La La Land, Babylon, and Whiplash director Damien Chazelle will head up the international jury for the 80th Venice International Film Festival, Venice unveiled on Friday.
A regular on the Lido, Chazelle premiered both La La Land and the Neil Armstrong biopic First Man in competition in Venice.
“For 10 days each year this city of the arts, of Tintoretto and Titian and Veronese, becomes a city of cinema, and I am humbled and delighted to be invited to lead this year’s jury,” Chazelle said in a statement. “I can’t wait to discover a new crop of great films at the 80th Venice Film Festival.”
French director Alice Diop (Saint Omer, We) will head up the Luigi De Laurentiis jury judging the best first film at this year’s festival, while Italy’s Jonas Carpignano (A Chiara, A Ciambra), will be president of the jury for Venice’s main sidebar,...
A regular on the Lido, Chazelle premiered both La La Land and the Neil Armstrong biopic First Man in competition in Venice.
“For 10 days each year this city of the arts, of Tintoretto and Titian and Veronese, becomes a city of cinema, and I am humbled and delighted to be invited to lead this year’s jury,” Chazelle said in a statement. “I can’t wait to discover a new crop of great films at the 80th Venice Film Festival.”
French director Alice Diop (Saint Omer, We) will head up the Luigi De Laurentiis jury judging the best first film at this year’s festival, while Italy’s Jonas Carpignano (A Chiara, A Ciambra), will be president of the jury for Venice’s main sidebar,...
- 5/5/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
‘La La Land’ director Chazelle will chair the Competition jury.
La La Land director Damien Chazelle will be president of the Competition jury for the 80th Venice Film Festival (August 30-September 9).
Saint Omer director Alice Diop will chair the Luigi De Laurentiis debut film award jury; with A Chiara filmmaker Jonas Carpignano chairing the Horizons jury.
Chazelle has opened the festival on two previous occasions, with La La Land in 2016 and with First Man in 2018, both in Competition. Emma Stone won the Volpi Cup for best actress for La La Land, and went on to take the best actress Oscar...
La La Land director Damien Chazelle will be president of the Competition jury for the 80th Venice Film Festival (August 30-September 9).
Saint Omer director Alice Diop will chair the Luigi De Laurentiis debut film award jury; with A Chiara filmmaker Jonas Carpignano chairing the Horizons jury.
Chazelle has opened the festival on two previous occasions, with La La Land in 2016 and with First Man in 2018, both in Competition. Emma Stone won the Volpi Cup for best actress for La La Land, and went on to take the best actress Oscar...
- 5/5/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Damien Chazelle will preside over the competition jury of the upcoming Venice Film Festival.
The U.S. director is a Venice regular, having opened the Lido event on two occasions, in 2016 with “La La Land” and in 2018 with “First Man.”
Damien Chazelle, welcoming Venice’s proposal, stated: “For 10 days each year this city of the arts, of Tintoretto and Titian and Veronese, becomes a city of cinema, and I am humbled and delighted to be invited to lead this year’s jury. I can’t wait to discover a new crop of great films at the 80th Venice Film Festival.”
Venice also also announced that French director Alice Diop will head the jury panel of the fest’s Luigi De Laurentiis Award for best debut film, while Italy’s Jonas Carpignano will be president of the jury of the Horizons section for more cutting-edge works.
Diop with “Saint Omer,” which was her first feature,...
The U.S. director is a Venice regular, having opened the Lido event on two occasions, in 2016 with “La La Land” and in 2018 with “First Man.”
Damien Chazelle, welcoming Venice’s proposal, stated: “For 10 days each year this city of the arts, of Tintoretto and Titian and Veronese, becomes a city of cinema, and I am humbled and delighted to be invited to lead this year’s jury. I can’t wait to discover a new crop of great films at the 80th Venice Film Festival.”
Venice also also announced that French director Alice Diop will head the jury panel of the fest’s Luigi De Laurentiis Award for best debut film, while Italy’s Jonas Carpignano will be president of the jury of the Horizons section for more cutting-edge works.
Diop with “Saint Omer,” which was her first feature,...
- 5/5/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Damien Chazelle has been announced as the international jury president for the main competition of the 80th Venice International Film Festival, running Aug 30 — Sep 9.
“For ten days each year this city of the arts, of Tintoretto and Titian and Veronese, becomes a city of cinema, and I am humbled and delighted to be invited to lead this year’s jury. I can’t wait to discover a new crop of great films at the 80th Venice Film Festival,” Chazelle said.
Chazelle has opened Venice twice. First, with 2016’s La La Land and in 2018 with First Man. La La Land received 14 Academy Awards nominations, winning six including Best Director. Damien Chazelle was the youngest director ever to win the award. First Man, starring Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy, picked up four Academy Awards.
French filmmaker Alice Diop will serve as the President of the “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for Debut Features.
“For ten days each year this city of the arts, of Tintoretto and Titian and Veronese, becomes a city of cinema, and I am humbled and delighted to be invited to lead this year’s jury. I can’t wait to discover a new crop of great films at the 80th Venice Film Festival,” Chazelle said.
Chazelle has opened Venice twice. First, with 2016’s La La Land and in 2018 with First Man. La La Land received 14 Academy Awards nominations, winning six including Best Director. Damien Chazelle was the youngest director ever to win the award. First Man, starring Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy, picked up four Academy Awards.
French filmmaker Alice Diop will serve as the President of the “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for Debut Features.
- 5/5/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
At first glance, Cynthia Erivo’s Sundance drama “Drift” appears to be the latest in a long line of call-to-action refugee stories, set in Europe and focused on those who’ve left Africa, only to encounter resistance once they reach unfamiliar shores. Turns out, while there are certainly overlaps with recent films like “Mediterranea” and “Fire at Sea” — which are deserving social-issue movies to be sure — “Drift” doesn’t have anything like the same agenda.
Rather than serving to indict European indifference, as refugee films so often do, Singaporean director Anthony Chen’s moving feature uses the fictional journey of Erivo’s character, Jacqueline, as an unlikely ode to healing and human connection. That’s an ambitious gamble, since Europe’s real-world immigration troubles are serious enough that inventing a story purely for metaphorical purposes — the way co-writer Alexander Maksik did in his original novel, “A Marker to Measure Drift” — might have seemed tacky.
Rather than serving to indict European indifference, as refugee films so often do, Singaporean director Anthony Chen’s moving feature uses the fictional journey of Erivo’s character, Jacqueline, as an unlikely ode to healing and human connection. That’s an ambitious gamble, since Europe’s real-world immigration troubles are serious enough that inventing a story purely for metaphorical purposes — the way co-writer Alexander Maksik did in his original novel, “A Marker to Measure Drift” — might have seemed tacky.
- 1/23/2023
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Though not exactly a darling of the critics, Oscar nominee Chris Columbus has created a number of box office hits throughout his 30 year career. Let’s take a look back at all 15 of his films as a director, ranked worst to best.
Born in 1958, Columbus rose to prominence as a hot young screenwriter after penning such titles as “Gremlins” (1984), “The Goonies” (1985) and “Young Sherlock Holmes” (1985). He made his directorial debut when he was just 29-years-old with the teenage comedy “Adventures in Babysitting” (1987) before raking in the box office dollars with “Home Alone” (1990), “Mrs. Doubtfire” (1993) and “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” (2001), to name but a few.
Though he’s seldom received awards recognition as a writer or director, Columbus has had success in that regard as a producer, earning an Oscar nomination in Best Picture for “The Help” (2011), for which he also competed at the PGA and BAFTA. He won...
Born in 1958, Columbus rose to prominence as a hot young screenwriter after penning such titles as “Gremlins” (1984), “The Goonies” (1985) and “Young Sherlock Holmes” (1985). He made his directorial debut when he was just 29-years-old with the teenage comedy “Adventures in Babysitting” (1987) before raking in the box office dollars with “Home Alone” (1990), “Mrs. Doubtfire” (1993) and “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” (2001), to name but a few.
Though he’s seldom received awards recognition as a writer or director, Columbus has had success in that regard as a producer, earning an Oscar nomination in Best Picture for “The Help” (2011), for which he also competed at the PGA and BAFTA. He won...
- 9/2/2022
- by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Jonas Carpignano's A Chiara is exclusively showing on Mubi in many countries starting August 26, 2022, in the series The New Auteurs and Jonas Carpignano: The Calabrian Trilogy.A Chiara (2021).Her sister’s birthday party is still in full swing when fifteen-year-old Chiara (Swamy Rotolo) sees her dad leave the celebrations, rush to his car, and drive away. There have been other times in Jonas Carpignano’s A Chiara when the teen’s father seemed to know more than he let on, but this is the first he radiates a sinister energy, something Chiara has never sensed before and doesn’t know how to decipher. Stunned, she looks on. The whole scene lasts a handful of seconds, most of which Carpignano spends on the girl’s face as she takes it all in: her dad sneaking out of the restaurant where the whole family’s dancing, his last words to her,...
- 8/25/2022
- MUBI
“It’s been the great mystery in political history of the past 50 years,” said Slamdance Film Festival founder, writer and director Dan Mirvish of the eighteen-and-a-half minutes famously missing from the Nixon Tapes. His campy political thriller out this weekend takes a stab at what might have happened.
Adventure Entertainment opens 18 1/2 today on four screens in NY, LA, and Fort Lauderdale, expanding next week to about 60 including a special screening Wednesday at the Landmark Theatres E Street Cinema in Washington, D.C. to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Watergate. The National Archives is screening CNN documentary series Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal the same night at a dueling event with John Dean, who was President Richard Nixon’s counsel from July, 1970 to April, 1973. The mother of U.S. political scandals exploded in June of 1972 when five men broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate hotel and office complex.
Adventure Entertainment opens 18 1/2 today on four screens in NY, LA, and Fort Lauderdale, expanding next week to about 60 including a special screening Wednesday at the Landmark Theatres E Street Cinema in Washington, D.C. to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Watergate. The National Archives is screening CNN documentary series Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal the same night at a dueling event with John Dean, who was President Richard Nixon’s counsel from July, 1970 to April, 1973. The mother of U.S. political scandals exploded in June of 1972 when five men broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate hotel and office complex.
- 5/27/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Jonas Carpignano’s third feature film, “A Chiara,” the third film in his loosely networked Calabrian trilogy, is an ambitious genre-melter rendered in his observational, lyrical style.
At once a coming-of-age story and a mafia thriller, “A Chiara” takes a look at organized crime in Southern Italy from the unique perspective of a teenage girl, Chiara (Swamy Rotolo). Her world is turned upside down after her father disappears and she tumbles down the rabbit hole after him, discovering he’s a member of the ‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate.
Carpignano’s previous two films in the trilogy are 2015’s “Mediterranea,” which followed the experiences of African immigrants in Calabria, and 2017’s “A Ciambra,” executive produced by Martin Scorsese, about a Romani boy growing up too fast. All three films in the trilogy debuted at the Cannes Film Festival and have raked in a slew of awards and nominations for the filmmaker, including...
At once a coming-of-age story and a mafia thriller, “A Chiara” takes a look at organized crime in Southern Italy from the unique perspective of a teenage girl, Chiara (Swamy Rotolo). Her world is turned upside down after her father disappears and she tumbles down the rabbit hole after him, discovering he’s a member of the ‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate.
Carpignano’s previous two films in the trilogy are 2015’s “Mediterranea,” which followed the experiences of African immigrants in Calabria, and 2017’s “A Ciambra,” executive produced by Martin Scorsese, about a Romani boy growing up too fast. All three films in the trilogy debuted at the Cannes Film Festival and have raked in a slew of awards and nominations for the filmmaker, including...
- 5/26/2022
- by Katie Walsh
- The Wrap
Writer, director, and producer Jonas Carpignano cast the lead actress for the conclusion of his Calabrian trilogy when she was just 10 years old. That’s how memorable Swamy Rotolo and her entire real-life family were to Carpignano, and key to rounding out his Calabrian trilogy.
“A Chiara” stars Rotolo as a teenager who soon discovers her father has organized crime ties in their small town of Gioia Tauro. As Chiara (Rotolo) pieces together the depths to which her family is intoxicated by the larger mafia familial ties, her father (Claudio Rotolo) goes missing, forcing her into foster care. Chiara eventually confronts her absent dad for his sins and is forced to reckon with her own. The film concludes Carpignano’s trilogy after 2015’s “Mediterranea” and 2017’s “A Ciambra.”
“A Chiara” premiered in the 2021 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and won the Europa Labels Prize for Best European Film. The film went on...
“A Chiara” stars Rotolo as a teenager who soon discovers her father has organized crime ties in their small town of Gioia Tauro. As Chiara (Rotolo) pieces together the depths to which her family is intoxicated by the larger mafia familial ties, her father (Claudio Rotolo) goes missing, forcing her into foster care. Chiara eventually confronts her absent dad for his sins and is forced to reckon with her own. The film concludes Carpignano’s trilogy after 2015’s “Mediterranea” and 2017’s “A Ciambra.”
“A Chiara” premiered in the 2021 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and won the Europa Labels Prize for Best European Film. The film went on...
- 5/9/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
"Are we in trouble?" Neon has revealed an official US trailer for an Italian drama titled A Chiara, the third feature from acclaimed filmmaker Jonas Carpignano, following his first two films: Mediterranea and A Ciambra. This one follows the story of 15-year-old Chiara whose close-knit family falls apart after her father abandons them in Calabria. As she gets closer to the difficult truth about her mysteriously missing father—and the crime syndicates that control her region— Chiara is forced to decide what kind of future she wants for herself. They add: "A coming-of-age chronicle like no other, A Chiara is both an intimate and universal family story." Featuring a local cast with Swamy Rotolo as Chiara, plus Claudio Rotolo, Grecia Rotolo, Antonina Fumo, Antonio Rotolo Uno, Carmela Fumo, Concetta Grillo, and Giorgia Rotolo. This won an award at last year's Directors' Fortnight sidebar during the Cannes Film Festival, and opens in the US this May.
- 5/3/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Following Mediterranea and A Ciambra, writer-director Jonas Carpignano has completed his Calabrian trilogy with A Chiara, which picked up the Europa Cinema Label at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight last year and follows a teenage girl’s reckoning with her father’s participation in the mafia. Ahead of a May 27 theatrical release via Neon, the new U.S. trailer has now arrived.
Ed Frankl said in his Cannes review, “With a documentary-like authenticity, this is a touching, powerful film with a lyrical visual palette and a superb sense of time and place. As in Mediterranea and A Ciambra, which told stories about immigration and the Roma community, respectively, Carpignano takes us to Gioia Tauro at the southern tip of the Italian mainland. For ten years the director has embedded himself here, a place infamous for the penetration in all walks of life of the ‘Ndrangheta, the secretive mafia clan that by some...
Ed Frankl said in his Cannes review, “With a documentary-like authenticity, this is a touching, powerful film with a lyrical visual palette and a superb sense of time and place. As in Mediterranea and A Ciambra, which told stories about immigration and the Roma community, respectively, Carpignano takes us to Gioia Tauro at the southern tip of the Italian mainland. For ten years the director has embedded himself here, a place infamous for the penetration in all walks of life of the ‘Ndrangheta, the secretive mafia clan that by some...
- 5/3/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
While our recently published summer movie preview was a fairly comprehensive look at what we’re most anticipating over the next few months, some surprises still await. Case in point: the release date of our #1 pick to see this month was only unveiled a few days ago. Featuring long-awaited festival favorites, genre delights, medium-length work, and even—yes!—a blockbuster, check out our picks below.
13. Men (Alex Garland; May 20 in theaters)
Alex Garland’s Men is a curious creation, oddly misshapen and thematically simplistic, yet this contained psychological horror-thriller has a go-for-broke finale worth the price of admission simply for the confounding glances one will have with fellow moviegoers exiting the theater. Telling the story of Jessie Buckley’s character as she contends with recent trauma and the various shades of misogynistic demons that intend to interrupt her healing, the build-up is an impressive tightrope walk of horror and humor...
13. Men (Alex Garland; May 20 in theaters)
Alex Garland’s Men is a curious creation, oddly misshapen and thematically simplistic, yet this contained psychological horror-thriller has a go-for-broke finale worth the price of admission simply for the confounding glances one will have with fellow moviegoers exiting the theater. Telling the story of Jessie Buckley’s character as she contends with recent trauma and the various shades of misogynistic demons that intend to interrupt her healing, the build-up is an impressive tightrope walk of horror and humor...
- 5/3/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Each of the bracingly intimate films that comprise Jonas Carpignano’s loose-knit Calabrian trilogy are self-contained to a certain degree; like “Mediterranea” and “A Ciambra” before it, “A Chiara” is meant to be understood on its own. But the small handful of overlapping characters between them link their respective stories together on a macroeconomic level in a way that deepens and belies the myopia of their neorealist construction.
The triptych begins with two refugees making the perilous trek from Africa to the Italian port city of Gioia Tauro, only to find themselves exploited by the people who got there first. The next chapter takes a half-step up the local hierarchy by focusing on a young Romani boy who idolizes his racist older brother, but struggles to reconcile the hostility of that us-vs-them mindset with the warmth he feels toward his foreign new friends, and his family’s own history of...
The triptych begins with two refugees making the perilous trek from Africa to the Italian port city of Gioia Tauro, only to find themselves exploited by the people who got there first. The next chapter takes a half-step up the local hierarchy by focusing on a young Romani boy who idolizes his racist older brother, but struggles to reconcile the hostility of that us-vs-them mindset with the warmth he feels toward his foreign new friends, and his family’s own history of...
- 9/30/2021
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Writer-director Jonas Carpignano completes his Calabrian trilogy with A Chiara, an enthralling drama about a teenage girl coming to terms with her family’s role in the mafia, which won the Europa Cinema Label at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. With a documentary-like authenticity, this is a touching, powerful film with a lyrical visual palette and a superb sense of time and place.
As in Mediterranea and A Ciambra, which told stories about immigration and the Roma community, respectively, Carpignano takes us to Gioia Tauro at the southern tip of the Italian mainland. For ten years the director has embedded himself here, a place infamous for the penetration in all walks of life of the ‘Ndrangheta, the secretive mafia clan that by some accounts controls three percent of Italy’s Gdp.
A Chiara begins, like another famous mafioso movie, with a party. To the tunes of Italian trap, Guilia (Grecia Rotolo) celebrates her 18th birthday,...
As in Mediterranea and A Ciambra, which told stories about immigration and the Roma community, respectively, Carpignano takes us to Gioia Tauro at the southern tip of the Italian mainland. For ten years the director has embedded himself here, a place infamous for the penetration in all walks of life of the ‘Ndrangheta, the secretive mafia clan that by some accounts controls three percent of Italy’s Gdp.
A Chiara begins, like another famous mafioso movie, with a party. To the tunes of Italian trap, Guilia (Grecia Rotolo) celebrates her 18th birthday,...
- 7/23/2021
- by Ed Frankl
- The Film Stage
Directors’ Fortnight prize winner ‘A Chiara’ heads to multiple territories for mk2 films (exclusive)
Film world premiered in Directors’ Fortnight winning top Europa Cinemas award.
Paris-based mk2 films has a sealed a raft of deals on Jonas Carpignano’s southern Italian drama A Chiara, which scooped one of the top collateral prizes in Directors’ Fortnight this year.
Mubi has done a multi-territory deal for the UK, Germany, Turkey and Latin America.
European deals include to Benelux (Imagine), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Aerofilms), Greece (One From The Heart), Poland (Aurora Films), Spain (BTeam Pictures), Scandinavia and Baltics (Edge Entertainment).
For the rest of the world, it has sold to Australia and New Zealand (Palace Films...
Paris-based mk2 films has a sealed a raft of deals on Jonas Carpignano’s southern Italian drama A Chiara, which scooped one of the top collateral prizes in Directors’ Fortnight this year.
Mubi has done a multi-territory deal for the UK, Germany, Turkey and Latin America.
European deals include to Benelux (Imagine), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Aerofilms), Greece (One From The Heart), Poland (Aurora Films), Spain (BTeam Pictures), Scandinavia and Baltics (Edge Entertainment).
For the rest of the world, it has sold to Australia and New Zealand (Palace Films...
- 7/21/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Continuing its victory lap around the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, indie studio Neon has acquired the North American distribution rights to “A Chiara.”
The Jonas Carpignano film won the top prize in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight section. It is a companion film to his 2017 “A Ciambra,” for which he took the same award that year. Critics raved about the film’s exploration of young female identity and Carpignano’s ability to create enduring interest in one fictional family across multiple films.
“A Chiara” follows Claudio and Carmela Guerrasio, who gather with family and friends to celebrate their eldest daughter’s 18th birthday. There is a healthy rivalry between the birthday girl and her 15-year-old sister Chiara, as they compete on the dance floor. A happy occasion shifts suddenly when the patriarch disappears. As Chiara investigates, she discovers truths about her family and must face decisions about the kind of life she wants to build.
The Jonas Carpignano film won the top prize in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight section. It is a companion film to his 2017 “A Ciambra,” for which he took the same award that year. Critics raved about the film’s exploration of young female identity and Carpignano’s ability to create enduring interest in one fictional family across multiple films.
“A Chiara” follows Claudio and Carmela Guerrasio, who gather with family and friends to celebrate their eldest daughter’s 18th birthday. There is a healthy rivalry between the birthday girl and her 15-year-old sister Chiara, as they compete on the dance floor. A happy occasion shifts suddenly when the patriarch disappears. As Chiara investigates, she discovers truths about her family and must face decisions about the kind of life she wants to build.
- 7/18/2021
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
World-Building at Cannes: Filmmakers Are Creating Low-Budget Franchises More Compelling Than the MCU
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been a galvanizing cultural phenomenon for over a decade, but it doesn’t have a monopoly on world-building, or even offer the best example of its potential. Sure, there’s a giddy rush that comes from watching Spider-Man swing his way into the Avengers as the team assembles for one movie after another. The ultimate experience, however, boils down to a familiar one — a giant blockbuster spectacle is still just that, even in episodic form.
Other filmmakers working well beyond the constraints of Hollywood may not have the resources to develop sprawling multi-part epics, but they’re applying the concept in more personal and innovative ways. Several highlights from this year’s Cannes Film Festival build on previous work from their directors by either continuing stories started in earlier work, or adding new dimensions to environments they’ve explored before. As a whole, they offer...
Other filmmakers working well beyond the constraints of Hollywood may not have the resources to develop sprawling multi-part epics, but they’re applying the concept in more personal and innovative ways. Several highlights from this year’s Cannes Film Festival build on previous work from their directors by either continuing stories started in earlier work, or adding new dimensions to environments they’ve explored before. As a whole, they offer...
- 7/13/2021
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
On paper, “The Life Ahead” sounds like sentimental mush — orphaned immigrant kid gets rescued from a tortuous life of crime by the maternal Holocaust survivor and former prostitute who takes him in. And make no mistake: Director Edoardo Ponti, who directs his mother Sophia Loren as said survivor opposite newcomer Ibrahima Gueye as the immigrant child in question, certainly has made that kind of movie. But with its formidable odd couple at the center and Ponti’s alternately slick and sensitive direction,
While “The Life Ahead” draws from the same Romain Gary novel that inspired the 1977 Oscar-winner “Madame Rosa,” Ponti and co-writer Ugo Chiti have transplanted the setting from France to inner-city Italy and set the drama in the present day. That means cinematic grand dame Loren, returning to the screen for the first time in a decade, can play a role that fits her 86-year-old visage, and she brings a sturdy,...
While “The Life Ahead” draws from the same Romain Gary novel that inspired the 1977 Oscar-winner “Madame Rosa,” Ponti and co-writer Ugo Chiti have transplanted the setting from France to inner-city Italy and set the drama in the present day. That means cinematic grand dame Loren, returning to the screen for the first time in a decade, can play a role that fits her 86-year-old visage, and she brings a sturdy,...
- 10/29/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Wendy
Those in the indie film circles are confirming that 2019 is the release year for the long awaited super secretive Wendy. Benh Zeitlin snaps a seven year hiatus (he composed the music for Jonas Carpignano’s Mediterranea and Viktor Jakovleski’s Brimstone & Glory) of when his debut film Beasts of the Southern Wild landed on the film fest circuit and collected worldwide accolades. Move over Guillermo del toro.
Gist: Written by Benh and Eliza Zeitlin, set on a mysterious island where aging and time have come unglued, this tells the tale of two children from different worlds fighting to maintain their grip on freedom and joy as the catastrophe of growing up descends upon them.…...
Those in the indie film circles are confirming that 2019 is the release year for the long awaited super secretive Wendy. Benh Zeitlin snaps a seven year hiatus (he composed the music for Jonas Carpignano’s Mediterranea and Viktor Jakovleski’s Brimstone & Glory) of when his debut film Beasts of the Southern Wild landed on the film fest circuit and collected worldwide accolades. Move over Guillermo del toro.
Gist: Written by Benh and Eliza Zeitlin, set on a mysterious island where aging and time have come unglued, this tells the tale of two children from different worlds fighting to maintain their grip on freedom and joy as the catastrophe of growing up descends upon them.…...
- 2/8/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
There are a multitude of reasons why any film may get unfairly overlooked. It could be a lack of marketing resources to provide a substantial push, or, due to a minuscule roll-out, not enough critics and audiences to be the champions it might require. It could simply be the timing of the picture itself; even in the world of studio filmmaking, some features take time to get their due. With an increasingly crowded marketplace, there are more reasons than ever that something might not find an audience and we’ve rounded up the releases that deserved more attention.
Note that all of the below films made less than $500K at the domestic box office at the time of posting–Netflix/VOD figures are not accounted for, as they normally aren’t made public–and are, for the most part, left out of most year-end conversations. Sadly, many documentaries would qualify for this list,...
Note that all of the below films made less than $500K at the domestic box office at the time of posting–Netflix/VOD figures are not accounted for, as they normally aren’t made public–and are, for the most part, left out of most year-end conversations. Sadly, many documentaries would qualify for this list,...
- 12/20/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
With the amount of time being put into the post production portion of the process, I doubt that sophomore jinx will be applicable here. Wendy is Benh Zeitlin‘s long waited follow up to Beasts of the Southern Wild which the Fox Searchlight will be plotting carefully in terms of its release — as we get this is Wes Anderson care package in scope. In the seven years between projects, Zeitlin has worked on projects for other peeps — composed the music for Jonas Carpignano’s Mediterranea and Viktor Jakovleski’s Brimstone & Glory. Writing credits now include his sister — Eliza Zeitlin.…...
- 11/23/2018
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Non-professional actors light up the screen in this coming-of-age story – produced by Martin Scorsese – set in a Roma gypsy community
Jonas Carpignano struck gold with the non-professional cast of his new movie, set among the Roma gypsy community in Calabria – and especially with his terrific teenage lead, Pio Amato. It has been called a resurgence of neorealism with echoes of De Sica and Visconti; Martin Scorsese is executive producer, and you can see his influence in the vibrancy of the family meal scenes. But maybe it’s more an inspired naturalism or instinctualism. There is something euphoric, but also sad, about watching an unschooled performer dominate through some mysterious and serendipitous rightness in the matching of face, performer and material. Will he ever be as good again – that’s if he wants to be an actor? Will life itself ever seem as real to him as this?
Amato plays a smart,...
Jonas Carpignano struck gold with the non-professional cast of his new movie, set among the Roma gypsy community in Calabria – and especially with his terrific teenage lead, Pio Amato. It has been called a resurgence of neorealism with echoes of De Sica and Visconti; Martin Scorsese is executive producer, and you can see his influence in the vibrancy of the family meal scenes. But maybe it’s more an inspired naturalism or instinctualism. There is something euphoric, but also sad, about watching an unschooled performer dominate through some mysterious and serendipitous rightness in the matching of face, performer and material. Will he ever be as good again – that’s if he wants to be an actor? Will life itself ever seem as real to him as this?
Amato plays a smart,...
- 6/13/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
In his new film The Ciambra, director Jonas Carpignano offers an arresting, uncompromising and hugely compelling story about a marginalised community living in southern Italy. Featuring several characters from his neo-realist debut feature Mediterranea which tackled the thorny issue of the European refugee crisis with a great deal of empathy and humanitarian reverence for its protagonists, the film is a welcome return for a filmmaker who keeps on pushing the boundaries with each new release, making him one of the most promising filmmakers of his generation, impressing even Martin Scorsese who is cited as executive producer on this new production.
Taking us right into the heart of a small Romani community living in the Calabrian town of Gioia Tauro the film, which stars mostly non professional actors, including several members of the now infamous Amato family, presents a beautifully executed coming of age story about a boy on the cusp of manhood,...
Taking us right into the heart of a small Romani community living in the Calabrian town of Gioia Tauro the film, which stars mostly non professional actors, including several members of the now infamous Amato family, presents a beautifully executed coming of age story about a boy on the cusp of manhood,...
- 6/11/2018
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
In “A Ciambra,” Italian filmmaker Jonas Carpignano’s sort-of sequel to 2015’s “Mediterranea,” the lines between documentary and fiction are blurred to the point of non-existence. The director follows a Romani family who play versions of themselves, and specifically focuses on a 14-year-old boy named Pio (Pio Amato), whose petty crime apprenticeship with his father and older brothers leads to adult responsibilities before he’s ready, as well as a potentially devastating moral crisis. Pio lives with his large, extended family in a run-down apartment complex on the abandoned outskirts of Gioia Tauro, a small southern Italian port city known for its part...
- 2/2/2018
- by Dave White
- The Wrap
Remember January – that traditional time in the movigoing calendar when all the studios seize on the post-holiday, post-awards-deadline lull to unload their least-desirable properties? Still, that does not mean there isn't some wheat among the waves of chaff – for example, a Cannes-approved award-winner, an all-business thriller from a cult favorite, a blaxploitation throwback and a glimpse into Russian insanity that sets the Weirdest Documentary of the Year bar high. Here's what you'll be seeing at a theater near you this month.
A Ciambra (Jan. 26th)
In the Calabria region in the south of Italy,...
A Ciambra (Jan. 26th)
In the Calabria region in the south of Italy,...
- 1/2/2018
- Rollingstone.com
A Ciambra is a pretty amazing movie…it reminds me somewhat of Gemorrah, also filmed in Calabria and centering around a young man who wants to break with a tradition of crime. Jonas Carpignano, the director whose previous film Mediterranea was huge success in Cannes, said that was a compliment as it was one of his favorite movies.Actor Koudous Seihon with Jonas Carpignano
Jonas Carpignano was also so charming and available to us all the night it screened at Wme, the agency which represents him!
The movie saddened me by its portrayal of gypsies, but was fascinating at the same time.
In A Ciambra, a small Romani (as the gypsies of Italy are labeled) community in Calabria, Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. At 14, he drinks, smokes and is one of the few to easily slide between the region’s factions — the local Italians, the African refugees and his fellow Romani.
Jonas Carpignano was also so charming and available to us all the night it screened at Wme, the agency which represents him!
The movie saddened me by its portrayal of gypsies, but was fascinating at the same time.
In A Ciambra, a small Romani (as the gypsies of Italy are labeled) community in Calabria, Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. At 14, he drinks, smokes and is one of the few to easily slide between the region’s factions — the local Italians, the African refugees and his fellow Romani.
- 11/17/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Italy has selected Jonas Carpignano’s A Ciambra as its submission for consideration for the foreign-language film Oscar.
The film, which was executive produced by Martin Scorsese, debuted at Cannes in the Directors’ Fortnight, where it won the Europa Cinema Labels Award. It will be released by Sundance Selects in North America.
A Ciambra stars 14-year-old Pio Amato and is set in the Romani community of Southern Italy. It is considered to be a companion piece to Carpignano’s first feature, Mediterranea (2015). The Hollywood Reporter described A Ciambra as “a raw and distinctive coming-of-age portrait,” calling Carpignano “a gifted practitioner of...
The film, which was executive produced by Martin Scorsese, debuted at Cannes in the Directors’ Fortnight, where it won the Europa Cinema Labels Award. It will be released by Sundance Selects in North America.
A Ciambra stars 14-year-old Pio Amato and is set in the Romani community of Southern Italy. It is considered to be a companion piece to Carpignano’s first feature, Mediterranea (2015). The Hollywood Reporter described A Ciambra as “a raw and distinctive coming-of-age portrait,” calling Carpignano “a gifted practitioner of...
- 9/26/2017
- by Ariston Anderson
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lineup and Pre-Festival Announcements and News
Tiff Reveals First Slate of 2017 Titles, Including ‘The Shape of Water,’ ‘Downsizing,’ and ‘Call Me By Your Name’
Tiff Announces Midnight Madness and Documentaries Slate, Including ‘The Disaster Artist,’ ‘Super Size Me’ Sequel, and More
Tiff Announces Platform Lineup, Including ‘The Death of Stalin,’ ‘Euphoria,’ and ‘Brad’s Status’
Tiff Reveals Full Canadian Lineup, Including ‘Alias Grace’ Series Premiere and Restored Classics
Tiff 2017 Does TV: Primetime Line-Up to Premiere ‘The Deuce’ and ‘The Girlfriend Experience’
Tiff Adds More Titles, Including ‘The Florida Project,’ ‘Molly’s Game,’ New Films From Brie Larson and Louis C.K., and Many More
Tiff Adds Lady Gaga Documentary & Performance to Special Events Slate
Pre-Festival Analysis
10 Toronto Film Festival Documentaries That Could Shake Up the Oscars
Tiff’s Platform Selection: How the Festival’s Buzziest Slate is Pivoting After Launching ‘Moonlight’
Tiff 2017: 12 Lgbtq Films We Can’t Wait to See...
Tiff Reveals First Slate of 2017 Titles, Including ‘The Shape of Water,’ ‘Downsizing,’ and ‘Call Me By Your Name’
Tiff Announces Midnight Madness and Documentaries Slate, Including ‘The Disaster Artist,’ ‘Super Size Me’ Sequel, and More
Tiff Announces Platform Lineup, Including ‘The Death of Stalin,’ ‘Euphoria,’ and ‘Brad’s Status’
Tiff Reveals Full Canadian Lineup, Including ‘Alias Grace’ Series Premiere and Restored Classics
Tiff 2017 Does TV: Primetime Line-Up to Premiere ‘The Deuce’ and ‘The Girlfriend Experience’
Tiff Adds More Titles, Including ‘The Florida Project,’ ‘Molly’s Game,’ New Films From Brie Larson and Louis C.K., and Many More
Tiff Adds Lady Gaga Documentary & Performance to Special Events Slate
Pre-Festival Analysis
10 Toronto Film Festival Documentaries That Could Shake Up the Oscars
Tiff’s Platform Selection: How the Festival’s Buzziest Slate is Pivoting After Launching ‘Moonlight’
Tiff 2017: 12 Lgbtq Films We Can’t Wait to See...
- 9/6/2017
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
It’s been five years since director Benh Zeitlin broke out with “Beasts Of The Southern Wild,” and while we patiently await his next film, he’s been trying his hand at producing. A couple years back he put his name to the Cannes Film Festival entry “Mediterranea.” Now, the upcoming documentary “Brimstone & Glory” not only bears Zeitlin’s credit, but some of his creative magic too.
Continue reading ‘Brimstone & Glory’ Trailer: Benh Zeitlin Presents An Explosive New Documentary at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Brimstone & Glory’ Trailer: Benh Zeitlin Presents An Explosive New Documentary at The Playlist.
- 9/5/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Cast of “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” on the Red Carpet
In Cannes this year, children played significant parts in Competition films by Todd Haynes (“Wonderstruck”), a grownup film about children, in Bong Joon-ho’s “Okja” about a child’s best friend, a huge animal, who is to be used by a multinational company as food, and in “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”.
Todd Haynes, Millicent Simmonds, Jaden Michael and Roy Price at the Amazon “Wondesrstruck” Party in Cannes
In Directors’ Fortnight “The Florida Project” by Sean Baker, children played all the key roles, with an especially outstanding performance by the eight year old Brooklynn Prince who plays the lead as a precocious six year old who with her friends live carefree lives in stark contrast to the lives of their struggling parents.
He was 11 years old when Pio Amato from Calabria, Italy played his first role in...
In Cannes this year, children played significant parts in Competition films by Todd Haynes (“Wonderstruck”), a grownup film about children, in Bong Joon-ho’s “Okja” about a child’s best friend, a huge animal, who is to be used by a multinational company as food, and in “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”.
Todd Haynes, Millicent Simmonds, Jaden Michael and Roy Price at the Amazon “Wondesrstruck” Party in Cannes
In Directors’ Fortnight “The Florida Project” by Sean Baker, children played all the key roles, with an especially outstanding performance by the eight year old Brooklynn Prince who plays the lead as a precocious six year old who with her friends live carefree lives in stark contrast to the lives of their struggling parents.
He was 11 years old when Pio Amato from Calabria, Italy played his first role in...
- 6/4/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Sponsor prizes also go to Claire Denis comedy and Philippe Garrel drama.
Chloé Zhao’s The Rider, Jonas Carpignano’s A Ciambra and Claire Denis’ Let The Sunshine In were among Directors’ Fortnight films to pick up awards tonight.
Although the strand is a non-competitive, some sponsors hand out prizes.
The Art Cinema Award for a feature film went to Chloé Zhao’s The Rider, which was recently snapped up by Sony Classics for North America, Latin America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Eastern Europe.
The film tells the story of a cowboy (played by Brady Jandreau) who embarks on a road trip through America after a near death accident.
The Sacd Award for a French-speaking feature was given jointly to Philippe Garrel’s Lover For A Day and Claire Denis’ Let The Sunshine In.
The latter, an unusual change of gear for Denis, is an eccentric relationship comedy of ideas, starring [link=nm...
Chloé Zhao’s The Rider, Jonas Carpignano’s A Ciambra and Claire Denis’ Let The Sunshine In were among Directors’ Fortnight films to pick up awards tonight.
Although the strand is a non-competitive, some sponsors hand out prizes.
The Art Cinema Award for a feature film went to Chloé Zhao’s The Rider, which was recently snapped up by Sony Classics for North America, Latin America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Eastern Europe.
The film tells the story of a cowboy (played by Brady Jandreau) who embarks on a road trip through America after a near death accident.
The Sacd Award for a French-speaking feature was given jointly to Philippe Garrel’s Lover For A Day and Claire Denis’ Let The Sunshine In.
The latter, an unusual change of gear for Denis, is an eccentric relationship comedy of ideas, starring [link=nm...
- 5/26/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Chloe Zhao’s drama about a rodeo competitor, “The Rider,” has won the top prize in the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight sidebar. The film by Chinese-American director Zhao, which was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics on Tuesday, features several real-life rodeo figures, including Brady Jandreau, playing versions of themselves. Jonas Carpignano’s “A Ciambra,” which tells a migrant story that has connections to Carpignano’s previous film, “Mediterranea,” won the Europa Cinemas Label, a prize open to all European films in the competition. The film was executive produced by Martin Scorsese. The Scad Prize, which is handed out...
- 5/26/2017
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Director Jonas Carpignano returns with his first film since Mediterranea (which broke out from Cannes Critics’ Week sidebar two years ago) to remind us that alpha male pecking orders are unavoidable in some parts of the world and that life is still incredibly difficult for Italian Romani. Examined through the microcosm of a four-generation strong family in a small settlement in Calabria in Southern Italy, A Ciambra follows the compelling coming of age story of a young man named Pio (Pio Amato) who is thrust into adulthood when his father and brother are locked up.
It would be a stretch to say that Carpignano diverts in any major way from the gritty aesthetic that has become synonymous with post-Dardennes (and, in particular, post-Rosetta) social realist cinema — all overcast clouds above and gravel below — nor those films’ favored narrative arc. It does, however, pulsate with true authenticity, surely down to the...
It would be a stretch to say that Carpignano diverts in any major way from the gritty aesthetic that has become synonymous with post-Dardennes (and, in particular, post-Rosetta) social realist cinema — all overcast clouds above and gravel below — nor those films’ favored narrative arc. It does, however, pulsate with true authenticity, surely down to the...
- 5/23/2017
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Sundance Selects has acquired all North American rights to Jonas Carpignano's A Ciambra, which premiered this week in Cannes' Directors' Fortnight program and was executive produced by Martin Scorsese.
The gritty coming-of-age film is Carpignano's follow-up to Mediterranea, which Sundance Selects also distributed. The movie focuses on a small Romani community in Calabria where a 14-year-old tries to step into his brother's shoes when the brother disappears and things start to go wrong.
Arianna Bocco, executive vp acquisitions and production negotiated the deal with Wme on behalf of the filmmakers.
"Jonas Carpignano's A Ciambra is a compelling and accomplished film," said Scorsese. "The world...
The gritty coming-of-age film is Carpignano's follow-up to Mediterranea, which Sundance Selects also distributed. The movie focuses on a small Romani community in Calabria where a 14-year-old tries to step into his brother's shoes when the brother disappears and things start to go wrong.
Arianna Bocco, executive vp acquisitions and production negotiated the deal with Wme on behalf of the filmmakers.
"Jonas Carpignano's A Ciambra is a compelling and accomplished film," said Scorsese. "The world...
- 5/23/2017
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights to Jonas Carpignano’s coming of age film “A Ciambra,” which premiered in the Director’s Fortnight competition at the currently underway 2017 Cannes Film Festival. Martin Scorsese executive produced the drama. The films marks the follow-up to Carpignano’s “Mediterranea,” which Sundance Selects also distributed. Pio Amato, Kudos Seihon, Iolanda Amato and Damiano Amato star in the latest. “A Ciambra” takes place in small Romani community in Calabria, where Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. At 14, he drinks, smokes and is one of the few to easily slide between the regions’ factions – the local Italians,...
- 5/23/2017
- by Nigel M. Smith
- The Wrap
Update, May 23, 6:15 Am Pst: What we broke earlier today has been officially announced: IFC’s Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights to Jonas Carpignano’s Italian-language film A Ciambra. IFC’s Evp Acquisitions and Productions Arianna Bocco negotiated the deal with Wme on behalf of the filmmakers. A Ciambra premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes. Sundance Selects also distributed Carpignano’s Mediterranea in 2015, which also played at Cannes. Exclusiv…...
- 5/23/2017
- Deadline
Sundance Selects, the division of IFC Films known for distributing critically acclaimed foreign-language films, has acquired Italian filmmaker Jonas Carpignano’s drama “A Ciambra.” The film premiered Friday in the Cannes Film Festival’s Director’s Fortnight section, and marks the first film to be produced under Martin Scorsese’s new fund to help emerging filmmakers.
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“A Ciambra” is set in a small Romani community in Calabria, Italy, where 14-year-old Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. He follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere, learning the necessary skills for life on the streets, but when Cosimo disappears and things start to go wrong, Pio sets out to prove he’s ready to step into his big brother’s shoes.
“Shot with a vérité intimacy that physicalizes Pio’s ability to float between worlds — a trait...
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“A Ciambra” is set in a small Romani community in Calabria, Italy, where 14-year-old Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. He follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere, learning the necessary skills for life on the streets, but when Cosimo disappears and things start to go wrong, Pio sets out to prove he’s ready to step into his big brother’s shoes.
“Shot with a vérité intimacy that physicalizes Pio’s ability to float between worlds — a trait...
- 5/23/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
In the thickets of the art-house, a wonderful cinematic universe has blossomed, one that doesn’t involve Marvel superheroes. Expanding his 2014 award-winning short into a full-length feature, “A Ciambra” sees Jonas Carpignano continue to survey Romani life in the tiny Italian neighborhood of Gioia Tauro, through the eyes of Pio (portrayed by non-professional teen Pio Amato). We last saw Pio make a cameo (and almost steal the entire show) in Carpignano’s previous feature, “Mediterranea,” the story of Ayiva (Koudous Seihon), an immigrant from Burkina Faso who ends up in Italy and meets Pio for the first time.
Continue reading Jonas Carpignano’s ‘A Ciambra’ Is A Coming-of-Age Tale You Won’t Soon Forget [Cannes Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading Jonas Carpignano’s ‘A Ciambra’ Is A Coming-of-Age Tale You Won’t Soon Forget [Cannes Review] at The Playlist.
- 5/21/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
One of the more memorable peripheral characters lifted from reality in Jonas Carpignano's humanistic and timely plunge into the European refugee crisis, Mediterranea, was Pio Amato, a crafty preteen operator from a Romani family on the edges of a Calabrian town called Gioia Tauro. Already the subject of an identically titled short film, this magnetic Dickensian hustler now gets a richly contextualized feature portrait in A Ciambra, a coming-of-age drama with a stealthy emotional charge that further enhances the writer-director's reputation as a gifted practitioner of Italian neo-neorealism.
Executive producer Martin Scorsese's name should help the film secure distribution, but...
Executive producer Martin Scorsese's name should help the film secure distribution, but...
- 5/19/2017
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jonas Carpignano has made two features; both are hyper-specific character studies about people living in the Southern Italian city of Gioia Tauro. And despite the limited scope of his work, the young writer-director might be one of the world’s most vital filmmakers. Isolating a minor character from 2015’s “Mediterranea” and recasting him as the heart and soul of an unusually volatile coming-of-age story, “A Ciambra” further articulates why Gioia Tauro is such a vivid microcosm of the seismic cultural realignments that are defining the 21st century.
More than that, it also underlines why Carpignano is uniquely capable of capturing the city on camera; having earned the trust of the local population, he makes movies shaped by the people who live there. They are stories of pride, not pity — stories that respect the burden of identity and know that kindness isn’t always enough to bridge the divides that separate us from each other.
More than that, it also underlines why Carpignano is uniquely capable of capturing the city on camera; having earned the trust of the local population, he makes movies shaped by the people who live there. They are stories of pride, not pity — stories that respect the burden of identity and know that kindness isn’t always enough to bridge the divides that separate us from each other.
- 5/19/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Nobody makes entertaining movies with purpose better than Korean director Bong Joon Ho. Both the dystopian train ride of “Snowpiercer” and the environmentally-conscious “The Host” combine outrageous, effects-driven showdowns with real ideas. The charming “Okja” continues that welcome trend, following the peculiar exploits of a mutant pig and the girl who loves her, while using that blatantly silly premise to assemble a savvy anti-corporate screed.
The director’s sixth feature takes place in an alternate present in which the bioengineering entity known as the Mirando Corporation has figured out a technology for growing animals in laboratories for food. In the snazzy, over-the-top opening sequence, CEO Lucy Miranda (Tilda Swinton with a sinister grin, revisiting the role of zany villain after a similar turn in Bong’s “Snowpiercer”) unveils a new challenge: The company will disseminate its baby pigs to farmers around the world, then recollect them in a decade for a beauty pageant.
The director’s sixth feature takes place in an alternate present in which the bioengineering entity known as the Mirando Corporation has figured out a technology for growing animals in laboratories for food. In the snazzy, over-the-top opening sequence, CEO Lucy Miranda (Tilda Swinton with a sinister grin, revisiting the role of zany villain after a similar turn in Bong’s “Snowpiercer”) unveils a new challenge: The company will disseminate its baby pigs to farmers around the world, then recollect them in a decade for a beauty pageant.
- 5/19/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Rising Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó’s staggeringly well-shot but painfully strained new film is the first since his staggeringly well-shot but painfully strained “White God.” It opens with a title card informing us that Jupiter has 67 moons, but Europa is the only one that might be capable of supporting life. At the time, such information seems like it could be a helpful bit of context for the adventure to come. But “Jupiter’s Moon” is not set in outer space. In fact, neither Europa nor any of the gas giant’s other 66 moons are mentioned again. It turns out that the factoid is only the first salvo of a senseless metaphor that’s stretched across two hours of the visually dazzling movie that follows.
“Jupiter’s Moon” — like so many other films at Cannes this year — centers on Europe’s ongoing refugee crisis. It begins in the dead of night,...
“Jupiter’s Moon” — like so many other films at Cannes this year — centers on Europe’s ongoing refugee crisis. It begins in the dead of night,...
- 5/18/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
If you’re a buyer, the Cannes Film Festival isn’t where you go to catch a break. Including festival sidebars like Critics’ Week and Director’s Fortnight, there are more than 75 films at Cannes from all over the world — but when it comes to English-language movies, most are already spoken for.
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Netflix took the rights to Noah Baumbach’s family drama “The Meyerowitz Stories,” while Amazon has both Todd Haynes’ “Wonderstruck” and Sofia Coppola’s “The Beguiled.” A24 has never bought a completed film at Cannes, but the company is launching four titles at the fest, including Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” and the Safdie brothers’ “Good Time.”
What’s left are mainly foreign-language films from some of the most respected indie auteurs in world. Most of these filmmakers are...
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Netflix took the rights to Noah Baumbach’s family drama “The Meyerowitz Stories,” while Amazon has both Todd Haynes’ “Wonderstruck” and Sofia Coppola’s “The Beguiled.” A24 has never bought a completed film at Cannes, but the company is launching four titles at the fest, including Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” and the Safdie brothers’ “Good Time.”
What’s left are mainly foreign-language films from some of the most respected indie auteurs in world. Most of these filmmakers are...
- 5/16/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Cannes 2017: Jonas Carpignano’s ‘A Ciambra’ Gets a Dazzling Poster for Directors’ Fortnight Premiere
Independent filmmaker Jonas Carpignano will soon bow his next feature — “A Ciambra,” inspired by his short of the same name — at the festival that helped explode his very promising career. Carpignano’s ambitious “Mediterranea” premiered at Cannes in 2015 as part of the Critics’ Week lineup, where the intimate look at the refugee situation in Italy earned him major accolades and made it clear he was one to watch.
Carpignano returns to the festival with another feature that explores misunderstood and complex communities by blending fact and fiction — this time around, the Romani people of Europe. Spinning off his 2014 short, the film follows young Pio Amato (who also starred in the short and appeared in “Mediterranea”) as he comes off age through a series of upheavals.
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Carpignano returns to the festival with another feature that explores misunderstood and complex communities by blending fact and fiction — this time around, the Romani people of Europe. Spinning off his 2014 short, the film follows young Pio Amato (who also starred in the short and appeared in “Mediterranea”) as he comes off age through a series of upheavals.
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- 5/12/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Scorsese’s producing partner Emma Tillinger Koskoff talks to Screen about the venture.
The first project from Martin Scorsese’s as-yet-unnamed fund to help emerging filmmakers will be unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival (17-28 May).
The Cannes Director’s Fortnight entry A Ciambra by Jonas Carpignano is the first film to be produced under the fund, which is a partnership between Scorsese and Emma Tillinger Koskoff’s Sikelia Productions and Rodrigo Teixeira’s Brazil-based Rt Features.
The idea was first floated in 2013, with the fund launching in 2014. It has taken until now for the first film to come to fruition.
For the first time filmmakers will be able to submit projects for consideration by the fund, taking it beyond the scouting network.
Development process
Sikelia president of production Koskoff spoke to Screen about the venture at the Nettia Off Camera Film Festival in Krakow, where she was on the main feature film competition jury.
She...
The first project from Martin Scorsese’s as-yet-unnamed fund to help emerging filmmakers will be unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival (17-28 May).
The Cannes Director’s Fortnight entry A Ciambra by Jonas Carpignano is the first film to be produced under the fund, which is a partnership between Scorsese and Emma Tillinger Koskoff’s Sikelia Productions and Rodrigo Teixeira’s Brazil-based Rt Features.
The idea was first floated in 2013, with the fund launching in 2014. It has taken until now for the first film to come to fruition.
For the first time filmmakers will be able to submit projects for consideration by the fund, taking it beyond the scouting network.
Development process
Sikelia president of production Koskoff spoke to Screen about the venture at the Nettia Off Camera Film Festival in Krakow, where she was on the main feature film competition jury.
She...
- 5/12/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The director is scouting for projects from first and second-time directors.
Martin Scorsese’s as-yet-unnamed fund to help emerging filmmakers will be unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival (17-28 May).
The Cannes Director’s Fortnight entry A Ciambra by Jonas Carpignano is the first film to be produced under the fund, which is a partnership between Scorsese and Emma Tillinger Koskoff’s Sikelia Productions and Brazil-based Rt Features.
The fund will have an official launch at Cannes to coincide with the screening of A Ciambra.
An idea first floated between the companies in 2014, it has taken three years for the fund to come to fruition, as a model for choosing projects and a submissions process has been devised.
For the first time filmmakers will be able to submit projects for consideration by the fund, taking it beyond the scouting network.
Development process
Sikelia president of production Koskoff spoke to Screen about the venture at the...
Martin Scorsese’s as-yet-unnamed fund to help emerging filmmakers will be unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival (17-28 May).
The Cannes Director’s Fortnight entry A Ciambra by Jonas Carpignano is the first film to be produced under the fund, which is a partnership between Scorsese and Emma Tillinger Koskoff’s Sikelia Productions and Brazil-based Rt Features.
The fund will have an official launch at Cannes to coincide with the screening of A Ciambra.
An idea first floated between the companies in 2014, it has taken three years for the fund to come to fruition, as a model for choosing projects and a submissions process has been devised.
For the first time filmmakers will be able to submit projects for consideration by the fund, taking it beyond the scouting network.
Development process
Sikelia president of production Koskoff spoke to Screen about the venture at the...
- 5/12/2017
- ScreenDaily
Baker, Nyoni, Jasper and Carpignano join Cannes veterans Denis, Ferrara, Dumont, Garrel and Gitai.Scroll Down For Full List
Tangerine director Sean Baker, the UK’s Rungano Nyoni and Italo-American film-maker Jonas Carpignano will be among the buzzed-about names premiering new works at the 49th edition of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight this year (18-28 May).
Artistic director Edouard Waintrop unveiled the eclectic selection, comprising 19 feature-length films and another 11 shorts, at a press conference at the Cinéma Le Grand Action in Paris on Thursday (20 April).
Read more: Cannes 2017: Official Selection in full
Opening And Closing Films
Claire Denis will open the 49th edition – running May 18-28 - with Un Beau Soleil Intérieur starring Juliette Binoche, Gérard Depardieu and Xavier Beauvois.
Us director Geremy Jasper’s debut feature Patti Cake$ - which world premiered at Sundance this year has been selected as the closing film.
Us Presence
It is one of two Sundance titles in this year’s selection...
Tangerine director Sean Baker, the UK’s Rungano Nyoni and Italo-American film-maker Jonas Carpignano will be among the buzzed-about names premiering new works at the 49th edition of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight this year (18-28 May).
Artistic director Edouard Waintrop unveiled the eclectic selection, comprising 19 feature-length films and another 11 shorts, at a press conference at the Cinéma Le Grand Action in Paris on Thursday (20 April).
Read more: Cannes 2017: Official Selection in full
Opening And Closing Films
Claire Denis will open the 49th edition – running May 18-28 - with Un Beau Soleil Intérieur starring Juliette Binoche, Gérard Depardieu and Xavier Beauvois.
Us director Geremy Jasper’s debut feature Patti Cake$ - which world premiered at Sundance this year has been selected as the closing film.
Us Presence
It is one of two Sundance titles in this year’s selection...
- 4/20/2017
- ScreenDaily
The 49th annual edition of the Cannes Film Festival’s lauded Directors’ Fortnight section announced its picks this morning. The section is a non-competitive sidebar, but members of the Société des Réalisateurs Français, which organizes the event, do dole out honors.
Directors’ Fortnight artistic director Edouard Waintrop announced the titles in a roughly 40 minute presentation Thursday. The section opens with the latest film from Claire Denis, “Un Beau Soleil Interieur,” an adaptation of Roland Barthes’ “A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments,” which stars Juliette Binoche and Gerard Depardieu. Major auteurs in the lineup include Bruno Dumont, with his musical “Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc,” and Bael Ferrara, who will return to Cannes after several years with “Alive In France,” a documentary that follows Ferrara and his band as they tour France.
Other notable titles include “The Florida Project,” Sean Baker’s follow-up to “Tangerine,” and “A Ciambra,” from “Mediterranea” director Jonas Carpignano.
Directors’ Fortnight artistic director Edouard Waintrop announced the titles in a roughly 40 minute presentation Thursday. The section opens with the latest film from Claire Denis, “Un Beau Soleil Interieur,” an adaptation of Roland Barthes’ “A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments,” which stars Juliette Binoche and Gerard Depardieu. Major auteurs in the lineup include Bruno Dumont, with his musical “Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc,” and Bael Ferrara, who will return to Cannes after several years with “Alive In France,” a documentary that follows Ferrara and his band as they tour France.
Other notable titles include “The Florida Project,” Sean Baker’s follow-up to “Tangerine,” and “A Ciambra,” from “Mediterranea” director Jonas Carpignano.
- 4/20/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
In order to make accurate predictions about the potential Cannes Film Festival lineup, it’s first important to explore which films definitely won’t make the cut. The glamorous French gathering is notorious for waiting until the last minute before locking in every slot for its Official Selection. That includes competition titles, out of competition titles, a small midnight section and the Un Certain Regard sidebar. Cannes announces the bulk of its selections in Paris on April 13, but until then, there are plenty of ways to make educated guesses. Much of the reporting surrounding the upcoming festival selection is simply lists of films expected to come out this year. However, certain movies are definitely not going to the festival for various reasons.
That’s why our own list of potentials doesn’t include “Image Et Parole,” Jean-Luc Godard’s followup to “Goodbye to Language,” which sales agent Wild Bunch now anticipates as a 2018 title.
That’s why our own list of potentials doesn’t include “Image Et Parole,” Jean-Luc Godard’s followup to “Goodbye to Language,” which sales agent Wild Bunch now anticipates as a 2018 title.
- 3/31/2017
- by Chris O'Falt, Eric Kohn, Jude Dry, Kate Erbland, Steve Greene and Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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