Jonas Carpignano’s third feature film, “A Chiara,” the third film in his loosely networked Calabrian trilogy, is an ambitious genre-melter rendered in his observational, lyrical style.
At once a coming-of-age story and a mafia thriller, “A Chiara” takes a look at organized crime in Southern Italy from the unique perspective of a teenage girl, Chiara (Swamy Rotolo). Her world is turned upside down after her father disappears and she tumbles down the rabbit hole after him, discovering he’s a member of the ‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate.
Carpignano’s previous two films in the trilogy are 2015’s “Mediterranea,” which followed the experiences of African immigrants in Calabria, and 2017’s “A Ciambra,” executive produced by Martin Scorsese, about a Romani boy growing up too fast. All three films in the trilogy debuted at the Cannes Film Festival and have raked in a slew of awards and nominations for the filmmaker, including...
At once a coming-of-age story and a mafia thriller, “A Chiara” takes a look at organized crime in Southern Italy from the unique perspective of a teenage girl, Chiara (Swamy Rotolo). Her world is turned upside down after her father disappears and she tumbles down the rabbit hole after him, discovering he’s a member of the ‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate.
Carpignano’s previous two films in the trilogy are 2015’s “Mediterranea,” which followed the experiences of African immigrants in Calabria, and 2017’s “A Ciambra,” executive produced by Martin Scorsese, about a Romani boy growing up too fast. All three films in the trilogy debuted at the Cannes Film Festival and have raked in a slew of awards and nominations for the filmmaker, including...
- 5/26/2022
- by Katie Walsh
- The Wrap
If 2021 has been a calvacade of bad decisions, dashed hopes, and warning signs for cinema’s strength, the Criterion Channel’s monthly programming has at least buttressed our hopes for something like a better tomorrow. Anyway. The Channel will let us ride out distended (holi)days in the family home with an extensive Alfred Hitchcock series to bring the family together—from the established Rear Window and Vertigo to the (let’s just guess) lesser-seen Downhill and Young and Innocent—Johnnie To’s Throw Down and Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons in their Criterion editions, and some streaming premieres: Ste. Anne, Lydia Lunch: The War is Never Over, and The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love.
Special notice to Yvonne Rainer’s brain-expanding Film About a Woman Who . . .—debuting in “Female Gaze: Women Directors + Women Cinematographers,” a series that does as it says on the tin—and a Joseph Cotten retro boasting Ambersons,...
Special notice to Yvonne Rainer’s brain-expanding Film About a Woman Who . . .—debuting in “Female Gaze: Women Directors + Women Cinematographers,” a series that does as it says on the tin—and a Joseph Cotten retro boasting Ambersons,...
- 11/21/2021
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
One thing that distinguished this year's Il Cinema Ritrovato festival of rare, rediscovered or restored cinema from around the world was the air-conditioning. In previous years, the "cinephile's heaven" had seen people falling asleep at films they'd waited their whole lives to see, struck down by stifling midsummer heat. Now, even that beloved cinematic sweatbox the Jolly can cool its customers enough to mostly stave off somnolence, and if a hardboiled cinephage does pass out, it's more likely to be due to the unforgiving schedule of nine-to-midnight viewings.The doughty traveler can concentrate on seeing everything in one or two strands—retrospectives on the cinema of 1898 and 1918, the work of directors John M. Stahl, Marcello Pagliero, Luciano Emmer and Ylmaz Guney, the studio Fox, the countries China and Russia in the early thirties, and so on... or they can do as I did, sampling almost randomly from across the goodies on offer.
- 7/23/2018
- MUBI
14th Mumbai Film Festival (Mff) announced its complete lineup today in a press conference. Mff will be held from October 18th to 25th at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (Ncpa) and Inox, Nariman Point, Liberty Cinemas, Marine Lines as the main festival venues and Cinemax, Andheri and Cinemax Sion as the satellite venues. Click here to watch trailers and highlights from the festival.
Here is the complete list of films to be screened during the festival (October 18-25)
International Competition for the First Feature Films of Directors
1. From Tuesday To Tuesday (De Martes A Martes)
Dir.: Gustavo Fernandez Triviño (Argentina / 2012 / Col. / 111′)
2. The Last Elvis (El Último Elvis)
Dir.: Armando Bo (Argentina / 2012 / Col. / 91′)
3. The Sapphires
Dir.: Wayne Blair (Australia / 2012 / Col. / 103′)
4. The Wall (Die Wand)
Dir.: Julian Pölsler (Austria-Germany / 2012 / Col. / 108′)
5. Teddy Bear (10 timer til Paradis)
Dir.: Mads Matthiesen (Denmark / 2012 / Col. / 93′)
6. Augustine
Dir.: Alice Winccour (France / 2012 / Col.
Here is the complete list of films to be screened during the festival (October 18-25)
International Competition for the First Feature Films of Directors
1. From Tuesday To Tuesday (De Martes A Martes)
Dir.: Gustavo Fernandez Triviño (Argentina / 2012 / Col. / 111′)
2. The Last Elvis (El Último Elvis)
Dir.: Armando Bo (Argentina / 2012 / Col. / 91′)
3. The Sapphires
Dir.: Wayne Blair (Australia / 2012 / Col. / 103′)
4. The Wall (Die Wand)
Dir.: Julian Pölsler (Austria-Germany / 2012 / Col. / 108′)
5. Teddy Bear (10 timer til Paradis)
Dir.: Mads Matthiesen (Denmark / 2012 / Col. / 93′)
6. Augustine
Dir.: Alice Winccour (France / 2012 / Col.
- 9/24/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Distinguished Italian director noted for art documentaries
Though the Italian media prefer to remember him as one of the inventors of the first popular programme of television commercials – called Carosello (Carousel) and broadcast each evening at peak viewing time on the only channel of the Italian public broadcaster Rai in the mid-1950s – Luciano Emmer, who has died aged 91, was a distinguished Italian cinema director. He directed a dozen features during 70 years as a film-maker, the first of which, Domenica d'Agosto (Sunday in August), became an international arthouse hit in 1950. He was, however, best known for scores of documentaries on art.
Born in Milan, Emmer spent most of his childhood in Venice, where his father was the city's municipal engineer. As a boy, he made good use of his father's free pass to the local cinemas, where his preference was for Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy, but he also...
Though the Italian media prefer to remember him as one of the inventors of the first popular programme of television commercials – called Carosello (Carousel) and broadcast each evening at peak viewing time on the only channel of the Italian public broadcaster Rai in the mid-1950s – Luciano Emmer, who has died aged 91, was a distinguished Italian cinema director. He directed a dozen features during 70 years as a film-maker, the first of which, Domenica d'Agosto (Sunday in August), became an international arthouse hit in 1950. He was, however, best known for scores of documentaries on art.
Born in Milan, Emmer spent most of his childhood in Venice, where his father was the city's municipal engineer. As a boy, he made good use of his father's free pass to the local cinemas, where his preference was for Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy, but he also...
- 12/3/2009
- by John Francis Lane
- The Guardian - Film News
One day not long ago in the country I gathered a small pile of dried leaves and started a little fire. Then I closed my eyes and remembered. The aroma was a trigger as intense as the taste of Proust's madeleine, the little cake from childhood that summoned his remembrance of time past. It evoked nostalgia but it also evoked curious excitement and desire.
For me it is not spring but autumn that is the season of new beginnings. Spring, in school, is a time of taking final exams and saying goodbye to friends. Autumn is the start of a new year, and for me at least it always held the promise of new romance. I was now a freshman, or a sophomore, or whatever, and had left behind childhood things, and perhaps Marty would be at the Tiger's Den on Friday night and we could slow-dance to "Dream" by the Everly Brothers.
For me it is not spring but autumn that is the season of new beginnings. Spring, in school, is a time of taking final exams and saying goodbye to friends. Autumn is the start of a new year, and for me at least it always held the promise of new romance. I was now a freshman, or a sophomore, or whatever, and had left behind childhood things, and perhaps Marty would be at the Tiger's Den on Friday night and we could slow-dance to "Dream" by the Everly Brothers.
- 11/9/2009
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Rome -- The Rome International Film Festival unveiled the full lineup for its fourth edition Friday, with a globetrotting 14-film in competition lineup made up entirely of world and international premieres and enough big-name stars to keep the city's paparazzi corps happy.
George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Richard Gere, Helen Mirren, Anthony Hopkins, Monica Bellucci, and Colin Farrell are all among the A-list actors expected to stroll across Rome's red carpet, along with directors including Joel and Ethan Coen and nonfilm personalities including opera singer Andrea Bocelli and author Paulo Coehlo, who will bring his first directorial effort -- "Paulo Coehlo's Experimental Witch" -- to Rome.
The main competition lineup for the Oct. 15-23 event includes 14 films and production or co-production credits from 14 countries. Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air," which stars Clooney, is the lone U.S. film in the main competition and, if it wins, it would make...
George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Richard Gere, Helen Mirren, Anthony Hopkins, Monica Bellucci, and Colin Farrell are all among the A-list actors expected to stroll across Rome's red carpet, along with directors including Joel and Ethan Coen and nonfilm personalities including opera singer Andrea Bocelli and author Paulo Coehlo, who will bring his first directorial effort -- "Paulo Coehlo's Experimental Witch" -- to Rome.
The main competition lineup for the Oct. 15-23 event includes 14 films and production or co-production credits from 14 countries. Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air," which stars Clooney, is the lone U.S. film in the main competition and, if it wins, it would make...
- 9/25/2009
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
ROME -- The 24th Turin Film Festival gets underway today with a lineup that includes the in-competition international premiere of Todd Rohal's "The Guatemalan Handshake", a series of horror, western and adult genre films, and three major retrospectives, including one dedicated to director Robert Aldrich.
The nine-day festival, which runs through Nov. 18, also includes the world premiere of 17th-century period piece "Le Fiamme del Paradiso" (The Flame of Paradise) from venerable Italian director Luciano Emmer. The film, which is acted entirely in the regional Italian dialect of Trentino, is the 55th full-length feature from the 88-year-old director, who won the 1952 Golden Globe for "Pictura".
Additionally, Clint Eastwood's "Flags of Our Fathers" will unspool at Turin in tandem with its overall Italian bow today. The Italian premieres of Sofia Coppola's "Marie Antoinette" and Jared Hess' comedy "Nacho Libre" also will take place at the festival and Guillermo Del Toro's "El Laberitino del Fauno" (Pan's Labyrinth) make its European premiere.
"The Guatemalan Handshake" is the only U.S.-made film in the 12-strong best film competition, which also includes Mauro Santini's "Flor da Baixa" (Flower of Baixa) and Chinese director Xia Peng's "Pleasures of Ordinary".
A total of 240 short- and full-length films and documentaries are scheduled to screen.
The Turin festival has always operated in the shadow of the older and larger Venice Film Festival, which held its 63rd edition in August. But this year, it also falls under the shadow of the big-budget, first-year RomaCinemaFest, which concluded Oct. 21.
But Turin co-director Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan said that having the high-visibility Rome event on the calendar did not have much of an impact on Turin -- at least not this year.
"I don't know what will happen in the future, but this year, I can't think of any area where we clashed with Rome," D'Agnolo Vallan said in an interview. "We have a very specific identity and Rome still doesn't have an identity. It's too new."
Turin has traditionally focused on first, second, or third efforts from directors or on new directions for established directors, as Emmer's "Le Fiamme del Paradiso" shows.
This year, many of those films are falling into specific genres, with the second edition of the "Masters of Horror" television series screening, including episodes of "Family" from John Landis, "The Screwfly Solution" from Joe Dante and Dario Argento's "Pelts". The international premiere of Walter Hill's "Broken Trail" starring Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church will highlight the festival's western films. And iconic New York-based sexploitation director Joe Sarno will be the subject of a small tribute that will include four of his films.
Other tributes and retrospectives include screenings honoring French director Claude Chabrol, Catalonian writer Joaquin Jorda and writer Piero Bargellini, best known for the 1945 film "La Porta del Cielo" (The Gate of Heaven).
But the most important retrospective will be for Aldrich, whose 31 films between 1953 and 1981 include the 1974 Golden Globe-winning comedy "The Longest Yard"; "The Big Knife", which won a Silver Lion in Venice in 1955; and 1963's "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"
"Getting this Aldrich retrospective together was a real challenge because some of the master prints were lost and had to be refurbished or repaired," D'Agnolo Vallan said. "We're very proud of this work".
Directors Del Toro, Landis, Argento, Hill and Sarno will be on hand for the screening of their films. Aldrich, who died in 1983, will be represented by his daughter Adell Aldrich and actors Ernest Borgnine and Keith Carradine -- both veterans of his films.
The nine-day festival, which runs through Nov. 18, also includes the world premiere of 17th-century period piece "Le Fiamme del Paradiso" (The Flame of Paradise) from venerable Italian director Luciano Emmer. The film, which is acted entirely in the regional Italian dialect of Trentino, is the 55th full-length feature from the 88-year-old director, who won the 1952 Golden Globe for "Pictura".
Additionally, Clint Eastwood's "Flags of Our Fathers" will unspool at Turin in tandem with its overall Italian bow today. The Italian premieres of Sofia Coppola's "Marie Antoinette" and Jared Hess' comedy "Nacho Libre" also will take place at the festival and Guillermo Del Toro's "El Laberitino del Fauno" (Pan's Labyrinth) make its European premiere.
"The Guatemalan Handshake" is the only U.S.-made film in the 12-strong best film competition, which also includes Mauro Santini's "Flor da Baixa" (Flower of Baixa) and Chinese director Xia Peng's "Pleasures of Ordinary".
A total of 240 short- and full-length films and documentaries are scheduled to screen.
The Turin festival has always operated in the shadow of the older and larger Venice Film Festival, which held its 63rd edition in August. But this year, it also falls under the shadow of the big-budget, first-year RomaCinemaFest, which concluded Oct. 21.
But Turin co-director Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan said that having the high-visibility Rome event on the calendar did not have much of an impact on Turin -- at least not this year.
"I don't know what will happen in the future, but this year, I can't think of any area where we clashed with Rome," D'Agnolo Vallan said in an interview. "We have a very specific identity and Rome still doesn't have an identity. It's too new."
Turin has traditionally focused on first, second, or third efforts from directors or on new directions for established directors, as Emmer's "Le Fiamme del Paradiso" shows.
This year, many of those films are falling into specific genres, with the second edition of the "Masters of Horror" television series screening, including episodes of "Family" from John Landis, "The Screwfly Solution" from Joe Dante and Dario Argento's "Pelts". The international premiere of Walter Hill's "Broken Trail" starring Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church will highlight the festival's western films. And iconic New York-based sexploitation director Joe Sarno will be the subject of a small tribute that will include four of his films.
Other tributes and retrospectives include screenings honoring French director Claude Chabrol, Catalonian writer Joaquin Jorda and writer Piero Bargellini, best known for the 1945 film "La Porta del Cielo" (The Gate of Heaven).
But the most important retrospective will be for Aldrich, whose 31 films between 1953 and 1981 include the 1974 Golden Globe-winning comedy "The Longest Yard"; "The Big Knife", which won a Silver Lion in Venice in 1955; and 1963's "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"
"Getting this Aldrich retrospective together was a real challenge because some of the master prints were lost and had to be refurbished or repaired," D'Agnolo Vallan said. "We're very proud of this work".
Directors Del Toro, Landis, Argento, Hill and Sarno will be on hand for the screening of their films. Aldrich, who died in 1983, will be represented by his daughter Adell Aldrich and actors Ernest Borgnine and Keith Carradine -- both veterans of his films.
- 11/9/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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