The Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss, the songwriter and perennial Oscar bridesmaid Diane Warren and Matteo Garrone, the director of this year’s best international feature Oscar-nominated Italian film Io Capitano, will all be honored on Sunday night during the opening ceremony of the 19th Los Angeles, Italia Film, Fashion and Art Festival at Hollywood’s Tcl Chinese Theatres, exactly one week before the 96th Academy Awards take place just down the street.
The festival, which is backed by Italy’s Ministry of Culture, will run through Saturday, March 9, and feature 112 film screenings (47 in movie theaters and 65 on the online platform eventive.org). This year’s edition will be hosted by one Italian screen legend, Franco Nero (as well as Italian actress/model Antonella Salvucci), and is dedicated to another, the late Marcello Mastroianni, whose centenary it coincides with, as well as the late Italian playwright Eduardo de Filippo.
Notable guests...
The festival, which is backed by Italy’s Ministry of Culture, will run through Saturday, March 9, and feature 112 film screenings (47 in movie theaters and 65 on the online platform eventive.org). This year’s edition will be hosted by one Italian screen legend, Franco Nero (as well as Italian actress/model Antonella Salvucci), and is dedicated to another, the late Marcello Mastroianni, whose centenary it coincides with, as well as the late Italian playwright Eduardo de Filippo.
Notable guests...
- 3/3/2024
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The upcoming Los Angeles-Italia Film Fashion and Art Festival will be honoring Italian directors Paolo Sorrentino (“The Hand of God”) and Enrico Casarosa (“Luca”) as well as costume-designer Massimo Cantini Parrini (“Cyrano”) all of whom have scored nominations for the upcoming Academy Awards.
The 17th edition of the pre-Oscars event will be held March 20-26 at Hollywood’s Tcl Chinese Theatre and also online.
This year’s opening ceremony will be hosted by veteran Italian-American actor Robert Davi, who is also this year’s president of the event. Sofia Milos (“CSI: Miami”) and Hollywood acting coach Bernard Hiller will co-host.
Consul General of Italy Silvia Chiave and Italian Institute of Culture chief Emanuele Amendola will also be introducing honorees both at the Chinese Theatre and during a separate March 25 event being held at the Italian Institute of Culture.
Other Los Angeles-Italia honorees this year are ace cinematographer Dante Spinotti actors Riccardo Scamarcio,...
The 17th edition of the pre-Oscars event will be held March 20-26 at Hollywood’s Tcl Chinese Theatre and also online.
This year’s opening ceremony will be hosted by veteran Italian-American actor Robert Davi, who is also this year’s president of the event. Sofia Milos (“CSI: Miami”) and Hollywood acting coach Bernard Hiller will co-host.
Consul General of Italy Silvia Chiave and Italian Institute of Culture chief Emanuele Amendola will also be introducing honorees both at the Chinese Theatre and during a separate March 25 event being held at the Italian Institute of Culture.
Other Los Angeles-Italia honorees this year are ace cinematographer Dante Spinotti actors Riccardo Scamarcio,...
- 3/16/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
APOLLO 13
Universal
There were four ways to die -- from freezing to incineration -- for the three astronauts aboard Apollo 13 in 1971 when an oxygen tank explosion left their sophisticated systems malfunctional. An ultra red-white-and-blue dramatization of that sensational rescue, this Universal release, starring Tom Hanks as astronaut James Lovell, should lift off with massive numbers in these conservative times
FIRST KNIGHT
Sony
Shimmering swords, distressed damsels, noble knights, kindly kings, lost love -- Columbia's re-telling of the King Arthur/Guinevere/Lancelot romance has it all. Starring Sean Connery, Julia Ormond and Richard Gere as the love triangle, ``First Knight'' should dub bounteous boxoffice for Sony.
A stirringly and gleamingly old-fashioned epic romance, this Jerry Zucker-directed production should win wide mainstream approval, especially as a date movie.
It's a nicely chained movie melody of high adventure, of both the heart and the battlefield, set, of course, in the golden city of Camelot.
In short, this kingly tale is told with a kindly spirit, but, fortunately, it's visualized with a sharp edge (including some rousing swordsmanship and a heart-pumping gauntlet run) and punctuated with a full but fast-clipped gait.
The cast is perfectly chosen for this outing. Connery, with his dulcet vocal tones and regal bearing, is the perfect monarch. Gere's devil-may-care energy and captivating smile are the perfect blend for a romantic hero, while Ormond brings a fitting duality to her role as the woman torn between two lovers (HR 6/26).
RIDERS IN THE STORM
Filmhaus
A lowball hand of cowboy movie cliches with no distinguishing features, ``Riders in the Storm'' is an unsuccessful knockoff of the ``Maverick'' school of comedy westerns with no pretensions toward realism and furthering the art form.
Written by Frank Lee and director Charles Biggs, ``Riders'' has plenty of sexual innuendoes but no real sex scenes. It has plenty of swearing and tough women, but very little action.
Overall, the lame characters are well-matched with the laughably bad dialogue.
The performances range from pompous to preposterous. From the hokey dos and duds to Massimo Zeri's by-the-book cinematography, the production is cheap and cheaper (HR 6/23-25).
Other reviews
Also reviewed last week were the films ``Vukovar Poste Restante'' (HR 6/22); ``City Unplugged'' (6/23-25), ``Executioners'' (6/23-25) and ``Ballot Measure 9'' (6/26).
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
Universal
There were four ways to die -- from freezing to incineration -- for the three astronauts aboard Apollo 13 in 1971 when an oxygen tank explosion left their sophisticated systems malfunctional. An ultra red-white-and-blue dramatization of that sensational rescue, this Universal release, starring Tom Hanks as astronaut James Lovell, should lift off with massive numbers in these conservative times
FIRST KNIGHT
Sony
Shimmering swords, distressed damsels, noble knights, kindly kings, lost love -- Columbia's re-telling of the King Arthur/Guinevere/Lancelot romance has it all. Starring Sean Connery, Julia Ormond and Richard Gere as the love triangle, ``First Knight'' should dub bounteous boxoffice for Sony.
A stirringly and gleamingly old-fashioned epic romance, this Jerry Zucker-directed production should win wide mainstream approval, especially as a date movie.
It's a nicely chained movie melody of high adventure, of both the heart and the battlefield, set, of course, in the golden city of Camelot.
In short, this kingly tale is told with a kindly spirit, but, fortunately, it's visualized with a sharp edge (including some rousing swordsmanship and a heart-pumping gauntlet run) and punctuated with a full but fast-clipped gait.
The cast is perfectly chosen for this outing. Connery, with his dulcet vocal tones and regal bearing, is the perfect monarch. Gere's devil-may-care energy and captivating smile are the perfect blend for a romantic hero, while Ormond brings a fitting duality to her role as the woman torn between two lovers (HR 6/26).
RIDERS IN THE STORM
Filmhaus
A lowball hand of cowboy movie cliches with no distinguishing features, ``Riders in the Storm'' is an unsuccessful knockoff of the ``Maverick'' school of comedy westerns with no pretensions toward realism and furthering the art form.
Written by Frank Lee and director Charles Biggs, ``Riders'' has plenty of sexual innuendoes but no real sex scenes. It has plenty of swearing and tough women, but very little action.
Overall, the lame characters are well-matched with the laughably bad dialogue.
The performances range from pompous to preposterous. From the hokey dos and duds to Massimo Zeri's by-the-book cinematography, the production is cheap and cheaper (HR 6/23-25).
Other reviews
Also reviewed last week were the films ``Vukovar Poste Restante'' (HR 6/22); ``City Unplugged'' (6/23-25), ``Executioners'' (6/23-25) and ``Ballot Measure 9'' (6/26).
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
- 6/27/1995
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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