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Giuseppe Tornatore back to Sicilian roots for Baaria
Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore and Medusa Film CEOGiampaolo Letta unveiled the first details of Tornatore's $30.7m (Euro 20m) film Baaria that has been tightly under wraps since the project's inceptiona year ago.Producing partners for Baaria are Italy's Medusa Film and Franco-Tunisian entrepreneur Tarak Ben Ammar's French based Quinta Communications and ...
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Sigourney Weaver to join Martin Scorsese at the Rome Film Festival
Weaver, Giuseppe Tornatore and Pierre Bismuth to particpate in ‘Close Encounters’ event in October
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NewsBaaria to represent Italy at the Oscars
Giuseppe Tornatore’s Baaria, a complex family saga that spans the lives of three generations of a Sicilian family, will represent Italy in its bid for the Foreign Oscar.
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NewsTornatore's Barria to open 66th Venice Film Festival
The 66th Venice Film Festival will open with Baaria, the new film from Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore, it will also be in competition.
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FeaturesVenice set for Sicilian tales
Giuseppe Tornatore’s Baaria is his ‘most personal’ film to date, a Sicilian epic spanning a century with a cast numbering 200. Sheri Jennings spoke to the Oscar-winning director as he prepares his film to open the Venice film festival (Sept 2-12)
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NewsWarner Bros Italia takes territories on The Best Offer
Geoffrey Rush and Jim Sturgess have joined Oscar winning director Giuseppe Tornatore’s $21m English and Italian-language film, purportedly a love story set in the luxurious world of Viennese art auctions.
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NewsThe First Beautiful Thing leads David of Donatello nominations
Other leading nominees for Italian honours are The Man Who Will Come, Vincere, Baaria, and Loose Cannons.
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NewsAcademy unveils 65 foreign language Oscar submissions
Sixty-five countries have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 82nd Academy Awards.
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