The first prize of the 80th Venice Film Festival was won by the film “Poor Things” by Yorgo Lanthimos. The Best Actress award went to Cailee Spaeny for “Priscilla” and Peter Sarsgaard as Best Actor for his role in “Memory.” Silver Lion for “Evil does not exist” by Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi.
Woody Allen never ceases to excite the public with his films or music. After attending the Venice Film Festival at the Lido, where he presented his new movie Coup de Chance out of competition, the famous director stopped in Milan, where in the evening, he performed on the stage of the historic Milanese music venue Blue Note. Following this, a single Roman date will be scheduled for September 16th as part of the Villa Ada Festival.
A fascination with Italy, George Clooney, known for having a home in Como and for living in Italy whenever possible, came to Venice with his wife, human rights lawyer Amal Clooney. But this time, he was on the island not for himself, but for his wife Amal, who received the DVF Leadership Award for her work on behalf of victims of human rights violations during the time of star rains…
Cinema Festivals: Venice Film Festival
by Andira Vitale
We are on the “Once upon a time in Venice” time train. As we go back, we see how many unforgettable films, immortal stars and legendary loves fit into its nearly one century history… It recorded countless stories…
Venice Film Festival 2023 starts with the film Comandante and Leone a Cavani. Liliana Cavani, the Modenese director, collected the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement with the movie Out of Competition, The Order of Time. The award also goes to Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai.
The 80th journey of the Venice Film Festival has begun. Six local directors are competing for the Golden Lion: Edoardo De Angelis with “Comandante”, Garrone with “Io Capitano”, Costanzo with “Finally l’Alba”; Castellitto with “Aeneas”; Rights with “Lubo” and Sollima with “Adagio”. The opening of the festival will take place with “Comandate”.
This time, Quo Vadis is waiting for cinema lovers. Where? In the Colosseum, one of the most important heroes of human history.
The film festival dedicated to him and which the Fondazione Museo Alberto Sordi is organising on the twentieth anniversary of his death kicked off this evening, the day on which Alberto Sordi would have turned 103.
My heart is drunk under the stars… It’s nice to watch movies under the stars… Oh how nice to watch movies in the squares… Good news! The Cinema in Piazza di Roma has started.
“Anatomie d’une chaute” by Justine Triet conquered the Cannes Film Festival and won the Palme d’Or. The Grand Prix prize went instead to the film “The Zone of Interest” by Jonathan Glazer. The best screenplay went to “Monster”, and the best direction went to “La passion de Dodin Bouffant” by Tran Anh Hung.
The festival’s story, which was first held in 1946, begins in 1938. Let’s return to the 1930s when cinema was an effective propaganda tool.
The five of the 68th edition of the David di Donatello have been announced. 18 nominations for Exterior Night, 14 for The Strangeness and The Eight Mountains, 11 for The Lord of the Ants, 9 for Nostalgia.
The French cinema legend will make another appearance on the Croisette as the poster’s subject for the 76th edition.
The Cannes Film Festival has presented its official selection. And three Italian directors compete, Nanni Moretti, Marco Bellocchio and Alice Rohrwacher.
by Natale Ricci
As expected, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” was the most awarded film: it received seven Oscars. The Daniels film, nominated for 11 nominations, won 7 awards, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”. The award for Best Animated Film went to Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio. In addition, Brendan Fraser wins Best Actor for The Whale, and Michelle Yeoh wins Best Actress for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
by Natale Ricci
The Oscar race is over. The list includes essential productions that shed light on both global strategies and art. We’ll see who wins this weekend…
“All Quiet on the Western Front” was the big winner at the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, triumphing in the key categories at the ceremony seen as an indicator for next month’s Oscars.
Everything everywhere at once, the action comedy by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, has won 11 nominations, followed by Island spirits, the Irish black comedy by Martin McDonagh with nine nominations, and the German film All Quiet on the Western Front with 8, Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical The Fabelmans and the biopic Elvis with seven while Todd Field’s Tár and Top Gun: Maverick won 6.
“Palm trees and power lines,” the story that unfolds from the encounter between a seventeen-year-old and a man twice her age, director Jamie Dack’s debut film, was awarded as best film at the 40th Torino Film Festival.
The winners of the seventeenth edition of the Rome Film Fest and Alice Nella Città 2022 have been announced. All the winners.
Festa del Cinema di Roma 2022: nell’immagine ufficiale Paul Newman e Joanne Woodward. La Festa del Cinema rende omaggio alla celebre coppia con la docu-serie ‘The Last Movie Stars” di Ethan Hawke, che ripercorre vita e carriera dei due grandi artisti, e con una retrospettiva di quindici titoli
– Laura Poitras’ documentary All The Beauty And The Bloodshed has won the Golden Lion at the 2022 Venice Film Festival. ‘Saint Omer’ takes Grand Jury prize; best director to Luca Guadagnino for ‘Bones And All’.
Due to the 79th Film Festival, Venice hosted quality films and artists at Lido. But Venice, known as the “city of lovers”, was the scene of love, affection, grace and beauty befitting its reputation…