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All articles by Melanie Rodier – Page 33
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No Man's Land producer to head Locarno festival jury
No Man's Land producer, Cedomir Kolar is to head the jury for the upcoming Locarno film festival (Aug 1 -11), while the event's "Indian Summer" retrospective will include Rajiv Menon's Tamil adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Finding One's Self (Kandukondain Kandukondain), and politically active Bengali filmmaker Mrinal Sen's ...
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European Film Awards to travel to Rome
Following an invitation by Rome's cinephile mayor Walter Veltroni, the European Film Awards will be travelling for the first time to the Italian capital. Traditionally alternating between the European Film Academy's home town of Berlin and other European cities, the relocated ceremony will take place on December 7th 2002. The ...
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Hour Of Religion tops Nastro d'Argento award nominations
Marco Bellocchio's Hour Of Religion, the story of an atheist painter who finds out his brothers want to beatify their dead mother, led the nominations for Italy's Nastri d'Argento, the country's oldest movie awards.Nominations for Bellocchio's film, which is performing well at the local box office with a running total ...
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Italy's Giffoni film festival to welcome Streep, Makhmalbaf
Meryl Streep and Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf will be among the guests at this year's Giffoni Film Festival, one of the premier festivals dedicated to youth-oriented cinema and the only one whose jury is entirely composed of international school children.Artistic director Claudio Gubitosi, who founded the festival 32 years ago, ...
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Italia Cinema appoints new president
Marina Cicogna has been appointed president of Italia Cinema, Italy's film promotional body. Cicogna is the granddaughter of Count Volpi, the founder of the Venice Film Festival in 1932. After studying film, theatre and literature in the US, she worked in film production and distribution in Italy, producing several films ...
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Re-vamped Taormina announces line-up and special awards
Mike Leigh, Hugh Grant, Ennio Morricone and Isabelle Huppert will be among the recipients of the "Diamond Awards for Cinematic Excellence" at this year's Taormina Film Festival, which runs July 6th - July 13th. Titles screening at the non-competitive event, which include non-English-language films for the first time in three ...
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Monica Bellucci to star in Muccino's Remember Me
Hot on the heels of Gaspar Noe's Irreversible, Monica Bellucci is set to star in Italian filmmaker Gabriele Muccino's (The Last Kiss) upcoming movie, Remember Me (Ricordati Di Me).Local production outfit Fandango confirmed that Bellucci will star alongside popular Italian actors Fabrizio Bentivoglio (Hotel, Holy Tongue) and Laura Morante, who ...
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Warner lines up Vanzina remake as second Italian pic
Warner Bros Pictures' has started production on its second Italian-language film, a sequel to 1970s cult movie La Febbre Del Cavallo starring Italy's Gigi Proietti, who also played the lead in the original comedy.The new picture, entitled La Febbre Del Cavallo - La Mandrakata is directed by popular filmmaker Carlo ...
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Italian producers told to get professional - or die
Italian producers should seek private financial partners - or risk extinction. That was the thunderous message delivered this weekend by Giampaolo Sodano, head of UNIDIM, Italy's national distributors' union at a conference near Rome. He revealed that more than 70% of Italian film companies have equity capital of less than ...
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Medusa busy as Italian distributors unveil autumn slates
Medusa, Silvio Berlusconi's Rome distribution powerhouse, has unveiled a bumper slate of new releases including James Foley's crime drama Confidence and Lars Von Trier's widely anticipated Dogville.Medusa is also set to release several of the year's most eagerly awaited pictures, ranging from Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio, to comic blockbuster trio Aldo, ...
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Italy's Buskin launches production unit with four arthouse films
Fledlging Italian sales outfit Buskin Film is set to boost its international presence by launching a feature film production unit, with four major arthouse projects scheduled to shoot within the next year.First up is L'eau Le Feu, a feature by veteran auteur Luciano Emmer, who is widely associated with post-war ...
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Italy prepares for flood of summer movies
The Italian film industry is bracing itself for a breakthrough summer at cinemas nationwide, after local distributors officially agreed to reverse the pattern of previous years and release 60 films on 1,500 screens between May 15 and July 31.Among the summer releases to hit cinemas - one third of which ...
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New director to give newer look to Venice Film Festival
Venice director Moritz de Hadeln has introduced a raft of new elements to the film festival, and while keeping the double competition established last year by Alberto Barbera, he will ensure that this time the differences between the two sections are more clearly defined.In line with the simplicity advocated at ...
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Berlusconi's Mediaset posts heavily-reduced profits
Mediaset, the leading private Italian network owned by Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi, recorded a sharp drop in net profits in 2001 on the back of losses linked to its 2.3% stake in KirchMedia. Net profits were down to Euros 248.4m, compared to Euros 423.5m in 2000.Overall, the group's net ...
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Italy's antitrust body set to approve Stream/Telepiu sale
Italy's Antitrust Authority is set to greenlight the deal which will see Rupert Murdoch's News Corp sell Italian pay-TV platform Stream to Vivendi Universal, if Vivendi's Telepiu complies with new conditions regarding its ownership of pay-TV rights to Hollywood movies.According to unconfirmed reports, the Italian watchdog will demand that when ...
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Controversial Italian G8 documentary to screen at Cannes
New controversy is scheduled in Italy around the documentary Bella Ciao, about the riots at last year's G8 meeting in Genoa, which will screen in Cannes' Critics Week. The film, which was co-directed by the outgoing head of RAI 2, Carlo Freccero (under alias), was repeatedly rejected for broadcast by ...
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Italian film industry wins credit bonanza from Euro bank
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has made its biggest investment into European film production by granting a Euros 100m credit line to the Italian film and theatre industry.The investment, which comes under the Audiovisual Innovation 2000 Initiative (i2i), will be managed by the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL)'s film and ...
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Moretti appeals to Italy's president over Berlusconi's threat
Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti has appealed to Italy's president to intervene after premier Silvio Berlusconi charged that three top RAI personalities should be fired because their use of state-run television has been "criminal.""You are the custodian of the constitution, therefore the guarantor of the freedom of each one of ...
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New controversy erupts over Italian TV appointments
New controversy has erupted over the control of Italian state broadcaster RAI after the parties in media mogul and prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's coalition were awarded the coveted top managerial jobs at RAI1 and RAI2 as well as their influential news programmes.Coming almost two months after the Italian Parliament appointed ...
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Laudadio re-opens Taormina to non-English films
For the first time in three years, Italy's prestigious Taormina Film Festival will once again be open to non-English language films. Artistic director Felice Laudadio said the decision to accept international pictures to the popular summer event had been taken post-September 11th. "Taormina will continue to be a launch-pad for ...