Five Inspirations is a series in which we ask directors to share five things that shaped and informed their film. Rodrigo Moreno's The Delinquents (2023) is showing exclusively on Mubi in many countries.Inspiration #1Il PostoIl Posto.Many years after Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini's revolution of Neorealism in Italy, others took the relevant elements of that manifesto—using natural actors, filming real spaces, and incorporating social and political concerns—to find a cinematic poetry based on an accurate mise-en-scène. Here is Ermanno Olmi, one of the greatest Italian directors: sensitive, original, personal, and above all, subtle. I copied this frame and pasted it into The Delinquents. Inspiration #2The constant detourMaine-Océan.In every one of Jacques Rozier’s films (here are two frames from the great Maine-Océan [1986]) it is impossible to guess what’s next. Apart from an always improvised and lively mise-en-scène that takes everything close to the abyss,...
- 5/22/2024
- MUBI
“Il Posto” (“A Steady Job”), which world premiered Tuesday at Visions du Réel film festival, is set to launch in Europe on Franco-German channel Arte and German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk in September. The film is directed by Italian duo Mattia Colombo and Gianluca Matarrese, whose “Fashion Babylon” premiered recently at Cph:dox.
“Il Posto,” which is competing in Visions du Réel’s Grand Angle section, takes the viewer on a road movie between southern and northern Italy alongside Italian nurses in search of a steady job.
The bus service is run by Raffaele, an unemployed nurse who decided to set up his own company to help freelance nurses like himself travel to the north at low cost to pass an exam that will secure them a job in the public health system.
As the Covid-19 pandemic hits, Raffaele sees the number of his clients drop and, with his business on the brink of bankruptcy,...
“Il Posto,” which is competing in Visions du Réel’s Grand Angle section, takes the viewer on a road movie between southern and northern Italy alongside Italian nurses in search of a steady job.
The bus service is run by Raffaele, an unemployed nurse who decided to set up his own company to help freelance nurses like himself travel to the north at low cost to pass an exam that will secure them a job in the public health system.
As the Covid-19 pandemic hits, Raffaele sees the number of his clients drop and, with his business on the brink of bankruptcy,...
- 4/13/2022
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
The Swiss documentary festival has unveiled the line-ups for its Grand Angle and Latitudes sections.
Swiss documentary festival Visions du Réel has unveiled the line-ups for its Grand Angle and Latitudes sections, ahead of the full programme’s announcement on March 15, which includes A House Made Of Splinters, set in a children’s home in Eastern Ukraine.
A statement from the festival said: “Visions du Réel is joining the international movement of solidarity with the Ukrainian people, who are fighting for their freedom. We express our support for Ukrainian artists and filmmakers, and for all those whose lives are threatened and upended by the war.
Swiss documentary festival Visions du Réel has unveiled the line-ups for its Grand Angle and Latitudes sections, ahead of the full programme’s announcement on March 15, which includes A House Made Of Splinters, set in a children’s home in Eastern Ukraine.
A statement from the festival said: “Visions du Réel is joining the international movement of solidarity with the Ukrainian people, who are fighting for their freedom. We express our support for Ukrainian artists and filmmakers, and for all those whose lives are threatened and upended by the war.
- 3/8/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Everyone's favorite angry comedian turned angry actor is going to join the cast of "Law & Order: Organized Crime." According to Deadline, Denis Leary -- who has previously played a police officer in both the "Amazing Spider-Man" films and on the television series "The Job" -- will join the cast of the NBC series in a recurring role. Leary will be joining series star Christopher Meloni, who plays Detective Stabler, along with the recently-announced Jennifer Beals, who will play a drug kingpin's wife.
The series is currently in its second season on NBC, following Detective Stabler as he tries to take down the most powerful organized...
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- 2/5/2022
- by Danielle Ryan
- Slash Film
Denis Leary will recur on NBC’s Law & Order: Organized Crime. The Rescue Me co-creator and star will play Frank Donnelly, a fellow member of the NYPD who engages with Det. Stabler, played by Christopher Meloni.
He is the latest star to join the series, after Deadline revealed that Jennifer Beals was set to play the wife of Mykelti Williamson’s Preston Webb, a drug kingpin in New York and the head of the Marcy Corporation.
Law & Order: Organized Crime, from Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television, brought Svu‘s Christopher Meloni’s Elliot Stabler character back to the fold in the NYPD organized crime unit.
The series, currently in its second season, was created by Wolf, who executive produces along with showrunner Ilene Chaiken, Terry Miller, Fred Berner, Arthur W. Forney and Peter Jankowski.
Leary recently starred in The Moodys on Fox and recurred on TNT’s Animal Kingdom.
He is the latest star to join the series, after Deadline revealed that Jennifer Beals was set to play the wife of Mykelti Williamson’s Preston Webb, a drug kingpin in New York and the head of the Marcy Corporation.
Law & Order: Organized Crime, from Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television, brought Svu‘s Christopher Meloni’s Elliot Stabler character back to the fold in the NYPD organized crime unit.
The series, currently in its second season, was created by Wolf, who executive produces along with showrunner Ilene Chaiken, Terry Miller, Fred Berner, Arthur W. Forney and Peter Jankowski.
Leary recently starred in The Moodys on Fox and recurred on TNT’s Animal Kingdom.
- 2/4/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Denis Leary has booked a familiar job: NYPD detective.
The actor has signed on to recur in Law & Order: Organized Crime‘s current second season as Frank Donnelly, a member of the NYPD who engages with Chris Meloni’s Det. Stabler. His first episode is slated to air March 3.
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Leary previously played one of New York’s finest in ABC’s single-camera comedy The Job, which...
The actor has signed on to recur in Law & Order: Organized Crime‘s current second season as Frank Donnelly, a member of the NYPD who engages with Chris Meloni’s Det. Stabler. His first episode is slated to air March 3.
More from TVLineRatings: Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony Rebroadcast Tops FridayLaw & Order: Jesse L. Martin Addresses Potential Return to NBC RevivalThe Thing About Pam Trailer: See Renée Zellweger's Major Transformation in NBC's True-Crime Miniseries
Leary previously played one of New York’s finest in ABC’s single-camera comedy The Job, which...
- 2/4/2022
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: Kal Penn is set as the male lead of Belated, FX’s comedy pilot written, directed and executive produced by Rescue Me and The Job co-creator Peter Tolan, I have learned.
The half-hour comedy follows Owen (Penn), a recently out man in his 40s, and his ex-wife Diana as they attempt to find their new normal and take on new relationships while continuing to co-parent together. The project also follows an unexpected intergenerational friendship between Owen and Clay, a 17-year-old trans teen.
This is a personal project for both Tolan, who came out as gay later in life, and Penn, 44, who came out a couple of weeks ago, announcing his engagement to his partner of 11 years in his memoir “You Can’t Be Serious”, published on Nov. 2.
Penn’s character Owen is intelligent with a dry wit. He seemed to have life all figured out: he had a great wife and family,...
The half-hour comedy follows Owen (Penn), a recently out man in his 40s, and his ex-wife Diana as they attempt to find their new normal and take on new relationships while continuing to co-parent together. The project also follows an unexpected intergenerational friendship between Owen and Clay, a 17-year-old trans teen.
This is a personal project for both Tolan, who came out as gay later in life, and Penn, 44, who came out a couple of weeks ago, announcing his engagement to his partner of 11 years in his memoir “You Can’t Be Serious”, published on Nov. 2.
Penn’s character Owen is intelligent with a dry wit. He seemed to have life all figured out: he had a great wife and family,...
- 11/20/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Rescue Me co-creator Peter Tolan is returning to the FX fold with a new comedy. FX has given a pilot order to Belated, written, directed and executive produced by Tolan.
The half-hour comedy follows an unexpected intergenerational friendship between Owen, a recently out man in his 40s, and Clay, a 17-year-old trans teen, as Owen and his ex-wife and children attempt to find their new normal.
Nick Alford of Tolan’s Cloudland also executive produces. FX Productions is the studio.
Tolan created, produced and wrote The Job and Rescue Me with longtime partner Denis Leary. Leary also starred as New York firefighter Tommy Gavin on Rescue Me, which ran for seven seasons on FX. Tolan received three Emmy nominations for his work on the show, including a nom for directing the pilot. Rescue Me and Tolan also were honored by the Producers Guild with the organization’s Visionary Award. Tolan...
The half-hour comedy follows an unexpected intergenerational friendship between Owen, a recently out man in his 40s, and Clay, a 17-year-old trans teen, as Owen and his ex-wife and children attempt to find their new normal.
Nick Alford of Tolan’s Cloudland also executive produces. FX Productions is the studio.
Tolan created, produced and wrote The Job and Rescue Me with longtime partner Denis Leary. Leary also starred as New York firefighter Tommy Gavin on Rescue Me, which ran for seven seasons on FX. Tolan received three Emmy nominations for his work on the show, including a nom for directing the pilot. Rescue Me and Tolan also were honored by the Producers Guild with the organization’s Visionary Award. Tolan...
- 10/27/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
The journey from franchise to a competition slot at the Venice Film Festival to HBO series was the subject of Thursday’s Venice Production Bridge conference, “From the Philippines to the World: The ‘On the Job’ Franchise and Exploring New Ways of Global Content Distribution.”
In good spirits in a market cocktail that followed on Thursday evening, Erik Matti, the director of “On the Job: The Missing 8,” as his new film is called, told Variety how he got to keep his film at three hours and 28 minutes, and show it at the festival, as well as divide this film, and his previous one, “On the Job,” into one six-part series for HBO.
The series premieres on HBO in Asia on Sunday, two days after the film is shown in Venice. A half dozen festival engagements follow for the film version, he said, with announcements due shortly.
“When sales companies saw it was that long,...
In good spirits in a market cocktail that followed on Thursday evening, Erik Matti, the director of “On the Job: The Missing 8,” as his new film is called, told Variety how he got to keep his film at three hours and 28 minutes, and show it at the festival, as well as divide this film, and his previous one, “On the Job,” into one six-part series for HBO.
The series premieres on HBO in Asia on Sunday, two days after the film is shown in Venice. A half dozen festival engagements follow for the film version, he said, with announcements due shortly.
“When sales companies saw it was that long,...
- 9/10/2021
- by Liza Foreman
- Variety Film + TV
Italy’s storied Titanus studio, producers of myriad golden era works from Cinema Italiano, has inked a global distribution deal with pubcaster Rai’s sales unit Rai Com for its entire library of roughly 400 titles.
The landmark agreement, besides distribution, entails a collaboration to restore and preserve the Titanus library, which is a treasure trove comprising early works by Italo masters such as Federico Fellini and Francesco Rosi, and Luchino Visconti classics, alongside plenty of genre fare including cult horror helmers Dario Argento and Mario Bava.
It’s a mix of classics and more rarely seen pics featuring a wide array of late and living Italo stars, comprising Alberto Sordi, Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida and Claudia Cardinale (pictured).
Established in 1904 by Gustavo Lombardo, Titanus was a true Italian major, which during the 1960s forged a partnership with MGM. They slowed down considerably from the mid-1960s onwards after...
The landmark agreement, besides distribution, entails a collaboration to restore and preserve the Titanus library, which is a treasure trove comprising early works by Italo masters such as Federico Fellini and Francesco Rosi, and Luchino Visconti classics, alongside plenty of genre fare including cult horror helmers Dario Argento and Mario Bava.
It’s a mix of classics and more rarely seen pics featuring a wide array of late and living Italo stars, comprising Alberto Sordi, Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida and Claudia Cardinale (pictured).
Established in 1904 by Gustavo Lombardo, Titanus was a true Italian major, which during the 1960s forged a partnership with MGM. They slowed down considerably from the mid-1960s onwards after...
- 12/4/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Domestic violence, child trafficking, Caribbean myths, cyber terrorism and psychological thrillers were among the weighty subjects presented at the Dominican Republic’s June 25 online pitching sessions during Cannes’ virtual Marche du Film.
Some projects, however, were inspired by the millions of tourists that visit the country each year and one took on the Covid-19 lockdown that has forced families and friends to share confined spaces for months.
The pitching sessions were preceded the day before by the Dr Film Commission’s pitch to detail the country’s generous incentives and let it be known that it was opening for business on July 1, albeit with health and safety protocols in place. Film Commissioner Yvette Marichal led her team that included lawyer Boni Guerrero and Manuela German who fielded legal and technical questions. They were joined by Pinewood Dominican Republic Studio/Lantica Media COO, Albert Martinez, who expanded on the horizon water tank facility’s amenities,...
Some projects, however, were inspired by the millions of tourists that visit the country each year and one took on the Covid-19 lockdown that has forced families and friends to share confined spaces for months.
The pitching sessions were preceded the day before by the Dr Film Commission’s pitch to detail the country’s generous incentives and let it be known that it was opening for business on July 1, albeit with health and safety protocols in place. Film Commissioner Yvette Marichal led her team that included lawyer Boni Guerrero and Manuela German who fielded legal and technical questions. They were joined by Pinewood Dominican Republic Studio/Lantica Media COO, Albert Martinez, who expanded on the horizon water tank facility’s amenities,...
- 6/26/2020
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
The David di Donatello Awards, which are modeled on the Oscars, were established in the 1950s as Italy’s film industry started thriving amid the country’s postwar reconstruction effort.
Below are some milestones that provide a partial mini-history of postwar Italian cinema.
1956: The first David di Donatello awards ceremony takes place at Rome’s Cinema Fiamma. The gold statuette, which is a replica of Michelangelo’s David, is made by Bulgari. Vittorio De Sica, Walt Disney, and Gina Lollobrigida are among the year’s prizewinners.
1957: The Davids ceremony moves to Taormina’s Ancient Greek Theater, which will host the ceremony for many more years to come. Federico Fellini wins the best director prize for “Nights of Cabiria.”
1958: Anna Magnani wins best actress for George Cukor’s “Wild Is the Wind.” Marilyn Monroe is feted for her role in “The Prince and the Showgirl,” directed by Laurence Olivier.
Below are some milestones that provide a partial mini-history of postwar Italian cinema.
1956: The first David di Donatello awards ceremony takes place at Rome’s Cinema Fiamma. The gold statuette, which is a replica of Michelangelo’s David, is made by Bulgari. Vittorio De Sica, Walt Disney, and Gina Lollobrigida are among the year’s prizewinners.
1957: The Davids ceremony moves to Taormina’s Ancient Greek Theater, which will host the ceremony for many more years to come. Federico Fellini wins the best director prize for “Nights of Cabiria.”
1958: Anna Magnani wins best actress for George Cukor’s “Wild Is the Wind.” Marilyn Monroe is feted for her role in “The Prince and the Showgirl,” directed by Laurence Olivier.
- 5/8/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Guillermo del Toro has been unusually quiet on social media during his quarantine, but that all has changed with the publication of a giant Twitter thread revealing the many books he’s been reading and films he’s been watching while on break from filming his new movie, “Nightmare Alley.” The “Pan’s Labyrinth” and “Shape of Water” Oscar winner encouraged his fellow filmmakers to weigh in with their own watch lists, and the result is an incredible thread featuring the likes of Darren Aronofsky, Ari Aster, Ava DuVernay, Sarah Polley, Edgar Wright, Rian Johnson, Brad Bird, Scott Derickson, James Mangold, and a lot more. Click here to begin the Twitter thread.
It should not be too surprising to hear del Toro has been streaming a lot of titles on The Criterion Channel, including Gustaf Molander’s “A Woman’s Face,” Ermanno Olmi’s “Il Posto,” and Celine Sciamma’s “Girlhood” and “Tomboy.
It should not be too surprising to hear del Toro has been streaming a lot of titles on The Criterion Channel, including Gustaf Molander’s “A Woman’s Face,” Ermanno Olmi’s “Il Posto,” and Celine Sciamma’s “Girlhood” and “Tomboy.
- 4/20/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
After quickly putting the project in development last summer, Lifetime is moving forward with Surviving Jeffrey Epstein.
The network is set to air a four-hour investigative documentary about the convicted sex offender, who died in prison in August shortly after he was handed new federal charges for the sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York. Surviving Jeffrey Epstein officially mints “Surviving” as something of a franchise at Lifetime, following its Emmy-nominated series Surviving R. Kelly and follow-up Surviving R. Kelly II: The Reckoning.
Planned for a summer premiere, Surviving Jeffrey Epstein will examine the billionaire New York financier who allegedly used his power and connections ...
The network is set to air a four-hour investigative documentary about the convicted sex offender, who died in prison in August shortly after he was handed new federal charges for the sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York. Surviving Jeffrey Epstein officially mints “Surviving” as something of a franchise at Lifetime, following its Emmy-nominated series Surviving R. Kelly and follow-up Surviving R. Kelly II: The Reckoning.
Planned for a summer premiere, Surviving Jeffrey Epstein will examine the billionaire New York financier who allegedly used his power and connections ...
- 1/18/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Above: 1962 Czech poster for Il posto (1961). Designer: Jaroslav Zelenka.The great Italian director Ermanno Olmi, who passed away last year at the age of 86, made films for over 60 years and yet is best known, if at all, for his four masterpieces: Il posto (1961), I fidanzati (1963), his Palme d’Or winning Tree of the Wooden Clogs (1978) and The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988), to the exclusion of almost everything else that he made. So the upcoming retrospective at New York’s Film at Lincoln Center, which starts next Friday, is most welcome. Unfortunately it does not include the many documentary short films that he made at Edison Volta in Milan in the early 1950s, but it does include all 19 feature films from his debut Time Stood Still (1959) through to his final fiction film Greenery Will Bloom Again (2014). Olmi has long been a personal favorite of mine and I can’t recommend...
- 6/14/2019
- MUBI
Ermanno Olmi, a noted Italian neorealist director whose 1978 film The Tree of Wooden Clogs won the Palme d’Or in Cannes, has died at age 86.
No cause of death was given. Italian officials confirmed the passing of Olmi, whose films also include Il Posto, Walking, Walking, The Legend of the Holy Drinker and Long Live the Lady!
Tree of Wooden Clogs, which was the unanimous choice of the Cannes jury, depicts the rough-edged beauty of late-19th-century agrarian life in Italy. Unfolding in long, impressionistic takes, it tells the story of four families living and working on an estate run by a greedy landowner.
The Legend of the Holy Drinker, which starred Rutger Hauer, won the Golden Lion in Venice in 1988. The Venice festival also awarded Olmi a career Golden Lion in 2004. Initially, he refused it, saying he “still had feature films to make,” but he relented four years later.
No cause of death was given. Italian officials confirmed the passing of Olmi, whose films also include Il Posto, Walking, Walking, The Legend of the Holy Drinker and Long Live the Lady!
Tree of Wooden Clogs, which was the unanimous choice of the Cannes jury, depicts the rough-edged beauty of late-19th-century agrarian life in Italy. Unfolding in long, impressionistic takes, it tells the story of four families living and working on an estate run by a greedy landowner.
The Legend of the Holy Drinker, which starred Rutger Hauer, won the Golden Lion in Venice in 1988. The Venice festival also awarded Olmi a career Golden Lion in 2004. Initially, he refused it, saying he “still had feature films to make,” but he relented four years later.
- 5/7/2018
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Ermanno Olmi, the Italian director best known for winning the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1978 with his drama “The Tree of Wooden Clogs,” has died at 86. The director passed away in Asiago, Northern Italy, not far from where he ran the Ipotesi Cinema film school since the 1980s (via Variety). Olmi had reportedly been ill for some time, but the exact cause of death is not known at this time.
Olmi received his breakthrough with his 1961 drama “Il Posto,” an Italian Neorealism riff that made him a name at the Venice Film Festival and won him the best director prize at Italy’s David di Donatello Awards. “Wooden Clogs” took home the Palme in 1978, in addition to winning the César Award for best foreign film. Olmi’s other notable work is “The Legend of the Holy Drinker,” starring Rutger Hauer, which won the Golden Lion at the 1988 Venice Film Festival.
Olmi received his breakthrough with his 1961 drama “Il Posto,” an Italian Neorealism riff that made him a name at the Venice Film Festival and won him the best director prize at Italy’s David di Donatello Awards. “Wooden Clogs” took home the Palme in 1978, in addition to winning the César Award for best foreign film. Olmi’s other notable work is “The Legend of the Holy Drinker,” starring Rutger Hauer, which won the Golden Lion at the 1988 Venice Film Festival.
- 5/7/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Italian director Ermanno Olmi, known for humanist dramas in which he explored spirituality and social themes such as “The Tree of Wooden Clogs,” which won the 1978 Cannes Palme d’Or, has died.
He was 87. Olmi died in a hospital in Asiago, Northern Italy, not far from Bassano del Grappa where since the 1980’s he had been running an innovative film school called Ipotesi Cinema. His wife and children were beside him. The exact cause of death is not know, but Olmi had reportedly been ill for some time.
Olmi, who began his career making short documentaries and often worked with non professional actors, also won the 1988 Venice Golden Lion for his “The Legend of the Holy Drinker,” starring Rutger Hauer. It’s based on a book by Austrian author Joseph Roth about a homeless man living under the bridges of Paris. After receiving a small loan by an anonymous stranger,...
He was 87. Olmi died in a hospital in Asiago, Northern Italy, not far from Bassano del Grappa where since the 1980’s he had been running an innovative film school called Ipotesi Cinema. His wife and children were beside him. The exact cause of death is not know, but Olmi had reportedly been ill for some time.
Olmi, who began his career making short documentaries and often worked with non professional actors, also won the 1988 Venice Golden Lion for his “The Legend of the Holy Drinker,” starring Rutger Hauer. It’s based on a book by Austrian author Joseph Roth about a homeless man living under the bridges of Paris. After receiving a small loan by an anonymous stranger,...
- 5/7/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
What Are You Watching? is a weekly space for The A.V Club’s film critics and readers to share their thoughts, observations, and opinions on movies new and old.
Funny how that happens. Out of all the movies I’ve watched for non-work-related reasons in the past few weeks, the two I thought were the most interesting both used the deadliness of firearms as an important metaphor. The first of these was The Profession Of Arms—a demanding, persuasive, very smart Italian historical film about 16th-century European warfare, made in 2001 by Ermanno Olmi (The Tree Of Wooden Clogs, Il Posto), a post-neorealist whose name recognition in the United States probably exceeds his viewership. I have a nagging suspicion that I myself have never given the man his proper due. In watching The Profession Of Arms, the first things a viewer learns about political life in the Europe of ...
Funny how that happens. Out of all the movies I’ve watched for non-work-related reasons in the past few weeks, the two I thought were the most interesting both used the deadliness of firearms as an important metaphor. The first of these was The Profession Of Arms—a demanding, persuasive, very smart Italian historical film about 16th-century European warfare, made in 2001 by Ermanno Olmi (The Tree Of Wooden Clogs, Il Posto), a post-neorealist whose name recognition in the United States probably exceeds his viewership. I have a nagging suspicion that I myself have never given the man his proper due. In watching The Profession Of Arms, the first things a viewer learns about political life in the Europe of ...
- 5/12/2017
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
Ermanno Olmi’s three-hour saga is a masterful ethnographic recreation of the long-gone way of life of Italian tenant farmers, virtual slaves working for a landowner. We see the entire agrarian lifestyle, with hints of modern times on the way. An ever-present backdrop of spiritualism and faith keeps the laborers going. Using unprofessional actors and an obsolete dialect, this is listed as one of the great Italian films of the 1970s.
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 854
1978 / Color / 1:33 flat full frame / 187 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date February 14, 2017 / 39.95
Photographed & Edited by Ermanno Olmi
Sets: Enrico Tovaglieri
Costumes: Francesca Zucchelli
Produced by Attillio Torricelli
Written and Directed by Ermanno Olmi
Some filmmakers move quietly from show to show, until a project comes along that’s hailed as a career masterpiece. For Italian Ermanno Olmi the film is The Tree of Wooden Clogs (L’albero degli...
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 854
1978 / Color / 1:33 flat full frame / 187 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date February 14, 2017 / 39.95
Photographed & Edited by Ermanno Olmi
Sets: Enrico Tovaglieri
Costumes: Francesca Zucchelli
Produced by Attillio Torricelli
Written and Directed by Ermanno Olmi
Some filmmakers move quietly from show to show, until a project comes along that’s hailed as a career masterpiece. For Italian Ermanno Olmi the film is The Tree of Wooden Clogs (L’albero degli...
- 2/25/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
As the art film revolution of the late 1950s and 1960s gave way to more populist manifestations of its stylistic inventions, so too did the “foreign language drama” become a codified form. As Bergman, Antonioni, Kurosawa, Fellini, and other renowned directors of that earlier time aged out of their peak years of financial viability, a new class found a framework in which to ground their career. They didn’t always have the training in commercial art that their forerunners had worked in and helped develop before eventually resisting, subverting, or overthrowing, but they had the stamina and the work ethic to invest in the trappings that made earlier more revolutionary works so galvanizing.
Ermanno Olmi made his start in documentary shorts, making more than two dozen from 1953-1959, before making his feature narrative debut with Time Stood Still (1959), an avalanche drama about a generational divide. He gained considerably more acclaim for 1961’s Il Posto,...
Ermanno Olmi made his start in documentary shorts, making more than two dozen from 1953-1959, before making his feature narrative debut with Time Stood Still (1959), an avalanche drama about a generational divide. He gained considerably more acclaim for 1961’s Il Posto,...
- 2/14/2017
- by Scott Nye
- CriterionCast
The brand of Janus Films means a hell of a lot in the art and repertory film world. Be it their promotion of new releases like the stunning Cameraperson or their support of touring film series like that devoted to Charlie Chaplin or the Wim Wenders road pictures, one sees the name Janus Films and the gorgeous logo and instantly an understanding of either the quality or the cultural import of what one is about to watch is instilled. And that’s what makes Janus throwing support behind a seemingly forgotten film, an award winning picture that’s all but disappeared in the public eye, is so important.
That’s exactly the case when talking about their latest repertory offering. A Palme d’Or winning epic, director Ermanno Olmi saw great success with his gorgeous and sprawling The Tree Of Wooden Clogs in 1978, but as is the case with much...
That’s exactly the case when talking about their latest repertory offering. A Palme d’Or winning epic, director Ermanno Olmi saw great success with his gorgeous and sprawling The Tree Of Wooden Clogs in 1978, but as is the case with much...
- 12/16/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Above: 1965 East German poster by Fritsche for Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi, Italy, 1961).Six years ago last week I wrote my first Movie Poster of the Week post for Mubi, then known as The Auteurs. Since then I have written over 270 articles on all facets of movie posters from the sublime to the ridiculous and I decided it was high time I organized them. In the early days of Movie Poster of the Week it was just that: one weekly poster that I would briefly discuss with at most one or two others included for comparison’s sake. But even in that debut post, what started out as a simple personal anecdote about a poster I liked ended up with my searching for the designer, the print shop that produced it and the provenance of the photograph used in the poster. Over time, as my research has led me down longer and more intricate rabbit holes,...
- 4/4/2015
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile (read here), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of favorite films. This month we feature Aaron Katz [Cold Weather 02.04]. Here are his Top 10 Films of All Time as of February 2011. A Night at the Opera - Sam Wood (1935) My favorite movie. Great scene follows great scene. The state-room, the contract, the Russian aviators, and my all-time favorite, the bed moving scene. From that scene: Detective: You live here all alone? Groucho: Yes. Just me and my memories. I'm practically a hermit. Detective: Oh. A hermit. I notice the table's set for four. Groucho. That's nothing, my alarm clock is set for eight. That doesn't prove a thing. Alien - Ridley Scott (1979) By far my favorite science fiction and my favorite horror movie.
- 2/14/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Barbara Stanwyck, John Wayne in Alfred E. Green's Baby Face (top); Sandro Panseri in Ermanno Olmi's Il Posto (bottom) In the next few hours, Turner Classic Movies will present one of MGM's last silent films (with synchronized score), one of the best movies of the 1960s, one of the most outrageous pre-Code releases of the early 1930s, and a documentary about the portrayal of women in pre-Code movies. All that in addition to a Wildfire vehicle and a production that sounds a lot like a (however unofficial) remake of Fred Zinnemann's The Search. Either get your various recording devices ready, or start drinking lots and lots of coffee. Starring Renée Adorée (above right), a sensational actress whose style was more naturalistic than that of most performers out there today, Tide of Empire (1929) was one of MGM's last silent-film releases. Allan Dwan, by then already a veteran, directed.
- 1/24/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Ermano Olmi is a filmmaker who remained true to the tenets of neo-realism (as defined by their ideologue Zavattini) long after the more celebrated adherents to the creed - Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica and Luchino Visconti had abandoned it. Rossellini went on to make films like The Rise of Louis Xiv (1966), De Sica to make social comedies like Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963) and Visconti into operatic excesses like The Damned (1969). Neo-realism had set out to portray the lives of ordinary people - even when devoid of drama - but the best-known works of the movement are often highly dramatic in their choice of subject matter....
- 6/24/2009
- by M. K. Raghavendra
- DearCinema.com
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