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Italy’s Most Wanted Mafia Boss Set For High-End Movie Following Arrest After 30 Years on the Run
The story of Italy’s most-wanted Mafia boss, Matteo Messina Denaro, whose recent arrest by police in Palermo after 30 years on the run made global headlines, is set to become a big-budget film. Rome-based producer Marco Belardi (“Perfect Strangers”) has acquired rights to ace anti-Mafia journalist Lirio Abbate’s book about the Cosa Nostra boss.
Berlin Doc ‘Walls of Bergamo’ Depicts Italian City When it Became Epicenter of Pandemic in Europe – Watch Clip
In the first few months of 2020, huge swathes of Northern Italy were hit by the COVID-19 virus. Soon the death toll in the city of Bergamo reached such heights that an army convoy had to transport coffins out because its cemeteries and crematoriums were full. In his powerful doc “The Walls of Bergamo”…
Disney+ Original ‘The Good Mothers’ Scoops Berlinale Series Award
A buzz title at Berlinale Series and one of Disney+’s early big plays in Southern Europe, U.K.-Italian mafia series “The Good Mothers” walked off on Wednesday night with the Berlin Festival’s inaugural Berlinale Series Award. A large virtue of the series is to come in at the mafia from a novel angle: a real story of women who dare to defy the Italian mob.
Mario Martone on Capturing ‘Il Postino’ Actor Massimo Troisi’s Humor and Humanity in Berlin Doc ‘Somebody Down There Likes Me’
Veteran auteur Mario Martone, whose Naples-set drama “Nostalgia” launched last year from Cannes, has quite a lot in common with Massimo Troisi, Italy’s beloved late comic actor-director who is best known internationally as the star of Oscar-winning film “Il Postino.” Which is why Martone was well-suited to direct the multi-layered doc about Troisi’s legacy…
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.