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This piece was originally published in Issue 7 of Notebook magazine as part of a broader exploration of the unfilmable. The magazine is available via direct subscription or in select stores around the world.Back in 1964, British director and producer Michael Apted interviewed a group of seven-year-olds from different social and economic backgrounds. The resulting program, titled Seven Up!, was aired on May 5 of that year by itv (Granada Television). Seven years later, Apted reached out to his subjects for a second interview, 7 Plus Seven, also broadcast by itv. Despite its origin on television, some episodes were theatrically released in the United States and elsewhere, speaking to the cinematic quality of the project. He repeated the process seven more times. The last installment in the series was 63 Up (2019); the next one would have been scheduled for 2026, but Apted died five years before then, in 2021. Both praised by critics and reviled as folk psychology,...

After a successful festival run, Finally Dawn is finally coming to theaters and digital this week. For an early taste, Collider has a new, exclusive clip of the Italy-set period drama, starring Lily James as an American actress adrift in 1950s Rome. The film follows a number of characters over the course of a long night and was partially inspired by a notorious decades-old mystery. Finally Dawn will be available in select theaters and on video-on-demand on July 18, 2025.

In our exclusive sneak peek, Josephine Esperanto (James) is a celebrated actress with an extensive resume despite her relatively young age. She's at dinner with her younger co-star, Nan Roth, who's playing her daughter in the Egyptian epic they're filming in Italy. Esperanto is to be the subject of a magazine profile, and her interviewer is at dinner as well, interrogating the two screen idols about their acting styles. While Esperanto is clearly old-school,...

You’ve seen this before. A young, unassuming person suddenly gets thrust into the Hollywood limelight as they realize the vanity and hollowness of all the glitter. Saverio Costanzo, who you may know from HBO’s beloved Italian drama “My Brilliant Friend,” is no stranger to the 1950s. “Finalmente l’alba (Finally Dawn)”, which is set in the same period and features an ensemble Hollywood cast, evokes a singular time in Italian movie history when Cinecitta (one of the prominent studios of the time) was known for hosting lavish, sword-and-sandals epics like Ben-Hur.

The young person in question here is Mimosa (Rebecca Antonaci), a doe-eyed movie lover whose love for the medium is quickly established as she, her mother, and a more conventionally attractive older sister Iris (Sofia Panizzi) come out of the latest War movie playing in their local theatre in Rome. As they exit the theatre, discussing the obsession...

Chicago – The genius filmography of Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini is like a wave of cinematic truth that keeps washing ashore like a tide of humanity. Because for all of his disconnected characters and surreal sojourns, essentially he reflects our flawed human-ness back to us. Chicago’s historic Music Box Theatre is doing a week long retrospect of Fellini’s work, anchored by a new 35mm print of arguably the director’s pinnacle, the autobiographical “8 1/2” (1963). An audio review of “8 1/2” is below, and for tickets and more information, click Five By Fellini.

The other four films, all must sees, are “La Strada” (1954), “La Dolce Vita” (1960), “Amarcord” (1973) and City of Women (1980). The festival runs through July 10th, and film schedules and times are available by clicking the link above.

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In “8 1/2,” Long time Fellini collaborator Marcello Mastroianni is Guido, a film director who is creatively blocked, due to the pressures of an out-of-control...

The city of Rimini is known for its famous son, Federico Fellini, the genius director behind the likes of La Dolce Vita and Nights of Cabiria, but it’s now home to the Italian Global Series Festival (Igsf) too. The first edition of the fest has been taking place this week, bringing the likes of The Assassins, Sandokan and Bookish to the sunny seaside locale.

Given the growing number of TV festivals around the world, launching something new is always a challenge, and we were keen to hear from Marco Spagnoli, the Artistic Director of the Igsf about how this first attempt has been going, ahead of the event’s finish this weekend. “I feel like when Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were on the moon,” was one assessment of the whirlwind proceedings from the engaging programmer and film director.

Stars such as Bookish creator Mark Gatiss, Bridgerton actress Adjoa Andoh...

Lea Massari, the Italian actress and European cinema icon famous for her roles in Michelangelo Antonioni‘s L’Avventura (1960), Dino Risi’s A Difficult Life (1961) and Louis Malle’s Murmur of the Heart (1971), has died. She was 91.

Massari died at her home in Rome on Monday, Italian media reported.

In a decades-long career that spanned films, television and theater, Massari played alongside the likes of Alain Delon, Jean Paul Belmondo, Michel Piccoli and Omar Sharif. She was a critical and audience favorite but shunned the spotlight. After retiring from acting more than 30 years ago, she rarely appeared in public.

Born Anna Maria Massatani on June 30, 1933 — she took the stage name Lea in honor of her fiancé, Leo, who died in an accident shortly before they were to be married — her childhood was spent across Europe as her family followed her father, an engineer, to positions in Spain, France and Switzerland.

Hollywood’s spotlight has long shone brightly on Italy’s capital, from Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck’s Vespa joyride in Roman Holiday to last year’s Oscar-nominated Conclave. The latter film, about the political intrigue behind the selection of a new Pope, soared in popularity after the death last month of Pope Francis — and unexpectedly served as a useful primer for the election of his successor, the American born Pope Leo Xiv.

Between the rise of the 267th pontiff and the ongoing Jubilee festivities, the Eternal City is having a moment. All eyes are on Rome, especially with summer travel planning underway. “Traveling to Rome will be even more exceptional now,” says Jack Ezon, one of Hollywood’s go-to luxury travel curators and founder of Embark Beyond.

Snagging reservations and avoiding crowds requires the kind of tactical planning that travel agents to the A-list charge big money for. They...

On Saturday May 17 2025, HGTV broadcasts Vacation House Rules!

La Dolce Vita Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Vacation House Rules,” titled “La Dolce Vita,” promises to be an exciting journey into the world of vacation property transformation. In this episode, real estate expert and contractor Scott McGillivray takes on the challenge of helping homeowners tap into the rental potential of their properties. With his expertise, Scott aims to turn neglected spaces into stunning retreats that can attract guests and increase rental income.

Scott’s approach combines practical advice with creative ideas. He will guide homeowners through various renovations and improvements that can make a significant difference in how a vacation home is perceived. From updating interiors to enhancing outdoor areas, Scott’s tips are designed to create inviting spaces that feel like a luxurious getaway.

Viewers can expect to see before-and-after transformations that highlight Scott’s vision and skills. The...

They can dry their tears on all their money, no doubt, but being documented everywhere you go is such torture that it’s the basis of several episodes of Black Mirror. It’s only natural to develop a somewhat antagonistic relationship with the hordes of photographers who follow a celebrity. Many of them just throw punches, but…

5 Paris Hilton Wore an Anti-Photography Scarf

Apparently, 2016 was the year Hilton got sick of getting attention. She began wearing a scarf designed by Saif Siddiqui to reflect so much light that it causes a camera’s flash to backfire, leaving everything but the scarf in the dark in the resulting photo. Then she posed for a bunch of paparazzi photos. Honestly, queen behavior.

4 Daniel Radcliffe Wore the Same Outfit for Six Months

At the height of his Harry Potter fame in 2007, Radcliffe signed on to a West End revival of Equus, and he...

“Vacation House Rules” is set to air an exciting new episode titled “La Dolce Vita” on Saturday, May 17, 2025, at 8:00 Pm on HGTV. In this episode, real estate expert and contractor Scott McGillivray returns to help homeowners discover the hidden rental potential of their vacation properties.

Scott’s expertise shines as he guides homeowners through the process of transforming neglected spaces into stunning retreats. With his creative ideas and practical tips, viewers can expect to see some amazing before-and-after transformations. Each project highlights the importance of maximizing space and creating inviting atmospheres that attract renters.

In “La Dolce Vita,” Scott focuses on bringing a touch of paradise to ordinary vacation homes. He shares valuable insights on design choices, renovation techniques, and smart investments that can lead to higher rental income. Homeowners looking to enhance their properties will find inspiration and motivation in Scott’s approach. This episode promises to be...

Michael Portillo concludes his Italian adventure this Friday on “Michael Portillo’s Travel Diaries,” offering one last taste of La Dolce Vita. “Milan: Part 3” finds Portillo taking in the city from above, getting some serious elevation for breathtaking panoramic views. From high above, he descends into the dazzling Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan’s iconic shopping […]

Michael Portillo’s Travel Diaries: Milan: Part 3...

Oscar-winning Italian composer Nino Rota, who scored “La Dolce Vita,” “The Leopard” and “The Godfather” – among many other masterpiece movies – is set for “Nino” a high-profile documentary being directed by prominent editor, screenwriter and director Walter Fasano.

Fasano is known for his longtime creative collaboration with Luca Guadagnino mainly as an editor on films such as “I Am Love,” on which he served both as editor and co-writer; “A Bigger Splash”; “Call Me by Your Name”; and the doc “Bertolucci on Bertolucci” that Guadagnino and Fasano co-directed. Fasano more recently directed the doc “Pino” about Italian artist, sculptor, and set designer Pino Pascali.

Rota wrote the score for 16 films directed by Federico Fellini, including “La Strada,” “8 1/2,” “Juliet of the Spirits” and “Amarcord,” besides “La Dolce Vita.” He also composed music for Franco Zeffirelli’s “Romeo and Juliet” and the Sicilian-inspired theme for “The Godfather,” whose “Part II” score won him his only Oscar.

Looking for a way to stay dry during the rainy month of April? What better place to cozy up than your local repertory cinema. For those based in New York and Los Angeles, the offerings over the next few weeks are some of the best of the year thus far, with multiple series being held on both coasts that put a light on some of cinema’s unsung heroes. Starting in the east, Film at Lincoln Center will be paying homage to UCLA’s L.A. Rebellion movement of the 1970s and ’80s. Revitalizing Black cinema after the market for Blaxploitation began to dwindle, this collective included filmmakers such as Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, Larry Clark, Zeinabu irene Davis, and many more.

On the west coast, not only will the Eagle at Vidiots be celebrating the late Gene Hackman with showings of two of his films, but American Cinematheque will...

Before things get too negative, one thing should be made clear: some of the best arthouse movies of all time can also be considered among the very best movies of all time. Avoiding art films or movies that can be called experimental/avant-garde is doing yourself a disservice, since it means missing out on groundbreaking films like La Dolce Vita, Come and See, In the Mood for Love, and The Conformist, to name just a few.

If you watch a lot of arthouse movies, you're probably going to come across films that weren’t made in America, or by American directors. That’s not a criticism of the U.S. film industry, nor a suggestion that international films are automatically better; more just an observation. But there have been American arthouse films, and some of them have been genuinely great.

The detached, desensitized partygoers in Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” experience wonderment at the sounds of birds and nature at an upscale Roman party. Cinegoers today often respond similarly when, instead of the flat, green-screened visuals produced by The Volume technology, they are confronted with images shot in real locations. That represents the primary charm of “The Botanist,” the debut film by Chinese filmmaker Jing Yi.

Continue reading ‘The Botanist’ Review: A Visually Striking Eco-Fable Set In Remote Landscapes Untouched by Urbanization [Berlin] at The Playlist.

If you’ve got no plans this Valentine’s Day, then let me offer up a movie date with your dad for a pleasant and fun evening. A universal truth is that kids drift apart from their parents as they get older; they find their own identity, one that doesn’t necessarily match with what is expected of them, and then it becomes a game of tug-of-war. But, a little later, when you’ve found that sweet spot for yourself, you go back to try and find that bond you lost again. Add to the mix the grief of losing a parent, and you have La Dolce Villa. The film is a coming-of-age story, but not for Olivia, a 20-something-year-old who wants to buy a villa in a small town in Italy. It’s actually the story of her father finding his footing as a middle-aged man with a passion for cooking and micromanagement.

Those ads nudging people to leave everything behind and go to Italy have never been more alluring in these curious times. And with the pricetag for a villa sitting at just $1, why not? That’s the hook in the charming Netflix romantic comedy, La Dolce Villa, which finds a single dad dashing off to Europe to stop his daughter from forking over a buck and getting stuck with steep renovation costs. Toss in some unexpected love interests and an opportunity to mend the past, and you’ve got yourself a kind of latter-day Under the Tuscan Sun that’s a bona fide feel-good pleasure.

Directed by Mark Waters and written by Elizabeth Hackett and Hilary Galanoy, La Dolce Villa is an instant crowd-pleaser. The creative ingredients are all there: handsome leading man (Scandal’s Scott Foley), the beautiful Maia Reficcoof Broadway's Hadestown and Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, and...

Oscar frontrunners “Wicked” (Paul Tazewell), “Nosferatu” (Linda Muir), and “Conclave” (Lisy Christl) were all winners at the 27th Costume Designer Guild Awards (Cdga), held February 6 at The Ebell of Los Angeles. “Nobody Wants This” star Jackie Tohn served as host.

The film winners prevailed in the categories of sci-fi/fantasy, period, and contemporary, respectively. Costume designer Tazewell is currently the favorite to win the Oscar for “Wicked,” Jon M. Chu’s populist Oz musical. He created a connection to nature through mushroom motifs in the wardrobes for Elphaba (Oscar-nominated Cynthia Erivo), and a floating sensibility with effervescent pink bubble motifs in the wardrobes for Galinda (Oscar-nominated Ariana Grande).

In TV, the winners were “Dune: Prophecy” (Bojana Nikitovi) for sci-fi/fantasy, “Shōgun” (Carlos Rosario) for period, and “Hacks” (Kathleen Felix-Hager) for contemporary.

In addition, three-time Oscar winner Jenny Beavan won the Career Achievement Award, Oscar-nominated Zoe Saldaña (“Emilia Pérez”) was given the Spotlight Award,...

Chiara Mastroianni has carved her own shape in the French film industry, even despite carrying her father Marcello’s name and being the daughter of Catherine Deneuve. She’s worked with Robert Altman, Claire Denis, Raúl Ruiz, Gregg Araki… we could go on. Yes, she’s the daughter of the stars of “La Dolce Vita” and “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,” but her career is marked by bracingly original work with iconoclastic directors. Her father died in 1996, and she got the chance to work with him in a handful of films, including Altman’s “Pret-a-Porter.” But she mostly had to settle for knowing her parents as a couple onscreen, as they broke up when she was just two years old.

Still, see it in the picture above: Chiara does look like her father. In her new film “Marcello Mio” (Strand Releasing), now in theaters and directed by her friend and frequent collaborator Christophe Honoré,...

The Palm Spring International Film Awards Gala is always fun, and always Big with a capital ‘B’. This year’s 36th edition, the 20th hosted by indefatigable Mary Hart, who keeps it rolling along — no break for chat and dinner because once it starts you just eat while you applaud the many stars and equally starry presenters handing them their very, shall we say, unique statuettes.

The recipients are always, repeat always, plucked from the creme de la creme of Oscar hopefuls, and in fact as this season jumps into hyper gear with one ceremony after another, continuing with the Golden Globes tomorrow, every single one of Friday night’s Psiff Awards Gala honorees you will also see changing into formal attire and walking the red carpet at the Beverly Hilton on Sunday. This event was a warmup, a chance to try out heartfelt,...

Who said the French and British couldn’t get along? When they’re not lighting up the screen together in films like Anthony Minghella’s “The English Patient, the 1992 adaptation of Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights,” and recently in “The Return,” based on the last chapters of Homer’s “Odyssey,” pals and collaborators Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes enjoy just getting to spend a little time with one another. And thankfully, Criterion gave them the chance to do just that.

Stepping into the Criterion Closet, Binoche and Fiennes pretended not to know one another, but soon became quite intimate, a not-so-unforeseen side effect of the tight quarters they found themselves in. Binoche led most of the selection efforts, with the “Conclave” star serving as the curious pupil, having heard of many films she pulled down, but not actually having seen them. After coming across Jim Jarmusch’s moody prison comedy “Down by Law,...

That should probably read: one of Federico Fellini's masterpieces. The fact that he followed La Dolce Vita merely a year later with 8 1/2 puts the Italian auteur in a rarefied group of filmmakers who have pulled off a one-two punch of films. 8 1/2 was an early title for the Criterion collection, and it's no wonder it's finally getting a 4K release to update for the physical media connoisseur. One of the best films about filmmaking, it's an arguably somewhat indulgent film, made by a person with a lot of privilege to put to screen his own therapy sessions - but that is a looking at it from a 60+ year distance, while still having almost nothing but respect for one of Europe's, and...

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Another day, another guild award nomination for “The Substance.”

On Friday, the Costume Designers Guild announced its 2025 CDG Awards nominees, and “The Substance” costume designer Emmanuelle Youchnovski was among the artisans highlighted for recognition.

Youchnovski is the latest department head from the Coralie Fargeat horror satire nominated for a guild award this week, following editors Fargeat, Jérôme Eltabet, and Valentin Féron at the Ace Eddie Awards, and hair and makeup team Frédérique Arguello and Stéphanie Guillon at the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards.

The film’s strong guild show corresponds to an outpouring of support from the journalists who make up the Golden Globes Foundation and Critics Choice Association. “The Substance” landed major nominations at both the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards this week, including best film nominations at each respective event and two Best Director bids for Fargeat.

“The Substance” wasn’t the only Best Picture...

The Costume Designers Guild unveiled the nominees for the 27th Cdga (Costume Designers Guild Awards) on December 13, showcasing a wide variety of work across film, TV, and short form.

Among the nominees for feature film are Oscar frontrunners “Nosferatu” (Linda Muir), “Wicked” (Paul Tazewell), “Conclave” (Lisy Christl), and “Emilia Pérez” (Virginie Montel). In TV, “Agatha All Along” (Daniel Selon), “Fallout” (Amy Westcott), and “Shōgun” (Carlos Rosario) scored noms.

“I am thrilled to congratulate all the nominees for this year’s Cdga. Your exceptional creativity and dedication continue to elevate the art of costume design. We look forward to celebrating your incredible achievements on this magical evening. Best wishes to each nominee,” Terry Gordon, President of the Costume Designers Guild, IATSE Local 892, said in a statement.

Winners in all nine categories will be announced at the Cdga ceremony Thursday, February 6, 2025, at The Ebell of Los Angeles. Western Costume returns as a...

The Costume Designers Guild on Friday unveiled nominations for the 27th CDGAs, with titles on the movie side ranging from blockbusters like Wicked, Gladiator II, Dune: Part Two and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice to indie hits like Conclave, Emilia Pérez and The Substance.

The CDG Awards nominates films in three categories — Contemporary, Period and Sci-Fi/Fantasy — along with four TV categories and one category apiece in Short Form Design and Costume Illustration.

Among the TV nominees with multiple mentions this morning are Shōgun and Agatha All Along, with others with eye-popping looks in the mix including Bridgerton, Dancing With the Stars and The Masked Singer, and Emily In Paris.

Winners will be revealed at the 27th annual CDG Awards hosted by Jackie Tohn on February 6 at The Ebell of Los Angeles.

Last year, the film winners included Barbie, Saltburn and eventual Costume Design Oscar winner Holly Waddingham for Poor Things.

Here’s...

Although the extent to which the iconically dark-shaded and silver-streaked Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) can truly be accepted as a Federico Fellini surrogate is a source of endlessly inconsequential debate, we tend to take the lightly fictive director at his word when he dismally claims that he had planned to make a truly honest and direct film this time around. 8½ represents the most unceremonious and abrupt transition in the development of Fellini’s cinema from putatively neorealist ideologies to unabashedly oneiric claptraps about the onus of an overly imaginative but waning masculinity—and it is, for all its Freudian bitchery and post-libidinous angst, one of the few personal statements in film utterly unhindered by stretches for social or cosmic relevance.

There are some aphoristic generalizations related to living the creative life, most of them articulated by Guidio’s lean script advisor and logos personification Daumier (Jean Rougeul)—“Destroying is better...

U.S. actor Omar Benson Miller who is known for roles in “8 Mile,” HBO’s Ballers, and Apple’s “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey,” stars in Italian immigration-themed drama “Naples to York” by Oscar-winning director Gabriele Salvatores that is having its festival premiere at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival.

Interestingly, Federico Fellini co-wrote this tale of two Neapolitan kids who embark on a ship to New York to escape Italy’s early postwar poverty with his frequent collaborator Tullio Pinelli, a writer on the Italian maestro’s “La Dolce Vita” and “8 1/2,” as well as other titles.

In the film Benson Miller plays the ship’s cook who, during their travels, takes the kids under his wing.

He spoke to Variety about being back in Italy more than a decade after working in Tuscany with Spike Lee on “Miracle at St. Anna”; why this movie, conceived by Fellini,...

Is that a chill in the air? Perhaps your boots are starting to feel colder and damper with each passing day. Maybe your cheeks are turning pink every time you step outside. Whether we like it or not, winter is here, which means it’s the perfect time to avoid the cold and hurry to your nice, warm movie house. With the holidays right around the corner, repertory theaters are stocking up on Christmas classics and seasonal favorites. For those looking for something more traditional than Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” and Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu,” which release December 20 and December 25, respectively, cinemas in New York and Los Angeles have plenty of options for the whole family, as well as more festive adult fare for those looking to spice things up.

Selections this month come from the Metrograph located on the Lower East Side in New York City and Village East by Angelika,...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Museum of the Moving Image

See It Big! Let It Snow brings 35mm prints of Kurosawa’s Dersu Uzala, 1994’s Little Women, and McCabe & Mrs. Miller.

Film at Lincoln Center

Mike Leigh’s Secrets & Lies shows on Saturday with an introduction from Marianne Jean-Baptiste.

Film Forum

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Wages of Fear play in 4K restorations.

Metrograph

La Dolce Vita, Permanent Vacation, Death By Hanging, and The Art of the Steal show on 35mm and Lino Brocka’s Bona starts screening; Ed Lachman’s Report from Hollywood and Urban Ghosts begin while Absconded Art, The World Is a Stage, and Crush the Strong, Help the Weak continue.

IFC Center

It’s a Wonderful Life and a 4K restoration of Carrie plays daily; 2001, Spider Baby, Threads, and Alien show late.

Museum of Modern Art

A Robert Frank centennial continues.

Metrograph Pictures is ending the year strong with a variety of new film series and special presentations. The NYC cinema has a rich calendar of screenings and events for December, and their streaming service has some delights as well. One of the best bits of programming this month features deep cuts from the Deutsche Kinemathek, but also the annual bit of holiday programming the theater presents beginning Dec. 20, 2024. You can stream movies at Metrograph At Home here and find the Metrograph Theater's calendar here. Learn about the programming below:

Obscure Films from the Deutsche Kinemathek

Metrograph

The Deutsche Kinemathek is a Berlin institution devoted to preserving cinema, with more than 20,000 titles in its archive. Metrograph is collaborating with them in December to unearth some forgotten films from Eastern Germany's history with "An Alternate Cinema." The titans of prewar Expressionism and New German Cinema have never lacked for repertory programming slots,...

Looking outside America this Oscar season, there are plenty of candidates for the Best International Feature award. You might gravitate to Latvia’s Cannes entry Flow, a dialogue-free animation in which a black cat, a bird and a ragtag band of other creatures fight for survival in a human-free world after a catastrophic flood. Or maybe you’ll fancy the chances of raucous Irish-language Sundance comedy Kneecap, a wildly stylized biopic of the English-baiting, all-male hip-hop trio from Belfast.

But these two are outliers; the international Oscar race this year is dominated by stories of women, from all over the world. For example, the U.K.’s Hindi-language drama Santosh, filmed in Uttar Pradesh, Northern India, finds a policeman’s widow thrown into her late husband’s world, where she must battle police indifference and solve the murder of a low-caste local girl. From Bulgaria there is Triumph, a political...

In a year in which two of world cinema’s oldest industries, Japan and Italy, have signed a long-awaited co-production treaty, jury members at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) were talking up the importance of both film history and the theatrical experience on the first full day of the festival.

After praising TIFF for its selection of established and emerging Asian filmmakers, Hong Kong actor and jury president Tony Leung Chiu-wai also pointed to the festival’s in-depth programmes of classic movies observing that they play an important role in “introducing Italian directors like [Federico] Fellini and Japanese filmmakers like [Akira] Kurosawa to younger audiences.

“They are not only introducing what is current, but also the vast history of cinema, which is a wonderful opportunity for audiences to learn about the past,” the star of In The Mood For Love and Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings said.

“Marcello Mastroianni was known, all around the world, as the Latin lover, the Italian seducer, especially after he starred in La Dolce Vita, Federico Fellini’s masterpiece,” says Fabrizio Corallo, the director of the new documentary Ciao Marcello, Mastroianni l’antidivo. “Mastroianni did not like this image. He didn’t want to be seen as an icon, as a sex symbol. He didn’t care much about his public persona; what did matter to him was his personal life. So, I tried to build an intimate portrait of this unique actor.”

Corallo is a journalist and an expert on the history of Italian cinema. For state broadcaster Rai he has made a number of documentaries about the great personalities of Italian cinema: Dino Risi, Vittorio Gassman, Virna Lisi, Ennio Flaiano and Giuliano Montaldo, among others.

Ciao Marcello, which was co-written with Silvia Scola, the daughter of Italian filmmaker Ettore Scola,...

The Tokyo International Film Festival has selected the samurai action thriller 11 Rebels as the opening movie of its upcoming 37th edition. The film is directed by Shiraishi Kazuya from a decades-old screenplay by the late, great scriptwriter Kasahara Kazuo (Japanese Yakuza, Battles Without Honor and Humanity). The festival will close with a screening of the French-Italian comedy Marcello Mio, directed by Christophe Honoré and starring European screen royalty Chiara Mastroianni, also serving on Tokyo’s main competition jury this year.

Produced by Japanese studio heavyweight Toei, 11 Rebels has already secured theatrical distribution in North America, where it will look to tap into the resurgent interest in samurai action cinema following the smash success of FX’s Shogun. It stars popular local actors Takayuki Yamada and Taiga Nakano.

“We expect this powerful film to mark a spectacular opening to the festival,” the event’s organizers said in a statement released Thursday.

Each day during the 2024 Venice Film Festival, IndieWire will update this article with a review of the day’s screenings, activities, and buzz.

Pardon me for kicking things off with an esoteric complaint, but as someone who often has to go to a premiere in order to take the audience’s reaction into consideration for a film’s awards prospects, my 2024 Venice Film Festival experience has been uniquely stressful.

While attendees book tickets to screenings through a website, as is the case with most of the major film festivals now, many of the big premieres at Venice aren’t listed for press and industry passholders, so I’ve spent a good percentage of my last two days asking anyone who would hear me if they had a connect to get into the first public screening of Pablo Larraín’s “Maria.”

I spent much of yesterday in a panic about getting...

September marks Marcello Mastroianni’s centennial, and the Criterion Channel pays respect with a retrospective that puts the expected alongside some lesser-knowns: Monicelli’s The Organizer, Jacques Demy’s A Slightly Pregnant Man, and two by Ettore Scola. There’s also the welcome return of “Adventures In Moviegoing” with Rachel Kushner’s formidable selections, among them Fassbinder’s Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven, Pialat’s L’enfance nue, and Jean Eustache’s Le cochon. In the lead-up to His Three Daughters, a four-film Azazel Jacobs program arrives.

Theme-wise, a set of courtroom dramas runs from 12 Angry Men and Anatomy of a Murder to My Cousin Vinny and Philadelphia; a look at ’30s female screenwriters includes Fritz Lang’s You and Me, McCarey’s Make Way for Tomorrow, and Cukor’s What Price Hollywood? There’s also a giallo series if you want to watch an Argento movie and ask yourself,...

Roger Ebert, from Urbana, Illinois, started his decorated career in film criticism with early works at The Daily Illini. Ebert diversified as a screenwriter, collaborating with Russ Meyer on the cult classic Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Despite the film's controversy, Ebert maintained its artistic merit and legacy while balancing his role as a respected critic.

After an upbringing two hours south of Chicago in Urbana, Illinois, Roger Ebert started college early standing out at Urbana High partly because of his work on the school newspaper. Ebert continued his venture into journalism at the University of Illinois, writing some of his early film critiques before becoming the college newspaper's editor as a senior. An early 1961 review of Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita in The Daily Illini was a harbinger of what would become one of the most decorated careers in the history of film criticism. But before those lofty heights,...

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Yvonne Furneaux, the glamorous actress who had memorable performances in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Le Amiche, Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and Roman Polanski’s Repulsion, has died. She was 98.

Furneaux died July 5 at her home in North Hampton, New Hampshire, of complications from a stroke, her son, Nicholas Natteau, told The Hollywood Reporter.

She also was the female lead in the Hammer horror film The Mummy (1959), starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Though she considered the project less than ideal, she said she ultimately learned from those actors that “if you don’t take a film like The Mummy seriously and put your heart and soul into it, then you can bring it down,” she explained in Mark A. Miller’s 2010 book, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and Horror Cinema.

She starred in Italian, French, German and Spanish films during her career.

In Le Amiche (1955), a hit at the...

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The star of La Dolce Vita and A Man and a Woman, who has died aged 92, had a unique screen presence that was at once alluring and forbidding

The superbly aquiline beauty and patrician style of Anouk Aimée made her a 60s movie icon in France, Italy and everywhere else with a presence at once alluring and forbidding. She had something of the young Joan Crawford, or Marlene Dietrich, or her contemporary, the French model and actress Capucine. Aimée radiated an enigmatic sexual aura flavoured with melancholy, sophistication and worldly reserve. Hers was not a face that could simper or pout: it was the entranced men around her who were more likely to be doing that. Hirokazu Kore-eda once wrote an amusing line that all the great French movie actresses have surnames that begin with the same letter as their first names: Danielle Darrieux, Simone Signoret, Brigitte Bardot … and of...

Anouk Aimée in The Best Years Of A Life with Jean-Louis Trintignant, reprising their characters 53 years on from A Man And A Woman. Director Claude Lelouch said: 'It was wonderful for us all to get together again. It was as though something had been left unfinished, and none of us wanted it to end.' Photo: UniFrance Jean-Louis Trintignant as Jean-Louis and Anouk Aimée is Anne in A Man And A Woman One of the most revered icons of French cinema, Anouk Aimée who starred opposite Jean-Louis Trintignant in one of the most successful French films of all time, A Man And A Woman, by Claude Lelouch, has died today at the age of 92. The news was revealed by her daughter Manuella Papatakis.

The poet and screenwriter Jacques Prévert was so entranced with her that he gave her the name Anouk Aimée (she was born Françoise Sorya), and cast her...

Anouk Aimee, the French actress who received a best actress Oscar nomination in 1967 for A Man And A Woman, has died aged 92.

Aimee died at her home in Paris. Her death was confirmed by an Instagram post from her daughter Manuela Papatakis, which read, “With my daughter, Galaad, and my granddaughter, Mila, we have great sadness to announce the departure of my mother Anouk Aimée.”

Born Nicole Francoise Florence Dreyfus in Paris in 1932, she made her film debut aged 14 in the role of Anouk in Henri Calef’s The House Under The Sea. She kept the name for her career,...

Anouk Aimee, the French actress who received a best actress Oscar nomination in 1967 for A Man And A Woman, has died aged 92.

Aimee died at her home in Paris. Her death was confirmed by an Instagram post from her daughter Manuela Papatakis, which read, “With my daughter, Galaad, and my granddaughter, Mila, we have great sadness to announce the departure of my mother Anouk Aimée.”

Born Nicole Francoise Florence Dreyfus in Paris in 1932, she made her film debut aged 14 in the role of Anouk in Henri Calef’s The House Under The Sea. She kept the name for her career,...

The French actor was one of the key faces of the New Wave, starring in classics by directors including Federico Fellini, Jacques Demy and Claude Lelouch

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Anouk Aimée, the French star of European New Wave classics including La Dolce Vita, A Man and a Woman and Lola, has died aged 92. Her daughter Manuela Papatakis announced the news on social media on Tuesday.

Papatakis said: “We have the immense sadness to announce the departure of my mother … I was close to her when she passed away this morning, at her home in Paris.”...

Anouk Aimée, the French actress known for her elegance and cool sophistication in films including Claude Lelouch’s “A Man and a Woman” (1966), Fellini classics “La Dolce Vita” (1960) and “8½” (1963) and Jacques Demy’s “Lola” (1961), died on Tuesday. She was 92.

Aimée’s daughter, Manuela Papatakis, confirmed her death in a post on Instagram.

“With my daughter, Galaad, and my granddaughter, Mila, we have great sadness to announce the departure of my mother Anouk Aimée,” she wrote. “I was right by her side when she passed away this morning at her home in Paris.”

Fairly described in one encyclopedia as an “an aloof but alluring presence on the screen,” Aimée was frequently described as ““regal,” “intelligent” and “enigmatic,” giving the actress, according to journalist Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, “an aura of disturbing and mysterious beauty that has earned her the status of one of the hundred sexiest stars in film history (in a...

Actress Anouk Aimée, the sophisticated French beauty who graced the films of Federico Fellini, Jacques Demy, Sidney Lumet, Bernardo Bertolucci and Claude Lelouch, has died. She was 92.

Aimee’s daughter said in an Instagram post on Tuesday that the star died at her home in Paris without providing further details.

Perhaps best known for her role opposite Jean-Louis Trintignant in Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman (1966) — for which she received an Oscar nomination for best actress and won a Golden Globe — Aimée also starred in such art house standouts as Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (1960) and 8 1/2 (1963), Demy’s Lola (1961), Jacques Becker’s Montparnasse 19 (1958) and Bertolucci’s Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (1981).

Her career kicked off in the late 1940s and lasted all the way through a reunion with Trintignant in The Best Years (Les Plus belles annees), Lelouch’s 2019 epilogue to A Man and a Woman.

With more than 80 feature credits,...

Cannes film festival

Playing themselves, film icons gaze into the looking-glass in this unconvincing and tiresome piece of cine-narcissism

A peculiar and tiresome piece of cine-narcissism here from Christophe Honoré, based on an insufferably twee kind of cinephilia – yet rescued, slightly, by the down-to-earth drollery of Catherine Deneuve, who is playing herself.

Chiara Mastroianni, the Franco-Italian actor and Deneuve’s daughter, is of course very well known for her startling likeness to her father: the film icon Marcello Mastroianni. We see her here also playing herself and acting in what is evidently supposed to be a homage to Anita Ekberg’s Trevi fountain scene from Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, in which Marcello famously starred. She feels haunted by her father and has a dream in which her face turns into Marcello’s in the bathroom mirror; actually, it is not much of a change. She confesses how unhappy she...

Now a Cannes veteran, French filmmaker Christophe Honoré has returned to the Competition with the world premiere of Marcello Mio, his French-Italian comedy that stars longtime collaborator Chiara Mastroianni — who, in the film, adopts the persona and appearance of her late father, Marcello Mastroianni. The movie received applause that lasted a touch over eight minutes during its unveiling this evening.

Marcello Mio taps into the younger Mastroianni’s complex reality of being the daughter of cinema icons Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve.

In a fantasy scenario, Chiara hits a crisis point and begins to dress, speak and breathe like her late father, the legendary star of such films as La Dolce Vita, 81/2 and Marriage Italian Style. Those around her, including Deneuve, Fabrice Luchini, Melvil Poupaud, Benjamin Biolay, Nicole Garica and Hugh Skinner, who also play part-real, part-fictionalized versions of themselves in Marcello Mio, begin to believe it and start to call her “Marcello.