Venice Film Festival 2024, Golden Lion to Almodovar
Venice Film Festival 2024, Golden Lion to Almodovar Venice crowns Pedro Almodóvar. The Golden Lion of the 81st Venice Film Festival goes to “The Room Next Door”, the first…
Venice Film Festival 2024, Golden Lion to Almodovar Venice crowns Pedro Almodóvar. The Golden Lion of the 81st Venice Film Festival goes to “The Room Next Door”, the first…
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…
La Dolcevita-sur-Seine and La Nouvelle Vague on the Tiber Vita gazette – There is another dream festival in Rome. The Rome-Paris Twinning Festival, with the “Dolcevita-sur-Seine” Festival, takes place…
Venice Film Festival 2024: restored films by the most significant directors Vita gazette – The 81st edition of the festival will present to the public of avid cinephiles the…
The 81st edition of the Venice International Film Festival Vita gazette – The 81st edition of the Venice International Film Festival, organised by the Venice Biennale, will take place…
by Ayfer Selamoğlu
Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone is the fairy of love who plays a crucial role in Michael’s transformation, the innocent and delicate beauty that changed Michael’s lifeline but also changed her life. That moment is a very important coincidence that will change both of their lives forever…
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 is starting this evening.
Director Sean Baker won the Palme d’Or at the festival with his film Anora. Payal Kapadia won the Grand Jury Prize for the film All We Imagine as Light, while Jacques Audiard received the Jury Prize for Emilia Pérez, starring Selena Gomez. Jesse Plemons won the Best Actor award for his performance in the film Kinds Of Kindness by Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos.
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.
It was the early 1950s, years in which Italian cinema flourished again, full of hope after the war: in the wake of this rebirth, the Open Gate Club was founded in 1953; the symbol was a door that opened to indicate the end of dark times and the return to a culture of international openness.
Garrone and Cortellesi triumph at the David di Donatello. The Best Film is I Captain, which receives a total of 7 Davids. There’s still tomorrow follows, with 6 prizes. Kidnapped by Marco Bellocchio receives 5 statuettes instead.
The film selection of the 77th Cannes Film Festival, which will be held between 14-25 May this year, has been announced. Italy is in competition with Paolo Sorrentino with “Parthenope” set in Naples; Also in competition is “Marcello mio” by French director Christophe Honoré, a film about Marcello Mastroianni with his daughter Chiara and Catherine Deneuve.
The nominations for the 69th David di Donatello Awards have been announced. “C’è Ancora Tomorrow” stands out, Paola Cortellesi’s debut film, which received 19 nominations. There are 15 nominations for “Io Capitano” by Matteo Garrone, already awarded the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese is honoured with the Honorary Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival for his lifetime of cinematic achievements.
“PEDAGIO” (Toll) by Carolina Markowicz triumphs at the Rome Film Festival. The Grand Jury Prize goes to “Urotcite Na Blaga” (Blaga’s Lessons) by Stephan Komandarev. Alba Rohrwacher won the Best Actress award for “My Hair Hurts”, while Herbert Nordrum won the Best Actor award for Hypnosen. Best director to Joachim Lafosse for “Un silence.” Paola Cortellesi won the Audience Award and one of the Special Jury Awards for her debut film as a director.
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…
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.
“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.