Pietro Marcello with Anne-Katrin Titze on his Scarlet end credit thanks: “Renato Berta, in addition to being a friend, he is also a teacher. Thanks to Caroline Champetier we were able to shoot in 35mm. And finally Gianfranco Rosi, he’s an old friend.”
In the second instalment with Pietro Marcello on Scarlet (L'envol), his adaptation with Maurizio Braucci and Maud Ameline (Mikhaël Hers’ Amanda), in collaboration with Geneviève Brisac of the 1923 novel Scarlet Sails by Russian author Alexander Grin, we discuss the influence of Vittorio De Sica’s Miracle In Milan, the chance discovery of Louise Michel’s poetry, fathers as mothers, dethroning princes and knights in shining armour, being an archivist, Louis Garrel’s crocodile entrance, Pietro’s new project on the question what is war, and the end credit thanks in Scarlet to Renato Berta, Caroline Champetier and Gianfranco Rosi.
Raphaël (Raphaël Thiéry) with his daughter Juliette...
In the second instalment with Pietro Marcello on Scarlet (L'envol), his adaptation with Maurizio Braucci and Maud Ameline (Mikhaël Hers’ Amanda), in collaboration with Geneviève Brisac of the 1923 novel Scarlet Sails by Russian author Alexander Grin, we discuss the influence of Vittorio De Sica’s Miracle In Milan, the chance discovery of Louise Michel’s poetry, fathers as mothers, dethroning princes and knights in shining armour, being an archivist, Louis Garrel’s crocodile entrance, Pietro’s new project on the question what is war, and the end credit thanks in Scarlet to Renato Berta, Caroline Champetier and Gianfranco Rosi.
Raphaël (Raphaël Thiéry) with his daughter Juliette...
- 6/7/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Still believe in the goodness of people? Still hold out hope for the future? If so this is one picture you’ll want to catch up with sooner than later. ‘The Good Totò’ is literally found in a cabbage patch; the simple magic of kindness enables him to turn a shanty town into a little Utopia . . . for a few days. Vittorio De Sica and Cesare Zavattini fashion a story that insists that magic is as real as sunlight, music, and the words ‘Good Morning’ — and that man is imperfect and his institutions unjust. Francesco Golisano, Brunella Bovo and the heavenly Emma Gramatica are unforgettable. The warmth and understanding here bests that of Charlie Chaplin.
Miracle in Milan
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1119
1951 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 96 min. / Miracolo a Milano / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date April 19, 2022 / 39.95
Starring: Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Guglielmo Barnabò, Brunella Bovo, Anna Carena,...
Miracle in Milan
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1119
1951 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 96 min. / Miracolo a Milano / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date April 19, 2022 / 39.95
Starring: Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Guglielmo Barnabò, Brunella Bovo, Anna Carena,...
- 4/12/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
"You can get rid of them whenever you want." Janus Films has debuted a new official trailer for a 4K re-release of the classic 1951 Italian surreal comedy film Miracle in Milan, which first premiered at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the top prize Palme d'Or at the end of the fest. It was first restored in 2015, and the new 4K restoration premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival all over again. An infant found in a cabbage patch (by 77-year-old silent screen diva Emma Gramatica) grows up to be Francesco Golisano's Totó, whose sunny outlook — plus the magic dove left by Gramatica — help the denizens of a ramshackle Milanese squatters' shantytown find the actual beauty in their lives. But when businessmen learn there's oil there — is it time to fly away? The follow-up to DeSica's international triumph The Bicycle Thief, Miracle in Milan received two BAFTA Awards nominations...
- 11/26/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Now that we’re entering Year 2 of our pandemic purgatory, here’s at least one positive takeaway: We’re coming to terms with our past — our movie past, that is. Two films circa 1951 and 1966 represent a personal case in point. Miracle In Milan (1951) starts with a lost baby and an operatic cop, but it’s touching and absurdist. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) delivers an empathetic protagonist with a Trumpian addiction to violence that seems relevant.
The fact that films like these are being re-visited and debated tells us something about our post-viral culture: A vacancy sign hangs over what passes for the movie scene. But viewing classic movies demands qualities I am deficient in –- patience, for example.
Pre-streamer filmmakers were leisurely in their pacing, which by today’s standards seems gratifying, yet soporific. “Leave lots of string between the pearls,” Billy Wilder used to advise his acolytes, which translates into...
The fact that films like these are being re-visited and debated tells us something about our post-viral culture: A vacancy sign hangs over what passes for the movie scene. But viewing classic movies demands qualities I am deficient in –- patience, for example.
Pre-streamer filmmakers were leisurely in their pacing, which by today’s standards seems gratifying, yet soporific. “Leave lots of string between the pearls,” Billy Wilder used to advise his acolytes, which translates into...
- 2/18/2021
- by Peter Bart
- Deadline Film + TV
The actor and playwright on the magic of Italian, French and American cinema, dressing up to go dancing and falling in love with mime
I loved Italian neorealist films as a teenager because they always featured somebody struggling to find themselves in a city. Miracle in Milan, directed by Vittorio de Sica, is a magical film about a young man who arrives lost and alienated but is gradually absorbed by an equally poor society that takes care of him. He finds amazing revelations in the simplest of things. I love the beginning, where it’s so cold, the sun comes out and all the people jump into the slightly warmer circle of heat. Then when the clouds move, they rush to follow the circle. It’s phenomenally simple, but it shows how even the poorest of people can depend on the simplest of pleasures.
I loved Italian neorealist films as a teenager because they always featured somebody struggling to find themselves in a city. Miracle in Milan, directed by Vittorio de Sica, is a magical film about a young man who arrives lost and alienated but is gradually absorbed by an equally poor society that takes care of him. He finds amazing revelations in the simplest of things. I love the beginning, where it’s so cold, the sun comes out and all the people jump into the slightly warmer circle of heat. Then when the clouds move, they rush to follow the circle. It’s phenomenally simple, but it shows how even the poorest of people can depend on the simplest of pleasures.
- 11/6/2020
- by Interview by Rich Pelley
- The Guardian - Film News
The deadly spread of coronavirus may be taking a harsh toll on nations around the globe, but the creative outlets that people are finding to alleviate the boredom of isolation is providing some more uplifting news to report.
Italy has been one of the places most decimated by the virus. Last week, its death toll surpassed China’s. At the time of writing, it had reached 5,476 fatalities, with 59,138 confirmed cases. The country is in full lockdown, with people only allowed to leave their homes for essential reasons.
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Despite an understandable doom and gloom in the national mood, one organization is...
Italy has been one of the places most decimated by the virus. Last week, its death toll surpassed China’s. At the time of writing, it had reached 5,476 fatalities, with 59,138 confirmed cases. The country is in full lockdown, with people only allowed to leave their homes for essential reasons.
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Despite an understandable doom and gloom in the national mood, one organization is...
- 3/23/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Lyon, France — Leading Italian restoration company L’Immagine Ritrovata’s acquisition of renowned film lab Eclair Cinéma, announced last month, is expected to be approved by the French Commercial Court of Nanterre, according to a source familiar with the deal.
‘Immagine Ritrovata’s French subsidiary, L’Image Retrouvée, last month signed a binding letter with Paris-based Ymagis Group, a key European player in digital technologies for the film industry, to take over Eclair Cinema, a subsidiary of the group’s Eclair business unit that oversaw post production and restoration activities in France before being placed in receivership in 2018.
Eclair Cinema has since undergone major restructuring and is now focused solely on content restoration, an area of expertise in which it is a leader in France, boasting more than 750 feature film restorations. The subsidiary generated €2.32 million ($2.55 million) in revenue from its core restoration business in the first half of 2019.
The agreement is...
‘Immagine Ritrovata’s French subsidiary, L’Image Retrouvée, last month signed a binding letter with Paris-based Ymagis Group, a key European player in digital technologies for the film industry, to take over Eclair Cinema, a subsidiary of the group’s Eclair business unit that oversaw post production and restoration activities in France before being placed in receivership in 2018.
Eclair Cinema has since undergone major restructuring and is now focused solely on content restoration, an area of expertise in which it is a leader in France, boasting more than 750 feature film restorations. The subsidiary generated €2.32 million ($2.55 million) in revenue from its core restoration business in the first half of 2019.
The agreement is...
- 10/16/2019
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes season sets in from May 14 this year and many new films are waiting to be unspooled. Film aficionados are converging in this seaside resort to watch, to sell, to acquire, to write about the films and the setting, to soak in the sun and sand with celebrities, to cut deals while they savour sea food or salads. We say, let the celebrations begin.
So, what?s in store for us in the 72e Festival de Cannes? Twenty-one films in competition vying for that glory called Palm d?Or ? Golden Palm from veterans like Jim Jarmusch whose The Dead Don?T Die will open the festival, Pedro Almodovar (Pain And Glory), Marco Bellocchio (The Traitor), Bong Joon Ho (Parasite), Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne (Young Ahmed), Arnaud Desplechin (Oh Merci!), Xavier Dolan (Matthias And Maxime), Abdellatif Kechiche, Ken Loach (Sorry We Missed You), Terrence Malick (A Hidden Life), Corneliu Porumboiu...
So, what?s in store for us in the 72e Festival de Cannes? Twenty-one films in competition vying for that glory called Palm d?Or ? Golden Palm from veterans like Jim Jarmusch whose The Dead Don?T Die will open the festival, Pedro Almodovar (Pain And Glory), Marco Bellocchio (The Traitor), Bong Joon Ho (Parasite), Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne (Young Ahmed), Arnaud Desplechin (Oh Merci!), Xavier Dolan (Matthias And Maxime), Abdellatif Kechiche, Ken Loach (Sorry We Missed You), Terrence Malick (A Hidden Life), Corneliu Porumboiu...
- 5/13/2019
- GlamSham
Alfonso Cuarón will present a restored version of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and Peter Fonda will present a restored Easy Rider as part of this year’s Cannes Classics lineup.
Kubrick’s horror classic was has been remastered by Warner Bros in 4K using a new 4K scan of the original 35mm camera negative. After being presented 50 years ago on the Croisette, Dennis Hopper’s 1969 classic Easy Rider has been restored in 4K by Sony Pictures Entertainment in collaboration with Cineteca di Bologna. It was restored from the 35mm original picture negative.
The sidebar (see the full lineup below) will screen three Luis Buñuel films and Vittorio De Sica’s Miracle In Milan. There will also be a tribute to Lina Wertmüller, the first female filmmaker ever nominated as a director at the Academy Awards in 1977 for Pasqualino Settebellezze. Wertmüller will introduce the film with lead actor Giancarlo Giannini in attendance.
Kubrick’s horror classic was has been remastered by Warner Bros in 4K using a new 4K scan of the original 35mm camera negative. After being presented 50 years ago on the Croisette, Dennis Hopper’s 1969 classic Easy Rider has been restored in 4K by Sony Pictures Entertainment in collaboration with Cineteca di Bologna. It was restored from the 35mm original picture negative.
The sidebar (see the full lineup below) will screen three Luis Buñuel films and Vittorio De Sica’s Miracle In Milan. There will also be a tribute to Lina Wertmüller, the first female filmmaker ever nominated as a director at the Academy Awards in 1977 for Pasqualino Settebellezze. Wertmüller will introduce the film with lead actor Giancarlo Giannini in attendance.
- 4/26/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
“Easy Rider,” Dennis Hopper’s landmark counter-culture film, is leading the Cannes Classics lineup at 2019’s Cannes Film Festival in honor 0f the movie’s 50th anniversary this year.
Hopper’s “Easy Rider” returns to the festival after being nominated for the Palme d’Or in 1969 and winning Hopper a prize for Best First Work.
The lineup also includes a special midnight screening of “The Shining” as presented by Alfonso Cuarón, the 25th anniversary of the cult film “La Cité de la peur,” a spotlight on three films from Spanish and Mexican surrealist Luis Buñuel, the attendance of director Lina Wertmüller, a look back at the 1951 Palme d’Or winner “Miracle in Milan” from Italian director Vittorio De Sica, a tribute to the late Milos Forman, and a screening of the first ever Japanese animated film shown in color.
Also Read: Directors' Fortnight Announces Lineup, 16 Directors to Make Cannes Debut
Finally,...
Hopper’s “Easy Rider” returns to the festival after being nominated for the Palme d’Or in 1969 and winning Hopper a prize for Best First Work.
The lineup also includes a special midnight screening of “The Shining” as presented by Alfonso Cuarón, the 25th anniversary of the cult film “La Cité de la peur,” a spotlight on three films from Spanish and Mexican surrealist Luis Buñuel, the attendance of director Lina Wertmüller, a look back at the 1951 Palme d’Or winner “Miracle in Milan” from Italian director Vittorio De Sica, a tribute to the late Milos Forman, and a screening of the first ever Japanese animated film shown in color.
Also Read: Directors' Fortnight Announces Lineup, 16 Directors to Make Cannes Debut
Finally,...
- 4/26/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Programme will also pay tribute to Milos Forman.
A screening of Easy Rider attended by lead actor Peter Fonda and a midnight screening of The Shining presented by Alfonso Cuarón lead the programme of the 16th edition of Cannes Classics, the heritage cinema section of the 72nd Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25).
Fonda, who co-wrote and co-produced the American independent classic as well as starred in it, will be present to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The film had its world premiere in Competition on the Croisette in 1969.
Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón will present a midnight screening of Stanley Kubrick’s...
A screening of Easy Rider attended by lead actor Peter Fonda and a midnight screening of The Shining presented by Alfonso Cuarón lead the programme of the 16th edition of Cannes Classics, the heritage cinema section of the 72nd Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25).
Fonda, who co-wrote and co-produced the American independent classic as well as starred in it, will be present to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The film had its world premiere in Competition on the Croisette in 1969.
Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón will present a midnight screening of Stanley Kubrick’s...
- 4/26/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
This year’s Cannes Classics lineup has been announced, with one screening immediately catching the eye: Alfonso Cuarón presenting the remastered version of “The Shining.” The “Roma” filmmaker will be on hand to introduce Stanley Kubrick’s horror classic, which is in the program alongside “Easy Rider,” three films from Luis Buñuel, Lina Wertmüller’s “Seven Beauties,” two from Milos Forman, and many others.
The full lineup:
The 50 years of the mythical “Easy Rider”
Presented half a century ago on the Croisette, in Competition at the Festival de Cannes, the film won the Prize for a first work. Co-writer, co-producer and lead actor, Peter Fonda will be in Cannes at the invitation of the Festival to celebrate this anniversary.
“Easy Rider” by Dennis Hopper
Restored in 4K by Sony Pictures Entertainment in collaboration with Cineteca di Bologna. Restored from the 35mm Original Picture Negative and 35mm Black and White Separation Masters.
The full lineup:
The 50 years of the mythical “Easy Rider”
Presented half a century ago on the Croisette, in Competition at the Festival de Cannes, the film won the Prize for a first work. Co-writer, co-producer and lead actor, Peter Fonda will be in Cannes at the invitation of the Festival to celebrate this anniversary.
“Easy Rider” by Dennis Hopper
Restored in 4K by Sony Pictures Entertainment in collaboration with Cineteca di Bologna. Restored from the 35mm Original Picture Negative and 35mm Black and White Separation Masters.
- 4/26/2019
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Natural Selection: Shawky Shackled by Straight Story
Tackling notions of identity in both a figurative and transfigurative sense, Yomeddine teeters ever so lightly into fable terrain with a spirit akin to Miracle in Milan (1951) and proportionally Tod Browning’s Freaks. The antithesis of throw the baby out bleakness of a Bahman Ghobadi’s Turtles Can Fly, under the guise of the roadtrip buddy comedy (donkey is the favored mode of transportation here), we could coin Abu Bakr Shawky‘s feature debut has “hopeful” miserablism, a sincere, well-intention film with an attached quasi cathartic denounement that is simply too rough around-the-edges, formulaic to…...
Tackling notions of identity in both a figurative and transfigurative sense, Yomeddine teeters ever so lightly into fable terrain with a spirit akin to Miracle in Milan (1951) and proportionally Tod Browning’s Freaks. The antithesis of throw the baby out bleakness of a Bahman Ghobadi’s Turtles Can Fly, under the guise of the roadtrip buddy comedy (donkey is the favored mode of transportation here), we could coin Abu Bakr Shawky‘s feature debut has “hopeful” miserablism, a sincere, well-intention film with an attached quasi cathartic denounement that is simply too rough around-the-edges, formulaic to…...
- 5/10/2018
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Palme d'Or winner 'The Square' with Claes Bang: 'Gobsmackingly weird' Cannes Film Festival favorite may have a tough time landing a Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award nomination. Ruben Östlund's comedy-drama is totally unrelated to Jehane Noujaim's 2013 Oscar-nominated political documentary of the same title, which refers to downtown Cairo's Tahrir Square. Cannes' Palme d'Or winner 'The Square' & other Official Competition favorites' Oscar chances Screenwriter-director Ruben Östlund's The Square was the Palme d'Or winner at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, which wrapped up on May 28. (See list of Palme d'Or and other 2017 Cannes winners further below.) Clocking in at about 2 hours and 20 minutes, Östlund's unusual comedy-drama revolving around the chaotic p.r. campaign to promote the opening of the titular installation – a symbolic square of light – at a contemporary art museum in Stockholm has been generally well-received by critics. In the opinion of The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw,...
- 6/21/2017
- by Steph Mont.
- Alt Film Guide
After The Fox
Blu-ray
Kino Lorber
2017 / Color / 2.35 : 1 widescreen / Street Date March 22, 2017
Starring: Peter Sellers, Victor Mature, Martin Balsem, Akim Tamiroff.
Cinematography: Leonida Barboni
Film Editor: Russell Lloyd
Written by Neil Simon and Cesare Zavattini
Produced by John Bryan
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
After The Fox, a sunny mid-sixties farce about con-artists and movie-makers, boasts a powerhouse pedigree featuring leading men Peter Sellers and Victor Mature, a script by Neil Simon and Cesare Zavattini, music by Burt Bacharach, poster art from Frank Frazetta and the legendary director/actor/gambler Vittorio De Sica at the helm.
With such diverse talent on board, the film was somewhat misleadingly promoted as another in the line of 60’s screwball hipster comedies like Casino Royale and What’s New Pussycat. But the result is closer to De Sica’s laid back charmers from the ‘50s, Miracle in Milan and Gold of Naples (in fact,...
Blu-ray
Kino Lorber
2017 / Color / 2.35 : 1 widescreen / Street Date March 22, 2017
Starring: Peter Sellers, Victor Mature, Martin Balsem, Akim Tamiroff.
Cinematography: Leonida Barboni
Film Editor: Russell Lloyd
Written by Neil Simon and Cesare Zavattini
Produced by John Bryan
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
After The Fox, a sunny mid-sixties farce about con-artists and movie-makers, boasts a powerhouse pedigree featuring leading men Peter Sellers and Victor Mature, a script by Neil Simon and Cesare Zavattini, music by Burt Bacharach, poster art from Frank Frazetta and the legendary director/actor/gambler Vittorio De Sica at the helm.
With such diverse talent on board, the film was somewhat misleadingly promoted as another in the line of 60’s screwball hipster comedies like Casino Royale and What’s New Pussycat. But the result is closer to De Sica’s laid back charmers from the ‘50s, Miracle in Milan and Gold of Naples (in fact,...
- 4/2/2017
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Reel-Important People is a monthly column that highlights those individuals in or related to the movies that have left us in recent weeks. Below you'll find names big and small and from all areas of the industry, though each was significant to the movies in his or her own way. Katalin Berek (1930-2017) - Hungarian Actress. She stars in the Oscars-submitted film Adoption and appears in A Half Pint of Beer, Sacra Corona, The Upthrown Stone and Istvan, a Kiraly. She died on February 27. (Index) Brunella Bovo (1932-2017) - Italian Actress. She stars in Federico Fellini's The White Sheik (see below) and Vittorio De Sica's Miracle in Milan. She died on February 21. (Corriere di Rieti) Neil Fingleton...
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- 3/4/2017
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Want to see great movies for free? This Friday, Lincoln Center brings Film Foundation-restored titles to you at no cost. Ford‘s Drums Along the Mohawk, Scorsese‘s The King of Comedy, John M. Stahl‘s Leave Her to Heaven, Fosse‘s All That Jazz, Donen‘s Two for the Road,...
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Want to see great movies for free? This Friday, Lincoln Center brings Film Foundation-restored titles to you at no cost. Ford‘s Drums Along the Mohawk, Scorsese‘s The King of Comedy, John M. Stahl‘s Leave Her to Heaven, Fosse‘s All That Jazz, Donen‘s Two for the Road,...
- 9/25/2015
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
It had been so long since I last saw Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves—the last time being long before I started to become involved with movie posters—that I had forgotten that Antonio Ricci’s job at the start of the film, the job he so desperately needs a bicycle for, is pasting up movie posters.Researching De Sica posters to coincide with the current month-long restrospective at New York’s Film Forum I discovered that De Sica’s most famous film centers—as does the Shawshank Redemption, coincidentally—on a poster of Rita Hayworth. I had hoped that it would be a poster by Anselmo Ballester, who painted Hayworth gloriously many times, but the signature on the top right of the poster is clearly that of one T. Corbella. Tito Corbella (1885-1966) was an artist known for his sensuous portraits of Italian divas since the 1910s. Dave Kehr...
- 9/19/2015
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
The Film Society at Lincoln Center
A new 35mm print of Claire Denis‘ debut, Chocolat, screens throughout the week.
Film Forum
For a Vittorio de Sica retrospective, see The Bicycle Thief on Friday, Miracle in Milan on Saturday and Sunday, and Mister Max & Marriage Italian Style on Sunday.
A new restoration of Otto Preminger‘s...
The Film Society at Lincoln Center
A new 35mm print of Claire Denis‘ debut, Chocolat, screens throughout the week.
Film Forum
For a Vittorio de Sica retrospective, see The Bicycle Thief on Friday, Miracle in Milan on Saturday and Sunday, and Mister Max & Marriage Italian Style on Sunday.
A new restoration of Otto Preminger‘s...
- 9/18/2015
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Wes Anderson’s meticulous attention to design and detail in all his films, in which each frame looks like a carefully fine-tuned diorama full of colors and careful staging, has made for a plethora of charming fantasy worlds, but very few in our real world. Now however, Anderson has created a project in which he has designed a cafe/bar for a new art gallery opening this month in Milan.
Bar Luce, designed by Anderson, is located inside the Fondazione Prada in Milan, a new art gallery space commissioned by the fashion designer Prada. According to Conde Nast Traveler, who visited the cafe this week, the space is complete with “retro formica chairs in bright pastel colors, jukeboxes”, and perhaps best of all, “Steve Zissou-themed pinball machines.”
According to the Fondazione Prada’s website, Anderson retained some of the original building’s architecture, including an arched ceiling once part of...
Bar Luce, designed by Anderson, is located inside the Fondazione Prada in Milan, a new art gallery space commissioned by the fashion designer Prada. According to Conde Nast Traveler, who visited the cafe this week, the space is complete with “retro formica chairs in bright pastel colors, jukeboxes”, and perhaps best of all, “Steve Zissou-themed pinball machines.”
According to the Fondazione Prada’s website, Anderson retained some of the original building’s architecture, including an arched ceiling once part of...
- 5/6/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
My fellow Nyu alumnus Spike Lee, now a grad school professor, has posted on Kickstarter the list of films that he considers to be essential viewing for any aspiring filmmaker. He gives it out to his students on the first day of class. It's a fabulous list! He's right. Any proper cinephile should have seen all these films. Have you? (Remember, I'm the one who called my college boyfriend a "movie moron" for not having seen "2001: A Space Odyssey"--which isn't on Lee's list.) Your Netflix queue awaits. True confession: I am ordering up "Cooley High," "Dead End," "Kung Fu Hustle," "I Am Cuba," "Miracle in Milan" and "Paisan." Lee's list includes three films each by masters Akira Kurosawa (the filmmaker at the top of my personal pantheon of directors), Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, John Huston, and Federico Fellini. He also includes Arthur Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde,...
- 7/29/2013
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Despite not being particularly popular at the moment, foreign films have always held a special place in cinema. Freed from the constraints often found in Hollywood, foreign language films tend to take more risks, deal with more complex topics, and often pay more attention to the human element than English language productions. Despite many people being wary of foreign language films because of subtitles, good movies are good movies regardless of what language they’re in.
The influence of some of the best foreign film directors permeates throughout Hollywood. George Lucas drew on the films of Akira Kurosawa while creating Star Wars, Woody Allen was heavily influenced by the films of Ingmar Bergman, and the examples of other directors inspired by foreign cinema are endless.
The following directors not only made great films that have stood the test of time, but they are also incredibly influential on modern films in...
The influence of some of the best foreign film directors permeates throughout Hollywood. George Lucas drew on the films of Akira Kurosawa while creating Star Wars, Woody Allen was heavily influenced by the films of Ingmar Bergman, and the examples of other directors inspired by foreign cinema are endless.
The following directors not only made great films that have stood the test of time, but they are also incredibly influential on modern films in...
- 5/8/2013
- by Paul Sorrells
- Obsessed with Film
Miracle In Milan
Stars: Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Guglielmo Barnabò | Written by Cesare Zavattini | Directed by Vittorio De Sica
Films carry power, whether it’s to just merely entertain or to get an emotional reaction from the water they still gain a reaction. When a film fails the reaction they get can range from pure hatred to just pure boredom. Of course there is no reason to hate a film just because it’s bad, sure have a dislike for it but don’t waste emotion on hate, just don’t watch the film ever again. That said it’s always fun to bitch about one that truly sucks. Miracle in Milan is one that I would argue brings happiness, it’s a true feel good film.
Some films can be seen as a kind of social commentary, and this could be said about Miracle in Milan, even...
Stars: Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Guglielmo Barnabò | Written by Cesare Zavattini | Directed by Vittorio De Sica
Films carry power, whether it’s to just merely entertain or to get an emotional reaction from the water they still gain a reaction. When a film fails the reaction they get can range from pure hatred to just pure boredom. Of course there is no reason to hate a film just because it’s bad, sure have a dislike for it but don’t waste emotion on hate, just don’t watch the film ever again. That said it’s always fun to bitch about one that truly sucks. Miracle in Milan is one that I would argue brings happiness, it’s a true feel good film.
Some films can be seen as a kind of social commentary, and this could be said about Miracle in Milan, even...
- 4/17/2012
- by Pzomb
- Nerdly
A newly-wed couple attempt to build themselves a home overnight.
Bicycle Thieves director Vittoria De Sica skewers post-war Rome in a heartfelt ode to the fortitude of young love and the camaraderie of lower-class communities. The Roof marries the neo-realist grit of the auteur's best-known work with the sunnier optimistic streak evident in Miracle In Milan, without ever ladling on the socio-political subtext. The film stands as a fascinating time capsule, the ridiculous nature of the...
Bicycle Thieves director Vittoria De Sica skewers post-war Rome in a heartfelt ode to the fortitude of young love and the camaraderie of lower-class communities. The Roof marries the neo-realist grit of the auteur's best-known work with the sunnier optimistic streak evident in Miracle In Milan, without ever ladling on the socio-political subtext. The film stands as a fascinating time capsule, the ridiculous nature of the...
- 3/28/2012
- by David Graham
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
2011 was a banner year for Vittorio De Sica fans. Kino International released four Blu-rays of his '60s work and Arrow Academy released Bicycle Thieves on Blu-ray and Il Generale Della Rovere & The Garden of the Finzi-Continis on DVD, and now they're starting off 2012 right with more De Sica. Miracle In Milan is the first post-Bicycle Thieves film from De Sica, and one that has never been available on Us DVD, but Arrow Academy are preparing a fantastic edition on Blu-ray for the UK. The film will be presented in HD with some great extras, including De Sica's 1956 feature Il Tetto (The Roof) which has also never made it to Us or UK DVD. What a great way to celebrate the master!...
- 1/26/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Insert a dog, a shoeshiner by trade Bohemian who takes a stand against the system/local police force to help an illegal refugee in the shape of a child (Cannes major theme this year is about protecting them) and add the trademark Kaurismaki humor and according to the warmest applause reserved for a film yet in the Main Competition and we have ourselves a true contender and audience favourite in Le Havre. We still have some grades to receive, but so far this is jousting with the Dardennes and Malick for the top critic grade average on our list. With a predictable formula, a see it by a mile narrative, climax and conclusion, and a Miracle in Milan-esque sensibility, this charmer's winning cast of a rugged-looking Andre Wilms, a perfectly cast Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Kaurismaki-club member Kati Outinen will surely be Finland's Oscar entry despite the almost all in the French language text.
- 5/17/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
This year's president of the Festival de Cannes Robert De Niro will preside over jury members including fellow actors Jude Law, Uma Thurman and Martina Gusman, directors Olivier Assayas, Johnnie To and Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Chinese producer Nansun Shi and Norwegian critic and writer Linn Ullmann. The nine jury members will hand out the main prizes including the Palme d'Or amongst others for writing, directing and performances. They will follow the path of some of the greatest names in the history of cinema. Many accused Isabelle Huppert of playing favourites when Haneke finally won for his long overdue Palme. De Niro has worked with Brad Pitt and Sean Penn --- will the brotherhood remain intact with a vote going towards Malick? Unlike any other awards, the Palme d'Or is the most elusive and coveted of them all. The first prize handed out was the Grand Prix in 1949 at the third...
- 5/10/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Survey ranks moving denouement to Steven Spielberg's sci-fi blockbuster ahead of Toy Story 3 and Rocky
A new poll has identified the spine-tingling denouement of Et, in which the alien visitor bids farewell to Elliott and sets off for home in his spaceship, as cinema's most powerful moment.
The concluding scene of Steven Spielberg's 1982 blockbuster beat off competition from Toy Story 3, Rocky, Bambi and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in the survey for education charity Filmclub and LoveFilm. More than 30% of correspondents named it their favourite movie moment.
Toy Story 3's second place came thanks to the climactic scene in which Woody and the toys hold hands in expectation of imminent death by garbage furnace. More than 16% of people voted for the sequence.
Rocky's fight for the heavyweight championship of the world was responsible for Sylvester Stallone's film taking third spot, while the death of Bambi's...
A new poll has identified the spine-tingling denouement of Et, in which the alien visitor bids farewell to Elliott and sets off for home in his spaceship, as cinema's most powerful moment.
The concluding scene of Steven Spielberg's 1982 blockbuster beat off competition from Toy Story 3, Rocky, Bambi and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in the survey for education charity Filmclub and LoveFilm. More than 30% of correspondents named it their favourite movie moment.
Toy Story 3's second place came thanks to the climactic scene in which Woody and the toys hold hands in expectation of imminent death by garbage furnace. More than 16% of people voted for the sequence.
Rocky's fight for the heavyweight championship of the world was responsible for Sylvester Stallone's film taking third spot, while the death of Bambi's...
- 3/7/2011
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Lamberto Maggiorani in Vittorio de Sica‘s Bicycle Thieves (aka The Bicycle Thief) Suso Cecchi D’Amico, the only top female screenwriter in the post-war Italian cinema, died today in Rome. She had turned 96 on July 14. According to reports, no cause of death was given. Chiefly among Cecchi D’Amico’s screenwriting contributions — nearly 120 of them — are those for Vittorio de Sica‘s Oscar-winning neo-realist classic Bicycle Thieves (1948) and Cannes Film Festival co-winner Miracle in Milan (1951), and for numerous films directed by Luchino Visconti, among them Bellissima (1951), Senso (1954), Rocco e i suoi fratelli / Rocco and His Brothers (1960), Il Gattopardo / The Leopard (1963), Ludwig (1973), and Conversation Piece (1975). Additionally, Cecchi D’Amico collaborated with a number of other celebrated Italian filmmakers, including Michelangelo Antonioni (Le Amiche / The Girlfriends), Alessandro Blasetti (La fortuna di essere donna / Lucky to Be a Woman), Luigi Zampa (L’onorevole Angelina), [...]...
- 8/1/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Miracle in Milan by Vittorio De Sica (1951)
Vittorio De Sica famously made Bicycle Thieves, that's the film of his everybody knows. But Miracle in Milan – also Italian-language, also black and white – is the one that had the more profound effect on me.
I first saw the film on my father's 50th birthday, when I was in my late teens. He had decided that the way he wanted to celebrate his day was to show me and my siblings, plus about 30 of our friends, Miracle in Milan. This was before the days of DVD and downloads, and so we had to hire a little screening room and projectionist, and we had to rent the film – it was quite an arrangement, but this was the thing he wanted to do. Before the lights went out, he turned to us and said something like: "I want to hand you, the next generation, the baton of concern and hope.
Vittorio De Sica famously made Bicycle Thieves, that's the film of his everybody knows. But Miracle in Milan – also Italian-language, also black and white – is the one that had the more profound effect on me.
I first saw the film on my father's 50th birthday, when I was in my late teens. He had decided that the way he wanted to celebrate his day was to show me and my siblings, plus about 30 of our friends, Miracle in Milan. This was before the days of DVD and downloads, and so we had to hire a little screening room and projectionist, and we had to rent the film – it was quite an arrangement, but this was the thing he wanted to do. Before the lights went out, he turned to us and said something like: "I want to hand you, the next generation, the baton of concern and hope.
- 7/31/2010
- by Tom Lamont
- The Guardian - Film News
This gem from a former assistant to Michael Haneke centres on a group of visitors to France's famous site of pilgrimage
From Vittorio De Sica's Miracle in Milan to Preston Sturges's The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, the cinema has been fascinated by the miraculous, whether real, imaginary, fake or metaphorical. This gem of a film from an Austrian former assistant to Michael Haneke centres on a disparate international party of pilgrims visiting the Pyrenean village where Bernadette Soubirous saw visions of the Virgin Mary in 1858, providing the subject for the most famous example of the genre, The Song of Bernadette.
At the film's centre is the young, sweet-natured Christine (Sylvie Testud, Piaf's close friend in La Vie en rose), crippled with multiple sclerosis and a veteran of such organised trips both religious and cultural. She's accompanied by others confined to wheelchairs as well as the less handicapped, the pious,...
From Vittorio De Sica's Miracle in Milan to Preston Sturges's The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, the cinema has been fascinated by the miraculous, whether real, imaginary, fake or metaphorical. This gem of a film from an Austrian former assistant to Michael Haneke centres on a disparate international party of pilgrims visiting the Pyrenean village where Bernadette Soubirous saw visions of the Virgin Mary in 1858, providing the subject for the most famous example of the genre, The Song of Bernadette.
At the film's centre is the young, sweet-natured Christine (Sylvie Testud, Piaf's close friend in La Vie en rose), crippled with multiple sclerosis and a veteran of such organised trips both religious and cultural. She's accompanied by others confined to wheelchairs as well as the less handicapped, the pious,...
- 3/28/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
See the lighter side of the influential film movement with these delightful selections. Miracle in Milan / Miracolo in Milano A delightful fantasy for postwar Italy that is just as enchanting today, directed by Neorealist titan Vittorio De Sica. Sun Nov 1: 3:15pm Sun Nov 15: 3:00pm Bread, Love and Dreams / Pane, amore e fantasia The comic joy that made [...]...
- 11/5/2009
- by Amanda McCormick, www.filmlinc.com
- Filmlinc
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