Sardinia, a longtime a magnet for international productions spanning from James Bond classic “The Spy Who Loved Me” to George Clooney-directed TV series “Catch-22,” is ready for its close up again.
Following a hiatus due to the coronavirus crisis, the Italian island known for its emerald coast and ancient monuments is now hosting shoots for food and travel TV shows while scouting is under way for prospective big productions, including several from global streaming giants.
“We are doing lots of location scouting with Netflix, Amazon and Disney,” says Nevina Satta, head of the Sardinia Film Commission, who has long been a champion of eco-friendly best practices on set.
She has been busy training local executive producers in Covid-19 safety protocols alongside previous “green set” directives that the film commission had in place. Incidentally, during the pandemic, Sardinia had the lowest rates of coronavirus infection in Italy.
“Covid can actually...
Following a hiatus due to the coronavirus crisis, the Italian island known for its emerald coast and ancient monuments is now hosting shoots for food and travel TV shows while scouting is under way for prospective big productions, including several from global streaming giants.
“We are doing lots of location scouting with Netflix, Amazon and Disney,” says Nevina Satta, head of the Sardinia Film Commission, who has long been a champion of eco-friendly best practices on set.
She has been busy training local executive producers in Covid-19 safety protocols alongside previous “green set” directives that the film commission had in place. Incidentally, during the pandemic, Sardinia had the lowest rates of coronavirus infection in Italy.
“Covid can actually...
- 7/17/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The ceremony was run from an empty studio with winners acknowledging awards via video-link.
Marco Bellocchio’s mafia drama The Traitor swept Italy’s top David di Donatello awards on Friday evening (May 8), winning six prizes including best film, director and lead actor.
The biopic, which premiered in Competition at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, captures the life of Tommaso Buscetta, the late infamous mafia turncoat who began his organised crime career in Sicily and died in Florida incognito under the Us witness protection programme in 2000.
It marked the first time Bellocchio has won best film at the awards although he...
Marco Bellocchio’s mafia drama The Traitor swept Italy’s top David di Donatello awards on Friday evening (May 8), winning six prizes including best film, director and lead actor.
The biopic, which premiered in Competition at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, captures the life of Tommaso Buscetta, the late infamous mafia turncoat who began his organised crime career in Sicily and died in Florida incognito under the Us witness protection programme in 2000.
It marked the first time Bellocchio has won best film at the awards although he...
- 5/11/2020
- by 14¦Screen staff¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Cinema Italiano was thriving prior to the pandemic so Italy’s David di Donatello Awards, the country’s top film prizes, will serve as a collective rebirth rite just when coronavirus lockdown restrictions slowly begin to lift.
The ceremony marking the Davids’ 65th anniversary to be aired May 8 on pubcaster Rai in primetime obviously sans red carpet and with stars linked-in by remote, is timed shortly after May 4 when Italy entered “Phase Two” of its lockdown as local producers are busy drafting safety protocols and planning the road map for shoots to restart, hopefully in June.
Meanwhile the David academy’s 1,600 voters and, hopefully, millions of Rai viewers will be cheering a pack of nominees that is led by veteran auteur Marco Bellocchio’s elegant mob drama “The Traitor” – released by Sony stateside in January – and Matteo Garrone’s live-action “Pinocchio” alongside edgier titles by up-and-comers such as Matteo Rovere...
The ceremony marking the Davids’ 65th anniversary to be aired May 8 on pubcaster Rai in primetime obviously sans red carpet and with stars linked-in by remote, is timed shortly after May 4 when Italy entered “Phase Two” of its lockdown as local producers are busy drafting safety protocols and planning the road map for shoots to restart, hopefully in June.
Meanwhile the David academy’s 1,600 voters and, hopefully, millions of Rai viewers will be cheering a pack of nominees that is led by veteran auteur Marco Bellocchio’s elegant mob drama “The Traitor” – released by Sony stateside in January – and Matteo Garrone’s live-action “Pinocchio” alongside edgier titles by up-and-comers such as Matteo Rovere...
- 5/8/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
A legendary Italian sense of style electrifies 5 Is the Perfect Number (5 e’ il numero perfetto), the film adaptation of Igort’s (née Igor Tuveri) most famous graphic novel. Beyond the thrilling visuals and atmospheric production design, however, there isn’t much emotional payoff in this ironic-nostalgic tale about an aged hit man (Toni Servillo) who comes out of retirement to avenge his son’s death. Comic book fans are bound to flock, in any case, lured by imaginatively rendered details and colors, arch characters lifted from another era and the poetic fantasy of a story about friendship ...
A legendary Italian sense of style electrifies 5 Is the Perfect Number (5 e’ il numero perfetto), the film adaptation of Igort’s (née Igor Tuveri) most famous graphic novel. Beyond the thrilling visuals and atmospheric production design, however, there isn’t much emotional payoff in this ironic-nostalgic tale about an aged hit man (Toni Servillo) who comes out of retirement to avenge his son’s death. Comic book fans are bound to flock, in any case, lured by imaginatively rendered details and colors, arch characters lifted from another era and the poetic fantasy of a story about friendship ...
Considering how many graphic novels have been adapted into films, it’s curious that only a precious few graphic novelists have ever directed a movie and, when they do, it’s almost always adapted from their own source material. The list practically begins and ends with Frank Miller (“Sin City” and its sequel) and Marjane Satrapi (“Persepolis” and “Chicken with Plums”). It seems not many graphic novelists can get a handle on the dozens of other disparate concerns involved in making a movie.
This warning goes heedlessly ignored by Igor Tuveri, the Italian illustrator who goes by the name Igort. His 2002 graphic novel “5 Is the Perfect Number,” about a Naples hitman who comes out of retirement to avenge his son’s murder, is a moody crime saga rendered in muted, duotone colors. In directing the film adaptation, Igort tries another visual tack entirely, bringing the sledgehammer style with ultra-bold,...
This warning goes heedlessly ignored by Igor Tuveri, the Italian illustrator who goes by the name Igort. His 2002 graphic novel “5 Is the Perfect Number,” about a Naples hitman who comes out of retirement to avenge his son’s murder, is a moody crime saga rendered in muted, duotone colors. In directing the film adaptation, Igort tries another visual tack entirely, bringing the sledgehammer style with ultra-bold,...
- 8/30/2019
- by Mark Keizer
- Variety Film + TV
Independent strand of Venice festival selects 11 titles for its competition.
The world premiere of Dominik Moll’s Only The Animals will open Venice Days, the independent strand of the Venice film festival that will run alongside the festival from August 28 - September 7.
Moll’s film will play in competition, alongside 10 other titles, while Bartabas’ Time Of The Untamed will close the festival, out of competition.
German-born French director Moll’s previous credits include With A Friend Like Harry, which premiered at Cannes in 2000 and was Bafta nominated.
Elsewhere, Italian graphic novelist and director Igort (Igor Tuveri) premieres his crime drama 5 Is The Perfect Number,...
The world premiere of Dominik Moll’s Only The Animals will open Venice Days, the independent strand of the Venice film festival that will run alongside the festival from August 28 - September 7.
Moll’s film will play in competition, alongside 10 other titles, while Bartabas’ Time Of The Untamed will close the festival, out of competition.
German-born French director Moll’s previous credits include With A Friend Like Harry, which premiered at Cannes in 2000 and was Bafta nominated.
Elsewhere, Italian graphic novelist and director Igort (Igor Tuveri) premieres his crime drama 5 Is The Perfect Number,...
- 7/23/2019
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Based upon the graphic novel of the same name published in 15 different countries, the film is an Italian-Belgian-French co-production and will hit Italian cinemas on 29 August. 5 Is the Perfect Number, the first feature film written and directed by the Cagliari comic book artist and novelist Igor Tuveri, aka Igort (who also co-wrote the screenplay for Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli’s Last Summer and Enrico Pau’s L’accabadora), is ready for release. Based upon Igort’s own highly successful, homonymous graphic novel, which was published in 15 countries, the film stars Toni Servillo in the role of disenchanted hitman Peppino Lo Cicero, Valeria Golino as his long-time lover and Carlo Buccirosso as the bloodthirsty Totò ‘O Macellaio, Peppino’s lifelong friend and accomplice. We’re in Naples in the 1970s: Peppino Lo Cicero, a retired second-rate camorrista, comes back onto the scene when his son is murdered. This tragic event triggers a series of.
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