Paolo Sorrentino’s Cannes Palme d’Or-nominated drama The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza) chosen by Italy as its entry for the Best Foreign-Language Oscar.
The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza), by director Paolo Sorrentino, has been submitted by Italy for the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film.
Review: The Great Beauty
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The film reunites Sorrentino with Il Divo star Toni Servillo in the story of a jaded, ageing writer who tries to resuscitate his career but is floundering in high life parties and the memory of a former love.
It was considered a frontrunner for the Palme d’Or at Cannes in May; won five Silver Ribbons at the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists awards; and a Globi d’Oro (Golden Globes) for Luca Bigazzi’s cinematography.
The Great Beauty marks the first Oscar submission for Sorrentino, who has screened five of his features in Competition...
The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza), by director Paolo Sorrentino, has been submitted by Italy for the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film.
Review: The Great Beauty
Click here for Best Foreign-Language Film Academy Award submissions 2013
The film reunites Sorrentino with Il Divo star Toni Servillo in the story of a jaded, ageing writer who tries to resuscitate his career but is floundering in high life parties and the memory of a former love.
It was considered a frontrunner for the Palme d’Or at Cannes in May; won five Silver Ribbons at the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists awards; and a Globi d’Oro (Golden Globes) for Luca Bigazzi’s cinematography.
The Great Beauty marks the first Oscar submission for Sorrentino, who has screened five of his features in Competition...
- 9/25/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
San Sebastian, Spain – Gracia Querejeta’s 15 Years and One Day will represent Spain in the foreign language Oscar race, the Spanish Film Academy announced Wednesday. The drama, starring Maribel Verdu, beat out Manuel Martin Cuenca’s Cannibal, Sanchez Arevalo’s La Gran Familia Espanola and Santiago Zannou’s Alacrán enamorado for the coveted spot. Photos: 100 Oscars Gowns The film won rave reviews for Verdu's performance as a mother navigating her relationship with her son in the shadow of her own mother. "We know what it is to win an Oscar and what it takes to do so," the film's producer Gerardo Herrero told journalists
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- 9/25/2013
- by Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Cannes Film Market has proved to be a happy hunting ground for almost all the Australian independent distributors.
StudioCanal and Rialto Distribution were among the most active Oz buyers, each snapping up five films from the Us and Europe, featuring such stars as Robert Downey Jr, Justin Timberlake, Scarlett Johansson and Shirley MacLaine..
.There was no stand-out title that everyone was chasing but there were a lot of good films,. Studiocanal managing director Robert Slaviero told If. As a result, Slaviero observed, .There were no bidding wars; it was all very civilised...
Slaviero pounced on The Chef, an upcoming comedy written and directed by Jon Favreau, co-starring Downey, Johansson and Sofia Vergara. Favreau plays a guy who loses his chef job and launches a food truck business while he tries to reconnect with his estranged family.
MacLaine and Christopher Plummer star in Elsa & Fred, a romantic comedy directed by Michael Radford,...
StudioCanal and Rialto Distribution were among the most active Oz buyers, each snapping up five films from the Us and Europe, featuring such stars as Robert Downey Jr, Justin Timberlake, Scarlett Johansson and Shirley MacLaine..
.There was no stand-out title that everyone was chasing but there were a lot of good films,. Studiocanal managing director Robert Slaviero told If. As a result, Slaviero observed, .There were no bidding wars; it was all very civilised...
Slaviero pounced on The Chef, an upcoming comedy written and directed by Jon Favreau, co-starring Downey, Johansson and Sofia Vergara. Favreau plays a guy who loses his chef job and launches a food truck business while he tries to reconnect with his estranged family.
MacLaine and Christopher Plummer star in Elsa & Fred, a romantic comedy directed by Michael Radford,...
- 5/28/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Madrid, April 11 (Ians/Efe) After portraying the most twisted villain in the history of the James Bond franchise, Javier Bardem plays a neo-Nazi in "Alacran enamorado" ("Scorpion in Love"), a film based on the novel of the same name by his older brother Carlos.
"I fixed on several people to compose the tone and appearance of Solis," the Oscar-winning actor said at a press conference in Madrid with the rest of the team behind the film, which opens in Spain this Friday.
The cast includes Carlos Bardem, who co-wrote the screenplay with director Santiago Zannou, and Alex Gonzalez as Julian, a.k.a. the Scorpion, member of a violent neo-Nazi group led by Solis.
Set in contemporary Spain, the story follows Julian's transformation.
"I fixed on several people to compose the tone and appearance of Solis," the Oscar-winning actor said at a press conference in Madrid with the rest of the team behind the film, which opens in Spain this Friday.
The cast includes Carlos Bardem, who co-wrote the screenplay with director Santiago Zannou, and Alex Gonzalez as Julian, a.k.a. the Scorpion, member of a violent neo-Nazi group led by Solis.
Set in contemporary Spain, the story follows Julian's transformation.
- 4/11/2013
- by Machan Kumar
- RealBollywood.com
Showing some love to his Spanish fans, Javier Bardem showed up at a photocall for his new flick “Alacran Enamorado” in Madrid today (April 9).
Joined by Alvaro Longoria, Santiago Zannou, Carlos Bardem, and Alex Gonzalez, the “Skyfall” hunk looked handsome as he greeted the press at Princesa Cinema.
Bardem recently weighed in on the tragic death of Spanish filmmaker Bigas Luna, who passed away over the weekend.
He explained, "I don't know where to begin. (Luna gave me) the woman I love (and) a career that I never dreamed I could have."
Wife Penelope Cruz added, “The first thing he asked me was my age. I said I was 17 and he, always very gently and without making me feel too bad, laughed in my face and said, 'Well, you won't make this movie, but I'll call for another when you're older.'"...
Joined by Alvaro Longoria, Santiago Zannou, Carlos Bardem, and Alex Gonzalez, the “Skyfall” hunk looked handsome as he greeted the press at Princesa Cinema.
Bardem recently weighed in on the tragic death of Spanish filmmaker Bigas Luna, who passed away over the weekend.
He explained, "I don't know where to begin. (Luna gave me) the woman I love (and) a career that I never dreamed I could have."
Wife Penelope Cruz added, “The first thing he asked me was my age. I said I was 17 and he, always very gently and without making me feel too bad, laughed in my face and said, 'Well, you won't make this movie, but I'll call for another when you're older.'"...
- 4/9/2013
- GossipCenter
Because, looking forward, 2013 promises to be such a fruitful cornucopia of cinema, we were excited to be able to easily list an additional 100 titles we are eagerly looking forward to catching in the new year. From these 200-101 titles, we’re happy to list several projects featuring the extremely busy Isabelle Huppert, include two English language projects, Ned Benson’s split film project The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby His/Hers and the Niels Arden Oplev film, Dead Man Down (and don’t forget her French projects, a starring turn in Serge Bozon’s followup, Tip Top as well as Guillaume Nicloux’s The Religious).
Additionally, the horror genre should be extremely noteworthy in the coming year, with new projects from Neil Marshall (The Descent), Alexandre Aja (High Tension), Fabrice Du Welz (Calvaire), Lucky McKee (May) and directing team Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury (Inside). We’ve got two Australian beauties playing...
Additionally, the horror genre should be extremely noteworthy in the coming year, with new projects from Neil Marshall (The Descent), Alexandre Aja (High Tension), Fabrice Du Welz (Calvaire), Lucky McKee (May) and directing team Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury (Inside). We’ve got two Australian beauties playing...
- 1/10/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Santiago Zannou, a Spanish filmmaker of African descent (his father is from Benin, the West African country), will see his second feature film, titled Scorpion In Love, picked up by Wild Bunch, who plans to shop the film at the upcoming American Film Market at the end of this month. Scorpion in Love is an adaptation of Carlos Bardem’s bestselling novel about a former neo-Nazi gang member who turns to boxing in an effort to reinvent himself after doing time in prison. However, when he starts seeing a mixed-race girl at the gym, he falls even further foul of neo-Nazi chief Solis, who used to be his mentor. Carlos Bardem (an actor, and brother to Javier Bardem) will play a...
- 10/24/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Tom Devriendt rounds up 10 new feature films and shorts, some of which are already making the rounds of the film festival circuit
This is a random selection of 10 films we don't know much about, yet, but which we hope to see once completed or screened at the nearest film festival. The Door of No Return (La Puerta de No Retorno) follows Santiago Zannou who accompanies his father, Alphonse, to his homeland, Benin, 40 years after he left it. Trailer above.
Finding Mercy (which premiered at the Tri Continental Film Festival in Johannesburg last month) is about retrieving a childhood friendship in a newly independent Zimbabwe:
Meanwhile in Mamelodi is a documentary by Benjamin Kahlmeyer on life in a Pretoria township during the 2010 World Cup:
Healers, directed by Thomas Barry, highlights the work of The Umthombo Youth Development Foundation and tells the story of how a doctor and a matron at a...
This is a random selection of 10 films we don't know much about, yet, but which we hope to see once completed or screened at the nearest film festival. The Door of No Return (La Puerta de No Retorno) follows Santiago Zannou who accompanies his father, Alphonse, to his homeland, Benin, 40 years after he left it. Trailer above.
Finding Mercy (which premiered at the Tri Continental Film Festival in Johannesburg last month) is about retrieving a childhood friendship in a newly independent Zimbabwe:
Meanwhile in Mamelodi is a documentary by Benjamin Kahlmeyer on life in a Pretoria township during the 2010 World Cup:
Healers, directed by Thomas Barry, highlights the work of The Umthombo Youth Development Foundation and tells the story of how a doctor and a matron at a...
- 10/5/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Fast Six
He was previously offered, but now Luke Evans ("The Raven," "Immortals") is in negotiations (and close to a deal) to play a villain in the upcoming "Fast Six" at Universal Pictures.
Evans would play the leader of a rival crew of hoods trying to pull off the same heist as Vin Diesel and Paul Walker's crew. The actor is currently in New Zealand shooting "The Hobbit". [Source: Variety]
Scorpion In Love
Javier Bardem has scored the supporting role of a neo-Nazi in the adaptation of his brother Carlos Bardem's novel "Alacrán Enamorado" ("Scorpion In Love").
Santiago Zannou helms the contemporary Spain-set, Romeo & Juliet-esque story about a young neo-Nazi nicknamed the 'Scorpion' (Alex Gonzalez) who falls for a Latin American immigrant (Judith Diakhate). [Source: Twitchfilm]
Django Unchained
Both Sacha Baron Cohen and Kurt Russell have apparently had to bow out of making cameos in Quentin Tarantino‘s western "Django Unchained".
Cohen...
He was previously offered, but now Luke Evans ("The Raven," "Immortals") is in negotiations (and close to a deal) to play a villain in the upcoming "Fast Six" at Universal Pictures.
Evans would play the leader of a rival crew of hoods trying to pull off the same heist as Vin Diesel and Paul Walker's crew. The actor is currently in New Zealand shooting "The Hobbit". [Source: Variety]
Scorpion In Love
Javier Bardem has scored the supporting role of a neo-Nazi in the adaptation of his brother Carlos Bardem's novel "Alacrán Enamorado" ("Scorpion In Love").
Santiago Zannou helms the contemporary Spain-set, Romeo & Juliet-esque story about a young neo-Nazi nicknamed the 'Scorpion' (Alex Gonzalez) who falls for a Latin American immigrant (Judith Diakhate). [Source: Twitchfilm]
Django Unchained
Both Sacha Baron Cohen and Kurt Russell have apparently had to bow out of making cameos in Quentin Tarantino‘s western "Django Unchained".
Cohen...
- 5/10/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Before heading stateside to join Ridley Scott's star-studded "The Counselor," Javier Bardem is set to add another sinister portrayal to his resume, taking on the supporting role of a neo-Nazi in an adaptation of his brother, Carlos Bardem's novel "Alacrán Enamorado," roughly translated as "Scorpion In Love."
To be helmed by African-Spanish helmer Santiago Zannou ("The One-Handed Trick") from a screenplay adapted by Carlos Bardem himself, the film is rooted in urban multicultural Spain today and centers on the "Romeo & Juliet"-esque tale of a young neo-Nazi nicknamed the 'Scorpion' (Alex Gonzalez) who falls for a Latin American immigrant (Judith Diakhate). Zannou -- a director who specializes in tales of immigration, new urban tribes and identity conflicts -- describes the film as "a fable that shows that love and trust can save us from the path to auto-desctruction." Here's an extended synopsis:
Julián is a young, angry Neo-Nazi.
To be helmed by African-Spanish helmer Santiago Zannou ("The One-Handed Trick") from a screenplay adapted by Carlos Bardem himself, the film is rooted in urban multicultural Spain today and centers on the "Romeo & Juliet"-esque tale of a young neo-Nazi nicknamed the 'Scorpion' (Alex Gonzalez) who falls for a Latin American immigrant (Judith Diakhate). Zannou -- a director who specializes in tales of immigration, new urban tribes and identity conflicts -- describes the film as "a fable that shows that love and trust can save us from the path to auto-desctruction." Here's an extended synopsis:
Julián is a young, angry Neo-Nazi.
- 5/9/2012
- by Simon Dang
- The Playlist
You had me at “man overcomes his Neo-Nazi ways through boxing”; Twitch reports that Javier Bardem will co-star as a Neo-Nazi ideologue named Solis in Alacrán enamorado (Scorpion in Love) from Spanish director Santiago Zannou. The movie has been adapted from the book by his brother Carlos Bardem who will also co-star. Here’s the plot synopsis, directly from Twitch:
Julián is a young, angry Neo-Nazi. Despite being poisoned by hate, there is nobility in his soul. He will discover it in a boxing gym thanks to Carlomonte (Carlos Bardem), an alcoholic and a former boxer who once had it all but lost it. In the gym, Julián will learn to fight with rules. He will slowly empty himself of hate, and learn to love when he meets Alyssa, a young immigrant. Julián will have to take an important decision when his former colleagues (among whom Miguel Ángel Silvestre and Javier Bardem as Solis,...
Julián is a young, angry Neo-Nazi. Despite being poisoned by hate, there is nobility in his soul. He will discover it in a boxing gym thanks to Carlomonte (Carlos Bardem), an alcoholic and a former boxer who once had it all but lost it. In the gym, Julián will learn to fight with rules. He will slowly empty himself of hate, and learn to love when he meets Alyssa, a young immigrant. Julián will have to take an important decision when his former colleagues (among whom Miguel Ángel Silvestre and Javier Bardem as Solis,...
- 5/9/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
It has been eight years since Javier Bardem stepped in front of the camera helmed by a Spanish director. For those of you keeping score at home it was for The Sea Inside by Alejandro Amenabar. Yesterday filming began on the second feature film by Santiago Zannou; Alacran Enamorado, or, literally Scorpion in Love. Julián is a young, angry Neo-Nazi. Despite being poisoned by hate, there is nobility in his soul. He will discover it in a boxing gym thanks to Carlomonte (Carlos Bardem), an alcoholic and a former boxer who once had it all but lost it. In the gym, Julián will learn to fight with rules. He will slowly empty himself of hate, and learn to love when he meets Alyssa, a young immigrant....
- 5/9/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Javier Bardem will make his return to Spanish cinema when he plays a neo-Nazi ideologue in .Alacran enamorado. (Scorpion in Love), a film based on a novel by his brother Carlos.In remarks to Efe, Spanish director Santiago Zannou said the winner of a best-supporting-actor Oscar for his turn in the Coen brothers. .No Country for Old Men. will play a secondary character named Solis, a role distinct from the purely villainous one he has in the upcoming James Bond film..In my film (the character) is more realistic, not a wicked villain who wants to destroy the world, but an ordinary person. Those are the ones who truly frighten me, for having a type of ideology that separates people, that engenders violence,. Zannou said.This will mark the first time Bardem has worked with a Spanish director since he won four Goya awards for his performance in Alejandro Amenabar...
- 4/26/2012
- Filmicafe
Madrid, April 26 (Ians/Efe) Javier Bardem will make his return to Spanish cinema when he plays a neo-Nazi ideologue in "Alacran enamorado" (Scorpion in Love), a film based on a novel by his brother Carlos.
In remarks to Efe, Spanish director Santiago Zannou said the winner of a best-supporting-actor Oscar for his turn in the Coen brothers' "No Country for Old Men" will play a secondary character named Solis, a role distinct from the purely villainous one he has in the upcoming James Bond film.
"In my film (the character) is more realistic, not a wicked villain.
In remarks to Efe, Spanish director Santiago Zannou said the winner of a best-supporting-actor Oscar for his turn in the Coen brothers' "No Country for Old Men" will play a secondary character named Solis, a role distinct from the purely villainous one he has in the upcoming James Bond film.
"In my film (the character) is more realistic, not a wicked villain.
- 4/26/2012
- by Ketali Mehta
- RealBollywood.com
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