Italian producer, director, and film and TV industry pioneer Renzo Rossellini is being honored with the Locarno Film Festival’s lifetime achievement award.
The Swiss fest dedicated to indie cinema will pay tribute to the consummate filmmaker and renaissance man – who as a producer shepherded works by master directors such as Federico Fellini, Lina Wertmüller, Werner Herzog and Francis Ford Coppola – with a screening of Fellini’s 1980 work “City of Women” on its 8,000 seat open-air Piazza Grande venue on Aug. 10, followed by an onstage conversation the next day.
Rossellini who also worked as assistant director for his father Roberto and, among others, François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol – and is a director in his own right – “Has never ceased his quest to pass on his knowledge of the cinema, teaching generations of students and cineastes with passion and commitment,” the fest said in a statement.
“Film is a tool for learning...
The Swiss fest dedicated to indie cinema will pay tribute to the consummate filmmaker and renaissance man – who as a producer shepherded works by master directors such as Federico Fellini, Lina Wertmüller, Werner Herzog and Francis Ford Coppola – with a screening of Fellini’s 1980 work “City of Women” on its 8,000 seat open-air Piazza Grande venue on Aug. 10, followed by an onstage conversation the next day.
Rossellini who also worked as assistant director for his father Roberto and, among others, François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol – and is a director in his own right – “Has never ceased his quest to pass on his knowledge of the cinema, teaching generations of students and cineastes with passion and commitment,” the fest said in a statement.
“Film is a tool for learning...
- 6/1/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Tel Aviv-based sales agent Cinephil has taken international sales rights to high-concept doc “The Rossellinis,” which will provide a tongue-in-cheek autobiographical look at the descendants living around the world of iconic Italian director Roberto Rossellini’s extended family and is being directed by his grandson, Alessandro Rossellini.
“The Rossellinis,” which is being pitched at Rome’s Mia market, takes its cue from the uneasy legacy that the master auteur, who first galvanized global film buffs with “Rome Open City,” left on the progeny spawned by three wives — who include Ingrid Bergman of course — during the course of a glorious, albeit uneven, cinematic career that followed. Besides Ingrid Bergman, the other two women with whom Rossellini had kids were Italian production designer Marcella De Marchis and Indian screenwriter Sonali Das Gupta.
The extended Rossellini family includes Italians, Swedes, Afro-Americans, Indians, atheists, Catholics and Muslims.
“It’s a voyage of rediscovery of my family,...
“The Rossellinis,” which is being pitched at Rome’s Mia market, takes its cue from the uneasy legacy that the master auteur, who first galvanized global film buffs with “Rome Open City,” left on the progeny spawned by three wives — who include Ingrid Bergman of course — during the course of a glorious, albeit uneven, cinematic career that followed. Besides Ingrid Bergman, the other two women with whom Rossellini had kids were Italian production designer Marcella De Marchis and Indian screenwriter Sonali Das Gupta.
The extended Rossellini family includes Italians, Swedes, Afro-Americans, Indians, atheists, Catholics and Muslims.
“It’s a voyage of rediscovery of my family,...
- 10/19/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Hollywood Scandals: Ingrid Bergman / Elizabeth Taylor / Lana Turner / Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. (Photo: Ingrid Bergman. See previous article: “Roman Polanski / Charles Chaplin / Errol Flynn / William Desmond Taylor murder / Rex Harrison & Carole Landis suicide: Hollywood Scandals.”) Ingrid Bergman / Roberto Rossellini affair Ingrid Bergman’s Hollywood career was ruined after it was discovered that Bergman, then married to dentist Petter Lindström, was pregnant with the child of another man: Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, married at the time to future movie costume designer Marcella De Marchis. If you think self-righteous jerks are giving Kristen Stewart a hard time [...]...
- 7/28/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
"Apostle of degradation" Ingrid Bergman and co-star Bing Crosby in Leo McCarey's The Bells St. Mary's Natalie Portman's winning a Best Actress while both pregnant and unmarried has irked Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee. But Huckabee's criticism about the "glamorization" of Portman's out-of-wedlock pregnancy pales in comparison to the furor that greeted the announcement that Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman, then married to dentist Petter Lindström, was pregnant — and the father was Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, internationally renowned for his neo-realist efforts Open City and Paisan, and married at the time to future film costume designer Marcella De Marchis. By the time the scandal erupted, Ingrid Bergman had already won a Best Actress Oscar — for a not very good performance as a woman whose husband (Charles Boyer) tries to drive her nuts in George Cukor's 1944 noirish melodrama Gaslight. Bergman had also been nominated for her Spanish revolutionary...
- 3/5/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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