Vuelta Group is a joint venture from Scanbox, SquareOne and Playtime.
Recently launched European studio Vuelta has added Italy’s Indiana Production and France’s Pan to its ever-expanding footprint on the continent.
The groups join the all-new private equity-funded joint venture’s current team encompassing Nordic film company Scanbox, German distributor SquareOne and French powerhouse sales force Playtime.
Film and TV production house Indiana, founded by Fabrizio Donvito and Marco Cohen, is behind Giorgio Diritti’s Venice competitor Lubo and Netflix series The Leopard and Unwanted. They also produced Paolo Virzi’s Human Capital and The First Beautiful Thing,...
Recently launched European studio Vuelta has added Italy’s Indiana Production and France’s Pan to its ever-expanding footprint on the continent.
The groups join the all-new private equity-funded joint venture’s current team encompassing Nordic film company Scanbox, German distributor SquareOne and French powerhouse sales force Playtime.
Film and TV production house Indiana, founded by Fabrizio Donvito and Marco Cohen, is behind Giorgio Diritti’s Venice competitor Lubo and Netflix series The Leopard and Unwanted. They also produced Paolo Virzi’s Human Capital and The First Beautiful Thing,...
- 9/20/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Recently launched European distribution and production studio Vuelta Group has added to its stable with Italy’s Indiana Production and France’s Pan.
Film and TV company Indiana is known for film collaborations with director Paolo Virzi on movies such as The First Beautiful Thing, Human Capital and The Leisure Seeker, as well as recent TV series such as the upcoming drama adaptation of Italian classic The Leopard, and mafia series L’Ora.
French producer Pan-Européenne relaunched its distribution business in 2022 and has an animation arm. It was well known in the past for releasing movies including The Usual Suspects, Priscilla Queen Of The Desert and Sin City. It recently co-produced Michel Hazanavicius’ Cannes zombie pic Final Cut.
Vuelta has been in talks this year with Benelux distributor Cinéart but a deal has not been closed to date. It has also been taking meetings in Spain about a potential Spanish partner.
Film and TV company Indiana is known for film collaborations with director Paolo Virzi on movies such as The First Beautiful Thing, Human Capital and The Leisure Seeker, as well as recent TV series such as the upcoming drama adaptation of Italian classic The Leopard, and mafia series L’Ora.
French producer Pan-Européenne relaunched its distribution business in 2022 and has an animation arm. It was well known in the past for releasing movies including The Usual Suspects, Priscilla Queen Of The Desert and Sin City. It recently co-produced Michel Hazanavicius’ Cannes zombie pic Final Cut.
Vuelta has been in talks this year with Benelux distributor Cinéart but a deal has not been closed to date. It has also been taking meetings in Spain about a potential Spanish partner.
- 9/20/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
New Disney+ original series “The Good Mothers,” which provides a fresh female take on the Calabrian mob, marks a case of truly organic collaboration between the U.K. and Italy to ensure that a great story didn’t risk losing an iota of authenticity.
The show, which is competing in the “Berlinale Series” section, depicts the Calabrian mob through the prism of three daring women inside the ‘Ndrangheta organized crime clan who collaborated with a female prosecutor and withstood the consequences of their attempt to escape its iron grip. It is produced produced by Juliette Howell, Tessa Ross and Harriet Spencer for London’s House Productions, which originated the project, and by Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Gangarossa for Rome’s Wildside, a Fremantle company, which helped to firmly root the story in its Calabrian context.
“Good Mothers” is based on a book by U.K.-based journalist Alex Perry and...
The show, which is competing in the “Berlinale Series” section, depicts the Calabrian mob through the prism of three daring women inside the ‘Ndrangheta organized crime clan who collaborated with a female prosecutor and withstood the consequences of their attempt to escape its iron grip. It is produced produced by Juliette Howell, Tessa Ross and Harriet Spencer for London’s House Productions, which originated the project, and by Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Gangarossa for Rome’s Wildside, a Fremantle company, which helped to firmly root the story in its Calabrian context.
“Good Mothers” is based on a book by U.K.-based journalist Alex Perry and...
- 2/21/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Rome – Paolo Virzi’s The Human Capital (Il capital umano) led the way with 19 nominations for Italy’s David di Donatello awards, one more than the 18 nominations for The Great Beauty (la grande bellezza), the Oscar foreign-language winner from Paolo Sorrentino. Along with the Nastri d’Argento (Silver Ribbons) awards and Italy’s version of the Golden Globes, the Donatello awards are one of Italy’s top film honors. Virzi, former artistic director of the Turin Film Festival, is best known internationally for The First Beautiful Thing (La prima cosa bella), which won three Donatello prizes, four Nastri d’Argento honors, and
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- 5/13/2014
- by Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It's generally an assured equation: Oscars + Foreign Language Film Category = Outrage. Sometimes, the fault lies with Academy voters (as it did when "Departures" won the Oscar in 2008 over what most viewed as two greatly superior nominees - "Waltz With Bashir" and "The Class;" or when "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," "Persepolis" and "Volver" were all left off the ballot in 2007). And sometimes, the national submission committees are at fault (like in 2010 when Italy submitted "La Prima Cosa Bella" over "I Am Love"). Last year, there were quite a few controversies from both sides of the equation. Albania originally submitted "The Forgiveness of Blood," but it was rejected due to protest of Bujar Alimani, the director of another Albanian film, "Amnesty." He made the case that "Blood" shouldn't be eligible to represent Albania because its director, Joshua Marston,...
- 9/25/2012
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
Title: The First Beautiful Thing Director: Paolo Virzi Starring: Micaela Ramazzotti, Valerio Mastandrea, Claudia Pandolfi, Sergio Albelli, Fabrizia Sacchi A major box office player in its native Italy, and the country’s official 2011 selection for Best Foreign Film Academy Award consideration, ‘The First Beautiful Thing’ (also known as ‘La Prima Cosa Bella’) is a movie that’s both heartrending and heartwarming, and never falsely so. Fabulously staged and rapturously acted, it’s an honest and perceptive tale of adult reconciliation — of coming to the recognition that one’s parents are actually people too, and loving them with their faults and shortcomings, all the same. The story opens in 1971, at a small town fair,...
- 7/12/2011
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
We complete our look at the key players in the Cannes market with the sales agent that has the most number of highly anticipated film projects. Wild Bunch came to the fest with popular items such as Polisse, The Artist and The Kid With a Bike, and it looks like they might outfit Venice and Tiff with some premium titles with Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmasters being one of the most sought after titles this coming August/September. Here's their lengthy list of auteur film projects. Bye Bye Blondie by Virginie Despentes - Post-Production In Turmoil (Dans La Tourmente) by Christophe Ruggia - Post-Production That Summer (Un Ete Brulant) by Philippe Garrel - Post-Production Bollywood - Completed Declaration Of War by Valerie Donzelli - Completed Hideaways by Agnes Merlet - Completed Leila by Audrey Estrougo - Completed Michel Petrucciani/ Body And Soul by Michael Radford - Completed Polisse by Maïwenn...
- 5/31/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
"The finest Western you'll see this year is set in aristocratic 16th-century France, in the heat of Counter-Reformation," declares Nick Pinkerton. Segueing into his interview with Bertrand Tavernier, Aaron Hillis, also in the Voice, sums up the gist of The Princess of Montpensier: "Adapted from Madame de la Fayette's classic novel, the film concerns a nubile, wealthy heiress (Mélanie Thierry) who loves a rugged hothead from the wrong clan (Gaspard Ulliel), but is forced by her father to marry another prince (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet), leaving her to dwell on the too-modern desire for free will — defiantly bucking against the rigid traditions of her breed." Back to Pinkerton: "The setting always serves the performers rather than vice versa — though the film is also greatly enhanced by the costuming, the rugged French countryside photographed in outdoor-adventure CinemaScope, and Philippe Sarde's baroque-tribal score, its martial and romantic poles matching a tale of...
- 4/18/2011
- MUBI
Here's Toh's weekend preview of the mainstream box office contenders. And for the smart-movie demo, here's a look at the weekend's new indie and foreign language offerings, from Bertrand Tavernier's The Princess of Montpensier (gorgeous, as pictured) and Danish war documentaryArmadillo, to Italy's Oscar submission The First Beautiful Thing and the France/Belgium/Chad co-production A Screaming Man, which indieWIRE's Eric Kohn calls Divine. Less well-embraced are Robert Redford's The Conspirator (Caryn James defends it here), despite its fine cast, and a widely excoriated adaptation of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Details, trailers, images and reviews are below: The Princess of Montpensier, IFC (France) Dir: Bertrand Tavernier; Cast: Melanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Gaspard Ulliel | 76% Metacritic | 82% Tomatometer | B indieWIRE, plus Gaspard Ulliel ...
- 4/15/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
Javier Bardem, Biutiful The nine semi-finalists in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 2011 Academy Awards were announced this morning. The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are: Algeria, Hors la Loi (Outside the Law), Rachid Bouchareb Canada, Incendies, Denis Villeneuve Denmark, In a Better World, Susanne Bier Greece, Dogtooth, Yorgos Lanthimos Japan, Confessions, Tetsuya Nakashima Mexico, Biutiful, Alejandro González Iñárritu South Africa, Life, Above All, Oliver Schmitz Spain, Tambien la Lluvia (Even the Rain), Iciar Bollain Sweden, Simple Simon, Andreas Ohman, director. The first thing I noticed is that the Oscar's two favorite countries, France (officially) and Italy, are no longer in the running. Neither Xavier Beauvois' Of Gods and Men nor Paolo Virzi's The First Beautiful Thing is to be found among the semi-finalists. Both are surprising omissions. Widely praised at Cannes, Of Gods and Men was the National Board of Review's Best Foreign Language Film,...
- 1/19/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Have you seen I Am Love yet? The Globe nominee is available for rental so get on that.
Director Luca Guadagnino with Marisa Berenson & Tilda SwintonI read the following quote over at Hollywood Reporter and I found it both amusing, right-on and the kind of thing you shouldn't say out loud. Seems Luca Guadagnino, the man behind the brilliant Globe & Bfca nominated I Am Love is not happy with the treatment of his film back home in Italy. They chose another film for their entry in the annual Oscar Foreign Film race.
He says...
Italy has been a sort of strangely cruel mother to the film. I feel like Rapunzel in Tangled. They didn’t pick the film for the Oscars. I don’t think the movie is the kind that sells in Italy now, which is basically dramedies about men that are not able to grow up. Vitteloni syndrome without Fellini.
Director Luca Guadagnino with Marisa Berenson & Tilda SwintonI read the following quote over at Hollywood Reporter and I found it both amusing, right-on and the kind of thing you shouldn't say out loud. Seems Luca Guadagnino, the man behind the brilliant Globe & Bfca nominated I Am Love is not happy with the treatment of his film back home in Italy. They chose another film for their entry in the annual Oscar Foreign Film race.
He says...
Italy has been a sort of strangely cruel mother to the film. I feel like Rapunzel in Tangled. They didn’t pick the film for the Oscars. I don’t think the movie is the kind that sells in Italy now, which is basically dramedies about men that are not able to grow up. Vitteloni syndrome without Fellini.
- 12/18/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Fugitive director's The Ghost nets seven nominations including best film, though Polanski is unlikely to travel to the Tallinn ceremony
The controversy surrounding his past may have dwindled in recent months, but the plaudits keep on coming. Roman Polanski is leading the charge for the European film awards after his film The Ghost picked up seven nominations ahead of the ceremony in December.
Polanski himself is up for the best director award while his star, Ewan McGregor, will vie for best actor with Submarino's Jakob Cedergren, Our Life's Elio Germano, If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle's George Pistereanu and Cell 211's Luis Tosar. The Ghost, which was titled The Ghost Writer outside the UK, will also mount a challenge in the best film category.
Polanski is unlikely to attend the ceremony in Tallinn as he fears extradition to the Us on sex charges dating back to 1978. When...
The controversy surrounding his past may have dwindled in recent months, but the plaudits keep on coming. Roman Polanski is leading the charge for the European film awards after his film The Ghost picked up seven nominations ahead of the ceremony in December.
Polanski himself is up for the best director award while his star, Ewan McGregor, will vie for best actor with Submarino's Jakob Cedergren, Our Life's Elio Germano, If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle's George Pistereanu and Cell 211's Luis Tosar. The Ghost, which was titled The Ghost Writer outside the UK, will also mount a challenge in the best film category.
Polanski is unlikely to attend the ceremony in Tallinn as he fears extradition to the Us on sex charges dating back to 1978. When...
- 11/8/2010
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Roman Polanski's thriller has been nominated for 7 European Film Awards including best European film, director, actor (Ewan McGregor), screenwriter, editor, production design and composer. Other leading nominees are Samuel Maoz's Lebanon with 5 nods and Semih Kaplanoğlu's Honey with 3. This year's European Film Awards will take place in Tallinn, Estonia on December 4. The 2,300 members of the European Film Academy will vote for the winners. Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon won the European film, director and screenwriter awards last year. European Film 2010: Bal (Honey), Turkey/Germany Directed by Semih Kaplanoğlu Written by Semih Kaplanoğlu & Orçun Köksal Produced by Semih Kaplanoğlu & Johannes Rexin Des Hommes Et Des Dieux (Of Gods and Men), France Directed by Xavier Beauvois Written by Etienne Comar & Xavier Beauvois The Ghost Writer, France/Germany/UK Directed by Roman Polanski Written by Robert Harris & Roman Polanski Produced by Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde & Roman Polanski Lebanon,...
- 11/6/2010
- by TIM ADLER in London
- Deadline London
Despite being a critically well-like and well-rewarded dramedy with three David di Donatello awards, I've yet to comprehend (perhaps someone can give me the lowdown on the voting process) how Paolo Virzi's The First Beautiful Thing was Italy's selection to represent the country for Best Foreign over the likes of Michelangelo Frammartino's Le Quattro Volte, Luca Guadagnino's I Am Love or the Cannes shown La nostra vita. Making a rare pick-up, Palisades Tartan appear to be confident enough in the title for not only a showing next year, but what I imagine, help make some campaign for the first round of the Foreign Oscars noms selections. This follows a strong, optimistic woman raising two children against all odds. No matter the circumstances, she teaches her family to remain open and loving to life.
- 10/22/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
If you'd like to read about the now official Oscar submissions for Best Foreign Language Film, click away. But because you -- make that we -- can't see most of the films, due to the hideous state of international distribution, let us use this Academy press release as an excuse to take a different view, a sexytime view... a Beauty Break if you will. Let's gawk at the actors and actresses who are in the submitted films. We'll pretend it's like a Miss Universe pageant (how do you say "shallow" in Finnish?). Randomly selected hotties follow (it's not easy to find info/photos.) whether you're into the men, the women or other. Don't judge!
Beauty Knows No Borders
I presume you'll let me know your very favorites in the comments. Do I presume too much?
Handsome Guys...
Left: Bill Skarsgård a.k.a. Alexander's lil brö (20) for Sweden's Simple Simon.
Beauty Knows No Borders
I presume you'll let me know your very favorites in the comments. Do I presume too much?
Handsome Guys...
Left: Bill Skarsgård a.k.a. Alexander's lil brö (20) for Sweden's Simple Simon.
- 10/15/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Manolo Cardona, Cristian Mercado in Javier Fuentes-León's Undertow / Contracorriente (top); Gael Garcia Bernal, Luis Tosar in Iciar Bollain's Even the Rain (middle); Sibel Kekilli in Feo Aladag's When We Leave (bottom) Oscar 2011: Best Foreign Language Film Predictions: Biutiful, The First Beautiful Thing, Carancho Here are a few other possibilities for the 2011 Oscar's Best Foreign Language Film list of semi-finalists: Iciar Bollain's También la Lluvia / Even the Rain (Spain), about two filmmakers (Gael Garcia Bernal and Luis Tosar) exploiting Bolivian extras. The film also offers an analogy to Christopher Columbus' exploitation of American natives. Oliver Schmitz's mother-daughter drama Life, Above All (South Africa). South Africa has done well in the past decade, with a nomination for Yesterday (2004) and a victory for Tsotsi (2005). Javier Fuentes-León's Sundance Film Festival Audience Award winner Undertow / Contracorriente (Peru), which deals with ghosts, forbidden gay love, and social conformism.
- 10/15/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Javier Bardem in Alejandro González-Iñárritu's Biutiful (top); Stefania Sandrelli, Valerio Mastandrea in Paolo Virzi's The First Beautiful Thing (middle); Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm in Susanne Bier's In a Better World (photo by Per Arnesen) (bottom) Bal / Honey (Turkey), Semih Kaplanoglu Biutiful (Mexico), Alejandro González-Iñárritu Carancho (Argentina), Pablo Trapero In a Better World (Denmark), Susanne Bier Mamma Gogo (Iceland), Fridrik Thor Fridriksson Of Gods and Men (France), Xavier Beauvois Outside the Law (Algeria), Rachid Bouchareb La prima cosa bella / The First Beautiful Thing (Italy), Paolo Virzi Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Thailand), Apichatpong Weerasethakul Oscar 2011: Why Best Foreign Language Film Nominations Are Hard to Predict Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Cannes Film Festival winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Thailand), Semih Kaplanoglu's Berlin winner Bal / Honey (Turkey), and Alejandro González-Iñárritu's Biutiful (Mexico), which earned Javier Bardem the Best Actor Award at...
- 10/15/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
While I do not think that something as edgy or unusual as Giorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth (pictured above) will make the 'final five' short list, but kudos to Greece for throwing it out there. Perhaps something like Tetsuya Nakashima's Confessions will make the cut despite its similarly unsettling subject matter. Either way, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences did put out a big release yesterday with all of their Foreign Language film submissions, 65 of them in total even Greenland, from various countries. Many of these films have reviews in our archives.
Albania, East West East, Gjergj Xhuvani
Algeria, Hors la Loi ("Outside the Law"), Rachid Bouchareb
Argentina, Carancho, Pablo Trapero
Austria, La Pivellina, Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel
Azerbaijan, The Precinct, Ilgar Safat
Bangladesh, Third Person Singular Number, Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Belgium, Illegal, Olivier Masset-Depasse
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Circus Columbia, Danis Tanovic
Brazil, Lula the Son of Brazil,...
Albania, East West East, Gjergj Xhuvani
Algeria, Hors la Loi ("Outside the Law"), Rachid Bouchareb
Argentina, Carancho, Pablo Trapero
Austria, La Pivellina, Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel
Azerbaijan, The Precinct, Ilgar Safat
Bangladesh, Third Person Singular Number, Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Belgium, Illegal, Olivier Masset-Depasse
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Circus Columbia, Danis Tanovic
Brazil, Lula the Son of Brazil,...
- 10/14/2010
- Screen Anarchy
I have been keeping track of all of the Foreign Language Oscar submissions in my "The Contenders" section of the site and today the official list of sixty-five films from sixty-five countries was unveiled by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for consideration for the 83rd Academy Awards. On January 20, 2011 a shortlist of nine contenders will be announced prior to the naming of the nominees on January 25, 2011.
I have included the complete list directly below, which includes first-time entrants Ethiopia and Greenland. The only film that was originally thought to be under consideration, but didn't show up on the Academy's final list was Afghanistan's entry, Black Tulip, directed by Sonia Nassery Cole. IMDb doesn't list a release date for the film, which means it may not have met the release requirements in time.
I have linked each film to their corresponding IMDb page for those films not included...
I have included the complete list directly below, which includes first-time entrants Ethiopia and Greenland. The only film that was originally thought to be under consideration, but didn't show up on the Academy's final list was Afghanistan's entry, Black Tulip, directed by Sonia Nassery Cole. IMDb doesn't list a release date for the film, which means it may not have met the release requirements in time.
I have linked each film to their corresponding IMDb page for those films not included...
- 10/13/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
From Screen: “The Slovenian Film Fund announced today that the country’s submission for the best Foreign Language film Academy Award is Igor Sterk’s 9:06.” Subscribe to the comments for this post?...
- 10/1/2010
- by Sasha Stone
- AwardsDaily.com
‘Ad’ tips us to Italy’s Flf submission, Paolo Virzì’s La Prima Cosa Bella (“The First Beautiful Thing”), in which “a misanthropic professor returns to his hometown to assist his dying mother.
- 9/29/2010
- by Ryan Adams
- AwardsDaily.com
Rome -- "La Prima Cosa Bella" (The First Beautiful Thing), a melancholy comedy about a professor who returns home to take care of his dying mother, was selected Wednesday as Italy's official candidate for the Best Foreign Film Oscar.
The film is directed by 46-year-old director Paolo Virzi, who has had four films nominated for the David di Donatello prize for best screenplay or best film. So far, "La Prima Cosa Bella" has not won any major international honors.
The five official nominees for the Best Foreign Film honor will be selected early in 2011.
Italy has won more Best Foreign Film Oscars than any other country, with 13, but the country has not had a film selected as an official nominee since Cristina Comencini's "La bestia nel cuore" (Don't Tell) in 2005, and has not had a winner since Roberto Benigni's "La vita e bella" (Life is Beautiful) in 1998.
The film is directed by 46-year-old director Paolo Virzi, who has had four films nominated for the David di Donatello prize for best screenplay or best film. So far, "La Prima Cosa Bella" has not won any major international honors.
The five official nominees for the Best Foreign Film honor will be selected early in 2011.
Italy has won more Best Foreign Film Oscars than any other country, with 13, but the country has not had a film selected as an official nominee since Cristina Comencini's "La bestia nel cuore" (Don't Tell) in 2005, and has not had a winner since Roberto Benigni's "La vita e bella" (Life is Beautiful) in 1998.
- 9/29/2010
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cologne, Germany -- Roman Polanski's political thriller "The Ghost Writer," Mike Leigh's melancholic drama "Another Year" and Berlin Film Fest winner "Honey" from Turkish director Semih Kaplanoglu are among the features on the European Film Academy's 46-title long list for this year's European Film Awards.
Other high-profile films on the Efa long list include Samuel Maoz's Venice Film Fest winner "Lebanon," Stephen Frears' comic-book adaptation "Tamara Drewe" and "Oliver Assayas' five-and-a-half hour terrorist biopic "Carlos."
The 20 countries with the most Efa Members each picked a national feature, with the remaining 12 selected by the Efa selection committee. The 2,300 European Film Academy members will vote for the official nominees, which will be announced at the Sevilla Film Festival in Spain on Nov. 6.
The 23rd European Film Awards will be held in Tallinn, Estonia Dec. 4.
The long list of nominees for the 2010 European Film Awards:
European Film Awards 2010
"3 Seasons In Hell,...
Other high-profile films on the Efa long list include Samuel Maoz's Venice Film Fest winner "Lebanon," Stephen Frears' comic-book adaptation "Tamara Drewe" and "Oliver Assayas' five-and-a-half hour terrorist biopic "Carlos."
The 20 countries with the most Efa Members each picked a national feature, with the remaining 12 selected by the Efa selection committee. The 2,300 European Film Academy members will vote for the official nominees, which will be announced at the Sevilla Film Festival in Spain on Nov. 6.
The 23rd European Film Awards will be held in Tallinn, Estonia Dec. 4.
The long list of nominees for the 2010 European Film Awards:
European Film Awards 2010
"3 Seasons In Hell,...
- 9/9/2010
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi in Marco Bellocchio’s Vincere Best Film BAARÌA produced by Medusa Film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore Mine Vaganti / Loose Cannons produced by Domenico Procacci directed by Ferzan Ozpetek La Prima Cosa Bella / The First Beautiful Thing produced by Fabrizio Donvito, Marco Cohen, Benedetto Habib for Medusa Film Motorino Amaranto, Indiana Production directed by Paolo Virzì L’Uomo Che Verra’ produced by Aranciafilm (Simone Bachini, Giorgio Diritti), Rai Cinema directed by Giorgio Diritti Vincere produced by Mario Gianani for Offside directed by Marco Bellocchio Best European Union Film Le Concert, Radu Mihaileanu (Bim) The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke (Lucky Red) A Prophet, Jacques Audiard (Bim) Soul Kitchen, Fatih Akin (Bim) Welcome, Philippe Lioret (Teodora Film) Best Foreign Film A Serious Man, by Joel & Ethan Coen (Medusa) Avatar, by James Cameron (20th Century Fox) Inglourious Basterds, by Quentin Tarantino (Universal) Invictus, [...]...
- 4/16/2010
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Rome -- "La Prima Cosa Bella" (The First Beautiful Thing), a noir comedy from Paolo Virzi set in the 1970s, surprisingly emerged as the most nominated film for Italy's best-known film honor, the David di Donatello awards on Thursday.
The relatively low profile film was nominated in a year-best 18 categories including the top categories of best film and best director, outpacing more heralded projects including Marco Bellocchio's Mussolini biopic "Vincere" (which premiered in Cannes last year), Giuseppe Tornatore's Sicilian epic "Baaria" (Italy's candidate for the foreign language Oscar), and "Mine Viganti" (Loose Cannons) a comedy set in southern Italy from Ferzan Ozpetek (the film debuted in Berlin). Winners will be announced May 7.
Bellocchio, Tornatore, and Ozpetek's films still did well among nominees, garnering 15, 14, and 12 nominations, respectively. All three were nominated in the best film and best director categories, where they will face off against Virzi and "La Prima Cosa Bella...
The relatively low profile film was nominated in a year-best 18 categories including the top categories of best film and best director, outpacing more heralded projects including Marco Bellocchio's Mussolini biopic "Vincere" (which premiered in Cannes last year), Giuseppe Tornatore's Sicilian epic "Baaria" (Italy's candidate for the foreign language Oscar), and "Mine Viganti" (Loose Cannons) a comedy set in southern Italy from Ferzan Ozpetek (the film debuted in Berlin). Winners will be announced May 7.
Bellocchio, Tornatore, and Ozpetek's films still did well among nominees, garnering 15, 14, and 12 nominations, respectively. All three were nominated in the best film and best director categories, where they will face off against Virzi and "La Prima Cosa Bella...
- 4/8/2010
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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