Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man, Simon Stone.s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom.s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
- 5/6/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Fortissimo Films has added two Last Summer from Italy and Atlantic from the Netherlands to its Cannes slate.
Fortissimo Films is to begin pre-sales at the Cannes market on Italian feature Last Summer and Dutch film Atlantic. Both are currently in post-production and slated for festival launches later this year.
Fortissimo will handle worldwide sales for both outside their respective countries of origin and will introduce the films to buyers during the Marche with exclusive footage.
Last Summer marks the feature debut of London-based Italian commercials and short film director Leonardo Guerra Seragnoli.
Starring Rinko Kikuchi (Babel), the English and Japanese language film also introduces child actor Ken Brady. Produced by Elda Ferri (Jean Vigo Italia), Luigi Musini (Cinemaundici) and Rai Cinema, the film was written by Seragnoli and Igort. Acclaimed Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto is a contributing writer on the film.
The film is partially set on a luxury yacht anchored off the coast of Apulia...
Fortissimo Films is to begin pre-sales at the Cannes market on Italian feature Last Summer and Dutch film Atlantic. Both are currently in post-production and slated for festival launches later this year.
Fortissimo will handle worldwide sales for both outside their respective countries of origin and will introduce the films to buyers during the Marche with exclusive footage.
Last Summer marks the feature debut of London-based Italian commercials and short film director Leonardo Guerra Seragnoli.
Starring Rinko Kikuchi (Babel), the English and Japanese language film also introduces child actor Ken Brady. Produced by Elda Ferri (Jean Vigo Italia), Luigi Musini (Cinemaundici) and Rai Cinema, the film was written by Seragnoli and Igort. Acclaimed Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto is a contributing writer on the film.
The film is partially set on a luxury yacht anchored off the coast of Apulia...
- 5/9/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Rome-based sales company Adriana Chiesa Enterprises (Ace) will launch sales on Roberto Faenza’s English-language Anita B., about a young Auschwitz survivor trying to re-build her life after the war, at the Efm.
Eline Powell, who got her big screen break in Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet, plays Anita opposite Robert Sheehan, as a young man with whom she embarks on a passionate affair.
Rising star Sheehan, best known for his roles in TV series Misfits and fantasy feature The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, is also set to star in Tiago Mesquita’s Caesar and Gren Wells’ The World Within this year.
Life is Beautiful producer Elda Ferri of Jean Vigo Italia and Luigi Musini of Cinema Undici co-produced the film.
Ace is handling all international rights except for the Us. The picture’s Us co-producer Ron Stein of Four of a Kind Productions is handling North America rights. Stein also co-produced Faenza’s last film Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You...
Eline Powell, who got her big screen break in Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet, plays Anita opposite Robert Sheehan, as a young man with whom she embarks on a passionate affair.
Rising star Sheehan, best known for his roles in TV series Misfits and fantasy feature The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, is also set to star in Tiago Mesquita’s Caesar and Gren Wells’ The World Within this year.
Life is Beautiful producer Elda Ferri of Jean Vigo Italia and Luigi Musini of Cinema Undici co-produced the film.
Ace is handling all international rights except for the Us. The picture’s Us co-producer Ron Stein of Four of a Kind Productions is handling North America rights. Stein also co-produced Faenza’s last film Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You...
- 1/28/2014
- ScreenDaily
Rome -- Italian publisher DeAgostini announced Wednesday that it would sell its film distribution unit Mikado to Franco Tato.
Tato earned his stripes working for DeAgostini rival Mondadori, which is part of the media empire owned by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Terms of the deal were not discussed, but it means that DeAgostini is backing away from the film sector less than two years after it entered it by acquiring a controlling stake in Mikado from founders Roberto Cicutto and Luigi Musini.
Mikado has distributed more than 400 films, and owns the Italian rights to Michael Moore's documentary "Capitalism: A Love Story," which is set to go into wide distribution in Italy later this year after its Sept. 6 world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
Tato earned his stripes working for DeAgostini rival Mondadori, which is part of the media empire owned by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Terms of the deal were not discussed, but it means that DeAgostini is backing away from the film sector less than two years after it entered it by acquiring a controlling stake in Mikado from founders Roberto Cicutto and Luigi Musini.
Mikado has distributed more than 400 films, and owns the Italian rights to Michael Moore's documentary "Capitalism: A Love Story," which is set to go into wide distribution in Italy later this year after its Sept. 6 world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
- 9/16/2009
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
BERLIN -- Nearing 80, French new wave director Jacques Rivette continues to display a fine touch with "Don't Touch the Axe," an intimate tale about the games lovers play taken to extremes.
Based on a novella titled The Duchesse de Langeais by Honore de Balzac, it's the story of a dedicated soldier back from the wars and the socialite lady he loves not wisely but too well.
Handsomely produced and featuring fine performances, the film will travel well to festivals and art houses where audiences respond to classy period pieces with a modern sensibility.
The film begins and ends with encounters taking place several years later than the central events, which are told in flashback. Guillaume Depardieu stars as Napoleonic Gen. Armand de Montriveau who returns to Paris following a time imprisoned by the enemy bearing his wounds and his dignity with equal solemnity. Introduced to the beautiful and mischievous Antoinette de Langeais (Jeanne Balibar) at a fashionable salon, the soldier is instantly captivated.
The lady is also intrigued but such is her taste for coquetry that she makes his seduction a game full of promises and teasing, almost driving him to distraction. Although smitten, de Montriveau comes to the conclusion that he is being played for a fool and determines that turnabout is fair play.
Now it's de Langeais turn to have her emotions toyed with although she continues to give as good as she gets. Rivette takes great care with these scenes, which are filled with subtle by-play and executed with finesse by the two actors.
Cinematographer William Lubtchansky captures beautifully Maira Ramedhan Levy's costumes and Emmanuel de Chauvigny's production design and the rest of the cast serve the story well.
The screenplay by Rivette, Pascal Bonitzer, and Christine Laurent employs several lines taken directly from Balzac, whose wit could be as deft and precise as Oscar Wilde's. The film's title comes from a warning given to de Montriveau at a display of the blade used to execute an English king that serves as a caution about keeping his head. Depardieu and Balibar relish the dialogue and body language of the battling lovers so that their clashes appear to be a tense but rapier-like combination of chess and fencing.
DON'T TOUCH THE AXE (NE TOUCHEZ PAS LA HACHE)
IFC Films
Pierre Grise Prods., Cinemaundici, Arte France Cinema.
Credits:
Director: Jacques Rivette
Writer: Jacques Rivette, Pascal Bonitzer, Christine Laurent
Producers: Martine Marignac, Maurice Tinchant
Director of photography: William Lubtchansky
Production designer: Emmanuel de Chauvigny
Music: Pierre Allio
Costume designer: Maira Ramedhan Levy
Co-producers: Luigi Musini, Roberto Cicutto, Ermanno Olmi
Editor: Nicole Lubtchansky
Cast:
Antoinette de Langeais: Jeanne Balibar
Armand de Montriveau: Guillaume Depardieu
Princesse de Blamont-Chauvry: Bulle Ogier
Vidame de Pamiers: Michel Piccoli
Le Duc de Grandlieu: Barbet Schroeder
Clara de Serizy: Anne Cantineau
Julien: Mathias Jung
Lisette: Julie Judd
Running time -- 137 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Based on a novella titled The Duchesse de Langeais by Honore de Balzac, it's the story of a dedicated soldier back from the wars and the socialite lady he loves not wisely but too well.
Handsomely produced and featuring fine performances, the film will travel well to festivals and art houses where audiences respond to classy period pieces with a modern sensibility.
The film begins and ends with encounters taking place several years later than the central events, which are told in flashback. Guillaume Depardieu stars as Napoleonic Gen. Armand de Montriveau who returns to Paris following a time imprisoned by the enemy bearing his wounds and his dignity with equal solemnity. Introduced to the beautiful and mischievous Antoinette de Langeais (Jeanne Balibar) at a fashionable salon, the soldier is instantly captivated.
The lady is also intrigued but such is her taste for coquetry that she makes his seduction a game full of promises and teasing, almost driving him to distraction. Although smitten, de Montriveau comes to the conclusion that he is being played for a fool and determines that turnabout is fair play.
Now it's de Langeais turn to have her emotions toyed with although she continues to give as good as she gets. Rivette takes great care with these scenes, which are filled with subtle by-play and executed with finesse by the two actors.
Cinematographer William Lubtchansky captures beautifully Maira Ramedhan Levy's costumes and Emmanuel de Chauvigny's production design and the rest of the cast serve the story well.
The screenplay by Rivette, Pascal Bonitzer, and Christine Laurent employs several lines taken directly from Balzac, whose wit could be as deft and precise as Oscar Wilde's. The film's title comes from a warning given to de Montriveau at a display of the blade used to execute an English king that serves as a caution about keeping his head. Depardieu and Balibar relish the dialogue and body language of the battling lovers so that their clashes appear to be a tense but rapier-like combination of chess and fencing.
DON'T TOUCH THE AXE (NE TOUCHEZ PAS LA HACHE)
IFC Films
Pierre Grise Prods., Cinemaundici, Arte France Cinema.
Credits:
Director: Jacques Rivette
Writer: Jacques Rivette, Pascal Bonitzer, Christine Laurent
Producers: Martine Marignac, Maurice Tinchant
Director of photography: William Lubtchansky
Production designer: Emmanuel de Chauvigny
Music: Pierre Allio
Costume designer: Maira Ramedhan Levy
Co-producers: Luigi Musini, Roberto Cicutto, Ermanno Olmi
Editor: Nicole Lubtchansky
Cast:
Antoinette de Langeais: Jeanne Balibar
Armand de Montriveau: Guillaume Depardieu
Princesse de Blamont-Chauvry: Bulle Ogier
Vidame de Pamiers: Michel Piccoli
Le Duc de Grandlieu: Barbet Schroeder
Clara de Serizy: Anne Cantineau
Julien: Mathias Jung
Lisette: Julie Judd
Running time -- 137 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 2/22/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- #27. Miracle at St. Anna Director: Spike LeeWriters: James McBride adapts from his own novel. Producers: Roberto Cicutto and Luigi Musini (Ne touchez pas la hache) and Lee Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures The Gist: Based on U.S. author James McBride's novel about black American soldiers fighting the German army in the mountains of Tuscany, Derek Luke will play one of four members of the U.S. Army's all-black 92nd Division who get separated from their squad behind enemy lines. Fact: Lee is quoted as saying "I met a black veteran who fought at Iwo Jima, and he told me how disappointed he was that there was not even one Afro-American (soldier) in Clint Eastwood's two films". See It: This reminds me of one of the episodes in Roberto Rossellini Paisà (Paisan) and could be Spike Lee's crowning acheivement. Release Date/Status?: Currently filming,
- 1/31/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
- #77.The Duchess of Langeais (Ne touchez pas la hache) Director: Jacques RivetteScreenwriters: Pascal Bonitzer, Christine Laurent and RivetteProducers: Roberto Cicutto, Martine Marignac, Luigi Musini, Ermanno Olmi and Maurice Tinchant Distributor: IFC Films The Gist: Based on Honore de Balzac's novella, Antoinette (Balibar) is the Duchess of Langeais, a married coquette who frequents the most extravagant balls in 1820’s Paris. At one such event she meets the handsome, brooding general Armand de Montriveau (Depardieu), who recounts his death-defying adventures in Napoleon’s army. Fact: Jeanne Balibar also starred in Rivette's Va Savoir. See It: Film was one of the most talked about from the Berlin Film Festival in 07'. Release Date/Status?: Day and date IFC films release on February 22nd. ...
- 1/29/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
ROME -- The production team behind Spike Lee's wartime drama Miracle at St. Anna on Friday announced the Italian-language cast for the film and said that work on the project will begin Oct. 15.
The film, which will be shot mostly on location in Tuscany, tells the story of a group of black U.S. soldiers who get involved in a Tuscan village's efforts to weed out a traitor.
According to producers Luigi Musini and Roberto Cicutto, the Italian-language cast will include Pierfrancesco Favino (Romanzo Criminale), Omero Antonutti (La Ragazza del Lago), Valentina Cervi (War and Peace), Lydia Biondi (HBO-BBC's Rome) and Italian TV actor Sergio Albelli.
Producers have not yet announced the films English- and German-speaking cast.
In addition to Musini and Cicutto, producers will be Italy's 01 Distribution, RAI Cinema and Lee's own 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks.
The film, which will be shot mostly on location in Tuscany, tells the story of a group of black U.S. soldiers who get involved in a Tuscan village's efforts to weed out a traitor.
According to producers Luigi Musini and Roberto Cicutto, the Italian-language cast will include Pierfrancesco Favino (Romanzo Criminale), Omero Antonutti (La Ragazza del Lago), Valentina Cervi (War and Peace), Lydia Biondi (HBO-BBC's Rome) and Italian TV actor Sergio Albelli.
Producers have not yet announced the films English- and German-speaking cast.
In addition to Musini and Cicutto, producers will be Italy's 01 Distribution, RAI Cinema and Lee's own 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks.
- 9/22/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
ROME -- Spike Lee's latest film project, "Miracle at St. Anna", will start shooting in 2008 in Tuscany, backed by new production company On My Own created by veteran Italian producers Roberto Cicutto and Luigi Musini.
Rumors about a Lee project in Tuscany have circulated in Italy for weeks, heightened last month by news that the award-winning director would come to Tuscany in July to accept the 41st Fiesole Master of Film Prize, awarded in the village of Fiesole just outside Florence. The award is given to industry players for career achievements.
The film will be based on James McBride's prize-winning war novel of the same name, which tells the story of three U.S. soldiers who venture between the German lines and the squadrons of predominantly black U.S. divisions in World War II in Italy in order to rescue a fourth soldier.
The Fiesole prize will be the second time in less than a year that Lee was presented with a major honor in Italy: Last year, Lee's Hurricane Katrina documentary "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts" won two prizes at the Venice Film Festival.
Rumors about a Lee project in Tuscany have circulated in Italy for weeks, heightened last month by news that the award-winning director would come to Tuscany in July to accept the 41st Fiesole Master of Film Prize, awarded in the village of Fiesole just outside Florence. The award is given to industry players for career achievements.
The film will be based on James McBride's prize-winning war novel of the same name, which tells the story of three U.S. soldiers who venture between the German lines and the squadrons of predominantly black U.S. divisions in World War II in Italy in order to rescue a fourth soldier.
The Fiesole prize will be the second time in less than a year that Lee was presented with a major honor in Italy: Last year, Lee's Hurricane Katrina documentary "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts" won two prizes at the Venice Film Festival.
ROME -- Spike Lee's latest film project, "Miracle at St. Anna", will start shooting in 2008 in Tuscany, backed by new production company On My Own created by veteran Italian producers Roberto Cicutto and Luigi Musini.
Rumors about a Lee project in Tuscany have circulated in Italy for weeks, heightened last month by news that the award-winning director would come to Tuscany in July to accept the 41st Fiesole Master of Film Prize, awarded in the village of Fiesole just outside Florence. The award is given to industry players for career achievements.
The film will be based on James McBride's prize-winning war novel of the same name, which tells the story of three U.S. soldiers who venture between the German lines and the squadrons of predominantly black U.S. divisions in World War II in Italy in order to rescue a fourth soldier.
The Fiesole prize will be the second time in less than a year that Lee was presented with a major honor in Italy: Last year, Lee's Hurricane Katrina documentary "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts" won two prizes at the Venice Film Festival.
Rumors about a Lee project in Tuscany have circulated in Italy for weeks, heightened last month by news that the award-winning director would come to Tuscany in July to accept the 41st Fiesole Master of Film Prize, awarded in the village of Fiesole just outside Florence. The award is given to industry players for career achievements.
The film will be based on James McBride's prize-winning war novel of the same name, which tells the story of three U.S. soldiers who venture between the German lines and the squadrons of predominantly black U.S. divisions in World War II in Italy in order to rescue a fourth soldier.
The Fiesole prize will be the second time in less than a year that Lee was presented with a major honor in Italy: Last year, Lee's Hurricane Katrina documentary "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts" won two prizes at the Venice Film Festival.
Italy's second-largest publisher is getting into the movie business, taking complete control of venerable art house distributor Mikado for an undisclosed sum, publishing giant DeAgostini said Tuesday.
Founded in 1901, DeAgostini trails only Silvio Berlusconi's Mondadori in the country's book and magazine publishing sector, and by taking control of Mikado, the company is aggressively wading into another sector where a Berlusconi-controlled company -- in this case Medusa -- is a market leader.
The company reportedly also is in talks to add TV production company Magnolia to its expanding portfolio. But it is the Mikado deal that is attracting headlines.
DeAgostini took a partial stake in the company in 2000 but had little to do with the day-to-day running of the company, with founding partners Roberto Cicutto and Luigi Musini continuing as managers. In the wake of Tuesday's move, Cicutto and Musini have stepped down from their management posts but will continue to work as producers for the company.
Founded in 1901, DeAgostini trails only Silvio Berlusconi's Mondadori in the country's book and magazine publishing sector, and by taking control of Mikado, the company is aggressively wading into another sector where a Berlusconi-controlled company -- in this case Medusa -- is a market leader.
The company reportedly also is in talks to add TV production company Magnolia to its expanding portfolio. But it is the Mikado deal that is attracting headlines.
DeAgostini took a partial stake in the company in 2000 but had little to do with the day-to-day running of the company, with founding partners Roberto Cicutto and Luigi Musini continuing as managers. In the wake of Tuesday's move, Cicutto and Musini have stepped down from their management posts but will continue to work as producers for the company.
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