The Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss, the songwriter and perennial Oscar bridesmaid Diane Warren and Matteo Garrone, the director of this year’s best international feature Oscar-nominated Italian film Io Capitano, will all be honored on Sunday night during the opening ceremony of the 19th Los Angeles, Italia Film, Fashion and Art Festival at Hollywood’s Tcl Chinese Theatres, exactly one week before the 96th Academy Awards take place just down the street.
The festival, which is backed by Italy’s Ministry of Culture, will run through Saturday, March 9, and feature 112 film screenings (47 in movie theaters and 65 on the online platform eventive.org). This year’s edition will be hosted by one Italian screen legend, Franco Nero (as well as Italian actress/model Antonella Salvucci), and is dedicated to another, the late Marcello Mastroianni, whose centenary it coincides with, as well as the late Italian playwright Eduardo de Filippo.
Notable guests...
The festival, which is backed by Italy’s Ministry of Culture, will run through Saturday, March 9, and feature 112 film screenings (47 in movie theaters and 65 on the online platform eventive.org). This year’s edition will be hosted by one Italian screen legend, Franco Nero (as well as Italian actress/model Antonella Salvucci), and is dedicated to another, the late Marcello Mastroianni, whose centenary it coincides with, as well as the late Italian playwright Eduardo de Filippo.
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- 3/3/2024
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Marina Cicogna, a film producer and one of the first women to establish herself in the traditionally male cinema environment in Italy, died Saturday in Rome. She was 89.
Cicogna produced several important Italian films, including Metti, una Sera a Cena by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi and Indagine su un Cittadino al di Sopra di Ogni Sospetto (Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion) by Elio Petri, with the latter winning the Oscar for best foreign language film in 1971. The New York Times called her “one of the most powerful women in European cinema.”
Her extraordinary experience and career were recounted in 2021 in the documentary film Marina Cicogna. Life and Everything Else by Andrea Bettinetti and in her autobiography, Ancora Spero, released this year by Marsilio Publishing.
Cicogna died with Benedetta Gardona, her companion of more than 30 years, by her side.
Ahead of receiving the 2023 David Award for Lifetime Achievement this year, Cicogna...
Cicogna produced several important Italian films, including Metti, una Sera a Cena by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi and Indagine su un Cittadino al di Sopra di Ogni Sospetto (Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion) by Elio Petri, with the latter winning the Oscar for best foreign language film in 1971. The New York Times called her “one of the most powerful women in European cinema.”
Her extraordinary experience and career were recounted in 2021 in the documentary film Marina Cicogna. Life and Everything Else by Andrea Bettinetti and in her autobiography, Ancora Spero, released this year by Marsilio Publishing.
Cicogna died with Benedetta Gardona, her companion of more than 30 years, by her side.
Ahead of receiving the 2023 David Award for Lifetime Achievement this year, Cicogna...
- 11/6/2023
- by Livia Paccariè
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Marina Cicogna, Italy’s first major female film producer who shepherded films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Zeffirelli and Elio Petri, including Petri’s Oscar-winning “Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion,” has died. She was 89.
Cicogna died on Nov. 4 in her Rome home after a long battle with an unspecified form of cancer, according to Italian news agency Ansa.
The Venice Biennale foundation is a statement, praised her as “the first female film producer in Europe” and noted that she was always deeply linked to the Venice Film Festival that was founded by her grandfather, Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata.
Born in Rome on May 29, 1934, to Count Cesare Cicogna Mozzoni and Countess Annamaria Volpi di Misurata, Cicogna attended high school in Italy and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, where she struck up a friendship with Jack Warner’s daughter Barbara Warner and established a connection with Hollywood.
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Cicogna died on Nov. 4 in her Rome home after a long battle with an unspecified form of cancer, according to Italian news agency Ansa.
The Venice Biennale foundation is a statement, praised her as “the first female film producer in Europe” and noted that she was always deeply linked to the Venice Film Festival that was founded by her grandfather, Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata.
Born in Rome on May 29, 1934, to Count Cesare Cicogna Mozzoni and Countess Annamaria Volpi di Misurata, Cicogna attended high school in Italy and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, where she struck up a friendship with Jack Warner’s daughter Barbara Warner and established a connection with Hollywood.
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- 11/6/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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.
Based on the novel of the same name by Paolo Cognetti, it stars Luca Marinelli and Alessandro Borghi as two men from different backgrounds who form a life-long bond during summers spent together as children in a remote mountain village.
The film world premiered in Competition at Cannes last year where it co-won the Jury Prize. Read the Deadline review here.
It is the second time in the history of the awards that a film by non-Italian directors has clinched the best film prize.
The last time was in 1971 when the Dino de Laurentiis-produced epic Waterloo by Russian director Sergei Bonderchuk,...
The Eight Mountains won best film as well as best non-original screenplay, photography and sound.
Based on the novel of the same name by Paolo Cognetti, it stars Luca Marinelli and Alessandro Borghi as two men from different backgrounds who form a life-long bond during summers spent together as children in a remote mountain village.
The film world premiered in Competition at Cannes last year where it co-won the Jury Prize. Read the Deadline review here.
It is the second time in the history of the awards that a film by non-Italian directors has clinched the best film prize.
The last time was in 1971 when the Dino de Laurentiis-produced epic Waterloo by Russian director Sergei Bonderchuk,...
- 5/11/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
“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.
Given that the directors are not Italian, it was a particularly significant victory for “Mountains,” which was praised as “quietly magnificent” by Variety critic Jessica Kiang. The film, which is currently playing well on the U.S. arthouse circuit, tracks the decades-long friendship between two Italian boys named Pietro and Bruno — one from the city, the other a shepherd boy from the Alps.
“It’s pretty incredible,” commented a visibly moved Van Groeningen. “Two Belgians who win this prize in Italy for an Italian movie.” “Thank you for this declaration of love,” added Vandermeersch, his partner in life. “We love Italy very much.
Besides winning best picture, the film also scooped statuettes for best non-original screenplay, photography and sound.
Given that the directors are not Italian, it was a particularly significant victory for “Mountains,” which was praised as “quietly magnificent” by Variety critic Jessica Kiang. The film, which is currently playing well on the U.S. arthouse circuit, tracks the decades-long friendship between two Italian boys named Pietro and Bruno — one from the city, the other a shepherd boy from the Alps.
“It’s pretty incredible,” commented a visibly moved Van Groeningen. “Two Belgians who win this prize in Italy for an Italian movie.” “Thank you for this declaration of love,” added Vandermeersch, his partner in life. “We love Italy very much.
- 5/10/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Giancarlo Giannini, who was the late great Lina Wertmüller’s muse, helmer Gabriele Muccino (“The Pursuit of Happyness”), and Teresa Saponangelo, star of Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God,” are among top honorees of the seventh edition of Filming Italy — Los Angeles, the bridge between Italy and Hollywood set to run as a hybrid event Feb. 28-March 3.
The celebration of Italy’s top film and TV titles is headed by longtime Italian industry promoter Tiziana Rocca, a former chief of the Taormina Film Festival. She proudly points out that its physical screenings, starting on March 1 in L.A.’s Harmony Gold Theater, are among the first inperson events in Los Angeles as ceremonies open up in the city.
Thanks to Rocca’s dogged determination Giannini, who starred in nine Wertmüller films, starting with sex comedy and social satire “The Seduction of Mimi,” is to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The celebration of Italy’s top film and TV titles is headed by longtime Italian industry promoter Tiziana Rocca, a former chief of the Taormina Film Festival. She proudly points out that its physical screenings, starting on March 1 in L.A.’s Harmony Gold Theater, are among the first inperson events in Los Angeles as ceremonies open up in the city.
Thanks to Rocca’s dogged determination Giannini, who starred in nine Wertmüller films, starting with sex comedy and social satire “The Seduction of Mimi,” is to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- 2/28/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Late great Italian actor Vittorio Gassman, who is best known to U.S. audiences as the star of classics such as “Big Deal on Madonna Street” and “Il Sorpasso” (“The Easy Life”), will be celebrated by the Los Angeles-Italia Film Fashion and Art Festival, which will run March 20-26 at Hollywood’s Tcl Chinese Theater.
The annual pre-Oscars event comprising movies and music and celebrating showbiz ties between Italy and Hollywood, now at its 17th edition, will pay tribute to the centennial of Gassman’s birth with a mini-retro honoring the memory of the iconic thesp who, among other accolades, won the best actor prize at Cannes in 1975 for his performance as a blind man in Dino Risi’s ”Profumo di Donna,” later remade in English as ”Scent of a Woman” with Al Pacino.
“We are honored and extremely pleased to pay a well-deserved tribute to an Italian genius whose...
The annual pre-Oscars event comprising movies and music and celebrating showbiz ties between Italy and Hollywood, now at its 17th edition, will pay tribute to the centennial of Gassman’s birth with a mini-retro honoring the memory of the iconic thesp who, among other accolades, won the best actor prize at Cannes in 1975 for his performance as a blind man in Dino Risi’s ”Profumo di Donna,” later remade in English as ”Scent of a Woman” with Al Pacino.
“We are honored and extremely pleased to pay a well-deserved tribute to an Italian genius whose...
- 1/11/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Aaron Sorkin’s acclaimed and increasingly relevant political drama The Trial of the Chicago 7, which revolves around the raucous trial of a group of protesters accused of disrupting the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, took a leading four awards including best picture at the just concluded 25th annual Capri, Hollywood – The International Film Festival. If past winners at this Italian fest are any indication, the victories should give the Netflix film a boost stateside during Oscar season.
The DreamWorks production, originally put in motion 14 years ago by Steven Spielberg and written and directed by Sorkin, was originally set to be released by Paramount before the coronavirus pandemic turned the exhibition business on its heels and shut theaters — especially in key cities like New York and Los Angeles. It premiered on Netflix in October.
The film also took Capri awards for Sacha Baron Cohen as best supporting actor, film editing and a...
The DreamWorks production, originally put in motion 14 years ago by Steven Spielberg and written and directed by Sorkin, was originally set to be released by Paramount before the coronavirus pandemic turned the exhibition business on its heels and shut theaters — especially in key cities like New York and Los Angeles. It premiered on Netflix in October.
The film also took Capri awards for Sacha Baron Cohen as best supporting actor, film editing and a...
- 1/4/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
The Capri Hollywood Film Festival has named Brad Fischer to receive its 2018 Producer of the Year Award. Fischer this year added the Luca Guadagnino-directed Suspiria, the Eli Roth-directed The House With A Clock In Its Walls and the Antoine Fuqua-directed Suge Knight Showtime docu American Dream/American Knightmare to a credit list that includes David Fincher’s Zodiac, Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island and Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan.
“There is no one more deserving than Brad Fischer to be Producer of the Year for 2018,” said festival founder and producer Pascal Vicedomini. “Without his creativity and strong commitment in telling compelling stories, we wouldn’t have these incredible films from Luca, Eli, and Antoine this year. Bravo Brad! We are so happy to be both honoring you and showing these wonderful films at Capri Hollywood.”
Fischer said he was “incredibly grateful to the Capri in the World Institute...
“There is no one more deserving than Brad Fischer to be Producer of the Year for 2018,” said festival founder and producer Pascal Vicedomini. “Without his creativity and strong commitment in telling compelling stories, we wouldn’t have these incredible films from Luca, Eli, and Antoine this year. Bravo Brad! We are so happy to be both honoring you and showing these wonderful films at Capri Hollywood.”
Fischer said he was “incredibly grateful to the Capri in the World Institute...
- 12/17/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Producer Bradley J. Fischer, whose credits include recent releases Suspiria, A House With a Clock in Its Walls and doc American Dream/American Knightmare, will be honored at the Capri Hollywood film festival with the 2018 Producer of the Year Award.
"I’m incredibly grateful to the Capri in the World Institute and the Festival’s Board of Artists and Producers, including Pascal Vicedomini, Lina Wertmuller and Marina Cicogna for this amazing honor,” said Fischer. “It is, moreover, one that belongs to the visionary directors with whom I’ve had the privilege of working over the ...
"I’m incredibly grateful to the Capri in the World Institute and the Festival’s Board of Artists and Producers, including Pascal Vicedomini, Lina Wertmuller and Marina Cicogna for this amazing honor,” said Fischer. “It is, moreover, one that belongs to the visionary directors with whom I’ve had the privilege of working over the ...
- 12/17/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Producer Bradley J. Fischer, whose credits include recent releases Suspiria, A House With a Clock in Its Walls and doc American Dream/American Knightmare, will be honored at the Capri Hollywood film festival with the 2018 Producer of the Year Award.
"I’m incredibly grateful to the Capri in the World Institute and the Festival’s Board of Artists and Producers, including Pascal Vicedomini, Lina Wertmuller and Marina Cicogna for this amazing honor,” said Fischer. “It is, moreover, one that belongs to the visionary directors with whom I’ve had the privilege of working over the ...
"I’m incredibly grateful to the Capri in the World Institute and the Festival’s Board of Artists and Producers, including Pascal Vicedomini, Lina Wertmuller and Marina Cicogna for this amazing honor,” said Fischer. “It is, moreover, one that belongs to the visionary directors with whom I’ve had the privilege of working over the ...
- 12/17/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Brie Larson and Paola Cortellesi will share the Best Actress Of The Year awards at this year’s 20th edition of Capri, Hollywood – The International Film Festival.
The festival (Dec 27-Jan 2), held on the island of Capri, Italy, will showcase Lenny Abrahamson’s Room starring Larson, John Crowley’s Brooklyn starring Saoirse Ronan and Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard.
Screen Interview: Brie Larson
Cortellesi’s credits include Escort In Love and Scusate Es Esisto.
Previously announced films include Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl, starring Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander, and Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth, starring Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Paul Dano and Harvey Keitel.
“Brie Larson, who is only 26, is considered the new rising star in Hollywood thanks to her amazing work in this year’s Room and Trainwreck opposite Amy Schumer,” said Capri in The World Institute honourary board member Marina Cicogna.
“We look forward to seeing her in [link...
The festival (Dec 27-Jan 2), held on the island of Capri, Italy, will showcase Lenny Abrahamson’s Room starring Larson, John Crowley’s Brooklyn starring Saoirse Ronan and Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard.
Screen Interview: Brie Larson
Cortellesi’s credits include Escort In Love and Scusate Es Esisto.
Previously announced films include Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl, starring Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander, and Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth, starring Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Paul Dano and Harvey Keitel.
“Brie Larson, who is only 26, is considered the new rising star in Hollywood thanks to her amazing work in this year’s Room and Trainwreck opposite Amy Schumer,” said Capri in The World Institute honourary board member Marina Cicogna.
“We look forward to seeing her in [link...
- 12/7/2015
- ScreenDaily
Brie Larson and Paola Cortellesi will share the Best Actress Of The Year awards at this year’s 20th edition of Capri, Hollywood – The International Film Festival.
Running December 27 to January 2 2016 off the island of Capri, Italy, the festival will showcase Lenny Abrahamson’s Room starring Larson, John Crowley’s Brooklyn starring Saoirse Ronan and Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard.
Cortellesi’s credits include Escort In Love and Scusate Es Esisto.
Previously announced films include Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl with Eddie Redmayne and
Alicia Vikander and Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth starring Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Paul Dano and Harvey Keitel.
“Brie Larson, who at only 26, is considered the new rising star in Hollywood thanks to her amazing work in this year’s Room and Trainwreck opposite Amy Schumer,” said Capri in The World Institute honourary board member Marina Cicogna.
“We look forward to seeing her in Room, the film that...
Running December 27 to January 2 2016 off the island of Capri, Italy, the festival will showcase Lenny Abrahamson’s Room starring Larson, John Crowley’s Brooklyn starring Saoirse Ronan and Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard.
Cortellesi’s credits include Escort In Love and Scusate Es Esisto.
Previously announced films include Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl with Eddie Redmayne and
Alicia Vikander and Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth starring Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Paul Dano and Harvey Keitel.
“Brie Larson, who at only 26, is considered the new rising star in Hollywood thanks to her amazing work in this year’s Room and Trainwreck opposite Amy Schumer,” said Capri in The World Institute honourary board member Marina Cicogna.
“We look forward to seeing her in Room, the film that...
- 12/7/2015
- ScreenDaily
Taormina, Sicily -- Friday turned out to be soccer themed at the Taormina Film Fest, with a late afternoon screening of Italy's World Cup soccer match against Costa Rica drawing the day's biggest crowds, ahead of the Teatro Antico Italian premiere of Diego Luna's Cesar Chavez. The fest handed out several awards ahead of the Cesar Chavez screening, including one to former Italian soccer star Antonio Cabrini. Among the other honorees: Italian producer Marina Cicogna, whose 1970 crime drama Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra ogni sospetto) won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language
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- 6/21/2014
- by Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Pupi Avati's "Giovanna's Father" will have its world premiere at the Mann Chinese 6 Hollywood Theatre on Feb. 15 as the opening event of the weeklong fourth annual Los Angeles Italia -- Film, Fashion and Art Festival.
The celebration of Italian culture will showcase of the U.S. premieres of four other Italian films: Massimo Spano's documentary "Franco Cristaldi: An Italian Legend," Maurizio Scaparro's "The Last Pulcinella," Brando de LSica's "Christian de Sica: Talk About Me" and Pierpaolo Pasolini's "La Rabbia."
Chaired by Oscar-winning filmmaker Bobby Moresco and co-chaired by Marina Cicogna, Tony Renis, Mark Canton, Paul Haggis and Steven Zaillian, the fest, headed by festival director Pascal Vicedomini, also will include a tribute to the late Anthony Minghella.
"Most people know Anthony Minghella from his big studio movies like 'The English Patient' and 'Cold Mountain.' But there will always be a place in my heart for a little movie called 'Truly,...
The celebration of Italian culture will showcase of the U.S. premieres of four other Italian films: Massimo Spano's documentary "Franco Cristaldi: An Italian Legend," Maurizio Scaparro's "The Last Pulcinella," Brando de LSica's "Christian de Sica: Talk About Me" and Pierpaolo Pasolini's "La Rabbia."
Chaired by Oscar-winning filmmaker Bobby Moresco and co-chaired by Marina Cicogna, Tony Renis, Mark Canton, Paul Haggis and Steven Zaillian, the fest, headed by festival director Pascal Vicedomini, also will include a tribute to the late Anthony Minghella.
"Most people know Anthony Minghella from his big studio movies like 'The English Patient' and 'Cold Mountain.' But there will always be a place in my heart for a little movie called 'Truly,...
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