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Italian TV and Film Star Fabio Testi Recalls Long Career: ‘Cinema Is My Love’
Italian auteur Vittorio De Sica triumphed at the Berlin Film Festival when his 1971 masterpiece “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis” claimed the Golden Bear, on its way to the best foreign-language Oscar in 1972. “Finzi” also earned Italian film and TV star Fabio Testi an Italian Golden Globe for best breakthrough actor.
Berlinale 2023, Mario Martone: “Massimo and I are both restless children of our city”
BERLINALE 2023: The director spoke to us about his documentary on Massimo Troisi, an homage to the great Neapolitan filmmaker’s work “from one director to another”.
Berlin Review: Giacomo Abbruzzese’s ‘Disco Boy’
What do a Belarusian emigrant and an African freedom fighter have in common? It’s a question that Giacomo Abbruzzese’s feature debut, which had its world premiere in Competition at the Berlin Film Festival, answers in a beguilingly magic-realist and digressive way that sort of adds up, even though it requires a lot of good faith…
Italy’s ‘The Gymnasts,’ From ‘The Great Beauty’s,’ Indigo Film, Rolls Out In Over 30 Territories
Coming of age thriller “The Gymnasts,” one of the most recent titles from Europe’s public broadcaster partnership The Alliance, has been licensed to over 30 territories, London-based super indie All3Media International confirmed on Monday at the Berlinale Series Market .
‘Disco Boy’ Review: Franz Rogowski Does ‘Beau Travail’ in a Dreamy Legionnaire Odyssey
Giacomo Abbruzzese’s debut feature is a hazily seductive, frequently dreamlike study of life in the French Foreign Legion, fixated on masculine bodies in synchronized and sometimes violently clashing motion.
Alice Rohrwacher & Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Le Pupille’ Draws Inspiration From Classic Italian Cinema
“I wanted to create a film that was out of time,” Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher says about her Oscar-nominated live action short, Disney+ Original Films’ Le Pupille . “That was classic, but also hand-made.” Rohrwacher and the film’s producer, Oscar winner Alfonso Curarón, joined Deadline’s Contenders Film : The Nominees event to discuss their 37-minute film.
Fresh Face: ‘Disco Boy’ Director Giacomo Abbruzzese On His Long Journey To Making The Berlin Competition Cut With His First Feature
Paris-based Italian director Giacomo Abbruzzese says making the Berlin Film Festival competition cut with his first feature, “Disco Boy,” which toplines German star Franz Rogowski (“Passages,” ”Undine”), is “certainly a dream come true.”
Review: Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me – Berlinale 2023 – Berlinale Special
BERLINALE 2023: Mario Martone pays an affectionate and sincere tribute to the Neapolitan actor-director Massimo Troisi, who died prematurely in 1994 and is still a source of inspiration today
Simona Tabasco Joins Sydney Sweeney In Psychological Horror Film ‘Immaculate’
Simona Tabasco (The White Lotus) will star opposite Sydney Sweeney in the psychological horror film Immaculate from Black Bear Pictures. Details regarding Tabasco’s role are being kept under wraps.
‘Le Pupille’: Why Music Was Important for the Story of Italian Orphan Girls in Oscar-Nominated Short
Filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron wanted to explore making a series of short films honoring the different cultural traditions at the end of the year, from Christmas to Hanukkah to pagan traditions. His concept was to find a director suited to telling the story, depending on the culture..