Oscars: Italy Selects Paolo Strippoli’s Thriller ‘The Spiral’ for International Feature Race


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Oscars: Italy Selects Paolo Strippoli’s Thriller ‘The Spiral’ for International Feature Race

Oscars: Italy Submits Paolo Strippoli’s ‘The Spiral’ For Best International Feature Film

Venice Review: The Echo Chamber Creates Terrific Chemisty for Luca Marinelli and Alicia Vikander

Italian maestro Bernardo Bertolucci died in 2018, leaving behind one unfinished screenplay. For his fourth feature, burgeoning Italian writer-director Andrea Pallaoro was given the keys to that coveted, unfinished script. Pallaoro finished writing the screenplay alongside Bertolucci’s original co-writers, Ilaria Bernardini and Ludovica Rampoldi, before he took the reins. The Echo Chamber doesn’t feel or play like a Bertolucci film. His spectre is there in the dialogue, the scenario, and the realist restraint. But Pallaoro brings his distinct style to the homebody story—one traced through long, still, quiet shots that hold the unspoken tension of the frame and the messy conflicts within.
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‘Arsa’ Trailer: Italian Drama Starring Gala Zohar Martinucci Arrives In US Theaters On September 18

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‘Agon’ Review: Science and Sports Collide in a Haunting High-Art Study of Three Female Athletes Facing Calamity

First-time Italian director Guilio Bertelli’s hybrid feature, which premiered last year in Venice, follows a trio of women training to compete in a mock Olympic Games.
Fulvio Lucisano, Italian Producer of ‘Planet of the Vampires’ and ‘What Have You Done to Solange?,’ Dies at 98

During seven decades in the film business, Lucisano mounted more than 150 projects in a panoply of genres
‘Primo Viaggio,’ Presented Last Year at Locarno’s Alliance 4 Development, Has Wrapped and Heading for Venice Gap-Financing Market (EXCLUSIVE)

Produced by Nanni Moretti’s Rome-based Sacher Film and Andrea Marcelli’s Halley Production in Paris, the film, seen as a Locarno success story after shooting in Italy, Spain and France
Monica Bellucci Plays a Mother Who Yells and Is the “Victim of a Social Role” in Luca Guadagnino-Produced ‘Ketticè’

At Locarno, the Italian icon lauded the two young stars and filmmaker Giovanni Tortorici for their work on his second feature and shared that her character has forgotten about “her femininity.”