Academy Award winning actor Nicolas Cage will be honored on the forth day of the 6th Annual Los Angeles Italia Film, Fashion and Art Fest, on Thursday, Feb 24, 7:00 p.m. at the Mann Chinese 6 Theatre, it was announced today by Festival Founder and Executive Producer Pascal Vicedomini.
Singled out for his commitment in promoting the Italian-American heritage, Nicolas Cage will be presented with The 2011 L.A. Italia Excellence Award by noted Italian director Marco Bellocchio....
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As Closing Night film, before the awarding of the single "Audience Award", To Win or VINCERE by Marco Bellocchio, will be shown in the open-air theatre by the Palazzo in ISOLA. The controversial subject of the film is Benito Mussolini and the period of Fascism.
But with a special approach since the director relates the Dictator's relationship to his first wife Ida Dalser and the voraceously ambitious Italian husband who sacrificed her, havi...
Marco Bellocchio is to give the Cinema Masterclass at the coming 63rd Festival de Cannes. Upon accepting the invitation, he declared:
“I think that the most precious thing a director can teach anyone wanting to work in the business is how to work with actors and actresses. Anyone can teach technique, but the ability to get another person to interpret a character you have imagined is a gift, although it can be learned in part by a director who isn’t afraid of risking failure.
You can never ...
The New York Film Festival provides extraordinary access to some of world cinema's most interesting film talents via the HBO Films Directors Dialogue Series. Among those who are participating (all of whom have films in the festival proper):
MARCO BELLOCCHIO
With a career that spans the heyday of 60s Italian art cinema (Fists in the Pocket, China is Near) to religion (My Mother’s Smile, NYFF 2002) to political drama (Good Morning, Night, NYFF 2003 and this year’s Vincere), Marco B...
The New York Film Festival provides extraordinary access to some of world cinema's most interesting film talents via the HBO Films Directors Dialogue Series. Among those who are participating (all of whom have films in the festival proper): MARCO BELLOCCHIO With a career that spans the heyday of 60s Italian art cinema (Fists in the Pocket, China is Near) to religion (My Mother’s Smile, NYFF 2002) to political drama (Good Morning, Night, NYFF 2003 and this year’s Vincere), Marco Bellocchio ha...
Director/ Marco Müller Born in Rome on 7th June 1953 of Italo-Swiss father and Italo-Greco-Brazilian mother. After a period of university and post-university studies (1971-1975: orientalism and anthropology in Italy; 1975-1977: specialisation and state doctorate in China), he began undertaking research and teaching in Italy (1977-1980: research in the field, ethnological publications, ethnomusicology and visual anthropology; seminars and university cour...
About the film:
Marco Bellocchio and the Cannes Festival have loved one another for years. Nine of his features have been selected here, the two most recent being My Mother's Smile in 2002 and The Wedding Director in 2006. In 2007, he served on the Jury. Now, the Italian filmmaker returns to the Competition to present Vincere, which sheds light on an obscure aspect of Mussolini's private life. Before the outbreak of World War I, the future fascist dictator, an Italian sol...
“Award-winning Italian filmmaker Francesco Paladino gears up to attend the 2009 Cannes Film Market with to promote his latest film “Where the River Runs”
“A superbly shot film, great acting, and a cohesive cocktail of characters and events.”
Nicole Holland - Independent Film Quarterly
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“Award-winning Italian filmmaker Francesco Paladino gears up to attend the 2009 Cannes Film Market with to promote his latest film “Where the River Runs” “A superbly shot film, great acting, and a cohesive cocktail of characters and events.”Nicole Holland - Independent Film Quarterly***When a river provides catalyst for a psychological horror it’s sure to attract interest from audiences and distributors alike. The latest film from Italian helmer Francesco Paladino recently won the aw...
