Francesca Archibugi on Paolo Virzì: “We actually were students together. We studied with Furio Scarpelli, who was a great screenwriter. I think we both loved him very much.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
As a screenwriter, Francesca Archibugi has worked with director/screenwriter Paolo Virzì on his films Magical Nights (Notti Magiche) and The Leisure Seeker (starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland) with Francesco Piccolo. Dry (Siccità) starring Monica Bellucci, Silvio Orlando, Valerio Mastandrea, Vinicio Marchioni, Claudia Pandolfi, Sara Serraiocco, and Tommaso Ragno is Archibugi’s third collaboration with Paolo Virzì, this time also with screenwriters Paolo Giordano and Francesco Piccolo.
Dry star Tommaso Ragno inside the Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Piccolo is also the co-writer with Laura Paolucci on Archibugi’s The Hummingbird which was the opening night selection of Cinecittà and Film at Lincoln Center’s...
As a screenwriter, Francesca Archibugi has worked with director/screenwriter Paolo Virzì on his films Magical Nights (Notti Magiche) and The Leisure Seeker (starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland) with Francesco Piccolo. Dry (Siccità) starring Monica Bellucci, Silvio Orlando, Valerio Mastandrea, Vinicio Marchioni, Claudia Pandolfi, Sara Serraiocco, and Tommaso Ragno is Archibugi’s third collaboration with Paolo Virzì, this time also with screenwriters Paolo Giordano and Francesco Piccolo.
Dry star Tommaso Ragno inside the Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Piccolo is also the co-writer with Laura Paolucci on Archibugi’s The Hummingbird which was the opening night selection of Cinecittà and Film at Lincoln Center’s...
- 7/5/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
“Attention!” bawls an onscreen title, or rather its subtitle, given that the original is written in Georgia’s lovely curly alphabet. “Dear Audience, please close your eyes at the first signal.” Alexandre Koberidze, writer-director-narrator of the marvellous, mischievous “What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?” probably doesn’t expect anyone to obey as he effects his story’s central switcheroo, like a kid not great at magic asking mom to look away from the handkerchiefs he’s stuffing up his sleeve. But that’s not the point.
Instead, the command, along with other self-conscious flourishes like the direct-address voiceover, the creaky, obviously manual zooms and the sudden, interruptive digressions about global catastrophe and far-off forest fires, reminds us of ourselves in relation to the film, that we are active participants in the creation of this (or any) work of cinema. And given how much this movie loves the movies,...
Instead, the command, along with other self-conscious flourishes like the direct-address voiceover, the creaky, obviously manual zooms and the sudden, interruptive digressions about global catastrophe and far-off forest fires, reminds us of ourselves in relation to the film, that we are active participants in the creation of this (or any) work of cinema. And given how much this movie loves the movies,...
- 3/3/2021
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Flesh Out (Il Corpo Della Sposa) director Michela Occhipinti with Anne-Katrin Titze on being a Tribeca Film Festival Highlight at Eye For Film: "First I saw the photo of Naomi Watts, and then the mentioning of Daniel Day-Lewis and then - my name! Then I thought something is going terribly but fantastically wrong here." Photo: Virginia Cademartori
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, presented by Film at Lincoln Center and Istituto Luce Cinecittà is set to open next month with Claudio Giovannesi's Piranhas (La Paranza Dei Bambini) and will have a screening of La Commare Secca, Bernardo Bertolucci's début feature in honour of the director who died last year. Other films of note include Paolo Sorrentino's Loro, starring Toni Servillo (from the Oscar-winning The Great Beauty) and Riccardo Scamarcio, Paolo Virzì's Magical Nights (Notti Magiche), Valerio Mastandrea's Laughing (Ride), Alba Rohrwacher as Lucia in Gianni Zanasi...
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, presented by Film at Lincoln Center and Istituto Luce Cinecittà is set to open next month with Claudio Giovannesi's Piranhas (La Paranza Dei Bambini) and will have a screening of La Commare Secca, Bernardo Bertolucci's début feature in honour of the director who died last year. Other films of note include Paolo Sorrentino's Loro, starring Toni Servillo (from the Oscar-winning The Great Beauty) and Riccardo Scamarcio, Paolo Virzì's Magical Nights (Notti Magiche), Valerio Mastandrea's Laughing (Ride), Alba Rohrwacher as Lucia in Gianni Zanasi...
- 5/15/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Buenos Aires — Celebrating its 10th anniversary with a huge hike in attendance to over 4,000 accredited delegates, the 2018 Ventana Sur will go down in history on multiple counts: Sales and pick-ups on movies which combined social comment and entertainment value, increasingly the new foreign-language movie standard; new sections, led by a Proyecta co-production forum and in-house doc Incubadora; and a reinvigorated conference strand.
Thierry Fremaux’s Cannes Festival Cinema Week also sold out, some sessions in just two hours, a sign he said in his opening keynote to Ventana Sur of a resilient theatrical audience for films.
With three Netflix executives in attendance, plus Amazon’s Pablo Lacoviello, 2018’s Ventana Sur suggested how the function of major film events is expanding in an Ott age. The battle for Ott supremacy will be fought over talent.
Much of the real industry dealing at Ventana Sur was and will be in the future...
Thierry Fremaux’s Cannes Festival Cinema Week also sold out, some sessions in just two hours, a sign he said in his opening keynote to Ventana Sur of a resilient theatrical audience for films.
With three Netflix executives in attendance, plus Amazon’s Pablo Lacoviello, 2018’s Ventana Sur suggested how the function of major film events is expanding in an Ott age. The battle for Ott supremacy will be fought over talent.
Much of the real industry dealing at Ventana Sur was and will be in the future...
- 12/15/2018
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Sony’s The Girl in the Spider’s Web, starring Claire Foy as punk heroine Lisbeth Salander, is due to get its world premiere at the Rome Film Festival (Oct 18 -28), which revealed its lineup today.
Director Fede Alvarez, The Crown star Foy and additional key cast are due to attend the premiere. Sony has set a November 9 U.S. release for the anticipated latest instalment in the Millenium book series which will see computer hacker Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt government officials. Sylvia Hoeks, Lakeith Stanfield, Stephen Merchant, Sverrir Gudnason and Vicky Krieps also star.
The festival will host a strong lineup of movies including Bad Times At The El Royale, The House With a Clock In Its Walls, If Beale Street Could Talk and Boy Erased. The event will also show the first two episodes of Chan-wook Park’s first TV series,...
Director Fede Alvarez, The Crown star Foy and additional key cast are due to attend the premiere. Sony has set a November 9 U.S. release for the anticipated latest instalment in the Millenium book series which will see computer hacker Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt government officials. Sylvia Hoeks, Lakeith Stanfield, Stephen Merchant, Sverrir Gudnason and Vicky Krieps also star.
The festival will host a strong lineup of movies including Bad Times At The El Royale, The House With a Clock In Its Walls, If Beale Street Could Talk and Boy Erased. The event will also show the first two episodes of Chan-wook Park’s first TV series,...
- 10/5/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Other titles include Bad Times At El Royale and Park Chan-Wook series The Little Drummer Girl;
The 13th Rome Film Fest (18-28 October) has unveiled its line-up. It will feature in its non-competitive official selection 38 films, including the world premieres of Fede Alvarez’s The Girl In The Spider’s Web with Claire Foy and Gilles De Maistre’s Mia Et Le Lion Blanc, featuring Melanie Laurent.
Scroll down for the full line-up
Opening with Drew Goddard’s Bad Times At El Royale, Antonio Monda’s fourth edition confirms itself as a “fest” and not a “festival” as the director specifies.
The 13th Rome Film Fest (18-28 October) has unveiled its line-up. It will feature in its non-competitive official selection 38 films, including the world premieres of Fede Alvarez’s The Girl In The Spider’s Web with Claire Foy and Gilles De Maistre’s Mia Et Le Lion Blanc, featuring Melanie Laurent.
Scroll down for the full line-up
Opening with Drew Goddard’s Bad Times At El Royale, Antonio Monda’s fourth edition confirms itself as a “fest” and not a “festival” as the director specifies.
- 10/5/2018
- by Gabriele Niola
- ScreenDaily
Sony’s “The Girl in the Spider’s Web,” starring Claire Foy as avenging heroine Lisbeth Salander, is set to world-premiere at the Rome Film Festival, which announced a strong lineup Friday mixing crowd-pleasers with esoteric titles. The festival also boasts an impressive roster of speakers who will hold onstage conversations, including Martin Scorsese, Sigourney Weaver and Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux.
Foy, who takes over the role previously played by Noomi Rapace in the “Millennium” saga by late author Stieg Larsson, is expected to make an appearance on Rome’s red carpet, along with several key cast members, including Sverrir Gudnason, Sylvia Hoeks, and director Fede Alvarez. The movie is based on the novel by David Lagercrantz, who continued Larsson’s “Millennium” series.
Sony has set a Nov. 9 U.S. release date for “Spider’s Web,” preceded by an international roll-out beginning this month. The date of the Rome...
Foy, who takes over the role previously played by Noomi Rapace in the “Millennium” saga by late author Stieg Larsson, is expected to make an appearance on Rome’s red carpet, along with several key cast members, including Sverrir Gudnason, Sylvia Hoeks, and director Fede Alvarez. The movie is based on the novel by David Lagercrantz, who continued Larsson’s “Millennium” series.
Sony has set a Nov. 9 U.S. release date for “Spider’s Web,” preceded by an international roll-out beginning this month. The date of the Rome...
- 10/5/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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