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- 5/5/2021
- MUBI
Further films on the slate include titles from Susanna Nicchiarelli and Pietro Marcello.
New films from Roman Polanski and Alice Rohrwacher headline Rai Cinema’s upcoming production slate.
Polanski’s The Palace is being written by Jerzy Skolimowski (director of Golden Bear winner Le Départ and Deep End) and is about a hotel in Switzerland on New Year’s Eve 1999, blending stories of guests and staff. It is being produced by Italy’s Eliseo Entertainment, which co-produced Polanski’s last film, An Officer And A Spy, with Rai Cinema. No further details have yet been revealed.
Rohrwacher’s La Chimera...
New films from Roman Polanski and Alice Rohrwacher headline Rai Cinema’s upcoming production slate.
Polanski’s The Palace is being written by Jerzy Skolimowski (director of Golden Bear winner Le Départ and Deep End) and is about a hotel in Switzerland on New Year’s Eve 1999, blending stories of guests and staff. It is being produced by Italy’s Eliseo Entertainment, which co-produced Polanski’s last film, An Officer And A Spy, with Rai Cinema. No further details have yet been revealed.
Rohrwacher’s La Chimera...
- 4/29/2021
- by Gabriele Niola
- ScreenDaily
Roman Polanski will soon return behind the camera on “The Palace” a drama set in Switzerland that is co-written with fellow Polish auteur Jerzy Skolimowski.
The new Polanski project, which the director is expected to start shooting this fall, was announced Thursday during a lineup presentation by Rai Cinema, the film arm of Italian public broadcaster Rai.
“The Palace” is set on New Year’s Eve in 1999, “which is the epilogue of an entire millennium,” said Rai Cinema chief Paolo Del Brocco. The film is situated “in a big hotel immersed in the Swiss Alps where the lives of the guests and those who work for them intersect,” the exec added, noting that he only recently received the screenplay and isn’t allowed to say more.
The Polanski pic is being lead-produced by Italian actor-producer Luca Barbareschi via his Eliseo Entertainment company.
Barbareschi was also a producer on Polanski’s “An Officer and a Spy,...
The new Polanski project, which the director is expected to start shooting this fall, was announced Thursday during a lineup presentation by Rai Cinema, the film arm of Italian public broadcaster Rai.
“The Palace” is set on New Year’s Eve in 1999, “which is the epilogue of an entire millennium,” said Rai Cinema chief Paolo Del Brocco. The film is situated “in a big hotel immersed in the Swiss Alps where the lives of the guests and those who work for them intersect,” the exec added, noting that he only recently received the screenplay and isn’t allowed to say more.
The Polanski pic is being lead-produced by Italian actor-producer Luca Barbareschi via his Eliseo Entertainment company.
Barbareschi was also a producer on Polanski’s “An Officer and a Spy,...
- 4/29/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Rome – Pope Francis said this week he is an admirer of Italian films of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, including works from Federico Fellini and Roberto Rossellini. He also said he'd take a look at two films released this year suggested by an interviewer. The pontiff gave a wide-ranging interview to Eugenio Scalfari, an 89-year-old athiest journalist from Rome's La Repubblica newspaper and one of the deans of Italy's press corps. The interview focused mostly on issues of spirituality and Church reform, but it also touched upon cinema. Francis mentioned adaptations of Alessandro Manzoni's classic novel
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- 10/2/2013
- by Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
By Michael Atkinson
Turning 70 this year, Marco Bellocchio has finally attained old-guard respectability, in light of the ironic, seasoned, historically quizzical mastery of "My Mother's Smile" (2002), "Good Morning, Night" (2003) and now "The Wedding Director" (2006). Notorious here as a mere provocateur (largely thanks to Maruschka Detmers' half-hearted blowjob in "Devil in the Flesh"), Bellocchio has always seemed young and ready to rumble ever since his 1965 debut "Fists in the Pocket," fashioned, when he was 26, as a sneak attack on all things Old World Catholic, provincial, late-baroque, aristocratic and traditional. Now, after many darkling family tales and adaptations of Pirandello, Bellocchio has mellowed into a ruminative, absurdist autumnal mood, and "The Wedding Director" is his most sheerly enjoyable film in years. The movie has a pleasantly Rivette-like dimension to it -- however much we see, we're always aware of something unmentioned and mysterious going on at the fringes of the story.
Turning 70 this year, Marco Bellocchio has finally attained old-guard respectability, in light of the ironic, seasoned, historically quizzical mastery of "My Mother's Smile" (2002), "Good Morning, Night" (2003) and now "The Wedding Director" (2006). Notorious here as a mere provocateur (largely thanks to Maruschka Detmers' half-hearted blowjob in "Devil in the Flesh"), Bellocchio has always seemed young and ready to rumble ever since his 1965 debut "Fists in the Pocket," fashioned, when he was 26, as a sneak attack on all things Old World Catholic, provincial, late-baroque, aristocratic and traditional. Now, after many darkling family tales and adaptations of Pirandello, Bellocchio has mellowed into a ruminative, absurdist autumnal mood, and "The Wedding Director" is his most sheerly enjoyable film in years. The movie has a pleasantly Rivette-like dimension to it -- however much we see, we're always aware of something unmentioned and mysterious going on at the fringes of the story.
- 1/6/2009
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
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