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‘Beetlejuice 2’: Monica Bellucci Joins Jenna Ortega, Michael Keaton
>Monica Bellucci, currently on screens in the comedy Mafia Mamma, is in negotiations to join the cast of bold-faced names in Beetlejuice 2.
‘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.
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…
‘Scarlet’ Trailer: ‘Martin Eden’ Filmmaker Pietro Marcello Directs a Jacques Demy-Esque Fairytale
Kino Lorber opens “Scarlet” in New York on June 9, with more dates to follow nationwide.
Majestic views and unforgettable friendship await you in ‘The Eight Mountains’
Two young boys meet in the Alps and forge a life-changing bond. It’s not just the visual grandeur of the Italian-language drama that wows you; it’s also the way it merges the epic and the intimate.
Pulsar Content closes North America deal on Italian gay drama ‘Fireworks’
New Italian Cinema in June.
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
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.
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.
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.