‘The Eight Mountains’, ‘Exterior Night’ Take Top Honors At Italy’s David di Donatello Awards – Full Nominees and Winners List

‘The Eight Mountains’, ‘Exterior Night’ Take Top Honors At Italy’s David di Donatello Awards – Full Nominees and Winners List

Belgian directors Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s Italian-language drama The Eight Mountains and veteran Marco Bellocchio’s Exterior Night topped the 68th edition of Italy’s David di Donatello Awards on Wednesday evening. The Eight Mountains won best film as well as best non-original screenplay, photography and sound.

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‘The Eight Mountains’ Scores Top Honor at Italy’s David di Donatello Awards

‘The Eight Mountains’ Scores Top Honor at Italy’s David di Donatello Awards

“The Eight Mountains,” Belgian directors Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s Italian-language drama about friendship, mountains and growing up, scored the top prize at Italy’s 68th David di Donatello Awards. Besides winning best picture, the film also scooped statuettes for best non-original screenplay, photography and sound.

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Cottage Core: the partners behind The Eight Mountains share the silly and sensual films they love

Cottage Core: the partners behind The Eight Mountains share the silly and sensual films they love

What’s a film that you have had a lifelong bond with? One you can go a long time without watching, and then return to as an old friend.  CV : The Piano by Jane Campion opened up a world of intimacy and eroticism to me when I was thirteen. I remember watching it with my mother and her jumping on top of me to prevent me from watching when things got too tense. We both loved it…

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Cinema Guild Books June Release For ‘Umberto Eco: A Library Of The World,’ Documentary About Italian Literary Giant’s Voluminous Interests

Cinema Guild Books June Release For ‘Umberto Eco: A Library Of The World,’ Documentary About Italian Literary Giant’s Voluminous Interests

Cinema Guild has acquired U.S. rights to Umberto Eco: A Library of the World, a documentary about the bestselling Italian author with perhaps the greatest intellectual appetite of any writer of his time. Cinema Guild announced it will release the film, directed by Davide Ferrario, beginning June 30 at Film Forum in New York

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LA Times Review: ‘The Eight Mountains’ is already an art-house hit — and an emotional powerhouse

LA Times Review: ‘The Eight Mountains’ is already an art-house hit — and an emotional powerhouse

In the most exhilarating moment in “The Eight Mountains,” a movie of soaring visual majesty and churning emotional force, a dark-haired young man named Pietro (Luca Marinelli) clambers excitedly up a rocky slope somewhere in the Italian Alps, the camera keeping pace with his slow but steady ascent.

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