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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Nanni Moretti’s ‘A Brighter Tomorrow’ Opens Strong in Italy Ahead of Cannes, as Director Takes Shot at Netflix

Nanni Moretti’s ‘A Brighter Tomorrow’ Opens Strong in Italy Ahead of Cannes, as Director Takes Shot at Netflix

Italian director Nanni Moretti’s new film “Il sol dell’avvenire” (“A Brighter Tomorrow”), a multi-layered love letter to filmmaking in the age of streaming giants, is doing brisk biz at the home box office ahead of its Cannes Film Festival international premiere.

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Marco Bellocchio’s ‘Kidnapped’ Debuts Trailer Ahead of Cannes World Premiere 

Marco Bellocchio’s ‘Kidnapped’ Debuts Trailer Ahead of Cannes World Premiere

Variety has been given exclusive access to the trailer for Marco Bellocchio’s “Kidnapped” (Rapito), which has its world premiere in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. The film starts in 1858 in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, when the Pope’s soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara family.

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Laetitia Casta Plays Battered Ex-Wife Accused of Murder in Italian Thriller ‘A Dark Story’; True Colours to Launch Sales in Cannes (EXCLUSIVE)

Laetitia Casta Plays Battered Ex-Wife Accused of Murder in Italian Thriller ‘A Dark Story’; True Colours to Launch Sales in Cannes (EXCLUSIVE)

Laetitia Casta will soon appear on the big screen as the former wife of an abusive southern Italian man whom she is accused of murdering in the thriller “A Dark Story,” directed by Italy’s Leonardo D’Agostini.

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