While their scandalous love affair and subsequent marriage eclipsed the five collaborative films they made together, this month Criterion brings Roberto Rossellini’s Ingrid Bergman headlining Voyage trilogy to the collection, comprised of their first three ventures, Stromboli (1950), Europe ’51 (1952) and Journey To Italy (1954). None of these titles would be deemed a commercial success, even while several notable critics and filmmakers would champion them, such as Francois Truffaut and Eric Rohmer.
As their marriage crumbled after three children (one of whom would go on to become famed actress and model Isabella Rossellini), Bergman would eventually overcome the notoriety that had banished her from Hollywood to win two more Academy Awards, while Rossellini would go on to make other acclaimed titles, though the failures of his work with Bergman made it difficult to secure funding. The specter of their scandal (they were both married to others at the time of their affair...
As their marriage crumbled after three children (one of whom would go on to become famed actress and model Isabella Rossellini), Bergman would eventually overcome the notoriety that had banished her from Hollywood to win two more Academy Awards, while Rossellini would go on to make other acclaimed titles, though the failures of his work with Bergman made it difficult to secure funding. The specter of their scandal (they were both married to others at the time of their affair...
- 9/24/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Sept. 24, 2013
Price: DVD $79.95, Blu-ray $79.95
Studio: Criterion
George Sanders and Ingrid Bergman's marriage falls apart in Roberto Rossellini's Journey to Italy.
In the late 1940s, the incandescent Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca ) found herself so moved by the revolutionary Neorealist films of Roberto Rossellini (Open City) that she sent the director a letter, introducing herself and offering her talents. The resulting collaboration produced a series of films that are works of both sociopolitical concern and metaphysical melodrama, each starring Bergman as a woman experiencing physical dislocation and psychic torment in postwar Italy. It also famously led to a scandalous affair and eventual marriage between filmmaker and star, and the focus on their personal lives in the press unfortunately overshadowed the extraordinary films they made together.
Stromboli, Europe ’51, and Journey to Italy are intensely personal portraits that reveal the director at his most emotional and the...
Price: DVD $79.95, Blu-ray $79.95
Studio: Criterion
George Sanders and Ingrid Bergman's marriage falls apart in Roberto Rossellini's Journey to Italy.
In the late 1940s, the incandescent Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca ) found herself so moved by the revolutionary Neorealist films of Roberto Rossellini (Open City) that she sent the director a letter, introducing herself and offering her talents. The resulting collaboration produced a series of films that are works of both sociopolitical concern and metaphysical melodrama, each starring Bergman as a woman experiencing physical dislocation and psychic torment in postwar Italy. It also famously led to a scandalous affair and eventual marriage between filmmaker and star, and the focus on their personal lives in the press unfortunately overshadowed the extraordinary films they made together.
Stromboli, Europe ’51, and Journey to Italy are intensely personal portraits that reveal the director at his most emotional and the...
- 6/24/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
The 8th annual Brakhage Center Symposium has been programmed by curator Kathy Geritz and will examine the concept of experimental narrative over three days of screenings and lectures on March 16-18 at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Geritz has pulled together a program in which experimental films explore notions of narrative through diverse means, whether combining with documentary or animated elements, or through nonlinear structure, or through the direct experience of time. As Geritz hopes: “In these different ways, the films presented will challenge and expand our expectations as they push the boundaries of storytelling conventions.”
Some of the filmmakers who will be present at the symposium are animators Stacey Steers and Chris Sullivan, experimental documentary filmmaker Amie Siegel and Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who will be screening his 1987 acclaimed feature film Syndromes and a Century and the more recent short film Emerald (2007).
Also, film critic and historian J.
Geritz has pulled together a program in which experimental films explore notions of narrative through diverse means, whether combining with documentary or animated elements, or through nonlinear structure, or through the direct experience of time. As Geritz hopes: “In these different ways, the films presented will challenge and expand our expectations as they push the boundaries of storytelling conventions.”
Some of the filmmakers who will be present at the symposium are animators Stacey Steers and Chris Sullivan, experimental documentary filmmaker Amie Siegel and Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who will be screening his 1987 acclaimed feature film Syndromes and a Century and the more recent short film Emerald (2007).
Also, film critic and historian J.
- 3/12/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Actor and film-maker to preside over Berlinale jury, responsible for deciding winner of Golden Bear prize for best film
The actor and film-maker Isabella Rossellini is to chair the jury for next year's Berlin film festival. Rossellini, who has appeared in movies such as David Lynch's Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart, debuted a self-penned short film by Guy Maddin, My Dad is 100 Years Old, at the event in 2005. Recently she shot and starred in a series of short films about animal sexual behaviour, Green Porno, for Robert Redford's Sundance Channel.
Rossellini's jury will be responsible for deciding the winner of next year's main prize, the Golden Bear for best film. The 58-year-old daughter of Italian film director Roberto Rossellini and Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman follows the German film-maker Werner Herzog, who took charge last year. No other members of the jury have yet been announced.
"It's...
The actor and film-maker Isabella Rossellini is to chair the jury for next year's Berlin film festival. Rossellini, who has appeared in movies such as David Lynch's Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart, debuted a self-penned short film by Guy Maddin, My Dad is 100 Years Old, at the event in 2005. Recently she shot and starred in a series of short films about animal sexual behaviour, Green Porno, for Robert Redford's Sundance Channel.
Rossellini's jury will be responsible for deciding the winner of next year's main prize, the Golden Bear for best film. The 58-year-old daughter of Italian film director Roberto Rossellini and Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman follows the German film-maker Werner Herzog, who took charge last year. No other members of the jury have yet been announced.
"It's...
- 8/31/2010
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: The Berlin International Film Festival announced this morning that Isabella Rossellini will lead the festival jury for the 61st annual event, which will be held Feb. 10-20, 2011.
“It’s fantastic that Isabella Rossellini will be the President of the Berlinale Jury in 2011,” said festival director Dieter Kosslick. “She is a multifaceted, creative film artist with extensive experience in European, American and international cinema.”
The daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, the actress-producer-director has been immersed in the industry since the mid-1970s. She has worked with Norman Mailer, Robert Zemeckis, John Schlesinger, Peter Weir, Abel Ferrara and David Lynch, most notably in “Blue Velvet.” She has been a regular guest at the Berlin International Film Festival, bringing the short film “My Dad is 100 Years Old” in 2005 and “Brand Upon the Brain!” in 2007.
For more information on Berlin’s upcoming festival, and to...
Hollywoodnews.com: The Berlin International Film Festival announced this morning that Isabella Rossellini will lead the festival jury for the 61st annual event, which will be held Feb. 10-20, 2011.
“It’s fantastic that Isabella Rossellini will be the President of the Berlinale Jury in 2011,” said festival director Dieter Kosslick. “She is a multifaceted, creative film artist with extensive experience in European, American and international cinema.”
The daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, the actress-producer-director has been immersed in the industry since the mid-1970s. She has worked with Norman Mailer, Robert Zemeckis, John Schlesinger, Peter Weir, Abel Ferrara and David Lynch, most notably in “Blue Velvet.” She has been a regular guest at the Berlin International Film Festival, bringing the short film “My Dad is 100 Years Old” in 2005 and “Brand Upon the Brain!” in 2007.
For more information on Berlin’s upcoming festival, and to...
- 8/30/2010
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
The Italian-American actress and director Isabella Rossellini will be the President of the Jury for the 61st Berlin International Film Festival (February 10-20, 2011).
"It’s fantastic that Isabella Rossellini will be the President of the Berlinale Jury in 2011," says the festival's director Dieter Kosslick. "She is a multifaceted, creative film artist with extensive experience in European, American and international cinema."
Isabella Rossellini is one of the most renowned actresses in international cinema. Over the past years, she has also become a distinguished producer and director. The daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and of Italian director Roberto Rossellini, she first started her career as a fashion designer and journalist. At the time she worked mainly in New York. Her acting debut came in 1976, when she appeared alongside her mother in Vincente Minelli's A Matter Of Time. She then went on to roles in films by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Norman Mailer,...
"It’s fantastic that Isabella Rossellini will be the President of the Berlinale Jury in 2011," says the festival's director Dieter Kosslick. "She is a multifaceted, creative film artist with extensive experience in European, American and international cinema."
Isabella Rossellini is one of the most renowned actresses in international cinema. Over the past years, she has also become a distinguished producer and director. The daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and of Italian director Roberto Rossellini, she first started her career as a fashion designer and journalist. At the time she worked mainly in New York. Her acting debut came in 1976, when she appeared alongside her mother in Vincente Minelli's A Matter Of Time. She then went on to roles in films by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Norman Mailer,...
- 8/30/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Movies are made up of images, even the bad ones. But the bad movies rarely leave any images lingering in your brain. The great films are the ones making great images. A great image is many things, by nature diffuse, and we might agree that any great image moves even when stopped still, opening its own cinematic world. Thus, The Notebook's decision to celebrate our recent decade not with a list but with this stream. Each contributor was asked to pick 1 film he or she wants to remember from the 2000s, select 1 image from that film to remember it by, and write one sentence to supplement their selection. We've done our best to craft not simply a grab bag but a cogent flow of the indelible, one image speaking to the next on a variety of registers: from film to film, between color and compositional rhymes, and, as you'll read,...
- 1/16/2010
- MUBI
'Brain!' to get silent treatment in Berlin
COLOGNE, Germany -- The Berlin International Film Festival's Forum sidebar will feature a live performance of Guy Maddin's silent film Brand Upon the Brain! as part of its 2007 lineup.
The performance, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, will feature a live orchestra and singers as well as foley artists performing sound effects. Isabella Rossellini, who collaborated with Maddin on The Saddest Music In the World (2003) and My Dad Is 100 Years Old (2005) will narrate the film to the Berlin audience.
"Brand Upon the Brain!" premiered at the New York Film Festival with a similar set-up. The Berlin performance, on Feb.15, will mark the film's European debut.
The 57th annual Berlin International Film Festival runs Feb. 8-18.
The performance, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, will feature a live orchestra and singers as well as foley artists performing sound effects. Isabella Rossellini, who collaborated with Maddin on The Saddest Music In the World (2003) and My Dad Is 100 Years Old (2005) will narrate the film to the Berlin audience.
"Brand Upon the Brain!" premiered at the New York Film Festival with a similar set-up. The Berlin performance, on Feb.15, will mark the film's European debut.
The 57th annual Berlin International Film Festival runs Feb. 8-18.
- 1/5/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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