-life 2008 euthanasia case of Eluana Englaro, Dormant Beauty is a subtle and complex depiction of recent Italian history.
The Great Beauty
(released by Janus Films) - In Release Director: Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo) Producer: Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima Screenwriter: Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello Cast: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferrili, Carlo Buccirosso, Iaia Forte, Pamela Villoresi, Galatea Ranzi with Massimo de Francovich, Roberto Herlitzka, and with Isabella Ferrari Festivals: Cannes (Competition) 2013, Toronto 2013, AFI 2013, Italy’s Official Entry to the 2014 Academy Awards Awards: 4 European Film Award nominations (Picture, Director, Screenplay, Actor and winner for Best Editing), Best Foreign Film nominee for British In- dependent Film Awards
Journalist Jep Gambardella (the dazzling Toni Servillo, Il Divo and Go- Morrah) has charmed and seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades. Since the legendary success of his one and only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and social circles, but when his sixty-fifth birthday coincides with a shock from the past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the extravagant nightclubs, parties, and cafés to find Rome in all its glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Honey (Miele)
Release Date: March 7, 2014 Director: Valeria Golino Producer: Viola Prestieri, Riccardo Scamarcio, Anne-Dominique Toussaint, Raphael Berdugo Screenplay: Valeria Golino, Valia Santella, Francesca Marciano, from the novel by Angela Del Fabbro with the same title Cast: Jasmine Trinca, Carlo Cecchi, Libero De Rienzo, Vinicio Marchioni, Iaia Forte, Roberto De Francesco, Barbara Ronchi, Claudio Guain, Teresa Acerbis, Valeria Bilello, Massimiliano Iacolucci Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard) 2013, Toronto 2013 Prizes: Winner Special Mention from the Ecumenical Jury, Cannes 2013 Nominated for European Discovery at the European Film Awards 2013
Actress Valeria Golino makes her directing debut with Honey. Irene lives alone on the coastline outside Rome. To her father and her married lover, she’s a student. In reality, she often travels to Mexico where she can legally buy a powerful barbiturate. Working under the name of Miele ("Honey"), her clandestine job is to help terminally-ill people to die with dignity by giving them the drug. One day she supplies a new “client” with a fatal dose, only to find out he’s perfectly healthy but tired of life. Irene is determined not to be responsible for his suicide. From this point on, Irene and Grimaldi are unwill- ingly locked in an intense and moving relationship which will change Irene’s life forever.
L’Intrepido
Release Date - To Be Confirmed Director: Gianni Amelio Producer: Carlo Degli Esposti Screenplay: Gianni Amelio, Davide Lantieri Cast: Antonio Albanese, Sandra Ceccarelli, Livia Rossi, Gabriele Rendina, Alfonso Santagata
Festivals: Venice 2013, Toronto 2013
Set in modern day Milan, this is a Chaplinesque odyssey through the world of work – every type of work, but primarily unskilled manual labor – seen through the eyes of a kind, middle-aged man who takes on every conceivable temporary job in order to be useful and have self respect. This really is a por- trait of the highs and lows of modern life. At its heart is a sympathetic man (Antonio Albanese) who, despite loneliness and personal family problems, es- pecially around his gifted but troubled musician son, remains defiantly opti- mistic even when terrible things happen to him and the people he meets.
Me And You (Io E Te)
Release Date: To Be Confirmed
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci Screenplay: Bernardo Bertolucci, Niccolo Ammaniti, Umberto Contarello Producer: Mario Gianani Cast: Tea Falco, Jacopo Olmo Antinori Festivals: Cannes, Toronto
Lorenzo, a solitary 14-year-old with difficulties relating to his daily life and the world around him, chooses to spend a week hidden in the basement of his house. But Lorenzo’s fragile and rebellious stepsister, Olivia, appears at her brother’s place of refuge and disturbs the quiet.
- 2/10/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The company has teamed up with Istituto Luce-Cinecittà and the Italian Trade Commission Cinema on Made In Italy.
The scheme will provide marketing and distribution support for Italian cinema in the Us and kicked off with Paolo Sorrentino’s Italian Oscar nominee The Great Beauty (pictured).
Others include Gianni Amelio’s L’Intrepido, Marco Bellocchio’s Dormant Beauty, Bernardo Bertolucci’s Me And You and Valeria Golino’s Honey.
“Italian cinema has always captured the imagination of American audiences since the heyday of Fellini, Pasolini, Visconti, De Sica and Rossellini,” said Emerging Pictures managing partner Ira Deutchman.
“Our goal is to create a marketing and distribution initiative that will allow new Italian films to regularly enter the marketplace with a presence and to help create an ongoing new audience. We’re thrilled to be working with Istituto Luce-Cinecittà and the Italian Trade Commission to create this truly groundbreaking programme.”
GoDigital has acquired...
The scheme will provide marketing and distribution support for Italian cinema in the Us and kicked off with Paolo Sorrentino’s Italian Oscar nominee The Great Beauty (pictured).
Others include Gianni Amelio’s L’Intrepido, Marco Bellocchio’s Dormant Beauty, Bernardo Bertolucci’s Me And You and Valeria Golino’s Honey.
“Italian cinema has always captured the imagination of American audiences since the heyday of Fellini, Pasolini, Visconti, De Sica and Rossellini,” said Emerging Pictures managing partner Ira Deutchman.
“Our goal is to create a marketing and distribution initiative that will allow new Italian films to regularly enter the marketplace with a presence and to help create an ongoing new audience. We’re thrilled to be working with Istituto Luce-Cinecittà and the Italian Trade Commission to create this truly groundbreaking programme.”
GoDigital has acquired...
- 1/29/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Emerging Pictures is collaborating with Istituto Luce-Cinecittà and the Italian Trade Commission to create "Cinema made in Italy," a new project designed to bring Italian cinema to American audiences. The Istituto Luce-Cinecittá and the Italian Trade Commission have created a fund that will help Emerging Pictures distribute the films. Emerging has announced Gianni Amelio’s "L’Iintre-pido", Marco Bellocchio’s "Dormant Beauty," Bernardo Bertolucci’s "Me and You" and Valeria Golino’s "Honey" for 2014 releases. In addition to these films, this year's Academy Award nominated film "The Great Beauty" was released as part of the series by Janus Films with support from "Cinema Made in Italy." The five films scheduled for a 2014 release will all receive a nationwide release, with theaters to be announced soon. "Italian cinema has always captured the imagination of American audiences since the heyday of Fellini, Pasolini, Visconti, De Sica and Rossellini. Our goal is.
- 1/29/2014
- by Eric Eidelstein
- Indiewire
Three shortlisted films for the European Parliament prize have been on seven week Europe-wide tour.
Felix Van Groeningen’s The Broken Circle Breakdown has won the 2013 edition of the Lux Prize, established by the European Parliament in 2007 to spotlight films that deal with Europe-wide issues and support their distribution across the 28 EU member states. MEPs were asked to cast their vote among three films, whittled down by a panel of 16 European cinema professionals from a longlist of ten films. The runners-up were UK director Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant, and Miele by Italian actress turned director Valeria Golino.
Around a third of MEPs actually vote, revealed Doris Pack, chair of the European Parliament Committee on Culture and Education and one of the original promoters of the award. “That’s not bad considering their busy schedules,” she added “and the fact that the rest of year they don’t generally see three films back to back with...
Felix Van Groeningen’s The Broken Circle Breakdown has won the 2013 edition of the Lux Prize, established by the European Parliament in 2007 to spotlight films that deal with Europe-wide issues and support their distribution across the 28 EU member states. MEPs were asked to cast their vote among three films, whittled down by a panel of 16 European cinema professionals from a longlist of ten films. The runners-up were UK director Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant, and Miele by Italian actress turned director Valeria Golino.
Around a third of MEPs actually vote, revealed Doris Pack, chair of the European Parliament Committee on Culture and Education and one of the original promoters of the award. “That’s not bad considering their busy schedules,” she added “and the fact that the rest of year they don’t generally see three films back to back with...
- 12/11/2013
- ScreenDaily
Bronze Horse for best film goes to The Selfish Giant. More wins for Fruitvale Station, Miss Violence and Screen Star of Tomorrow George MacKay.Scroll down for full list of winners
UK film The Selfish Giant has picked up the Bronze Horse for best film at the 24th Stockholm Film Festival (Nov 6-17).
It marks the second consecutive year a film by a female director has won the top prize at Stockholm, after Cate Shortland’s Lore picked up the award last year.
The film, about two young friends who gather scrap metal for cash, was described by the jury as “a uniquely complete film. Shattering, to the point, poetic, believable, delicate, humorous. The sensitive interaction between the two main actors has resulted in the most touching portrayal of friendship we’ve seen in film. Only someone hard-hearted could fail to love this film.”
The Selfish Giant, which debuted at Cannes, is represented...
UK film The Selfish Giant has picked up the Bronze Horse for best film at the 24th Stockholm Film Festival (Nov 6-17).
It marks the second consecutive year a film by a female director has won the top prize at Stockholm, after Cate Shortland’s Lore picked up the award last year.
The film, about two young friends who gather scrap metal for cash, was described by the jury as “a uniquely complete film. Shattering, to the point, poetic, believable, delicate, humorous. The sensitive interaction between the two main actors has resulted in the most touching portrayal of friendship we’ve seen in film. Only someone hard-hearted could fail to love this film.”
The Selfish Giant, which debuted at Cannes, is represented...
- 11/17/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The European Commission (EC) has finally adopted a new Communication on state aid for films and other audiovisual works.
The new Communication, which comes into effect as soon as it appears in the EU’s Official Journal covers, as today’s text says, “in particular, (…) State aid for a wider scope of activities, highlights the principle of subsidiarity in the area of cultural policy and the respect of internal market principles, introduces a higher maximum aid intensity level for cross-border productions and caters for the protection of and access to film heritage.”
“The Commission believes that these changes are necessary in view of the developments since 2001 and will help European works to be more competitive and pan-European in future.”
In something akin to understatement, the Commission said that the issue of territorial obligations had attracted “particular attention” and noted in its new text that “Paragraph 50 (of the Communication) sets the limits for each mechanism within which the Commission...
The new Communication, which comes into effect as soon as it appears in the EU’s Official Journal covers, as today’s text says, “in particular, (…) State aid for a wider scope of activities, highlights the principle of subsidiarity in the area of cultural policy and the respect of internal market principles, introduces a higher maximum aid intensity level for cross-border productions and caters for the protection of and access to film heritage.”
“The Commission believes that these changes are necessary in view of the developments since 2001 and will help European works to be more competitive and pan-European in future.”
In something akin to understatement, the Commission said that the issue of territorial obligations had attracted “particular attention” and noted in its new text that “Paragraph 50 (of the Communication) sets the limits for each mechanism within which the Commission...
- 11/14/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave to open festival; director Peter Greenaway to receive Visionary Award.Scroll down for full line-up
Steve McQueen’s historic drama 12 Years a Slave is to open the Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 6-17) and is nominated in the Stockholm Xxiv Competition.
Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, the drama about free black man kidnapped from his family and sold into slavery in the 1850s debuted at Telluride and has received positive reactions throughout its festival tour of Toronto, New York and London among others.
It will be released in Sweden on Dec 20 by Ab Svensk Filmindustri.
Screenwriter John Ridley, who will be present during the festival, is nominated for the Aluminum Horse in the category Best Script.
McQueen’s Hunger won Best Directorial Debut at Stockholm in 2008.
Line-up
The 24th Siff includes more than 180 films from more than 50 countries.
As previously announced, the spotlight of this year’s festival is freedom but Chinese artist...
Steve McQueen’s historic drama 12 Years a Slave is to open the Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 6-17) and is nominated in the Stockholm Xxiv Competition.
Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, the drama about free black man kidnapped from his family and sold into slavery in the 1850s debuted at Telluride and has received positive reactions throughout its festival tour of Toronto, New York and London among others.
It will be released in Sweden on Dec 20 by Ab Svensk Filmindustri.
Screenwriter John Ridley, who will be present during the festival, is nominated for the Aluminum Horse in the category Best Script.
McQueen’s Hunger won Best Directorial Debut at Stockholm in 2008.
Line-up
The 24th Siff includes more than 180 films from more than 50 countries.
As previously announced, the spotlight of this year’s festival is freedom but Chinese artist...
- 10/22/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The European Film Academy has announced the five nominees for the European Discovery 2013 - Prix Fipresci.
The award recognises an up and coming director for their debut feature film.
The nominees are:
Eat Sleep Die (Ata Sova Do)
Sweden, 104 min
Written & Directed By: Gabriela Pichler
Produced By: China Åhlander
Call Girl
Sweden/Norway/Ireland/Finland, 133 min
Directed By: Mikael Marcimain
Written By: Marietta von Hausswolff von Baumgarten
Produced By: Mimmi Spång
Miele
Italy/France, 90 min
Directed By: Valeria Golino
Written By: Francesca Marciano, Valia Santella & Valeria Golino
Produced By: Riccardo Scamarcio, Viola Prestieri, Anne-Dominique Toussaint & Raphaël Berdugo
Oh Boy
Germany, 83 min
Written & Directed By: Jan Ole Gerster
Produced By: Marcos Kantis & Alexander Wadouh
The Plague (La Plaga)
Spain, 85 min
Written & Directed By: Neus Ballús
Produced By: Pau Subirós
This year’s nominations committee was comprised of Efa Board Members Helena Danielsson (Sweden) and László Kantor (Hungary), Efa Members Pierre-Henri Deleau (France) and Jacob Neiiendam (Denmark), as well...
The award recognises an up and coming director for their debut feature film.
The nominees are:
Eat Sleep Die (Ata Sova Do)
Sweden, 104 min
Written & Directed By: Gabriela Pichler
Produced By: China Åhlander
Call Girl
Sweden/Norway/Ireland/Finland, 133 min
Directed By: Mikael Marcimain
Written By: Marietta von Hausswolff von Baumgarten
Produced By: Mimmi Spång
Miele
Italy/France, 90 min
Directed By: Valeria Golino
Written By: Francesca Marciano, Valia Santella & Valeria Golino
Produced By: Riccardo Scamarcio, Viola Prestieri, Anne-Dominique Toussaint & Raphaël Berdugo
Oh Boy
Germany, 83 min
Written & Directed By: Jan Ole Gerster
Produced By: Marcos Kantis & Alexander Wadouh
The Plague (La Plaga)
Spain, 85 min
Written & Directed By: Neus Ballús
Produced By: Pau Subirós
This year’s nominations committee was comprised of Efa Board Members Helena Danielsson (Sweden) and László Kantor (Hungary), Efa Members Pierre-Henri Deleau (France) and Jacob Neiiendam (Denmark), as well...
- 10/14/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The European Film Academy has announced the five nominees for the European Discovery 2013 - Prix Fipresci.
The award recognises an up and coming director for their debut feature film.
The nominees are:
Eat Sleep Die (Ata Sova Do)
Sweden, 104 min
Written & Directed By: Gabriela Pichler
Produced By: China Åhlander
Call Girl
Sweden/Norway/Ireland/Finland, 133 min
Directed By: Mikael Marcimain
Written By: Marietta von Hausswolff von Baumgarten
Produced By: Mimmi Spång
Miele
Italy/France, 90 min
Directed By: Valeria Golino
Written By: Francesca Marciano, Valia Santella & Valeria Golino
Produced By: Riccardo Scamarcio, Viola Prestieri, Anne-Dominique Toussaint & Raphaël Berdugo
Oh Boy
Germany, 83 min
Written & Directed By: Jan Ole Gerster
Produced By: Marcos Kantis & Alexander Wadouh
The Plague (La Plaga)
Spain, 85 min
Written & Directed By: Neus Ballús
Produced By: Pau Subirós
This year’s nominations committee was comprised of Efa Board Members Helena Danielsson
(Sweden) and László Kantor (Hungary), Efa Members Pierre-Henri Deleau (France) and Jacob Neiiendam
(Denmark), as well...
The award recognises an up and coming director for their debut feature film.
The nominees are:
Eat Sleep Die (Ata Sova Do)
Sweden, 104 min
Written & Directed By: Gabriela Pichler
Produced By: China Åhlander
Call Girl
Sweden/Norway/Ireland/Finland, 133 min
Directed By: Mikael Marcimain
Written By: Marietta von Hausswolff von Baumgarten
Produced By: Mimmi Spång
Miele
Italy/France, 90 min
Directed By: Valeria Golino
Written By: Francesca Marciano, Valia Santella & Valeria Golino
Produced By: Riccardo Scamarcio, Viola Prestieri, Anne-Dominique Toussaint & Raphaël Berdugo
Oh Boy
Germany, 83 min
Written & Directed By: Jan Ole Gerster
Produced By: Marcos Kantis & Alexander Wadouh
The Plague (La Plaga)
Spain, 85 min
Written & Directed By: Neus Ballús
Produced By: Pau Subirós
This year’s nominations committee was comprised of Efa Board Members Helena Danielsson
(Sweden) and László Kantor (Hungary), Efa Members Pierre-Henri Deleau (France) and Jacob Neiiendam
(Denmark), as well...
- 10/14/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
With award season coming fast around the corner, the Chicago International Film Festival has recently revealed their full lineup, which includes a very enticing mix of well-known and new talents. With the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis closing the fest and Alexander Payne’s Nebraska as its centerpiece, the festival includes focus on “After Dark” features, Lgbtq films in their “Out-Look” category, special presentations (like Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave), and more. Below is the press release that fills in the rest:
The 49Th Chicago International Film Festival Announces Films In Competition
Chicago, Il (September 17, 2013) – The 49th Chicago International Film Festival announced today the full lineup of films selected to screen in the International Feature, New Directors, Docufest, After Dark, Q Hugo, and Short Film Competitions. The competitions feature a diverse mix of established and new filmmakers and genres as well as World, North American and Us premieres. Sixteen...
The 49Th Chicago International Film Festival Announces Films In Competition
Chicago, Il (September 17, 2013) – The 49th Chicago International Film Festival announced today the full lineup of films selected to screen in the International Feature, New Directors, Docufest, After Dark, Q Hugo, and Short Film Competitions. The competitions feature a diverse mix of established and new filmmakers and genres as well as World, North American and Us premieres. Sixteen...
- 9/24/2013
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
Harvey Weinstein added as a masterclass speaker at the 9th Zurich Film Festival; Competition titles revealed.Scoll down for competition titles
The Zurich Film Festival has revealed its complete line-up for its 9th edition (Sept 26 – Oct 6), including 122 films and 16 world premieres.
Zff festival directors Nadja Schildknecht and Karl Spoerri launched the programme at a press conference in Zurich today.
“We want to grow at a healthy and moderate pace,” said Nadja Schildknecht.
“A higher budget made it possible to optimize our corporate structure as well as further develop the contents of the programme.
“In addition to that, we were able to increase the cinematic programme as well as invite a larger number of guests and schedule more industry events.”
Feature: A window on Zurich 2013
Competition
Filmmakers will vie for the Golden Eye in four competition categories: International Feature; International Documentary; German-Language Feature; and Germany, Austria, Switzerland Documentary.
The awards will be presented at a ceremony on Oct...
The Zurich Film Festival has revealed its complete line-up for its 9th edition (Sept 26 – Oct 6), including 122 films and 16 world premieres.
Zff festival directors Nadja Schildknecht and Karl Spoerri launched the programme at a press conference in Zurich today.
“We want to grow at a healthy and moderate pace,” said Nadja Schildknecht.
“A higher budget made it possible to optimize our corporate structure as well as further develop the contents of the programme.
“In addition to that, we were able to increase the cinematic programme as well as invite a larger number of guests and schedule more industry events.”
Feature: A window on Zurich 2013
Competition
Filmmakers will vie for the Golden Eye in four competition categories: International Feature; International Documentary; German-Language Feature; and Germany, Austria, Switzerland Documentary.
The awards will be presented at a ceremony on Oct...
- 9/12/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Harvey Weinstein added as a masterclass speaker at the 9th Zurich Film Festival; Competition titles revealed.Scoll down for list of competition titles
The Zurich Film Festival has revealed its complete line-up for its 9th edition (Sept 26 – Oct 6), including 122 films and 16 world premieres.
Zff festival directors Nadja Schildknecht and Karl Spoerri launched the programme at a press conference in Zurich today.
“We want to grow at a healthy and moderate pace,” said Nadja Schildknecht.
“A higher budget made it possible to optimize our corporate structure as well as further develop the contents of the programme.
“In addition to that, we were able to increase the cinematic programme as well as invite a larger number of guests and schedule more industry events.”
Feature: A window on Zurich 2013
Competition
Filmmakers will vie for the Golden Eye in four competition categories: International Feature; International Documentary; German-Language Feature; and Germany, Austria, Switzerland Documentary.
The awards will be presented at a ceremony...
The Zurich Film Festival has revealed its complete line-up for its 9th edition (Sept 26 – Oct 6), including 122 films and 16 world premieres.
Zff festival directors Nadja Schildknecht and Karl Spoerri launched the programme at a press conference in Zurich today.
“We want to grow at a healthy and moderate pace,” said Nadja Schildknecht.
“A higher budget made it possible to optimize our corporate structure as well as further develop the contents of the programme.
“In addition to that, we were able to increase the cinematic programme as well as invite a larger number of guests and schedule more industry events.”
Feature: A window on Zurich 2013
Competition
Filmmakers will vie for the Golden Eye in four competition categories: International Feature; International Documentary; German-Language Feature; and Germany, Austria, Switzerland Documentary.
The awards will be presented at a ceremony...
- 9/12/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Faith Connections is a new film by the Director Pan Nalin, an Indian filmmaker living in France which will have its world premiere in the upcoming Tiff Toronto Film Festival Doc section.
The film's background is an amazing Indian pilgrimage ritual which is done only every 12 years and involves 100 million people who gather in a sacred place on the Ganges River to bathe and celebrate religious rituals.
The three interconnected but parallel stories involve a yogi who finds an abandoned baby, a 10 year old orphan who is homeless, and a poor family, villagers, whose 2 year old boy disappears during the pilgrimage and they fear kidnap.
This Indian French co-produciton Faith Connections was being sold and was produced by Raphael Berdugo, it has recently been bought by Sophie Dulac Distribution who acquired the rights for France distribution.
Raphael Berdugo is a very busy guy. His acquired and produced films, sold by his sales agent brand Cite Films are successful, of the highest quality and widely honored. He does his own sales and attends the Markets at Festivals such as Cannes, Tiff Toronto and Berlin.
The Other Son (Fils de l'Autre) 2012 has been picked up for Us by the excellent Us distributor Cohen Media. In Tokyo Ff 2012 it won the Grand Prize and Best Director honors for Lorraine Levy.
Miele 2013 was honored this year at Cannes Film Festival with inclusion in the Certain Regard section.
It concerns Irene, nicknamed 'Honey', she devotes herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering even when they make extreme decisions. One day she has to cope with Grimaldi and his invisible malaise. Italian Directed by Valeria Golino.
The film received a Special Mention at Cannes by the Ecumenical Jury.
It is currently seeking a Us deal and one interested company, among others, has been the Us giant Participant.
Slightly Sane also is by the above Director Pan Nalin is a tough story set during the chaotic 1947 Partition between India and Pakistan. It involves insane people and a man who goes to an asylum seeking revenge for his wife's death against a locked up rapist there.
Code Name Madeleine is based on a true story, final script is pending. Set during WW2 an Indian girl with a Us mom lives in France and decides to return to Indian high family roots after her dad dies. When the War begins she returns to the UK, is recruited as a spy and sent back to German occupied France.
The film's background is an amazing Indian pilgrimage ritual which is done only every 12 years and involves 100 million people who gather in a sacred place on the Ganges River to bathe and celebrate religious rituals.
The three interconnected but parallel stories involve a yogi who finds an abandoned baby, a 10 year old orphan who is homeless, and a poor family, villagers, whose 2 year old boy disappears during the pilgrimage and they fear kidnap.
This Indian French co-produciton Faith Connections was being sold and was produced by Raphael Berdugo, it has recently been bought by Sophie Dulac Distribution who acquired the rights for France distribution.
Raphael Berdugo is a very busy guy. His acquired and produced films, sold by his sales agent brand Cite Films are successful, of the highest quality and widely honored. He does his own sales and attends the Markets at Festivals such as Cannes, Tiff Toronto and Berlin.
The Other Son (Fils de l'Autre) 2012 has been picked up for Us by the excellent Us distributor Cohen Media. In Tokyo Ff 2012 it won the Grand Prize and Best Director honors for Lorraine Levy.
Miele 2013 was honored this year at Cannes Film Festival with inclusion in the Certain Regard section.
It concerns Irene, nicknamed 'Honey', she devotes herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering even when they make extreme decisions. One day she has to cope with Grimaldi and his invisible malaise. Italian Directed by Valeria Golino.
The film received a Special Mention at Cannes by the Ecumenical Jury.
It is currently seeking a Us deal and one interested company, among others, has been the Us giant Participant.
Slightly Sane also is by the above Director Pan Nalin is a tough story set during the chaotic 1947 Partition between India and Pakistan. It involves insane people and a man who goes to an asylum seeking revenge for his wife's death against a locked up rapist there.
Code Name Madeleine is based on a true story, final script is pending. Set during WW2 an Indian girl with a Us mom lives in France and decides to return to Indian high family roots after her dad dies. When the War begins she returns to the UK, is recruited as a spy and sent back to German occupied France.
- 9/8/2013
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
The number of films dealing with age is rising as older people take up more of the cinema-going audience
The world's population is ageing. Today, there are about 600 million older people around the world, three times more than 50 years ago – and by 2050 there should be three times more again. The effect of that is already apparent in almost every sector, including culture, which of course includes the cinema. In the early 20th century, the brand-new film industry symbolised glamour and eternal youth before being relegated to a largely teenage audience, and then being caught up by age in the following century: the age of its audience, its creators, its characters and its subject matter.
The cinema has always found ways of dealing with the subject. For many years it simply skirted the issue in two ways. One was by using farce, with truculent old rogues, as in Frank Capra's...
The world's population is ageing. Today, there are about 600 million older people around the world, three times more than 50 years ago – and by 2050 there should be three times more again. The effect of that is already apparent in almost every sector, including culture, which of course includes the cinema. In the early 20th century, the brand-new film industry symbolised glamour and eternal youth before being relegated to a largely teenage audience, and then being caught up by age in the following century: the age of its audience, its creators, its characters and its subject matter.
The cinema has always found ways of dealing with the subject. For many years it simply skirted the issue in two ways. One was by using farce, with truculent old rogues, as in Frank Capra's...
- 7/30/2013
- by Jacques Mandelbaum
- The Guardian - Film News
Valeria Golino’s Un Certain Regard selected Miele, Felix Van Groeningen’s Berlin Film Fest entry The Broken Circle Breakdown and Clio Barnard’s Directors’ Fortnight selected The Selfish Giant are the remaining three selections for the 2013 edition of the Lux Prize (the top ten was once again announced at Karlovy Vary this year). Promoting break-thru Euro cinema with film narratives that “illustrate the diversity of European traditions, shed light on the process of European integration and provide insights into the building of Europe“, the annual Lux Prize Official Selection which nominates ten films (the 17 member selection panel which includes Karlovy Vary’s Karel Och and former Directors’ Fortnight head-honcho Olivier Père) and then dwindles down the process to a vulnerable three, before crowning one winner in the final month of the calender year, has been awarding the prize since 2007 with winners that include the originally titled: Io sono Li...
- 7/24/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Selfish Giant on prize short list
Selection reveals diversity of European films
By Richard Mowe
The ten films selected for the Lux Prize 2013 Official Selection were unveiled at the 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival at a reception last night (30 June)
The films including the UK's The Selfish Giant, are said to reflect "the richness, diversity and excellence of European cinema."
The titles are:
• Äta sova dö (Eat Sleep Die), by Gabriela Pichler - Sweden
• Grzeli nateli dgeebi (In Bloom), by Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß - Georgia, Germany, France
• Krugovi (Circles), by Srdan Golubovic - Serbia, Germany, France, Slovenia, Croatia
• La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty), by Paolo Sorrentino - Italy, France
• La Plaga (The Plague), by Neus Ballús - Spain
• Miele (Honey), by Valeria Golino - Italy, France
• Oh Boy, by Jan Ole Gerster - Germany
• Pevnost (Fortress), by Lukáš Kokeš, Klára Tasovská - Czech Republic
• The Broken Circle.
Selection reveals diversity of European films
By Richard Mowe
The ten films selected for the Lux Prize 2013 Official Selection were unveiled at the 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival at a reception last night (30 June)
The films including the UK's The Selfish Giant, are said to reflect "the richness, diversity and excellence of European cinema."
The titles are:
• Äta sova dö (Eat Sleep Die), by Gabriela Pichler - Sweden
• Grzeli nateli dgeebi (In Bloom), by Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß - Georgia, Germany, France
• Krugovi (Circles), by Srdan Golubovic - Serbia, Germany, France, Slovenia, Croatia
• La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty), by Paolo Sorrentino - Italy, France
• La Plaga (The Plague), by Neus Ballús - Spain
• Miele (Honey), by Valeria Golino - Italy, France
• Oh Boy, by Jan Ole Gerster - Germany
• Pevnost (Fortress), by Lukáš Kokeš, Klára Tasovská - Czech Republic
• The Broken Circle.
- 6/30/2013
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
We support the EFPs good work and we love European cinema. This is a great opportunity upcoming in NYC.
The diverse line-up includes Italy's Miele by Valeria Golino, recently screened in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes International Film Festival, which delves into the complicated issues of euthanasia in an intense family drama. German actor/director Til Schweiger's Guardians is an action thriller about a young orphaned girl who must be protected in the dangerous world of state secrets and murder. In the multi-media thriller, App, Dutch director Bobby Boermans draws the viewers into a mysterious world and enhances the movie-going experience with additional footage available on your cell phone during the screening. Isabel Coixet painfully reunites two former lovers in her latest drama Yesterday Never Ends, and Virgina Gilbert reflects on life as a beautiful messy struggle in A Long Way from Home. Rounding things out, the French-Belgium co-production, IØm a Standard Supporter, portrays a football addict facing his limits.From a multimedia techno-thriller to arthouse dramas and actors' driven love stories, the line-up of six films at the Industry Screenings in New York, presented by European Film Promotion (Efp), demonstrates a broad spectrum of what European cinema currently has on offer. On June 25th and 26th the six selected films will exclusively be screened to Us buyers and industry professionals at the screening room of the Tribeca Grand Hotel in New York City. All films are seeking Us distribution, and the sales representatives will be in attendance. The NY Industry Screenings are part of EFPØs Films Sales Support (Fss) scheme, backed by the Media Programme of the European Union.
The diverse line-up includes Italy's Miele by Valeria Golino, recently screened in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes International Film Festival, which delves into the complicated issues of euthanasia in an intense family drama. German actor/director Til Schweiger's Guardians is an action thriller about a young orphaned girl who must be protected in the dangerous world of state secrets and murder. In the multi-media thriller, App, Dutch director Bobby Boermans draws the viewers into a mysterious world and enhances the movie-going experience with additional footage available on your cell phone during the screening. Isabel Coixet painfully reunites two former lovers in her latest drama Yesterday Never Ends, and Virgina Gilbert reflects on life as a beautiful messy struggle in A Long Way from Home. Rounding things out, the French-Belgium co-production, IØm a Standard Supporter, portrays a football addict facing his limits.From a multimedia techno-thriller to arthouse dramas and actors' driven love stories, the line-up of six films at the Industry Screenings in New York, presented by European Film Promotion (Efp), demonstrates a broad spectrum of what European cinema currently has on offer. On June 25th and 26th the six selected films will exclusively be screened to Us buyers and industry professionals at the screening room of the Tribeca Grand Hotel in New York City. All films are seeking Us distribution, and the sales representatives will be in attendance. The NY Industry Screenings are part of EFPØs Films Sales Support (Fss) scheme, backed by the Media Programme of the European Union.
- 6/22/2013
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
Exclusive: Looks like the sides have been chosen for the shoot-out film The Gunman, which Taken helmer Pierre Morel will direct for Silver Pictures and Studio Canal. Ray Winstone has just joined the film. He’ll play the mentor of the hitman played by Sean Penn, who is betrayed and then hunted by the organization he worked for. On the opposite side of this twosome are Javier Bardem and Idris Elba, and they run all over Europe in a fatal game of cat and mouse. Jasmine Trinca (Miele) is the female lead. Winstone’s tough guy cred includes The Departed, Sexy Beast, 44 Inch Chest and the upcoming Darren Aronofsky-directed Noah, where he goes mano a mano against Russell Crowe in that Biblical epic. I hope this movie is as good as it sounds here, because I’d follow these four actors anywhere. The Gunman is based on the Jean-Patrick Manchette novel Prone Gunman,...
- 6/14/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Giuseppe Tornatore’s romance The Best Offer and Valeria Golino’s drama Honey (Miele) will be honoured at the upcoming 11th annual Ischia Global Film & Musical Festival in Italy.
The Best Offer has been named the 2013 Ischia Movie Of The Year and stars Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess and Donald Sutherland in the story of an eccentric art auctioneer and his obsession with an heiress. The film opened in Italy earlier this year and received its international premiere at the Berlinale in February.
Golino has been named Ischia’s Breakout Director Of The Year for her film Honey, which premiered in Un Certain Regard in Cannes last month and follows a young woman who helps terminal patients end their lives.
“Giuseppe Tornatore, a major presence in the world of contemporary global cinema, once again shows his skill as a master director with the flawless and highly entertaining The Best Offer,” said producer Mark Canton, who serves...
The Best Offer has been named the 2013 Ischia Movie Of The Year and stars Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess and Donald Sutherland in the story of an eccentric art auctioneer and his obsession with an heiress. The film opened in Italy earlier this year and received its international premiere at the Berlinale in February.
Golino has been named Ischia’s Breakout Director Of The Year for her film Honey, which premiered in Un Certain Regard in Cannes last month and follows a young woman who helps terminal patients end their lives.
“Giuseppe Tornatore, a major presence in the world of contemporary global cinema, once again shows his skill as a master director with the flawless and highly entertaining The Best Offer,” said producer Mark Canton, who serves...
- 6/10/2013
- ScreenDaily
Javier Bardem has signed on to star in J.C. Chandor's next movie "A Most Violent Year" and is in talks to join Sean Penn in "The Gunman," TheWrap has learned. Studiocanal is fully financing "The Gunman," which will be produced by Joel Silver and Andrew Rona of Silver Pictures. Pierre Morel is directing the action movie, which has Cannes starlet Jasmine Trinca ("Miele") circling the female lead. Set in 1983, when violence and corruption in New York City ran rampant, "A Most Violent Year," will find Bardem playing an ambitious business tycoon...
- 6/6/2013
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Never one to shy away from difficult topics, Italian actress Valeria Golino chose the subject of euthanasia for her feature directorial debut, Miele. Showing the human stories behind an issue few want to discuss, with Miele Golino succeeds in creating a film that is both touching and sincere. Playing in this year’s Un Certain Regard in Cannes, it tells the story of a young Italian women, Irene (Jasmine Trinca), who travels once a month to Mexico to buy over-the-counter barbiturates designed to put dogs to sleep. Back home, Irene goes by the name Miele, or “Honey,” delivering the drugs to terminally ill …...
- 5/31/2013
- by Ariston Anderson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Adam Cook:
Favorites
01
The Immigrant (James Gray, USA)
Les trois désastres (Jean-Luc Godard, France/Portugal)
02
North, the End of History (Lav Diaz, Philippines)
Shield of Straw (Takashi Miike, Japan)
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie, France)
03
Bastards (Claire Denis, France/Germany)
Blind Detective (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke, China)
04
The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh, Cambodia/France)
The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola, USA)
Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Koreeda, Japan)
Tip Top (Serge Bozon, France)
Grigris (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, France/Chad)
The Rest
You and the Night (Yann Gonzalez, France)
Borgman (Alex van Warmerdam, Netherlands)
Nebraska (Alexander Payne, USA)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
The Past (Asghar Farhadi, France/Italy)
Bends (Flora Lau, Hong Kong/China)
Jimmy P. (Arnaud Desplechin, USA)
Grand Central (Rebecca Zlotowski, France/Austria)
Just in Time (Peter Greenaway, UK/Portugal)
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch,...
Favorites
01
The Immigrant (James Gray, USA)
Les trois désastres (Jean-Luc Godard, France/Portugal)
02
North, the End of History (Lav Diaz, Philippines)
Shield of Straw (Takashi Miike, Japan)
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie, France)
03
Bastards (Claire Denis, France/Germany)
Blind Detective (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke, China)
04
The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh, Cambodia/France)
The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola, USA)
Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Koreeda, Japan)
Tip Top (Serge Bozon, France)
Grigris (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, France/Chad)
The Rest
You and the Night (Yann Gonzalez, France)
Borgman (Alex van Warmerdam, Netherlands)
Nebraska (Alexander Payne, USA)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
The Past (Asghar Farhadi, France/Italy)
Bends (Flora Lau, Hong Kong/China)
Jimmy P. (Arnaud Desplechin, USA)
Grand Central (Rebecca Zlotowski, France/Austria)
Just in Time (Peter Greenaway, UK/Portugal)
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch,...
- 5/27/2013
- by Notebook
- MUBI
More Cannes prizes to discuss. We'll illustrate with Jessica Chastain at Cannes because.... she pretty! Always prizeworthy
Mmmmmcccchastainy!
poll by twiigs.com
Fipresci -International Federation of Film Critics
Competition Blue is the Warmest Colour by Abdellatif Kechiche (France, 2013)
This three hour lesbian coming of age drama stars newcomer Adele Exarchopoulos and the ever more impressive Léa Seydoux (Farewell My Queen, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Midnight in Paris ...and many more recently). It's considered a threat for tomorrow's awards from the competition jury, too. Wouldn't you just love to listen to Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee, Christoph Waltz and Nicole Kidman arguing about its graphic 20 minute lesbian sex scene and whether that's just exploitative titillation or artistically justified storytelling?
Un Certain Regard Manuscripts Don't Burn by Mohammad Rasoulof (Iran, 2013)
Parallel Sections Blue Ruin by Jeremy Saulnier (USA, 2013), a noirish revenge thriller, which played in Directors Fortnight. Radius/The Weinstein Co. picked...
Mmmmmcccchastainy!
poll by twiigs.com
Fipresci -International Federation of Film Critics
Competition Blue is the Warmest Colour by Abdellatif Kechiche (France, 2013)
This three hour lesbian coming of age drama stars newcomer Adele Exarchopoulos and the ever more impressive Léa Seydoux (Farewell My Queen, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Midnight in Paris ...and many more recently). It's considered a threat for tomorrow's awards from the competition jury, too. Wouldn't you just love to listen to Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee, Christoph Waltz and Nicole Kidman arguing about its graphic 20 minute lesbian sex scene and whether that's just exploitative titillation or artistically justified storytelling?
Un Certain Regard Manuscripts Don't Burn by Mohammad Rasoulof (Iran, 2013)
Parallel Sections Blue Ruin by Jeremy Saulnier (USA, 2013), a noirish revenge thriller, which played in Directors Fortnight. Radius/The Weinstein Co. picked...
- 5/26/2013
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Miele is directed by Valeria Golino, best known to English-speaking audiences as Topper Harley’s sexy, exotic girlfriend in the popular Hot Shots duology. That description, however, might be a reductive summation of her talents, because two decades later, she demonstrates what must be a higher calling as a director of challenging, thought-provoking drama in a film that should surely have landed In Competition — instead appearing in the still-esteemed Un Certain Regard cachet — and is presently the film to beat of not just the festival but the entire year. Going by the pseudonym Miele, Irene (Jasmine Trinca) is an angel of death, helping to give the terminally ill a peaceful means to leave this world, usually with the assistance of a loved one. To perform these euthanisations, she typically travels from Italy to Mexico to procure a barbiturate used to put dogs down and then implores said patient to drink it with vodka. However...
- 5/18/2013
- by Shaun Munro
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
★★☆☆☆ Italian-Greek actress Valeria Golino - perhaps most familiar to international audiences as Tom Cruise's girlfriend in Rain Man - makes her directorial debut in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes with Miele (2013). Irene (Jasmine Trinca) lives a double life. To her father and her boyfriend she 's a university student, endlessly working on her thesis with a professor in Padua. However, she also has another mobile phone and another name - Miele or 'honey'. She flies to the United States and then enters Mexico by bus. With her short punkish haircut she looks like Anne Parillaud from Luc Besson's Nikita. Could she be a hitwoman?
It turns out that Irene/Miele has been helping terminally ill people end their lives, painlessly and with dignity. The topic of euthanasia has been a recurring one in Italy, with Marco Bellocchio's Dormant Beauty (2012) covering the infamous Eluana Englaro case...
It turns out that Irene/Miele has been helping terminally ill people end their lives, painlessly and with dignity. The topic of euthanasia has been a recurring one in Italy, with Marco Bellocchio's Dormant Beauty (2012) covering the infamous Eluana Englaro case...
- 5/18/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
If Michael Haneke's "Amour" presented death as a sobering inevitability, one that will test the bounds of our ability to love, actress Valeria Golino has a slightly more nuanced perspective in her directorial debut "Miele." While the subject of euthanasia is the entryway into the story, Golino wisely strays from turning her film into an Issues Movie, and instead opts to explore death both as a vessel for closure and a window into appreciating the life we have. The Noomi Rapace-esque Jasmine Trinca (all cropped hair, switchblade scowl and tomboy figure) leads the film as Irene, aka the titular Miele (meaning honey), her code name when she's on the job as an assisted suicide practitioner. But since it's illegal in Italy, it requires almost Lisbeth Salander-ish levels of covert maneuvers. She travels to Mexico once a month and smuggles back veterinary grade barbiturates which she uses as part of her procedures,...
- 5/17/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Dr. Death takes the form of an attractive young woman in Miele, an impressively mature directing debut from Italian actress Valeria Golino, who crafts an often engrossing character study around an assisted suicide activist. Perhaps not surprisingly, the focus is more on character and performance than narrative, and the storyline tends to lag behind lead Jasmine Trinca’s cold-blooded idealist who helps the terminally ill pass on. Golino’s cool, glancing direction remains carefully neutral in the euthanasia debate and should capture audiences on both sides of the controversy, with its bow in Cannes’ Certain Regard bound to boost art
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- 5/2/2013
- by Deborah Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cannes has announced the lineup for the Official Competition and Un Certain Regard section, as well as special screenings, for the 66th edition of the festival.
Competition
Opening Night: The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann)
Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh)
Borgman (Alex Van Warmerdam)
Un Chateau en Italie (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi)
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino)
Grisgris (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
Heli (Amat Escalante)
The Immigrant (James Gray)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Jeune et Jolie (François Ozon)
Jimmy P. (Arnaud Desplechin)
Like Father, Like Son (Hirozaku Koreeda)
The Life of Adele (Abdellatif Kechiche)
Michael Kohlhaas (Arnaud Despallieres)
Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn)
The Past (Asghar Farhadi)
Straw Shield (Takashi Miike)
Tian Zhu Dang (Jia Zhangke)
Venus in Fur (Roman Polanski)
Closing Night: Zulu (Jérome Salle)
Un Certain Regard
Anonymous (Mohammad Rasoulof)
As I Lay Dying (James Franco)
Bastards (Claire Denis)
Bends (Flora Lau)
The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola...
Competition
Opening Night: The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann)
Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh)
Borgman (Alex Van Warmerdam)
Un Chateau en Italie (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi)
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino)
Grisgris (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
Heli (Amat Escalante)
The Immigrant (James Gray)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Jeune et Jolie (François Ozon)
Jimmy P. (Arnaud Desplechin)
Like Father, Like Son (Hirozaku Koreeda)
The Life of Adele (Abdellatif Kechiche)
Michael Kohlhaas (Arnaud Despallieres)
Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn)
The Past (Asghar Farhadi)
Straw Shield (Takashi Miike)
Tian Zhu Dang (Jia Zhangke)
Venus in Fur (Roman Polanski)
Closing Night: Zulu (Jérome Salle)
Un Certain Regard
Anonymous (Mohammad Rasoulof)
As I Lay Dying (James Franco)
Bastards (Claire Denis)
Bends (Flora Lau)
The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola...
- 4/20/2013
- MUBI
The full lineup for the 2013 Cannes Film Festival has been unveiled and three of my most anticipated films (Only God Forgives, Inside Llewyn Davis and Steven Soderbergh’s Behind The Candelabra) are all set to compete for the Palme d’Or. Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby will open this year’s festival and Roman Polanski, Alexander Payne and François Ozon are also in the hunt for the top honours. Take a look at the lineup below:
In Competition (Jury chair: Steven Spielberg)
Only God Forgives, dir Nicolas Winding Refn
Borgman, dir Alex Can Warmerdam
La Grande Bellezza, dir Paulo Sorrentino
Behind the Candelabra, dir Steven Soderbergh
La Venus a la Fourrure, dir Roman Polanski
Nebraska, dir Alexander Payne
Jeune et Jolie, dir François Ozon
La Vie d’Adele, dir Abdellatif Kechiche
Wara No Tate, dir Takashi Miike
Soshite Chichi Ni Naru, dir Kore-Eda Hirokazu
Tian Zhu Ding, dir Jia Zhangke
Grisgris,...
In Competition (Jury chair: Steven Spielberg)
Only God Forgives, dir Nicolas Winding Refn
Borgman, dir Alex Can Warmerdam
La Grande Bellezza, dir Paulo Sorrentino
Behind the Candelabra, dir Steven Soderbergh
La Venus a la Fourrure, dir Roman Polanski
Nebraska, dir Alexander Payne
Jeune et Jolie, dir François Ozon
La Vie d’Adele, dir Abdellatif Kechiche
Wara No Tate, dir Takashi Miike
Soshite Chichi Ni Naru, dir Kore-Eda Hirokazu
Tian Zhu Ding, dir Jia Zhangke
Grisgris,...
- 4/18/2013
- by Kyle Reese
- SoundOnSight
Cannes Film Festival announces 2013 Lineup. There were 1,858 submissions this year, according to festival chief Thierry Frémaux. Some titles will be added in the coming weeks: In Competition Opening Film Baz Luhrmann The Great Gatsby (H.C.) *** Valeria Bruni-tedeschi Un CHÂTEAU En Italie Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Inside Llewyn Davis Arnaud des PALLIÈRES Michael Kohlhaas Arnaud Desplechin Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian) Amat Escalante Heli Asghar Farhadi Le PASSÉ (The Past) James Gray The Immigrant Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Grigris Jia Zhangke Tian Zhu Ding (A Touch Of Sin) Kore-eda Hirokazu Soshite Chichi Ni Naru (Like Father, Like Son) Abdellatif Kechiche La Vie D’ADЀLE (Blue Is The Warmest Color) Takashi Miike Wara No Tate (Shield Of Straw) François Ozon Jeune Et Jolie (Young And Beautiful) Alexander Payne Nebraska Roman Polanski La VÉNUS À La Fourrure Steven Soderbergh Behind The Candelabra Paolo Sorrentino La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty) Alex Van Warmerdam...
- 4/18/2013
- by Josh Abraham
- Hollywoodnews.com
2013′s Un Certain Regard section carries a whopping five first time feature filmmakers that’ll be measuring themselves up against auteur cinema heavyweights. While we nailed predictions for Alain Guiraudie’s L’inconnu du Lac, Rebecca Zlotowski’s Grand Central and the more international flavored title of the Sundance hit, Fruitvale Station by Ryan Coogler, we didn’t see major players such as S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine director Rithy Panh, or Paradise Now‘s Hany Abu-Assad (who brings us the first fully-financed film to come out of the Palestinian cinema industry) or Mohammad Rasoulof from Goodbye fame (brings us what is surely an aptly titled film in Anonymous) in the horizons.
As Nicholas mentioned yesterday, this would be a year of the women filmmakers (by Cannes standards) – six of them find themselves in the Un Certain Regard category. Sofia Coppola is joined by the baffling inclusion of...
As Nicholas mentioned yesterday, this would be a year of the women filmmakers (by Cannes standards) – six of them find themselves in the Un Certain Regard category. Sofia Coppola is joined by the baffling inclusion of...
- 4/18/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The full list of films at this year's Cannes film festival
Opening night film: The Great Gatsby, dir Baz Luhrmann
Closing night film: Zulu, dir Jérôme Salle
In competition
Jury chair: Steven Spielberg
Only God Forgives, dir Nicolas Winding Refn
Inside Llewyn Davis, dir Ethan and Joel Coen
Borgman, dir Alex Can Warmerdam
La Grande Bellezza, dir Paulo Sorrentino
Behind the Candelabra, dir Steven Soderbergh
La Venus a la Fourrure, dir Roman Polanski
Nebraska, dir Alexander Payne
Jeune et Jolie, dir François Ozon
La Vie d'Adele, dir Abdellatif Kechiche
Wara No Tate, dir Takashi Miike
Soshite Chichi Ni Naru, dir Kore-Eda Hirokazu
Tian Zhu Ding, dir Jia Zhangke
Grisgris, dir Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
The Immigrant, dir James Gray
Heli, dir Amat Escalante
Le Passe, dir Asghar Farhadi
Michael Kohlhaas, dir Arnaud Despallieres
Un Chateau en Italie, dir Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
Un Certain Regard
Jury chair: Thomas Vinterberg
The Bling Ring, dir Sofia Coppola
L'Inconnu Du La,...
Opening night film: The Great Gatsby, dir Baz Luhrmann
Closing night film: Zulu, dir Jérôme Salle
In competition
Jury chair: Steven Spielberg
Only God Forgives, dir Nicolas Winding Refn
Inside Llewyn Davis, dir Ethan and Joel Coen
Borgman, dir Alex Can Warmerdam
La Grande Bellezza, dir Paulo Sorrentino
Behind the Candelabra, dir Steven Soderbergh
La Venus a la Fourrure, dir Roman Polanski
Nebraska, dir Alexander Payne
Jeune et Jolie, dir François Ozon
La Vie d'Adele, dir Abdellatif Kechiche
Wara No Tate, dir Takashi Miike
Soshite Chichi Ni Naru, dir Kore-Eda Hirokazu
Tian Zhu Ding, dir Jia Zhangke
Grisgris, dir Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
The Immigrant, dir James Gray
Heli, dir Amat Escalante
Le Passe, dir Asghar Farhadi
Michael Kohlhaas, dir Arnaud Despallieres
Un Chateau en Italie, dir Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
Un Certain Regard
Jury chair: Thomas Vinterberg
The Bling Ring, dir Sofia Coppola
L'Inconnu Du La,...
- 4/18/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
The 66th Cannes Film Festival has announced its official lineup.
Ryan Gosling's Only God Forgives, his reunion with Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn, will have its world premiere in competition at next month's prestigious festival, while new films from Steven Soderbergh (Behind the Candelabra), Alexander Payne (Nebraska) and the Coen Brothers (Inside Llewyn Davis) will also be in the running for the Palme d'Or prize.
Emma Watson's The Bling Ring, directed by Sofia Coppola, will play in the 'Un Certain Regard' alongside James Franco's directorial offering As I Lay Dying.
Celebs including Leonardo DiCaprio, Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan, Mila Kunis and Matt Damon are expected to head to the south of France to promote their new films.
The full list of films screening at the 66th Cannes Film Festival, which runs from May 15 to May 26, is below:
Opening night film
The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann)
In Competition...
Ryan Gosling's Only God Forgives, his reunion with Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn, will have its world premiere in competition at next month's prestigious festival, while new films from Steven Soderbergh (Behind the Candelabra), Alexander Payne (Nebraska) and the Coen Brothers (Inside Llewyn Davis) will also be in the running for the Palme d'Or prize.
Emma Watson's The Bling Ring, directed by Sofia Coppola, will play in the 'Un Certain Regard' alongside James Franco's directorial offering As I Lay Dying.
Celebs including Leonardo DiCaprio, Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan, Mila Kunis and Matt Damon are expected to head to the south of France to promote their new films.
The full list of films screening at the 66th Cannes Film Festival, which runs from May 15 to May 26, is below:
Opening night film
The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann)
In Competition...
- 4/18/2013
- Digital Spy
With less than a month to go before the festival kicks off out in France, the official line-up has finally been unveiled for this year’s 66th Cannes Film Festival.
The festival is, of course, one of the most prominent events of the year for the industry, with a handful of films launching their status as strong awards contenders out on the Croisette.
Last year, it was Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, Michael Haneke’s Amour, Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt, Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild. The year before that, it was Michael Hazanavicius’ The Artist, Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, and Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris.
This year, Baz Luhrmann’s highly anticipated The Great Gatsby has been chosen as the Opening Night Film for Cannes, following its theatrical release in the Us the previous weekend. And bookending...
The festival is, of course, one of the most prominent events of the year for the industry, with a handful of films launching their status as strong awards contenders out on the Croisette.
Last year, it was Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, Michael Haneke’s Amour, Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt, Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild. The year before that, it was Michael Hazanavicius’ The Artist, Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, and Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris.
This year, Baz Luhrmann’s highly anticipated The Great Gatsby has been chosen as the Opening Night Film for Cannes, following its theatrical release in the Us the previous weekend. And bookending...
- 4/18/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
66th Cannes Film Festival announced its complete lineup today. The selection includes two Indian Films: “Bombay Talkies” by Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar and Karan Johar and “Monsoon Shootout” by Amit Kumar. Actor Nandita Das is on the Cinefondation jury.
Here is the complete lineup:-
In Competition
Opening Film
Baz Luhrmann The Great Gatsby (H.C.) 1h45
***
Valeria Bruni-tedeschi Un CHÂTEAU En Italie 1h44
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Inside Llewyn Davis 1h45
Arnaud DESPALLIÈRES Michael Kohlhaas 2h05
Arnaud Desplechin Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian) 2h
Amat Escalante Heli 1h45
Asghar Farhadi Le PASSÉ (The Past) 2h10
James Gray The Immigrant 2h
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Grigris 1h40
Jia Zhangke Tian Zhu Ding
(A Touch Of Sin) 2h15
Kore-eda Hirokazu Soshite Chichi Ni Naru
(Like Father, Like Son) 2h
Abdellatif Kechiche La Vie D’ADЀLE 3h07
Takashi Miike Wara No Tate
(Shield Of Straw) 2h05
François Ozon Jeune Et Jolie...
Here is the complete lineup:-
In Competition
Opening Film
Baz Luhrmann The Great Gatsby (H.C.) 1h45
***
Valeria Bruni-tedeschi Un CHÂTEAU En Italie 1h44
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Inside Llewyn Davis 1h45
Arnaud DESPALLIÈRES Michael Kohlhaas 2h05
Arnaud Desplechin Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian) 2h
Amat Escalante Heli 1h45
Asghar Farhadi Le PASSÉ (The Past) 2h10
James Gray The Immigrant 2h
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Grigris 1h40
Jia Zhangke Tian Zhu Ding
(A Touch Of Sin) 2h15
Kore-eda Hirokazu Soshite Chichi Ni Naru
(Like Father, Like Son) 2h
Abdellatif Kechiche La Vie D’ADЀLE 3h07
Takashi Miike Wara No Tate
(Shield Of Straw) 2h05
François Ozon Jeune Et Jolie...
- 4/18/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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