Trio dominates Italian film awards on Monday night.
Paolo Virzi’s Like Crazy (pictured) won five awards, including best picture, best director and best leading actress for Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
Indivisible by Edoardo De Angelis won six, among them best screenplay and best supporting actress for Antonia Truppo.
Matteo Rovere’s Italian Race also won six mostly technical awards, although it claimed best leading actor for Stefano Accorsi.
Like Crazy from Lotus Productions (Perfect Strangers) and Manny films (7 Minutes) premiered in last year’s Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight and began the night on 17 nominations.
The story of two fun-seeking, mentally disturbed women on the run from their clinic was the most successful of the three films at the box office, earning $6.5m to become one of the biggest local hits of 2016. Its five di Donatello wins included best production design and best hairstyling.
Indivisible also also earned 17 nominations and is the pulp story of two conjoined sisters exploited...
Paolo Virzi’s Like Crazy (pictured) won five awards, including best picture, best director and best leading actress for Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
Indivisible by Edoardo De Angelis won six, among them best screenplay and best supporting actress for Antonia Truppo.
Matteo Rovere’s Italian Race also won six mostly technical awards, although it claimed best leading actor for Stefano Accorsi.
Like Crazy from Lotus Productions (Perfect Strangers) and Manny films (7 Minutes) premiered in last year’s Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight and began the night on 17 nominations.
The story of two fun-seeking, mentally disturbed women on the run from their clinic was the most successful of the three films at the box office, earning $6.5m to become one of the biggest local hits of 2016. Its five di Donatello wins included best production design and best hairstyling.
Indivisible also also earned 17 nominations and is the pulp story of two conjoined sisters exploited...
- 3/27/2017
- ScreenDaily
In the years since Jonathan Demme refined the art of rock documentaries and made Talking Heads frontman David Byrne swing-dance with a lamp in Stop Making Sense, he's teamed with Neil Young for a trilogy of performance films, done some scattered music video work, and helmed a little-seen doc with Italian singer-songwriter Enzo Avitabile. Now his turned his lens on another iconic performer: Justin Timberlake. And no, he did not put him in a giant, baggy white suit.
His latest concert movie, Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids, is a chronicle...
His latest concert movie, Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids, is a chronicle...
- 9/15/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Italian jazz saxophonist and composer Enzo Avitabile might not be a household name in the States, but in the annals of world music he’s quite a fixture. In his native Naples he is so famous that when he visits the neighborhood of his youth, folks bustle into the streets and onto rooftops and balconies to lay eyes on him. A scholar of jazz, he can hold court on the evolution of the form as long as you’d like him to, although as Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme discovers in his newest concert film, Enzo Avitabile Music Life, that may not […]...
- 10/25/2013
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Italian jazz saxophonist and composer Enzo Avitabile might not be a household name in the States, but in the annals of world music he’s quite a fixture. In his native Naples he is so famous that when he visits the neighborhood of his youth, folks bustle into the streets and onto rooftops and balconies to lay eyes on him. A scholar of jazz, he can hold court on the evolution of the form as long as you’d like him to, although as Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme discovers in his newest concert film, Enzo Avitabile Music Life, that may not […]...
- 10/25/2013
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Somewhat similar in approach to Stop Making Sense and Storefront Hitchcock, Demme focuses on the uniqueness of the performances of Avitabile's music. A Neapolitan saxophonist and vocalist who creates intricate, multiethnic jazz compositions, Avitabile possesses a level of songwriting genius that exists on a comparable intellectual plane to David Byrne. Like Byrne, Avitabile's greatest strength is in his ability to choose teams of collaborators from around the world, then fuse them together in the recording of a song. Avitabile is well known for his thorough knowledge of world music -- specifically the instruments and rhythmic structures -- and ability to use that information in the development of intriguing collaborations. Whether or not you recognize names such as Eliades Ochoa, Naseer Shamma, Daby Touré, Trilok Gurtu and Amal Murkus does not really matter, Enzo Avitabile is about the magic that happens when Avitable creates music with these talented people.
- 10/17/2013
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Here's what we see when we're given a peek inside a drawer in the home of Enzo Avitabile, the affable avant-garde Neapolitan composer and performer: a clutch of wooden North African reed-flutes and a perfect pink seashell the size of a fist. Wispy-haired and charismatic, possessed of great spirit and a tough-to-categorize genius, Avitabile has dedicated himself to celebrating and bewailing the world about him through all the music that world has birthed—music that, in this film at least, resembles that seashell, seeming to be both the result of great artistry and a spontaneous expression of natural forces. Here, in Jonathan Demme's travelogue/performance doc, Avitabile leads loose, thrilling jam sessions with masters of rare instruments from around the globe, including As...
- 10/16/2013
- Village Voice
Jazz and fusion musician Enzo Avitabile gets his due via Jonathan Demme documentary. Jonathan Demme is set to helm the docu which set in Naples, focusing on the musician of whom he's he is a big fan, reports Variety. Demme's experienced in music documentary work, having taking the helm for Neil Young: Heart of Gold, Neil Young Trunk Show and Neil Young Journeys, as well as work with The Talking Heads, and directing the Bruce Springsteen: The Complete Video Anthology 1978-2000 video documentary. Of course, Demme's most popular work was at the helm of The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia and The Manchurian Candidate. Avitabile is a sax player and songwriter who has toured internationally with the likes of James Brown and Tina Turner among others, known for ...
- 11/28/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Jazz and fusion musician Enzo Avitabile gets his due via Jonathan Demme documentary. Jonathan Demme is set to helm the docu which set in Naples, focusing on the musician of whom he's he is a big fan, reports Variety. Demme's experienced in music documentary work, having taking the helm for Neil Young: Heart of Gold, Neil Young Trunk Show and Neil Young Journeys, as well as work with The Talking Heads, and directing the Bruce Springsteen: The Complete Video Anthology 1978-2000 video documentary. Of course, Demme's most popular work was at the helm of The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia and The Manchurian Candidate. Avitabile is a sax player and songwriter who has toured internationally with the likes of James Brown and Tina Turner among others, known for ...
- 11/28/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Jazz and fusion musician Enzo Avitabile gets his due via Jonathan Demme documentary. Jonathan Demme is set to helm the docu which set in Naples, focusing on the musician of whom he's he is a big fan, reports Variety. Demme's experienced in music documentary work, having taking the helm for Neil Young: Heart of Gold, Neil Young Trunk Show and Neil Young Journeys, as well as work with The Talking Heads, and directing the Bruce Springsteen: The Complete Video Anthology 1978-2000 video documentary. Of course, Demme's most popular work was at the helm of The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia and The Manchurian Candidate. Avitabile is a sax player and songwriter who has toured internationally with the likes of James Brown and Tina Turner among others, known for ...
- 11/28/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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