All Italy articles – Page 3
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Reviews‘Waking Hours’ review: Revealing Italian documentary follows Afghan people smugglers in Serbia
Uncompromising Venice Critics Week title will reward patient viewers
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Reviews‘Duse’ review: Italian auteur Pietro Marcello’s ambitious biopic of actress Eleonora Duse
Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and Noémie Merlant star in Marcello’s Venice Competition title
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NewsDamiano Michieletto’s ‘Primavera’ picked up for UK-Ireland ahead of Toronto premiere
EXCLUSIVE: It is the feature debut of acclaimed Italian opera director Michieletto.
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FeaturesInternational execs ‘optimistic’ about return of young audiences to cinemas
A Venice Film Festival roundtable hosted by Screen International and sponsored by the Saudi Film Commission debated young cinema audience trends.
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NewsItalian culture minister updates on tax credit as country gets ready to host a number of “high budget” projects
Presence of international stars means that “the whole world is looking at us, at Venice and this festival,” says Lucia Borgonzoni.
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News“It’s soft money with no strings,” says Fondazione Prada’s Paolo Moretti on the launch of €1.5m fund
Fashion brand’s cultural foundation aims to back 10-12 films a year and is open to new and experienced directors.
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NewsMinerva takes on sales for $1m prize-winning Tribeca comedy drama ‘Honeyjoon’
EXCLUSIVE: Lilian T. Mehrel’s film world premiered at Tribeca this summer after winning AT&T’s $1m Untold Stories pitch competition at festival last year.
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Reviews‘My Tennis Maestro’ review: Pierfrancesco Favino charms as a faded Italian tennis pro
Andrea Di Stefano’s 1980s-set comedy premieres out of competition in Venice
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Reviews‘A Year Of School’ review: A Swedish girl finds her way in an Italian all-male high school
Laura Samani’s engaging comedy-drama premieres in Venice Horizons
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Reviews‘The Holy Boy’ review: Paolo Strippoli’s third feature is a warped coming-of-age tale
Italian horror from the director of ’Flowing’ premieres out of competition in Venice
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News“‘Etty’ is an escape from hate”: first trailer for Hagai Levi’s Venice premiering show
Mini-series is a loose adaptation of the diaries of Dutch author Etty Hillesum who died in Auschwitz.
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Reviews‘Agon’ review: Intriguing Italian debut follows three sportswomen at a fictional Olympics
Giulio Bertelli’s documentary-infused drama features real life world champion judo athlete Alice Bellandi
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News“We are stirring it up for you,” says Julia Roberts of #MeToo themes in ’After The Hunt’
“We are challenging people to have conversations and be excited or infuriated by that,” said Roberts in Venice.
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NewsThomasin McKenzie, Toby Wallace to star in Frances O’Connor’s ‘Sister Maria Goes To Rome’ for Embankment
Desmar Films, Tempo Productions and Notorious Pictures produce.
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NewsYorgos Lanthimos says it is getting “more and more difficult” to make independent films
“It’s a very complicated landscape. I wouldn’t rush to separate everything into categories.”
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Reviews‘The Kidnapping Of Arabella’ review: Chris Pine and Benedetta Porcaroli star in quirky Italian road movie
The actor takes on his first Italian-language role for sophomore director Carolina Cavalli
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NewsVenice opens with Francis Ford Coppola tribute to “encyclopaedia” Werner Herzog
Ceremony host Emanuela Fanelli landed a joke about Venice and Cannes.
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Reviews‘La Grazia’ review: An impressive Toni Servillo anchors Paolo Sorrentino’s austere Venice opener
The actor plays a fictional Italian president facing the end of his tenure in Sorrentino’s serious-minded follow-up to ‘Parthenope’
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Features“We will support talent in all genres,” says Fremantle’s Andrea Scrosati on eve of bumper Venice
Production and distribution group has six titles in Venice’s official selection, including Paolo Sorrentino’s opening film La Grazia and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia.
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NewsVenice head Alberto Barbera says festival won’t disinvite guests for political views
“We’ve been asked to turn down invitations to artists – we will not do that, if they want to be here they will be here.”