Short films Two Sands and In Australia have snared the lion’s share of nominations for the Wa Screen Culture Awards, recognised across both the innovation and outstanding achievement award categories.
Now in its second year, the WASCAs are presented and produced by the Revelation Perth International Film Festival, in collaboration with the Wa screen industry, to recognise new, established, and emerging screen practitioners across a variety of disciplines.
Of this year’s nominees, Poppy van Oorde-Grainger’s Two Sands is the most represented with eight nods, while Miley Tunnecliffe’s In Australia has seven.
There is also good news for Rush Films, with Gracie Otto’s Under the Volcano, Frances Elliott and Samantha Marlow’s Girl Like You, and Jacqueline Pelczar’s Sparkles all scoring multiple nominations.
Revelation Film Festival director Richard Sowada said he couldn’t wait to reveal the deliberations of the 36 screen professionals that make up the jury for the awards.
Now in its second year, the WASCAs are presented and produced by the Revelation Perth International Film Festival, in collaboration with the Wa screen industry, to recognise new, established, and emerging screen practitioners across a variety of disciplines.
Of this year’s nominees, Poppy van Oorde-Grainger’s Two Sands is the most represented with eight nods, while Miley Tunnecliffe’s In Australia has seven.
There is also good news for Rush Films, with Gracie Otto’s Under the Volcano, Frances Elliott and Samantha Marlow’s Girl Like You, and Jacqueline Pelczar’s Sparkles all scoring multiple nominations.
Revelation Film Festival director Richard Sowada said he couldn’t wait to reveal the deliberations of the 36 screen professionals that make up the jury for the awards.
- 11/24/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
The Cineteca di Bologna, which runs Il Cinema Ritrovato – the other major European event dedicated to heritage film alongside the Lumière Fest in Lyon – has announced a slate of upcoming releases to mark the centenaries of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Francesco Rosi.
These include Pasolini’s .”Uccellacci et Uccellini.” and “.Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo”. and Francesco Rosi’s .”C’era una Volta”.. Other notable works aiming for a 2022 release in time for the Cannes, Bologna and Lumière festivals include Vittorio de Sica’s Oscar-winning .Sciuscià..
The centenary is generating huge interest in Pasolini and the incredible modernity of his work,. Cineteca chief Gian Luca Farinelli told Variety. .”His films still surprise us, they haven’t aged, they were avant-garde in the ’60s and they still are today. These poets and writers turned to cinema and invented a whole new language, a new vision .like the gaze of a Renaissance painter. It...
These include Pasolini’s .”Uccellacci et Uccellini.” and “.Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo”. and Francesco Rosi’s .”C’era una Volta”.. Other notable works aiming for a 2022 release in time for the Cannes, Bologna and Lumière festivals include Vittorio de Sica’s Oscar-winning .Sciuscià..
The centenary is generating huge interest in Pasolini and the incredible modernity of his work,. Cineteca chief Gian Luca Farinelli told Variety. .”His films still surprise us, they haven’t aged, they were avant-garde in the ’60s and they still are today. These poets and writers turned to cinema and invented a whole new language, a new vision .like the gaze of a Renaissance painter. It...
- 10/16/2021
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSChameleon StreetThe New York Film Festival has announced an excellent selection for its Revivals section. The roster includes restorations of Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala, John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13, Sarah Maldoror's Sambizanga, Wendell B. Harris Jr.'s Chameleon Street, and Michael Powell's Bluebeard's Castle. The 2021 Locarno Film Festival has come to an end, with Indonesian filmmaker Edwin's Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash winning the Golden Leopard. For a full list of this year's award winners, read here. Recommended VIEWINGAhead of premiere, a trailer for the latest Spike Lee joint: the four-part documentary series NYC Epicenters: 9/11 → 2021 ½. The series, which captures twenty years of New York City history from the perspective of its citizens, will premiere on HBO Max August 22. Cinema Guild has released a trailer for Matías Piñeiro's Isabella.
- 8/18/2021
- MUBI
"Our doubts are treacherous." NYC's Cinema Guild has debuted the official US trailer for an Argentinian film titled Isabella, opening in NYC in a few weeks. The title is a reference to one of the characters from Shakespeare's comedy "Measure for Measure". This premiered at last year's Berlin Film Festival, and it also stopped by the IndieLisboa and New York Film Festivals. This very vibrant, experimental film is about an actress – Mariel – who wants to play Isabella in Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure". Luciana, who is also an actress, helps her rehearse the part. But during the audition, Mariel realizes that Luciana is trying out for the very same role. "The latest in Matías Piñeiro's series of films inspired by the women of Shakespeare's comedies is his most structurally daring and visually stunning work to date... Isabella is a film about the ongoing battle between doubt and ambition that never...
- 8/16/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Joel Coen and Steven Spielberg aren’t the only filmmakers drawing from William Shakespeare as of late. Matías Piñeiro, who has playfully done so for much of his career, beautifully expands his filmography with Isabella, which arrives this month following stops at Berlinale and NYFF. Ahead of a theatrical release on August 27 at NYC’s Film at Lincoln Center and on September 3 at LA’s Laemmle Royal, we’re pleased to debut the exclusive trailer and poster, courtesy Cinema Guild.
In the film, Mariel (María Villar) longs to play the role of Isabella in a local theater troupe’s production of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, but money problems prevent her from preparing for the audition. She thinks of asking her brother for financial help, but is worried about being too direct. Her solution is to ask her brother’s girlfriend, Luciana (Agustina Muñoz), also an actress and a more self-assured one,...
In the film, Mariel (María Villar) longs to play the role of Isabella in a local theater troupe’s production of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, but money problems prevent her from preparing for the audition. She thinks of asking her brother for financial help, but is worried about being too direct. Her solution is to ask her brother’s girlfriend, Luciana (Agustina Muñoz), also an actress and a more self-assured one,...
- 8/16/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Cinema Guild has acquired North American rights to Ramon Zürcher and Silvan Zürcher’s “The Girl and the Spider,” which world premiered at the Berlinale in the Encounters section, and won best director.
“The Girl and the Spider” was co-written and directed by Ramon Zürcher, and written and produced by Silvan Zürcher. It marks the Swiss brothers’ follow-up to their critically acclaimed feature debut “The Strange Little Cat,” which won the Fipresci prize at Berlin in 2013.
Like “The Strange Little Cat,” “The Girl and the Spider” explores human togetherness, the need for closeness and the pain of separation through the story of two roommates. The film revolves around Lisa (Liliane Amuat), who is moving out of the apartment she shared with Mara (Henriette Confurius), and is set within the two apartments, the one Lisa and Mara shared and the new one Lisa is moving into.
“We had high hopes for...
“The Girl and the Spider” was co-written and directed by Ramon Zürcher, and written and produced by Silvan Zürcher. It marks the Swiss brothers’ follow-up to their critically acclaimed feature debut “The Strange Little Cat,” which won the Fipresci prize at Berlin in 2013.
Like “The Strange Little Cat,” “The Girl and the Spider” explores human togetherness, the need for closeness and the pain of separation through the story of two roommates. The film revolves around Lisa (Liliane Amuat), who is moving out of the apartment she shared with Mara (Henriette Confurius), and is set within the two apartments, the one Lisa and Mara shared and the new one Lisa is moving into.
“We had high hopes for...
- 3/22/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The Notebook is covering the NYFF with an on-going correspondence between critic Doug Dibbern and editor Daniel Kasman.Above: Gunda.Hey, Danny—I know what you mean when you wonder whether or not we’re actually attending a film festival. I’ve never been a fan of digital streaming or projection or of watching movies at home, each of which flattens and diminishes the inherently sensual aspects of the movies. And I’m worried that we’re living through some sort of shadow experience even more now because we usually watch these films for the festival on two of the biggest screens in the city: the Walter Reade and Alice Tully Hall, packed in tightly with sold-out crowds, which always intensifies the fact that movies aren’t just visual—they’re auditory, tactile, gustatory, and olfactory, too.So like you, I’ve been struggling to recreate some simulacrum of the theater experience at home.
- 9/28/2020
- MUBI
90 Day Fiancé is adding another show to its long roster. After the success of B90 Strikes Back, Hea Strikes Back will feature the couples from 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After rewatching their TV journeys and reacting to comments and opinions from fans, while also giving those fans a look at their home lives. The show will include self-shot footage and details the cameras missed during filming of Hea. The couples will address some of the most cringe-worthy moments from the current season, starting with episode one. The show premieres Monday, Oct. 5, after the finale of the current season of Happily Ever After, and there will certainly be tea to spill. Just...
- 9/2/2020
- E! Online
TLC’s Howard Lee has said that more spin-offs are in the works for ratings juggernaut “90 Day Fiancé.”
The show, produced by Sharp Entertainment, began airing in 2014 and has spawned nine spin-offs, including “Before the 90 Days,” “The Other Way,” “What Now?,” “Pillow Talk,” “The Family Chantel,” the Covid-19 themed “Self-Quarantined,” “Happily Ever After,” “B90 Strikes Back!” and most recently, “Darcey and Stacey.”
One or two more spinoffs are in the works, said Lee, speaking as part of the Edinburgh TV Festival this week. “We listened to the audience, and it is very important to us that we don’t just create a spinoff or a sequel or something else, that’s just for the sake of doing it,” said Lee, president and general manager of the Discovery-owned channel. “We want to make sure that we are not just ripping ourselves off franchise after franchise. There is always a need when we start something new.
The show, produced by Sharp Entertainment, began airing in 2014 and has spawned nine spin-offs, including “Before the 90 Days,” “The Other Way,” “What Now?,” “Pillow Talk,” “The Family Chantel,” the Covid-19 themed “Self-Quarantined,” “Happily Ever After,” “B90 Strikes Back!” and most recently, “Darcey and Stacey.”
One or two more spinoffs are in the works, said Lee, speaking as part of the Edinburgh TV Festival this week. “We listened to the audience, and it is very important to us that we don’t just create a spinoff or a sequel or something else, that’s just for the sake of doing it,” said Lee, president and general manager of the Discovery-owned channel. “We want to make sure that we are not just ripping ourselves off franchise after franchise. There is always a need when we start something new.
- 8/28/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
First posted on August 13, updated on August 27 with new additions. This year’s New York Film Festival has announced its main slate, as well as plans to begin a week earlier than originally announced to accommodate its plans for drive-in screenings. The festival will run September 17 through October 11, and will include a robust main slate of 25 feature films. That selection, announced today, includes a variety of new films from a number of established masters and rising stars.
The slate boasts a deep selection of documentaries, including Garrett Bradley’s black-and-white social justice effort “Time” and Victor Kossakovsky’s Berlin entry “Gunda” (which follows a particularly special pig), Sam Pollard’s “MLK/FBI” (also set for a TIFF premiere and part of the Telluride lineup), and nonagenarian documentary maverick Frederick Wiseman’s latest deep dive, “City Hall.” And non-fiction veteran Heidi Ewing offers up a hybrid approach with her Sundance-acclaimed immigration...
The slate boasts a deep selection of documentaries, including Garrett Bradley’s black-and-white social justice effort “Time” and Victor Kossakovsky’s Berlin entry “Gunda” (which follows a particularly special pig), Sam Pollard’s “MLK/FBI” (also set for a TIFF premiere and part of the Telluride lineup), and nonagenarian documentary maverick Frederick Wiseman’s latest deep dive, “City Hall.” And non-fiction veteran Heidi Ewing offers up a hybrid approach with her Sundance-acclaimed immigration...
- 8/27/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
TLC is developing “one or two” more spin-offs of its hit reality franchise 90 Day Fiancé.
The move would take the number of shows in the 90 Day Fiancé universe to 12, however, the Discovery-owned lifestyle network is mindful of not going past the “tipping point” with the franchise.
The show, which is produced by Sharp Entertainment, first aired in 2014 and it has become a huge success for the network, helping it to post its best quarter ever in two key demos between April and June 2020.
It has spawned Before the 90 Days, The Other Way, What Now?, Pillow Talk, The Family Chantel, Self-Quarantined, Happily Ever After, B90 Strikes Back! and Darcey and Stacey.
Howard Lee, President and General Manager of TLC, speaking on a virtual Edinburgh International TV Festival panel, moderated by Deadline, that there’s “probably one or two that we are actively working on”.
“We always want to check...
The move would take the number of shows in the 90 Day Fiancé universe to 12, however, the Discovery-owned lifestyle network is mindful of not going past the “tipping point” with the franchise.
The show, which is produced by Sharp Entertainment, first aired in 2014 and it has become a huge success for the network, helping it to post its best quarter ever in two key demos between April and June 2020.
It has spawned Before the 90 Days, The Other Way, What Now?, Pillow Talk, The Family Chantel, Self-Quarantined, Happily Ever After, B90 Strikes Back! and Darcey and Stacey.
Howard Lee, President and General Manager of TLC, speaking on a virtual Edinburgh International TV Festival panel, moderated by Deadline, that there’s “probably one or two that we are actively working on”.
“We always want to check...
- 8/27/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Did Kalani take down Asuelu's sister?
On 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After? Season 5 Episode 11, things took an explosive turn when Asuelu's sister tried to fight Kalani.
What did his mother have to say about it?
Meanwhile, Andrei tried to come to terms with the drama surrounding Elizabeth's family.
Elsewhere, Eric was surprised when Larissa asked for something that cost a lot of money.
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On 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After? Season 5 Episode 11, things took an explosive turn when Asuelu's sister tried to fight Kalani.
What did his mother have to say about it?
Meanwhile, Andrei tried to come to terms with the drama surrounding Elizabeth's family.
Elsewhere, Eric was surprised when Larissa asked for something that cost a lot of money.
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- 8/24/2020
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Notturno (Nocturne) director Gianfranco Rosi Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Film at Lincoln Center has announced that Christian Petzold’s Undine, starring Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski, Hong Sangsoo’s The Woman Who Ran with Kim Minhee, Eugène Green’s Atarrabi & Mikelats with brothers Saia Hiriart and Lukas Hiriart, and Gianfranco Rosi’s Notturno (Nocturne) will be among the Main Slate selections of the 58th New York Film Festival.
Undine director Christian Petzold Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
These highlights join the Opening Night, Centerpiece, and Closing selections Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock, Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, and Azazel Jacobs’s French Exit. Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Beginning, Song Fang’s The Calming, Frederick Wiseman’s City Hall, Matías Piñeiro’s Isabella, Cristi Puiu’s Malmkrog, Sam Pollard’s MLK/FBI, Tsai Ming-liang’s Days, Chaitanya Tamhane’s The Disciple, Victor Kossakovsky’s Gunda, Philippe Lacôte’s Night Of The Kings, Philippe Garrel’s The Salt Of Tears,...
Film at Lincoln Center has announced that Christian Petzold’s Undine, starring Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski, Hong Sangsoo’s The Woman Who Ran with Kim Minhee, Eugène Green’s Atarrabi & Mikelats with brothers Saia Hiriart and Lukas Hiriart, and Gianfranco Rosi’s Notturno (Nocturne) will be among the Main Slate selections of the 58th New York Film Festival.
Undine director Christian Petzold Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
These highlights join the Opening Night, Centerpiece, and Closing selections Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock, Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, and Azazel Jacobs’s French Exit. Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Beginning, Song Fang’s The Calming, Frederick Wiseman’s City Hall, Matías Piñeiro’s Isabella, Cristi Puiu’s Malmkrog, Sam Pollard’s MLK/FBI, Tsai Ming-liang’s Days, Chaitanya Tamhane’s The Disciple, Victor Kossakovsky’s Gunda, Philippe Lacôte’s Night Of The Kings, Philippe Garrel’s The Salt Of Tears,...
- 8/13/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The New York Film Festival has finalized its main slate of 25 films and expanded the dates of this year’s event in order to accommodate drive-in screenings.
The 58th edition of the festival will start a week earlier than it had planned, on September 17, and run through October 11. Drawing from 19 countries, the slate includes Gianfranco Rosi’s Notturno, Frederick Wiseman’s City Hall; Sam Pollard’s MLK/FBI, Garrett Bradley’s Time, Victor Kossakovsky’s Gunda, Jia Zhangke’s Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue, and Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw’s The Truffle Hunters.
Hong Sangsoo will have his 15th film screen at NYFF, The Woman Who Ran. Other returning filmmakers include Rosi, Jia and Pollard as well as Christian Petzold, Song Fang, Eugène Green, Cristi Puiu, Matías Piñeiro, Tsai Ming-liang, Philippe Garrel and Chloé Zhao.
The festival previously announced Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock as the Opening...
The 58th edition of the festival will start a week earlier than it had planned, on September 17, and run through October 11. Drawing from 19 countries, the slate includes Gianfranco Rosi’s Notturno, Frederick Wiseman’s City Hall; Sam Pollard’s MLK/FBI, Garrett Bradley’s Time, Victor Kossakovsky’s Gunda, Jia Zhangke’s Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue, and Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw’s The Truffle Hunters.
Hong Sangsoo will have his 15th film screen at NYFF, The Woman Who Ran. Other returning filmmakers include Rosi, Jia and Pollard as well as Christian Petzold, Song Fang, Eugène Green, Cristi Puiu, Matías Piñeiro, Tsai Ming-liang, Philippe Garrel and Chloé Zhao.
The festival previously announced Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock as the Opening...
- 8/13/2020
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Cinema Guild has acquired North American distribution rights to Matías Piñeiro’s Isabella which won a special jury mention in the Encounters section at the 70th Berlinale earlier this year. A 2021 theatrical release is being planned.
Isabella follows Mariel (María Villar) who wants to play the role of Isabella in a local theater troupe’s production of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, but money problems prevent her from preparing for the audition. She thinks of asking her brother for financial help, but is worried about being too direct. Her solution is to ask her brother’s girlfriend, Luciana (Agustina Muñoz), also an actress and a more self-assured one, to convince her brother to give her the money. Luciana agrees on the condition that Mariel will not abandon her acting and continue to prepare for the part of Isabella.
“We can’t wait for audiences to be enchanted by Matías’ latest,...
Isabella follows Mariel (María Villar) who wants to play the role of Isabella in a local theater troupe’s production of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, but money problems prevent her from preparing for the audition. She thinks of asking her brother for financial help, but is worried about being too direct. Her solution is to ask her brother’s girlfriend, Luciana (Agustina Muñoz), also an actress and a more self-assured one, to convince her brother to give her the money. Luciana agrees on the condition that Mariel will not abandon her acting and continue to prepare for the part of Isabella.
“We can’t wait for audiences to be enchanted by Matías’ latest,...
- 8/11/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Broadway may be dark for a while, but that doesn't mean you can't still enjoy the magic of theatre. In this very special edition of Kid Critics, Tai 13, Isabella 15, and Charles 12 share their selections for family-friendly entertainment that you can watch from your couch. Watch to find out what makes their list and tune in next week for more of their picks.
- 5/2/2020
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Above: Light in the TropicsOne moment in Paula Gaitán’s seventh feature, Light in the Tropics, which premiered in Berlin in the Forum section, contains a visual key to the entire work. It’s an inverted image of the vast landmass, created by the camera obscura. Gaitán’s ambitious project draws not so much on literal parallels as loose continuities between the environs of contemporary New York and the Hudson Valley and Brazil’s Mato Grosso, including Pantanal, and up the Xingu River, into the Amazon. That continuity between two vastly distant locations is established mostly through the experiences of the areas’ indigenous communities. It’s also a connection that envisions a symbolic line leading from today’s artists—particularly a young sculptor featured in the New York part—to the expedition by the Russo-Prussian doctor, Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff, and his artsy stragglers, into the Amazon, in 1824. The varied group included the Swiss-French inventor,...
- 3/9/2020
- MUBI
“Sheytan vojud nadarad” (“There Is No Evil”) has won the Golden Bear Award at the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival, the Berlin jury announced at a ceremony on Saturday.
The film by director Mohammad Rasoulof consists of four different stories about military men in Iran who are asked to perform executions. It won in a competition lineup that consisted of 18 movies and also included Kelly Reichardt’s “First Cow,” Sally Potter’s “‘The Roads Not Taken,” Philippe Garrel’s “The Salt of Tears,” Abel Ferrara’s “Siberia” and Christian Petzold’s “Undine.”
Eliza Hittman’s “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” the story of two teenage girls traveling from Pennsylvania to New York City for an abortion, won the Grand Jury Prize, the festival’s second-place award.
Also Read: 'Never Rarely Sometimes Always' Director Explains Why Her Stars Auditioned in a Bathroom (Video)
Acting awards went to Elio Germano for “Volevo nascondermi” (“Hidden Away...
The film by director Mohammad Rasoulof consists of four different stories about military men in Iran who are asked to perform executions. It won in a competition lineup that consisted of 18 movies and also included Kelly Reichardt’s “First Cow,” Sally Potter’s “‘The Roads Not Taken,” Philippe Garrel’s “The Salt of Tears,” Abel Ferrara’s “Siberia” and Christian Petzold’s “Undine.”
Eliza Hittman’s “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” the story of two teenage girls traveling from Pennsylvania to New York City for an abortion, won the Grand Jury Prize, the festival’s second-place award.
Also Read: 'Never Rarely Sometimes Always' Director Explains Why Her Stars Auditioned in a Bathroom (Video)
Acting awards went to Elio Germano for “Volevo nascondermi” (“Hidden Away...
- 2/29/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The Berlin International Film Festival is around the corner, kicking off next week, and it’s shaping up to be one of their finest line-ups. Now headed up by Carlo Chatrian, coming from Locarno Film Festival, the lineup features some of our most-anticipated films of the year. For those not headed to Germany, we’ve rounded up the most notable trailers thus far for films set to debut there–as well as a few recent festival favorites playing in competition.
Featuring Christian Petzold’s Undine, Hong Sang-soo’s The Woman Who Ran, Tsai Ming-Liang’s Rizi, Matías Piñero’s Isabella, Agnieszka Holland’s Charlatan, and more, one can check back soon for our reviews as well as more trailers as they become available. The 70th edition of the festival takes place February 20 through March 1.
Bad Tales (Damiano D’Innocenzo & Fabio D’Innocenzo)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Burhan Qurbani)
Charlatan (Agnieszka Holland)
First Cow (Kelly Reichardt...
Featuring Christian Petzold’s Undine, Hong Sang-soo’s The Woman Who Ran, Tsai Ming-Liang’s Rizi, Matías Piñero’s Isabella, Agnieszka Holland’s Charlatan, and more, one can check back soon for our reviews as well as more trailers as they become available. The 70th edition of the festival takes place February 20 through March 1.
Bad Tales (Damiano D’Innocenzo & Fabio D’Innocenzo)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Burhan Qurbani)
Charlatan (Agnieszka Holland)
First Cow (Kelly Reichardt...
- 2/13/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Screenwriter and poet who co-scripted films with Fellini, Antonioni and Tarkovsky
The Italian poet, novelist and screenwriter Tonino Guerra, who has died aged 92, brought something of his own poetic world to the outstanding films he co-scripted with, among others, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Francesco Rosi, but also many non-Italian directors including Theo Angelopoulos and Andrei Tarkovsky. Perhaps his most creative contribution was to Fellini's colourful account of life in a small coastal town in the 1930s, Amarcord (1973), of which he was truly co-author, because the film reflected their common experiences growing up in Romagna.
The two were born in the region a couple of months apart – Fellini in Rimini and Guerra in Santarcangelo, in the hills above the Adriatic resort, the son of a street vendor father.
Guerra's own "amarcord" ("I remember" in dialect) is scattered over many books of poetry and short stories. He first started writing...
The Italian poet, novelist and screenwriter Tonino Guerra, who has died aged 92, brought something of his own poetic world to the outstanding films he co-scripted with, among others, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Francesco Rosi, but also many non-Italian directors including Theo Angelopoulos and Andrei Tarkovsky. Perhaps his most creative contribution was to Fellini's colourful account of life in a small coastal town in the 1930s, Amarcord (1973), of which he was truly co-author, because the film reflected their common experiences growing up in Romagna.
The two were born in the region a couple of months apart – Fellini in Rimini and Guerra in Santarcangelo, in the hills above the Adriatic resort, the son of a street vendor father.
Guerra's own "amarcord" ("I remember" in dialect) is scattered over many books of poetry and short stories. He first started writing...
- 3/22/2012
- by John Francis Lane
- The Guardian - Film News
An essential retrospective has just started at BAMcinématek in New York of the films of the great Italian chronicler of crime and punishment (or lack of), Francesco Rosi. One of the least talked about of the great Italian directors, Rosi, now aged 88, has been making films since the late 1950s and is mostly known for his canonical Salvatore Giuliano (1962). Both that film and its superb follow-up Hands Over the City (1963) are available from Criterion, but there is precious little else available here. (One exception is Illustrious Corpses, my favorite Rosi film, illustrated above with its French poster, which I only just discovered is streamable on Netflix under the name The Context and, sadly, dubbed. I highly recommend ignoring that and seeing the film on screen on August 20th, along with the rest of this unmissable series.)
The best Rosi posters come from all over the globe, and though most of...
The best Rosi posters come from all over the globe, and though most of...
- 8/5/2011
- MUBI
Sophia Loren, along with Myrna Loy, an Honorary Oscar recipient at the 1991 Oscar ceremony Sophia Loren will be honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, May 4, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The Sophia Loren Academy tribute will feature film clips and reminiscences from friends and colleagues, concluding with an onstage chat with the 1961 Best Actress Oscar winner. Among Loren's international leading men were Marcello Mastroianni (in a number of films), Cary Grant (The Pride and the Passion, Houseboat, 1958), Frank Sinatra (The Pride and the Passion), Alan Ladd (Boy on a Dolphin, 1958), Clark Gable (It Started in Naples, 1960), Charlton Heston (El Cid, 1961), Gregory Peck (Arabesque, 1966), Marlon Brando (A Countess from Hong Kong, 1967, directed by Charles Chaplin), Omar Sharif (More Than a Miracle, 1968), Peter O'Toole (Man of La Mancha, 1972), and Richard Burton [...]...
- 4/6/2011
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
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