All Italy articles – Page 22
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NewsVenice to honour Liliana Cavani and Tony Leung Chiu-wai with Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement
’The Night Porter’ director and ’In The Mood For Love’ actor to receive awards at this year’s festival.
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NewsTorinoFilmLab selects 33 participants for ScriptLab 2023 (exclusive)
There is a particular focus on comedies.
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FeaturesCEO of Italian producer Lux Vide talks Fremantle deal, upcoming slate and country’s production boom
Luca Bernabei became CEO of leading Italian producer Lux Vide in 2013.
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Features‘The Good Mothers’ team on bringing a “female gaze” to the Mafia
The Italian series follows three Mafia women who bring down the organisation from the inside
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FeaturesWhy Italy’s regional film commissions are the country’s secret weapon as an international production hub
The country’s regional film commissions offer a combined $57m a year to attract film and TV shoots.
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Reviews‘Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me’: Berlin Review
Affectionate biopic of the late Italian comedian and star of ’Il Postino’, Massimo Troisi
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NewsAlice Rohrwacher to give Visions du Reel 2023 masterclass
Italian filmmaker will attend the festival as a special guest.
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NewsWorld Soundtrack Awards to honour Italian composer Nicola Piovani (exclusive)
Piovani composed the Oscar-winning soundtrack to Roberto Benigni’s ’Life Is Beautiful’.
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Reviews‘The Last Night Of Amore’: Berlin Review
A strait-laced cop goes rogue on his last night in the job in Andrea Di Stefano’s stylish Italian crime thriller
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NewsBuzzy Berlin title ‘20,000 Species Of Bees’ secures France, Italy deals for Luxbox (exclusive)
Film directed by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren.
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NewsFilm Soho gears up for road trip comedy ‘The Monk, The Mermaid & Molise’ (exclusive)
The project is the first to be awarded the film grant scheme by the Italian region of Molise.
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NewsTrue Colours lights up for Giorgio Diritti’s drama ‘Lubo’ (exclusive)
Franz Rogowski stars in the film which is based on real events.
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NewsMinerva boards Andrea Riseborough, Stellan Skarsgård crime drama ‘What Remains’ (exclusive)
Feature is directorial debut of Ran Huang.
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NewsJessica Woodworth on her Rotterdam world premiere ‘Luka’: “What I really love is its intrinsic humour”
The ambitious film is based on the classic Italian novel, Dino Buzatti’s ’The Desert Of The Tatars’
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NewsSpanish, Ukrainian and Belgian projects win top prizes at When East Meets West co-pro forum
Event took place in Trieste from January 22-25
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Features70 European and Mena films to tempt festival directors in 2023
Jessica Hausner, Marco Bellocchio, Michel Gondry and Lone Scherfig are among the auteurs with new films this year.
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NewsItalian acting legend Gina Lollobrigida dies aged 95
Roles included ’The Hunchback Of Notre Dame’ (1956), ’Come September’ (1961) and ’Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell’ (1986)
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NewsItalian box office falls a whopping 48% in 2022 compared to pre-pandemic but local films give cause for optimism
The highest-grossing local film was Robert Andò’s comedy ‘La Stranezza’ that is screening at International Film Festival Rottterdam
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News‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ is highest grossing release of pandemic era in France, Italy
UK box office for action fantasy sequel reaches $45.1m.
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FeaturesWill a new breed of Italian blockbuster attract theatrical audiences back to homegrown films?
There is an acknowledgement that Italian cinema has not changed much in the last 30 years, missing the rise of genre movies and failing to cultivate a younger audience.