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Italian auteur Nanni Moretti suffered a heart attack on Wednesday and is reportedly in intensive care in stable condition, according to Italian news reports.

The 71-year-old idiosyncratic director, actor and screenwriter, who won the 2001 Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for “The Son’s Room,” was rushed in the afternoon to Rome’s San Camillo hospital where he underwent surgery. Italian news agency Ansa reported that he was in stable condition.

Moretti previously suffered a mild heart attack in October last year.

Known as an acerbic moralist and social commentator, Moretti most recently competed in Cannes in 2023 with high-concept meta-comedy “A Brighter Tomorrow,” in which he stars as a Roman director who is shooting a period piece set in Rome in 1956.

Before being hospitalized he was in pre-production on a new film, details of which are not known.

Moretti has often constructed his films around his own persona, appearing as the central character,...

Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore in ‘The Room Next Door’ (Photo Credit: Sony Classics)

The 2024 Venice Film Festival winners were announced on September 7th, with Oscar-winner Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her) earning the Golden Lion for Best Film for The Room Next Door. Almodóvar took home the coveted prize for this first English-language film, and he dedicated the win to his family. “It is my first movie in English but the spirit is Spanish,” said the acclaimed filmmaker.

Academy Award-winner Nicole Kidman was named Best Actress for her starring role in director Halina Reijn’s Babygirl. Kidman wasn’t able to attend the ceremony, and Reijn read a statement accepting the award. “Today, I arrived in Venice to find out shortly after that my brave and beautiful mother Janelle Ann Kidman has just passed. I’m in shock and I have to go to my family. But this award is for her.

Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door won the Golden Lion for best film at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.

Almodóvar’s first English-language feature marks the first time he has won the top award at one of the three major film festivals. Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore star in the story of a woman who makes the decision to end her life, and the friend who re-enters her world around this time.

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Sony Pictures Classics will release the film in the US on December 20, with Warner Bros handling multiple international territories including UK-Ireland.

Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door” won the Golden Lion at the 81st Venice Film Festival. The Spanish auteur’s first feature in English took the top prize at the awards ceremony on Saturday, where he accepted the honor in person. Based on Sigrid Nunez’s novel “What Are You Going Through,” the film stars Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore as friends who reunite after several years.

Though Almodóvar’s latest was not reviewed as enthusiastically as most of his films (a high bar to cross), the drama was still favored to do well at the Venice awards. When it premiered earlier this week, it was met with a lengthy standing ovation of almost 20 minutes — a warm reception even for festival audiences. And few are the cinephiles in Europe who do not consider the director of “All About My Mother,” “Talk to Her,” “Volver,” “Bad Education” and “Parallel Mothers” a living great.

The 81st Venice Film Festival comes to a close today with the awards ceremony, held at the Sala Grande in the Palazzo del Cinema.

Starting at 7pm Cet (6pm BST), viewers can watch the ceremony live in the video above; Screen will be updating this page with the winners as they are announced.

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The ceremony will be hosted by Italian actress Sveva Alviti, who also hosted the opening ceremony on August 28. A Competition jury led by Isabelle Huppert will award eight prizes, including the Golden Lion for best film. There are further awards in the Horizons,...

Nanni Moretti always dresses impeccably — whether tuxed-up for the Cannes red carpet for his eight competition appearances since 1978 (his ninth, for A Brighter Tomorrow, will come May 24) or walking the Croisette in the casual chic (cashmere sweaters and chinos with open-collar shirts in dark gray or plum) that appears to come naturally to Italian men of Moretti’s generation. But the mantle of elder statesman of Italian cinema seems to hang on the 69-year-old director more like an ill-fitting suit.

It’s hard to deny Moretti’s position as a successor to the great neorealists — Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini — and the generation of New Wave heroes of the 1960s like Michelangelo Antonioni, Bernardo Bertolucci and Lina Wertmüller who reclaimed and restored Italian cinema after the ravages of fascism. His list of awards and acclaims alone — the Palme d’Or for The Son’s Room in 2001, Cannes best director in 1994 for Dear Diary,...

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

David Lynch: The Art Life (Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes, and Olivia Neergaard-Holm)

Before David Lynch was a filmmaker, he was a struggling painter, whose lifeblood was to “drink coffee, smoke cigarettes, and paint.” That’s what he dubbed “the art life,” and what an image – as featured in the many contemporary photos seen in this new documentary – it is, the bequiffed 20-something Lynch sitting back in his Philadelphia studio,...

Mubi's retrospective Moretti's Comedies is showing from June 24 - July 26, 2017 in most countries around the world.In three early comedies, I Am Self-Sufficient (1976), Ecce bombo (1978), and Golden Dreams (1981), Nanni Moretti plays Michele Apicelli, a self-loathing, abrasive egotist and film fanatic.  Moretti also wrote and directed himself, and he brings an incisive approach to examining a character that is fun to watch at times, yet who is lost and perpetually unhappy.  This character has the ambition of being a great filmmaker, yet he is dogged by his critics.  The Michele character is quite consistent across all three movies, and harkens back to peak Woody Allen days of playful cinematic invention and self-examination.  Moretti's films have a joyously anarchic spirit, especially when he uses metaphorical visuals to argue his points, and the films' pacing is still breakneck so many years later.While all three Moretti comedies in this video essay are politically...

It's been quite a year for Italian master Nanni Moretti. His most recent film, "We Have A Pope," weathered considerable Vatican controversy last year and ended up atop Cahiers du Cinema's 2011 list, and this spring he will head the Cannes jury. The director behind "The Son's Room," which won the Palme D'Or in 2001, will cap the year off this weekend with appearances at with La Vita e Cinema, Moretti's first New York career retrospective. Never a crossover success in the United States, Nanni Moretti has nonetheless long been one of Europe's most consistent and successful filmmakers. He began in 1976 with his Super-8 feature "I Am Self-Sufficient," in which he played the lead role, and had his biggest early success with "Ecce Bombo," which started off his long relationship with the Cannes Film Festival. Since then, his prominence has allowed him to make many of cinema's great comedies, all of which eloquently mesh.

Nanni Moretti, "perhaps the leading cinematic satirist of our time," as Andrew Sarris once wrote, will preside over the Jury of the 65th Festival de Cannes just a few short weeks after We Have a Pope, which premiered in Competition at Cannes last year, opens in the Us on April 6. This Friday at 7 pm, the IFC Center in New York presents a sneak preview of Pope — and Moretti will be there.

This special event is part of La Vita e Cinema: The Films of Nanni Moretti, a complete retrospective running from today through Thursday, April 5. Moretti will also be present at the following screenings:

Friday, March 30

Ecce bombo (1978), 9:30 pm.

Saturday, March 31

Aprile (1998), 5:30 pm.

The Son's Room (2001), 7:30 pm.

Sunday, April 1

The Caiman (2006), 3:25 pm.

Caro Diario (1993), 5:45 pm.

The IFC Center is generously offering two pairs of tickets to each of these showings (they'd have loved to offer...

Veteran Italian film-maker, previous winner of the Palm d'Or, calls role 'a real joy, an honour and a tremendous responsibility'

The Italian actor and director Nanni Moretti has been named president of the jury for this year's Cannes film festival, which is due to be held in May.

Moretti will oversee the committee that decides the 2012 Palme d'Or winner for the first time, though he was a member of the jury in 1997 for the event's 50th anniversary. This year's Cannes is the 65th edition.

"This is a real joy, an honour and a tremendous responsibility to preside over the jury of the most prestigious festival of cinematography in the world, a festival that is held in a country where film has always been treated with interest and respect," said Moretti. "As a director, I was always very moved when my films were presented at the Festival de Cannes. I also...

Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti will preside over the Jury of the 65th Festival de Cannes to be held from May 16 to 27, 2012.

Moretti’s Ecce Bombo was selected in Competition in Cannes in 1978. In 1981, his film Sogni d’Oro (Golden Dreams) won the Special Jury Prize in Venice. Moretti’s La Messa è finita (The Mass is Ended) won the Silver Bear in Berlin in 1986.

His film Caro Diario (Dear Diary) won him the Best Director at Cannes Film Festival in 19994 while La Stanza del figlio (The Son’s Room) won the Palme d’Or in 2001.

In all, he has presented six films at the Cannes Film Festival, including Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope) which was presented in 2011 edition.

Critics hoped Nanni Moretti's new film would be a fierce attack on the Catholic church – instead, it's an amiable farce. Has the scourge of the Italian establishment gone soft? Xan Brooks meets him in Cannes

Nanni Moretti's new film takes us behind the scenes at the Vatican, down darkened corridors and beyond closed doors. Look: there's an aged cardinal on his exercise bike, another dosing his water with Rescue Remedy, a third puffing ecstatically on a sly cigarette. At its Cannes screening, where Moretti is in contention for this year's Palme d'Or, I mentally urged the director to take us further, show us more. What I'm really after, I think, is the arrival of an altar boy.

But Moretti moves in mysterious ways. When it was announced that the puckish Italian film-maker was shooting a comedy about the Catholic church, the critics readied themselves for a major scandal,...

Watch Italian actor and director Nanni Moretti’s complex and heartfelt performance as a grieving widower in the family drama “Quiet Chaos” (Caos Calmo) and try to imagine a time when he was quickly summed up as Italy’s answer to Woody Allen. Few actors are capable of performances that speak so truthfully about men, their complicated relationships with work and family and their way in the modern world, like Moretti. He’s in a league all his own. While Moretti forgoes directing “Quiet Chaos” in place of fellow Italian Antonello Grimaldi, his performance is strong enough to cancel any nostalgia for his alter ego Michele, the funny protagonist of his early films “Ecce Bombo,” “Sweet Dreams” and “Palombella Rossa.” Thankfully, Moretti’s comic touch remains intact throughout “Quiet Chaos,” a drama that benefits from spots of laughter. More importantly, Moretti displays a skill for drama far better than any of Allen’s serious efforts.

[The Torino Film Festival just wrapped up - naming Tony Manero it’s big winner, a choice that both surprises and pleases me to no end - and our very own Paolo Gilli was present throughout. He weighs in now with his take on events.]

The Torino Film Festival (21-29 November), that closed this past weekend, is probably Italy’s finest Festival, always equally divided between the old and the new, American, Asian and European cinema. This year’s edition, the second under the supervision of actor-director and Cannes favourite Nanni Moretti (Ecce Bombo, Caro Diario, Aprile and La Stanza del figlio), had again an impressive line up, including W (Oliver Stone), Let The Right One In (Tomas Alfredson), Somers Town (Shane Meadows), The Escapist (Rupert Wyatt), festival-winner Tony Manero (Pablo Larrain), Die Welle (Dennis Gansel), Made in America (Stacy Peralta), Religulous (Larry Charles), Hunger (Steve McQueen), Dream (Kim Ki-duk), United Red Army (Koji Wakamatsu) and many more.

But Torino wouldn’t be complete without its traditional retrospectives, covering this time the complete filomgraphies of noir-master Jean Pierre Melville and Roman Polanski (including all of his acting roles). Besides those, there was a third retro,...