The following interview was originally published in the second issue of Outskirts Film Magazine, an independent print magazine on the past and present of cinema. Issue two is now available from the Outskirts e-shop.At 189 pages, Outskirts Nº2 is made up of original essays, interviews, reviews, translations, and a single large dossier dedicated to Japanese filmmaker and actress Tanaka Kinuyo.Forever a Woman.During the last edition of the Locarno Film Festival, a retrospective dedicated to Douglas Sirk took place, organised by Bernard Eisenschitz and Roberto Turigliatto. Among the many incredible guests invited to introduce Sirk’s films, such as Miguel Marías, Jon Halliday, Olaf Möller, Martina Müller, was Laura Mulvey. In speaking to her several months later, what started out initially as a conversation between myself and Mulvey about Sirk, unexpectedly morphed into a broader investigation that included the work of Tanaka Kinuyo, the subject of our dossier.The...
- 8/8/2023
- MUBI
The 76th Locarno Film Festival is hosting one of the largest international retrospectives of Mexican popular cinema in decades, encompassing 36 titles of varying genres, from dramas to film noir as well as comedies, musicals, horror and sports.
Putting together “Daily Spectacle – The Different Seasons of Mexican Popular Cinema” took at least two years, according to writer and programmer Olaf Möller, who curated the selection alongside critic Roberto Turigliatto and in close collaboration with Filmoteca Unam director Hugo Villa and other key experts.
The unprecedented showcase of Mexican films ranging from the 1940s to the 1960s spans some 30 years of extraordinary creativity, which inspired subsequent generations of Mexican filmmakers.
Locarno first hosted a retrospective of Mexican cinema in 1957 but this new showcase goes beyond the Golden Age to more popular titles, with the oldest being “En Tiempos de Don Porfirio” (1940) and the youngest among them “Olimpiada en México”(1969), “two films that...
Putting together “Daily Spectacle – The Different Seasons of Mexican Popular Cinema” took at least two years, according to writer and programmer Olaf Möller, who curated the selection alongside critic Roberto Turigliatto and in close collaboration with Filmoteca Unam director Hugo Villa and other key experts.
The unprecedented showcase of Mexican films ranging from the 1940s to the 1960s spans some 30 years of extraordinary creativity, which inspired subsequent generations of Mexican filmmakers.
Locarno first hosted a retrospective of Mexican cinema in 1957 but this new showcase goes beyond the Golden Age to more popular titles, with the oldest being “En Tiempos de Don Porfirio” (1940) and the youngest among them “Olimpiada en México”(1969), “two films that...
- 8/2/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Stephen Fry-Narrated Doc Set For Prime Video
Mind Games – The Experiment, a Stephen Fry-narrated doc, is dropping today on Prime Video. The program is billed as a “a groun breaking study that follows sedentary and physically inactive gamers” to see if exercise makes their gameplaying abilities better by improving cognitive functions. It will follow four professional games, who specialize in chess, mahjong, memory and esports, respectively, and take the results from 70+ gamers elsewhere around the world to draw conclusions. The doc is from Beyond Productions, which is now part of Banijay. The study and doc were initially commissioned by international sportsware brand Asics, though the film is editorially independent and unbranded.
Mbc And Warner Bros Discovery Extend Middle East Pact
Middle Eastern media group Mbc has extended its content pact with Warner Bros Discovery. A new multi-year deal hands Mbc Group first-run free-tv rights on features such as Tenet,...
Mind Games – The Experiment, a Stephen Fry-narrated doc, is dropping today on Prime Video. The program is billed as a “a groun breaking study that follows sedentary and physically inactive gamers” to see if exercise makes their gameplaying abilities better by improving cognitive functions. It will follow four professional games, who specialize in chess, mahjong, memory and esports, respectively, and take the results from 70+ gamers elsewhere around the world to draw conclusions. The doc is from Beyond Productions, which is now part of Banijay. The study and doc were initially commissioned by international sportsware brand Asics, though the film is editorially independent and unbranded.
Mbc And Warner Bros Discovery Extend Middle East Pact
Middle Eastern media group Mbc has extended its content pact with Warner Bros Discovery. A new multi-year deal hands Mbc Group first-run free-tv rights on features such as Tenet,...
- 1/19/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
All That Heaven Allows (1955).“The studio loved the title All That Heaven Allows,” Douglas Sirk remarked of the second Jane Wyman/Rock Hudson vehicle he made for Universal in 1955, a project assigned to him after the box office windfall of Magnificent Obsession (1953). “They thought it meant you could have everything you wanted. I meant it exactly the other way round. As far as I am concerned, heaven is stingy.”1 The irony coursing through Sirk’s films was something that went largely unnoticed during his years in Hollywood, obscured—in the most popular of them—by lavish Technicolor and the soapy narrative trappings of the woman’s weepie. It was not until the late sixties, a decade after the German emigré had ditched California, and filmmaking, for the medicinal climes of Lugano, Switzerland, that the crueller contours of his work started to come into focus.Todd Haynes would forgo any such...
- 10/10/2022
- MUBI
Il bandito (1946) When his peers were busy whitewashing their nation’s crimes in the preposterous pietism of Neorealism, he made films that exposed the transactional individualism that ruled post-war Italy. When orthodox Marxists deemed commercial cinema the ultimate evil, he infused it with possibilities that exceeded box office returns. While everyone shot in Rome, he set many of his films in the anonymous provinces of northern Italy. Too popular to be considered an auteur yet too intellectual to be easily brushed aside, these may well be some of the reasons why Alberto Lattuada has occupied such an ambivalent place in the history of Italian cinema, one that has resisted canonization and has been largely confined to the country’s borders. An almost complete retrospective of his films, organized by Roberto Turigliatto during the last edition of the Locarno Film Festival, has given us the chance to (re-)discover a director who has worked across genres,...
- 9/20/2021
- MUBI
It will replace the Kinuyo Tanaka retrospective planned by former director Lili Hinstin.
The Locarno Film Festival will turn the spotlight on the work of late Italian director Alberto Lattuada for the retrospective of its 74th edition, scheduled to run from August 4- 14 this year.
The programme, which will be curated by Roberto Turigliatto, is the first element of Locarno’s 74th edition to be unveiled by the festival’s newly appointed artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro.
Plans have been dropped for a retrospective celebrating the work of Japanese director and actress Kinuyo Tanaka, which was announced by Nazzaro’s...
The Locarno Film Festival will turn the spotlight on the work of late Italian director Alberto Lattuada for the retrospective of its 74th edition, scheduled to run from August 4- 14 this year.
The programme, which will be curated by Roberto Turigliatto, is the first element of Locarno’s 74th edition to be unveiled by the festival’s newly appointed artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro.
Plans have been dropped for a retrospective celebrating the work of Japanese director and actress Kinuyo Tanaka, which was announced by Nazzaro’s...
- 1/26/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
A new strand, Harbour, will become the festival’s largest section.
Vanja Kaludjercic, the new director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr), has revealed a radical change in its programming structure and team for the 50th edition of the festival which is due to take place January 27- February 7, 2021.
One of the key changes is the introduction of a major new programming strand, Harbour, which will now become the festival’s largest section and will screen 60 new films. The Bright Future Competition will no longer take place.
“What we would like to do with Harbour is to break free...
Vanja Kaludjercic, the new director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr), has revealed a radical change in its programming structure and team for the 50th edition of the festival which is due to take place January 27- February 7, 2021.
One of the key changes is the introduction of a major new programming strand, Harbour, which will now become the festival’s largest section and will screen 60 new films. The Bright Future Competition will no longer take place.
“What we would like to do with Harbour is to break free...
- 7/8/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
Pioneering filmmaker and actress was second woman to direct a feature in history of Japanese cinema.
The Locarno Film Festival will celebrate the work of Japanese director and actress Kinuyo Tanaka at its upcoming 73rd edition (August 5-15), in its first ever retrospective dedicated to a female artist.
Tanaka (1909 –1977) was a pioneering figure in Japanese cinema throughout her 50-year career, appearing in the films of legendary directors Yasujiro Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi before striking off to direct her own films.
“This is the first time that the festival will be dedicating its retrospective to a female director, after 73 years,” said...
The Locarno Film Festival will celebrate the work of Japanese director and actress Kinuyo Tanaka at its upcoming 73rd edition (August 5-15), in its first ever retrospective dedicated to a female artist.
Tanaka (1909 –1977) was a pioneering figure in Japanese cinema throughout her 50-year career, appearing in the films of legendary directors Yasujiro Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi before striking off to direct her own films.
“This is the first time that the festival will be dedicating its retrospective to a female director, after 73 years,” said...
- 1/23/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
The following text by Carlo Chatrian, the Artistic Director of the Locarno Film Festival, is featured in Titanus. Family Diary of Italian Cinema, published by the Edizioni Sabinae in collaboration with the festival. The book is an Italian / English edition and is edited by film critic Sergio M. Germani, Simone Starace and Roberto Turigliatto.
In the past, Locarno has mounted epic retrospectives on Classical Hollywood filmmakers such as Otto Preminger and George Cukor. This year, the festival has ambitiously assembled a program spanning the legendary Italian production company's history. We're proud to present this piece, otherwise only available in print, to join Locarno in celebrating Titanus and the amazing breadth of films they have produced.
Titanus, the production studio founded and shaped by the Lombardo family, is a universe that extends far beyond the mandates of its presidents, and one that resists any single definition, far less being epitomized by a single film.
In the past, Locarno has mounted epic retrospectives on Classical Hollywood filmmakers such as Otto Preminger and George Cukor. This year, the festival has ambitiously assembled a program spanning the legendary Italian production company's history. We're proud to present this piece, otherwise only available in print, to join Locarno in celebrating Titanus and the amazing breadth of films they have produced.
Titanus, the production studio founded and shaped by the Lombardo family, is a universe that extends far beyond the mandates of its presidents, and one that resists any single definition, far less being epitomized by a single film.
- 8/1/2014
- by Carlo Chatrian
- MUBI
“My Fair Lady” director George Cukor has been selected as the subject of the Locarno International Film Festival’s 2013 retrospective. In addition, fest organizers have solidified the selection committee for the 66th annual Locarno event, which runs August 7-17 next year. Organized in collaboration with the Cinémathèque suisse and the National Film Museum in Turin, the Cukor retrospective will showcase all of the Oscar-winning director’s works over the 11 days of the festival. Among his films are “Camille,” “A Star Is Born,” “Heller in Pink Tights,” “The Blue Bird,” “The Philadelphia Story” and “Adam’s Rib.” Several panel discussions on Cukor’s work will take place, and the festival audience will have the opportunity attend a round-table chaired by Locarno curator Roberto Turigliatto. “For some years now the Festival has undertaken a re-reading of...
- 11/5/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
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