Gianfranco Rosi's Notturno is exclusively showing in many countries starting March 5, 2021 in Mubi's Luminaries series.Nonfiction films tend to exhibit anxiety over their subjective engagement with the factual world. It’s a tension that makers often feel compelled to resolve, or assuage. Some lean into a journalistic tone or style, gathering witnesses and evidence, telling a cogent story and presenting it soberly, burying or at least deemphasizing subjective choices. Others signal or admit their own interventions by including themselves in the frame, or by embracing an unconventional, conspicuous formal approach, eager to wriggle free from outsized expectations of objectivity. Either way the work is, at least in part, defined by this dialectic. Accepting that subjectivity is not only a given but a necessity, the very source of an artist’s power and mandate, the tension shifts to what the artist chooses to emphasize—what he or she is drawn to,...
- 3/9/2021
- MUBI
Retrospective will feature new film Notturno which premieres at upcoming Venice Film Festival
Italian director Gianfranco Rosi will be the guest of honour at this year’s edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Idfa), running November 18 to 29.
The festival will screen all of his past features including Boatman, Below Sea Level, El Sicario, Room 164, the Venice 2013 Golden Lion-winner Sacro Gra and Fire At Sea, which clinched the Golden Bear at the Berlinale in 2016.
The retrospective will also feature his new film Notturno, which world premieres in competition at the Venice Film Festival in September and then heads to Toronto.
Italian director Gianfranco Rosi will be the guest of honour at this year’s edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Idfa), running November 18 to 29.
The festival will screen all of his past features including Boatman, Below Sea Level, El Sicario, Room 164, the Venice 2013 Golden Lion-winner Sacro Gra and Fire At Sea, which clinched the Golden Bear at the Berlinale in 2016.
The retrospective will also feature his new film Notturno, which world premieres in competition at the Venice Film Festival in September and then heads to Toronto.
- 8/28/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦69¦
- ScreenDaily
Before Oscar season late last year, the name Gianfranco Rosi meant little here in these United States. Outside of globally minded art film scenes, Rosi’s name prior to 2016 would garner mostly head scratches and quick glances at an iMDB page. However, following the release of his brilliant, Oscar nominated documentary Fire At Sea, Rosi is not just a darling of the documentary world, but a filmmaker with a growing audience anticipating what he’s offering up next.
But what about those films the masses have missed? A filmmaker with well over two decades of experience behind the camera, Rosi has seen the occasional retrospective pop up in large cities like New York City. For the most part however, his filmography is a relative blind spot for a large number of cinephiles. Thankfully, Kino Lorber has helped to change that.
The director of six films, four of Rosi’s pictures...
But what about those films the masses have missed? A filmmaker with well over two decades of experience behind the camera, Rosi has seen the occasional retrospective pop up in large cities like New York City. For the most part however, his filmography is a relative blind spot for a large number of cinephiles. Thankfully, Kino Lorber has helped to change that.
The director of six films, four of Rosi’s pictures...
- 4/26/2017
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast is an exploration of how good movies get made through in-depth conversations with filmmakers about their artistic process. This fall and winter we were fortunate to host guests whose films are favorited to take home Academy Awards this weekend. As we get ready for the Oscars, here’s a look back at some of what we learned from the writers, directors and editors behind this year’s best films.
The Filmmaker Toolkit podcast is available on iTunes, Stitcher, SoundCloud and Google Play Music.
“Arrival” Screenwriter Eric Heisserer
Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life” is a beloved sci-fi short story, but no one thought it was natural fit for the big screen. Well, nobody besides Eric Heisserer, who was emotionally devastated the first time he read Chiang’s 32 page story. He wanted to find a way to capture that feeling in a movie, but...
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“Arrival” Screenwriter Eric Heisserer
Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life” is a beloved sci-fi short story, but no one thought it was natural fit for the big screen. Well, nobody besides Eric Heisserer, who was emotionally devastated the first time he read Chiang’s 32 page story. He wanted to find a way to capture that feeling in a movie, but...
- 2/25/2017
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Gianfranco Rosi with Anne-Katrin Titze on Boatman at the Brooklyn Academy of Music: "I remember when Jim Jarmusch saw this film many years ago, he thought this film was shot in the Fifties ..." Photo: Emilie Spiegel
Gianfranco Rosi and I met for the first time at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2014 for a conversation on Sacro Gra and last month we had a post-screening discussion on the opening weekend for his latest film, Italy's Oscar submission, Fire At Sea (Fuocoammare), at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, now playing side-by-side with Michael Moore's Hillary Clinton plaidoyer, Michael Moore In Trumpland, two days before the Presidential election.
Gopal in Boatman: "So the film is this hypothetical day on the Ganges. As I say, it took forever."
This past week after the screening of Boatman during the BAMcinématek Presents Gianfranco Rosi retrospective featuring the director's early films Below Sea Level and El Sicario,...
Gianfranco Rosi and I met for the first time at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2014 for a conversation on Sacro Gra and last month we had a post-screening discussion on the opening weekend for his latest film, Italy's Oscar submission, Fire At Sea (Fuocoammare), at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, now playing side-by-side with Michael Moore's Hillary Clinton plaidoyer, Michael Moore In Trumpland, two days before the Presidential election.
Gopal in Boatman: "So the film is this hypothetical day on the Ganges. As I say, it took forever."
This past week after the screening of Boatman during the BAMcinématek Presents Gianfranco Rosi retrospective featuring the director's early films Below Sea Level and El Sicario,...
- 11/6/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Gianfranco Rosi with Anne-Katrin Titze after the screening of Fire At Sea: "The only intuition I had at the beginning was to find a little boy as a point of view." Photo: Emilie Spiegel
In 2014, Gianfranco Rosi presented Sacro Gra, his nonjudgmental gaze that lands on bodies that matter at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. He returned this year for the New York Film Festival with his Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear winner, Fire At Sea (Fuocoammare), a masterpiece not only of documentary filmmaking but of timely and abiding storytelling.
Gianfranco Rosi on Samuele Pucillo: "He was eleven when I met him. He is like an old Woody Allen."
Rosi's early films Boatman, Below Sea Level and El Sicario, Room 164 will be screened at a BAMcinématek retrospective along with Italy's Foreign Language Film Oscar submission Fire at Sea, which will also screen at Doc NYC next month.
Director...
In 2014, Gianfranco Rosi presented Sacro Gra, his nonjudgmental gaze that lands on bodies that matter at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. He returned this year for the New York Film Festival with his Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear winner, Fire At Sea (Fuocoammare), a masterpiece not only of documentary filmmaking but of timely and abiding storytelling.
Gianfranco Rosi on Samuele Pucillo: "He was eleven when I met him. He is like an old Woody Allen."
Rosi's early films Boatman, Below Sea Level and El Sicario, Room 164 will be screened at a BAMcinématek retrospective along with Italy's Foreign Language Film Oscar submission Fire at Sea, which will also screen at Doc NYC next month.
Director...
- 10/24/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Doc Alliance lines up triple day-and-date premiere with Venice winner.
Gianfranco Rosi’s Sacro Gra, the first documentary to ever win the Golden Lion in Venice, has been chosen as the title to mark Doc Alliance Films’ first foray into triple day-and-date releases.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily at this week’s Visions du Réel in Nyon, Doc Alliance Films’ Andrea Pruchová revealed that this coming Monday (May 5), the 2013 Venice winner will simultaneously be shown in six Czech and Slovak cinemas from Prague to Bratislava, at the Doc Alliance online portal DAFilms.com, and on the Film Europe TV channel.
Rosi spent two years filming life along Rome’s main ring road highway, the Grande Raccordo Anulare, for his documentary which is handled internationally by Doc&Film International.
The gala premiere in Prague’s Cinema Světozor will be attended by Rosi in person, with other special events being organised in the other cinemas.
Meanwhile, those...
Gianfranco Rosi’s Sacro Gra, the first documentary to ever win the Golden Lion in Venice, has been chosen as the title to mark Doc Alliance Films’ first foray into triple day-and-date releases.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily at this week’s Visions du Réel in Nyon, Doc Alliance Films’ Andrea Pruchová revealed that this coming Monday (May 5), the 2013 Venice winner will simultaneously be shown in six Czech and Slovak cinemas from Prague to Bratislava, at the Doc Alliance online portal DAFilms.com, and on the Film Europe TV channel.
Rosi spent two years filming life along Rome’s main ring road highway, the Grande Raccordo Anulare, for his documentary which is handled internationally by Doc&Film International.
The gala premiere in Prague’s Cinema Světozor will be attended by Rosi in person, with other special events being organised in the other cinemas.
Meanwhile, those...
- 5/2/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
★★★★☆ Italian documentarian Gianfranco Rosi has been at Venice on several occasions, but with his new film, Sacro Gra (2013), he has graduated to the main competition. Rosi's roam on the orbital road of the title is a fascinating, witty and meditative piece which delivers an alternative view of Rome, far from the postcard locales of the Coliseum and La Dolce Vita. The road runs round the film, like a roaring river, filled with stories whilst passing unknowingly a landscape also rich in life and narrative. There are the herds of sheep and a tree surgeon who hopes to save his palms from an invasion of a rapacious insects.
Elsewhere, an aristocrat spends his days exercising and relaxing, chomping on an unlit cigar and making money by hiring his villa out to a photographer making a photo-novel; a fisherman catches eels in the river that the road crosses; and ambulance paramedics rush...
Elsewhere, an aristocrat spends his days exercising and relaxing, chomping on an unlit cigar and making money by hiring his villa out to a photographer making a photo-novel; a fisherman catches eels in the river that the road crosses; and ambulance paramedics rush...
- 9/7/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Gianfranco Rosi is the third and final Italian filmmaker in competition and he was certainly worth the wait. After his impressive documentaries Below Sea Level and El sicario – Room 164 (both of them prize-winners at Venice in 2008 and 2010 respectively), Rosi returns to the Lido with his depiction of Rome’s Gra, a 64km-long ring road.
Sacro Gra follows the stories of the people living and working on and alongside the road. We meet a Piemonte nobleman and his daughter (Paolo and Amelia), a tree doctor (Francesco), an eel fisherman (Cesare), a prince (Filippo), an actor (Gaetano) and a paramedic (Roberto), though we also meet the nobleman’s neighbours. Installed in mini-apartments after some calamity, they are fascinated by their new surroundings – the abandoned villas, the dearth of playing children, the people scared of leaving their homes. Paolo is the knowledgeable pub bore, an eccentric and charming man who never stops filling Amelia in on fascinating facts.
Sacro Gra follows the stories of the people living and working on and alongside the road. We meet a Piemonte nobleman and his daughter (Paolo and Amelia), a tree doctor (Francesco), an eel fisherman (Cesare), a prince (Filippo), an actor (Gaetano) and a paramedic (Roberto), though we also meet the nobleman’s neighbours. Installed in mini-apartments after some calamity, they are fascinated by their new surroundings – the abandoned villas, the dearth of playing children, the people scared of leaving their homes. Paolo is the knowledgeable pub bore, an eccentric and charming man who never stops filling Amelia in on fascinating facts.
- 9/5/2013
- by Jo-Ann Titmarsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The European Film Academy have announced the documentary film titles nominations and out of the ten mostly unknown titles we find a pair of exceptions in Burma VJ (which received some solid buzz at Sundance) and The Beaches of Agnes... - The European Film Academy have announced the documentary film titles nominations and out of the ten mostly unknown titles we find a pair of exceptions in Burma VJ (which received some solid buzz at Sundance) and The Beaches of Agnes (which received a film festival red carpet treatment and was shown at the Film Forum this summer). Previous winners of Prix Arte award include: last year's Helena Trestikova's Rene (read here) and 2007 the prize went to Rithy Panh's Paper cannot Wrap up Embers. The winner will be announced on the 12th of December. The Beaches Of Agnes - Agnès Varda, France Below Sea Level - Gianfranco Rosi,...
- 12/13/2009
- by Ioncinema.com Staff
- IONCINEMA.com
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