The Rome Film Festival (October 17-27) has unveiled its 2019 official selection, which includes Downton Abbey, Waves, Judy, The Aeronauts, Hustlers and Werner Herzog documentary Nomad[/link] about writer Bruce Chatwin.
A total of 33 films and documentaries will play in the official lineup (full list below). As previously announced, the fest will open with Edward Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn while Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman will have a centerpiece screening. Only two Italian movies are included in the main selection.
The festival also revealed a pre-opening October 16 world premiere for John Turturro’s anticipated The Big Lebowski spinoff, The Jesus Rolls, which follows Lebowski character Jesus Quintana.
The impressive lineup of onstage interviews includes Bill Murray and Viola Davis – both of whom will receive lifetime achievement awards – Fanny Ardant, Olivier Assayas, Ethan Coen, Benicio Del Toro, Bret Easton Ellis, Ron Howard, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Edward Norton, Bertrand Tavernier, John Travolta and Jia Zhangke.
A total of 33 films and documentaries will play in the official lineup (full list below). As previously announced, the fest will open with Edward Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn while Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman will have a centerpiece screening. Only two Italian movies are included in the main selection.
The festival also revealed a pre-opening October 16 world premiere for John Turturro’s anticipated The Big Lebowski spinoff, The Jesus Rolls, which follows Lebowski character Jesus Quintana.
The impressive lineup of onstage interviews includes Bill Murray and Viola Davis – both of whom will receive lifetime achievement awards – Fanny Ardant, Olivier Assayas, Ethan Coen, Benicio Del Toro, Bret Easton Ellis, Ron Howard, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Edward Norton, Bertrand Tavernier, John Travolta and Jia Zhangke.
- 10/4/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
438 Days
After premiering two films in 2018, Sweden’s Jesper Ganslandt fast tracks his sixth feature, 438 Days (438 Dager) Produced by Sandra Harms and Karl Fredrik Ulfung, the project stars Gustaf Skarsgård and Matias Varela based on the true story of two Swedish journalist held captive in Ethiopia. Ganslandt appears in the supporting cast which also includes Fredrik Evers, Joseflin Nelden, Philip Zanden, and Faysal Ahmed. Cinematographer Sophia Olsson is lensing the feature. Ganslandt’s 2006 debut Falkenberg Farewell and his 2009 sophomore feature The Ape both premiered in Venice Days.…...
After premiering two films in 2018, Sweden’s Jesper Ganslandt fast tracks his sixth feature, 438 Days (438 Dager) Produced by Sandra Harms and Karl Fredrik Ulfung, the project stars Gustaf Skarsgård and Matias Varela based on the true story of two Swedish journalist held captive in Ethiopia. Ganslandt appears in the supporting cast which also includes Fredrik Evers, Joseflin Nelden, Philip Zanden, and Faysal Ahmed. Cinematographer Sophia Olsson is lensing the feature. Ganslandt’s 2006 debut Falkenberg Farewell and his 2009 sophomore feature The Ape both premiered in Venice Days.…...
- 1/2/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
"I took an enormous risk... Me, and my colleagues, we take those risks every day because we believe that journalism is a force for good." Screen Daily has released the first teaser trailer for a film titled 438 Days, which is still in production but still looking for international attention. The film is based on the true story of two Swedish journalists who were locked up for 438 days in Ethiopia inside the notorious Kality prison in Addis Ababa, after being tried as terrorists even though they were just there as journalists trying to report on the hunt for oil effecting the local population. Gustaf Skarsgård and Matias Varela star as Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson, who later wrote a book about this. The full cast also includes Fredrik Evers, Josefin Neldén, Philip Zandén, Faysal Ahmed, and Jesper Ganslandt. This is only a teaser with a tiny bit of footage, but it...
- 11/4/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Chicago – In 2012, Fredrik Backman released his Swedish novel called “En man som heter Ove.” It was published in English in 2013, and became a best seller. The book that delved into the life of a cranky old man is now a major Swedish movie, distributed in the U.S. by Chicago’s Music Box Films, and directed by Hannes Holm.
Holms is a veteran film director from Sweden, who started out as a comic actor on Swedish television. His third film, “Adam & Eva,” broke into European markets, but “A Man Called Ove” is his first worldwide release. The film is also Sweden’s official entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the upcoming Oscars – which Holms calls “a lottery.” He spoke to HollywoodChicago.com last weekend, in anticipation of the U.S. release of the film on September 30th, 2016.
Bahar Pars and Rolf Lassgard in ‘A Man Called Ove...
Holms is a veteran film director from Sweden, who started out as a comic actor on Swedish television. His third film, “Adam & Eva,” broke into European markets, but “A Man Called Ove” is his first worldwide release. The film is also Sweden’s official entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the upcoming Oscars – which Holms calls “a lottery.” He spoke to HollywoodChicago.com last weekend, in anticipation of the U.S. release of the film on September 30th, 2016.
Bahar Pars and Rolf Lassgard in ‘A Man Called Ove...
- 9/29/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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