Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
International News: Marcello's story of gay love wins at festival -- "La bocca del lupo" (The Wolf's Mouth), a daring docudrama depicting a tender love affair between two male ex-cons in Genoa, was the 27th Turin Film Festival's big winner, marking the first time Italy scored top honors at the prominent Italo indie event dedicated to young directors.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
International News: 'Get Low,' 'Guy' among 16 competition films -- Sam Taylor-Wood's John Lennon biopic "Nowhere Boy" will open the 27th edition of the Turin Film Festival dedicated to ultra-indie cinema where Francis Ford Coppola, Emir Kusturica and cult Danish helmer Nicolas Winding Refn will be feted.
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Though MPI, IFC Films has announced several more DVD releases for the first part of 2010, most notably Philippe Garrel's Frontier of the Dawn [ La frontière de l'aube ] for 26 January. The only worthwhile Blu-ray I saw announced was a 20th anniversary edition of Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas from Warner, slated for 16 February. Lionsgate also announced a Joel Schumacher film that I (predictably)...
Chris Hanretty (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
The primaries for the Partito Democratico are today. Voting continues until 20:00 and the first data are expected at midnight. Franceschini has closed strongly: there was an appeal signed by 75 parliamentarians, and (somewhat inexplicably, at least to me), left-wing film-maker Nanni Moretti came out in favour of Franceschini. The nightmare scenario for the PD is that [...]
eFilmCritic (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Punching The Clown - At VIFF '09“A misunderstood comedian comes to LA and becomes more misunderstood.” Director Gregory Viens on the film “Punching The Clown” which screens at the Vancouver International Film Festival.Do you have any other festival experience with “Punching The Clown”?Yes, Punching the Clown won the Audience Award at the 2009 Slamdance Film Festival,...
Time (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
An Italian court has overturned an immunity-from-prosecution law, which means Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will face outstanding criminal charges. How will he react?
Time (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
The Italian Constitutional Court overturns an immunity-from-prosecution law that means the 73-year-old Prime Minister will face outstanding criminal charges. How will Berlusconi react?
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Business News: Plog to succeed Toubon as Eurimage head -- Nanni Moretti's "Habemus Papam," which centers on a nervous, newly elected pope on a shrink's couch, has received E600,000 ($883,000) in support from pan-European film funder Eurimages.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
International News: Denamur to spearhead catalog sales -- Jean Labadie's Paris-based film production, sales and distribution shingle Le Pacte has opened up a new library sales division.
Terry Malick's son (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
This was something I was asked to watch for my screenwriting workshops. I'm not that informed about Nanni Moretti, although I know a little. He's one of Italy's biggest exports and before this film was famed for his comedies. Here he acts, writes and directs in a drama about a grieving Italian family. Moretti plays the father of the family, a placid shrink who takes life at a leisurely pace. He appears...
German Joys (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
Perry Anderson, one of the most astute commenters on Italy, on the emergence of that country's doughnut-hole cultural landscape: The case of the cinema, where Italy had above all excelled after the war, can be taken as emblematic. There was...
Charles Lambert (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
Earlier this year Freedom House placed Italy 73rd in its liberty of the press league table, classifying the country as 'partly free', a status it shares with Turkey, Burkina Faso and Haiti. This is hardly surprising, given that 80% of the population receives its information exclusively through television, almost entirely controlled, either institutionally (RAI) or personally (Mediaset), by the prime...
Entertainment Weekly (Free subscription) | 07/22/2009
Behind the camera, the Italian writer-director Nanni Moretti (The Son's Room) can be an ?inspired artist, but as an actor he's annoyingly affectless, like ?a Buster Keaton who has been forbidden to do any stunts. As Pietro in Quiet Chaos, a newly widowed father who opts out of work to spend each day planted in front of his daughter's grade school (ah, those laissez-faire Italian office codes!), Moretti...
ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
The trouble with Quiet Chaos is that there’s too much quiet and not enough chaos. The emotional turmoil spoken about by the film’s characters rarely punctures its tranquil, sleepy surface. Floating along with middle-aged businessman and recent widower Pietro (Nanni Moretti, who also co-adapted the screenplay from Sandro Veronesi’s novel) on his shambling journey of self-discovery...
Reverse Shot - (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
The trouble with Quiet Chaos is that there’s too much quiet and not enough chaos. The emotional turmoil spoken about by the film’s characters rarely punctures its tranquil, sleepy surface. Floating along with middle-aged businessman and recent widower Pietro (Nanni Moretti, who also co-adapted the screenplay from Sandro Veronesi’s novel) on his shambling journey of self-discovery...
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