It would be nearly impossible to underestimate the excitement triggered by Gina Lollobrigida during her many visits to the Venice Film Festival.
The legendary actress, who died Jan. 16 at 95, always created a stir. Journalist Oriana Fallaci, writing in L’Europeo magazine, described Lollobrigida’s arrival in 1956: “A roar rose up from the crowd. The metal barricades risked snapping like twigs, the 156 policemen trying to hold back all those bodies were on the verge of being overwhelmed by the crush. Gina alighted from a taxi. … The photographers rushed towards her. [Her] bodyguard enclosed her in a circle of arms. … All of this took place at 10 in the evening on … the day of the inauguration of the 17th Film Festival, also known as Lollo’s Festival, for the heroine of our time.”
In an interview with Eilidh Hargreaves of The Daily Telegraph, Lollobrigida recalled a similar scene in 1962: “Before we could...
The legendary actress, who died Jan. 16 at 95, always created a stir. Journalist Oriana Fallaci, writing in L’Europeo magazine, described Lollobrigida’s arrival in 1956: “A roar rose up from the crowd. The metal barricades risked snapping like twigs, the 156 policemen trying to hold back all those bodies were on the verge of being overwhelmed by the crush. Gina alighted from a taxi. … The photographers rushed towards her. [Her] bodyguard enclosed her in a circle of arms. … All of this took place at 10 in the evening on … the day of the inauguration of the 17th Film Festival, also known as Lollo’s Festival, for the heroine of our time.”
In an interview with Eilidh Hargreaves of The Daily Telegraph, Lollobrigida recalled a similar scene in 1962: “Before we could...
- 8/30/2023
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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- 7/29/2023
- MUBI
At a certain point you care less about world premieres and fixate mostly on a festival’s repertory slate. And even by the high standards set with Cannes Classics or NYFF Revivals is this year’s Venice Classics in a class of its own. We could start at the new cuts for three of the greatest directors ever: One from the Heart is the latest film to be given a revision by Francis Ford Coppola, following recuts of Apocalypse Now, Twixt, and Dementia 13––to say nothing of restorations like The Rain People, of which we’re hosting the New York premiere next weekend––while Andrei Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev will debut in “the reconstruction of the complete original version, which was censored before its release and has never been seen until now.” Meanwhile one of Yasujiro Ozu’s greatest films, There Was a Father, has been amended by “recent rediscovery...
- 7/21/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
The first screening of the uncensored version of ’Andrei Rublev’ by Andrei Tarkovsky has also been programmed.
Venice Classics will include a screening of ‘The Exorcist’ and tributes to late filmmakers Ruggero Deodato and Carlos Saura as part of its line-up of restored features for the 2023 edition.
The Exorcist, by William Friedkin, returns in a restored version, to mark the 100th anniversary of its distributor, Warner Bros.
Italian genre master Deodato passed away last year. One of his most extreme films, Ultimo Mondo Cannibale, has been programmed in tribute. This edition also pays homage to Italian actor Gina Lollobrigida, who died in January,...
Venice Classics will include a screening of ‘The Exorcist’ and tributes to late filmmakers Ruggero Deodato and Carlos Saura as part of its line-up of restored features for the 2023 edition.
The Exorcist, by William Friedkin, returns in a restored version, to mark the 100th anniversary of its distributor, Warner Bros.
Italian genre master Deodato passed away last year. One of his most extreme films, Ultimo Mondo Cannibale, has been programmed in tribute. This edition also pays homage to Italian actor Gina Lollobrigida, who died in January,...
- 7/21/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Recently restored versions of William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist,” Terrence Malick’s “Days of Heaven” and Francis Ford Coppola’s “One From the Heart” feature in the Venice Classics section of the 80th Venice Film Festival.
The lineup of recently restored films in Venice Classics, which is curated by the festival’s artistic director Alberto Barbera in collaboration with Federico Gironi, was unveiled on Friday.
“The Exorcist” is screened, 50 years after it was produced by Warner Bros., alongside Disney’s “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,” starring Shirley Temple and directed by “the prolific and sometimes brilliant” Allan Dwan, to mark the Hollywood studios’ 100th anniversaries.
“One From the Heart” and Arturo Ripstein’s “Deep Crimson” are “not just restored, but also revised by the filmmakers themselves in what are genuine Director’s Cuts,” Barbera and Gironi said, while Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterpiece “Andrei Rublev” will be presented in the reconstruction of the original version,...
The lineup of recently restored films in Venice Classics, which is curated by the festival’s artistic director Alberto Barbera in collaboration with Federico Gironi, was unveiled on Friday.
“The Exorcist” is screened, 50 years after it was produced by Warner Bros., alongside Disney’s “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,” starring Shirley Temple and directed by “the prolific and sometimes brilliant” Allan Dwan, to mark the Hollywood studios’ 100th anniversaries.
“One From the Heart” and Arturo Ripstein’s “Deep Crimson” are “not just restored, but also revised by the filmmakers themselves in what are genuine Director’s Cuts,” Barbera and Gironi said, while Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterpiece “Andrei Rublev” will be presented in the reconstruction of the original version,...
- 7/21/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The Venice Film Festival will pay tribute to late Italian icon Gina Lollobrigida, who died in January, with a pre-opening event featuring a double bill of freshly restored works in which she stars.
The Lido’s annual pre-opening event on Aug. 29 will feature a 27-minute short by Orson Welles titled “Portrait of Gina.” In 1968, Welles interviewed Lollobrigida in her villa on the Appian Way as the pilot for an ABC TV series — a U.S. version of “Around the World With Orson Welles”– that ABC rejected.
Welles’ portrait of the diva remained in the vaults until 1986, when it was screened at the Venice Film Festival one year after Orson Welles’ death. This piece has been defined by Welles as a “personal essay” on Lollobrigida. Interestingly, when Lollobrigida saw “Portrait of Gina” in Venice in 1986, she reportedly tried to have it banned. The short’s restoration was done by the Munich...
The Lido’s annual pre-opening event on Aug. 29 will feature a 27-minute short by Orson Welles titled “Portrait of Gina.” In 1968, Welles interviewed Lollobrigida in her villa on the Appian Way as the pilot for an ABC TV series — a U.S. version of “Around the World With Orson Welles”– that ABC rejected.
Welles’ portrait of the diva remained in the vaults until 1986, when it was screened at the Venice Film Festival one year after Orson Welles’ death. This piece has been defined by Welles as a “personal essay” on Lollobrigida. Interestingly, when Lollobrigida saw “Portrait of Gina” in Venice in 1986, she reportedly tried to have it banned. The short’s restoration was done by the Munich...
- 7/18/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
After Blue (Paradis sale)The lineup for the 2021 festival has been revealed, including new films by Bertrand Mandico, Axelle Ropert, Abel Ferrara and others, alongside retrospectives and tributes, and much more.Piazza GRANDEBeckett (Ferdinando Cito Filomarino)Free Guy (Shawn Levy)Heat (Michael Mann)Hinterland (Stefan Ruzowitzky)Ida Red (John Swab)Monte Verità (Stefan Jäger)National Lampoon's Animal House (John Landis)Respect (Liesl Tommy)Rose (Aurélie Saada)Sinkhole (Kim Ji-hoon)The Alleys (Bassel Ghandour)The Terminator (James Cameron)Vortex (Gaspar Noé)Yaya e Lennie — The Walking Liberty (Alessandro Rak)Tomorrow My Love (Gitanjali Rao)Lynx (Laurent Geslin)Zeros and OnesCONCORSO INTERNAZIONALEAfter Blue (Paradis sale) (Bertrand Mandico)Al Naher (The River) (Ghassan Salhab)Espíritu sagrado (The Sacred Spirit) (Chema García Ibarra)Gerda (Natalya Kudryashova)I giganti (The Giants) (Bonifacio Angius)Jiao ma teng hui (A New Old Play) (Jiongjiong Qiu)Juju StoriesLa Place d'une autre (Secret Name) (Aurélia Georges)Leynilögga (Cop Secret...
- 7/1/2021
- MUBI
Above: 1960 re-release poster for Second Chance (Jean Delannoy, France, 1947).
A couple of weeks ago the invaluable New York movie poster store Posteritati unveiled their newest acquisitions: nearly 500 new posters including many superb, rare Czech designs and some stunning one-offs like this poster for a short film about Brian Eno. But one of the highlights for me was a small collection of posters by the German designer Isolde Monson-Baumgart, some of which I had never seen before.
I featured Baumgart’s sublime poster for The Earrings of Madame De... last year and have been looking for more work by her ever since. Baumgart, who passed away in 2011 at the age of 76, was one of the chief designers—under the late great Hans Hillmann—employed by the Neue Filmkunst, the arthouse distribution company founded by Walter Kirchner in 1953. Like many of her fellow designers who together revolutionized German film advertising in the 1960s,...
A couple of weeks ago the invaluable New York movie poster store Posteritati unveiled their newest acquisitions: nearly 500 new posters including many superb, rare Czech designs and some stunning one-offs like this poster for a short film about Brian Eno. But one of the highlights for me was a small collection of posters by the German designer Isolde Monson-Baumgart, some of which I had never seen before.
I featured Baumgart’s sublime poster for The Earrings of Madame De... last year and have been looking for more work by her ever since. Baumgart, who passed away in 2011 at the age of 76, was one of the chief designers—under the late great Hans Hillmann—employed by the Neue Filmkunst, the arthouse distribution company founded by Walter Kirchner in 1953. Like many of her fellow designers who together revolutionized German film advertising in the 1960s,...
- 6/6/2014
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
Italian film director and screenwriter who established a new school of social-realist comedy
The Italian film director Mario Monicelli has died aged 95, after jumping out of a hospital window in Rome. Monicelli directed more than 60 films, most of which he co-wrote. He was best known for I Soliti Ignoti (Big Deal On Madonna Street, 1958), which was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign-language film. It was remade by Louis Malle as Crackers (1984) and turned into a Broadway musical, Big Deal, by Bob Fosse in 1986. Monicelli's original is one of the most internationally admired Italian comedies of the past 60 years.
Born in Viareggio, Tuscany, Monicelli was the son of a journalist, Tomaso Monicelli, who founded one of the earliest Italian film magazines. Tomaso killed himself in 1946. Mario studied at the universities of Milan and Pisa and took an early interest in films. With the future publisher Alberto Mondadori, he collaborated...
The Italian film director Mario Monicelli has died aged 95, after jumping out of a hospital window in Rome. Monicelli directed more than 60 films, most of which he co-wrote. He was best known for I Soliti Ignoti (Big Deal On Madonna Street, 1958), which was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign-language film. It was remade by Louis Malle as Crackers (1984) and turned into a Broadway musical, Big Deal, by Bob Fosse in 1986. Monicelli's original is one of the most internationally admired Italian comedies of the past 60 years.
Born in Viareggio, Tuscany, Monicelli was the son of a journalist, Tomaso Monicelli, who founded one of the earliest Italian film magazines. Tomaso killed himself in 1946. Mario studied at the universities of Milan and Pisa and took an early interest in films. With the future publisher Alberto Mondadori, he collaborated...
- 11/30/2010
- by John Francis Lane
- The Guardian - Film News
Monday night, watched a 1959 movie called Venezia, la luna e tu (‘Venice, the Moon and You’), in which Alberto Sordi played a gondolier who – you’ve guessed it – gets involved with two silly foreign girls. With only Tonino Delli Colli’s colour photography to recommend it, the main surprise of the film was in seeing Sordi, Nino Manfredi, and director Dino Risi – all of whom, a year or so later, became leading figures in the commedia all’italiana movement which cast a critical eye on contemporary mores in a changing Italy – caught up in such an inconsequential piece of fluff.
Tuesday morning: As there was nothing kicking off on the Lido till the evening, I caught a vaporetto over to Dorsoduro and made my way to the church of San Nicolò dei Mendicoli, which Donald Sutherland worked so hard to restore in Don’t Look Now. Obviously, whoever took over...
Tuesday morning: As there was nothing kicking off on the Lido till the evening, I caught a vaporetto over to Dorsoduro and made my way to the church of San Nicolò dei Mendicoli, which Donald Sutherland worked so hard to restore in Don’t Look Now. Obviously, whoever took over...
- 9/1/2007
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
TAORMINA, Sicily -- The 60th annual Locarno Film Festival will hold a special "Signore & Signore" sidebar focusing on some of the great actresses of Italian film, the festival said Tuesday.
The sidebar, which will be organized by RomaCinemaFest co-director Piera DeTassis, will highlight the work of Alida Valli from Mario Soldati's 1941 drama "Piccolo mondo antico" (Old-Fashioned World), Anna Magnani from Luchino Visconti's 1951 classic "Bellissima" (So Beautiful), Luigi Comencini's 1953 Oscar-nominated "Pane, amore, e fantasia" (Bread, Love and Dreams), star Gina Lollobrigida, and Lucia Bose from Michelangelo Antonioni 1953 film "La signora senza camelie" (Camille Without Camelias).
The Locarno festival will take place Aug. 1-11.
The sidebar, which will be organized by RomaCinemaFest co-director Piera DeTassis, will highlight the work of Alida Valli from Mario Soldati's 1941 drama "Piccolo mondo antico" (Old-Fashioned World), Anna Magnani from Luchino Visconti's 1951 classic "Bellissima" (So Beautiful), Luigi Comencini's 1953 Oscar-nominated "Pane, amore, e fantasia" (Bread, Love and Dreams), star Gina Lollobrigida, and Lucia Bose from Michelangelo Antonioni 1953 film "La signora senza camelie" (Camille Without Camelias).
The Locarno festival will take place Aug. 1-11.
- 6/20/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
ROME -- The second edition of the RomaCinemaFest will take place Oct. 18-26 and feature a special tribute to iconic director Federico Fellini, organizers said Friday.
The Fellini tribute in Rome follows a precedent set at this year's festival, which saw Italian directors Roberto Rosellini, Luchino Visconti and Mario Soldati honored on what was the centennial of each man's birth.
Next year's dates fall slightly later than this year's inaugural edition, which took place Oct. 13-21. But the announcement quashes speculation that the Italian capital's festival could be moved further in the calendar from the Venice International Film Festival, which traditionally takes place in early September.
This year, the Rome event started less than five weeks after Venice's Sept. 9 close, a situation that sparked a public row between officials of the two events.
On Thursday, officials from the two festivals along with those from the Turin Film Festival, held in November, agreed to collaborate and to develop separate identities (HR 12/8).
The Fellini tribute in Rome follows a precedent set at this year's festival, which saw Italian directors Roberto Rosellini, Luchino Visconti and Mario Soldati honored on what was the centennial of each man's birth.
Next year's dates fall slightly later than this year's inaugural edition, which took place Oct. 13-21. But the announcement quashes speculation that the Italian capital's festival could be moved further in the calendar from the Venice International Film Festival, which traditionally takes place in early September.
This year, the Rome event started less than five weeks after Venice's Sept. 9 close, a situation that sparked a public row between officials of the two events.
On Thursday, officials from the two festivals along with those from the Turin Film Festival, held in November, agreed to collaborate and to develop separate identities (HR 12/8).
- 12/12/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
VENICE, Italy -- The Italian government on Sunday announced an initiative to make 100 of the greatest Italian films ever made part of the public domain, allowing them to be used for educational or cultural purposes cost free. The announcement, made from the headquarters of the Venice Days sidebar on the Lido, did not include the names of the films to be chosen for the pool, but it did say they would come from the so-called "Golden Era" of Italian films -- 1945 to 1975. That period included the work of iconic directors such as Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Mario Soldati, Vittorio De Sica, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Federico Fellini. This year is the centennial of the birth of Rossellini, Visconti, and Soldati. All three directors are being honored both at the Venice festival and in October's RomaCinemaFest.
VENICE, Italy -- The Italian government on Sunday announced an initiative to make 100 of the greatest Italian films ever made part of the public domain, allowing them to be used for educational or cultural purposes cost free. The announcement, made from the headquarters of the Venice Days sidebar on the Lido, did not include the names of the films to be chosen for the pool, but it did say they would come from the so-called "Golden Era" of Italian films -- 1945 to 1975. That period included the work of iconic directors such as Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Mario Soldati, Vittorio De Sica, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Federico Fellini. This year is the centennial of the birth of Rossellini, Visconti, and Soldati. All three directors are being honored both at the Venice festival and in October's RomaCinemaFest.
ROME -- French actress Catherine Deneuve, the best actress winner at 1998's Venice International Film Festival, will head the main competition jury at the 63rd edition of the event, organizers said Wednesday. The festival also said it will host the world premiere of Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Mozart's The Magic Flute along with a series of screenings celebrating the centennial of the birth of iconic Italian directors Roberto Rossellini, Lucino Visconti and Mario Soldati. Deneuve has a long association with the Venice fest, which this year runs Aug. 30-Sept. 9. She made a name for herself at the 1967 edition as the star of Luis Bunuel's Golden Lion winner Belle de jour. In 1998, she won the Coppa Volpi award for her role as Marianne Malivert in Nicole Garcia's Place Vendome.
- 6/14/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
ROME -- French actress Catherine Deneuve, the best actress winner at 1998's Venice International Film Festival, will head the main competition jury at the 63rd edition of the event, organizers said Wednesday. The festival also said it will host the world premiere of Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Mozart's The Magic Flute along with a series of screenings celebrating the centennial of the birth of iconic Italian directors Roberto Rossellini, Lucino Visconti and Mario Soldati. Deneuve has a long association with the Venice fest, which this year runs Aug. 30-Sept. 9. She made a name for herself at the 1967 edition as the star of Luis Bunuel's Golden Lion winner Belle de jour. In 1998, she won the Coppa Volpi award for her role as Marianne Malivert in Nicole Garcia's Place Vendome.
- 6/14/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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