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Venice Film Festival to Pay Tribute to Gina Lollobrigida With Orson Welles Short at Pre-Opening Event
The Venice Film Festival will pay tribute to late Italian icon Gina Lollobrigida, who died in January, with a pre-opening event featuring a double bill of freshly restored works in which she stars. The Lido’s annual pre-opening event on Aug. 29 will feature a 27-minute short by Orson Welles titled “Portrait of Gina.”
Review: In ‘Amanda,’ a surly loner drums up her own drama — but she’s not insufferable
What makes Amanda (Benedetta Porcaroli), an aimless and emotionally stunted 24-year-old Italian woman living on her wealthy family’s dime, worth spending time with? It isn’t that she fills her days with solo outings to the movies, or that she almost drowned in a pool as a child.
‘Amanda’ Review: Gen Z Ennui Gets the New Deadpan Heroine It Deserves
Amanda hasn’t done a lot of living in her 24 years. She’s never had a job, a boyfriend, or even a friend. She doesn’t fit in with her family — all of them pharmacists — even though she loves the clan’s longtime housekeeper and she’s got a real bond with her too-serious young niece.
‘Amanda’ Review: A Vindication of Idiosyncrasy
Across Amanda , Carolina Cavalli’s writing and cinematic style dovetail with lead actor Benedetta Porcaroli’s calibrated strangeness to express a sensibility that feels genuinely new. It’s also the rare film about mental instability (among other things) that doesn’t pathologize and reduce its characters to a diagnosis.
Abel Ferrara Talks Forthcoming Docs On Patti Smith And Ukraine War & Why He Loves Making Films In Europe – Taormina Studio
Abel Ferrara is currently working on two very different documentaries – one on legendary singer-songwriter-poet Patti Smith and another on the war in Ukraine – and the director touched down at Deadline’s studio in Taormina to reveal a bit more about each project.
Italian Superstar Pierfrancesco Favino on Smashing “Mafia Stereotypes”
A shortlist of the directors he’s worked with — Gabriele Salvatores, Giuseppe Tornatore, Marco Bellocchio, Gianni Amelio, Gabriele Muccino, Ferzan Ozpetek, Mario Martone — reads like a who’s who of Italian cinema.
‘Umberto Eco’ Review: Remembering a Literary Explorer
A new documentary delves into the infectious curiosity and passions of the Italian scholar and author of “The Name of the Rose.”
