The news that two hitherto heterosexual patriarchs are getting married — to each other — roils both of their families in amiable “An Almost Ordinary Summer.” This slickly produced . Released last February on its home turf, the Italian comedy was selected to open this year’s Palm Springs Film Festival following several other prominent American fest screenings. Wolfe will give it a limited U.S. theatrical release on Jan. 10, with a home-formats launch on Jan. 21.
A spectacularly situated cliffside villa in coastal Gaeta is the getaway home for wealthy art dealer Toni (Fabrizio Bentivoglio), who has gathered his Earth Mother sister (Lunetta Savino) and his daughters there for his birthday. Somewhat to their surprise, he’s supposedly rented out the guest house to a clan of working-class strangers led by Roman fishmonger Carlo (Alessandro Gassmann).
But this turns out to be a ruse. In fact, Toni and Carlo have been seeing each other for over a year,...
A spectacularly situated cliffside villa in coastal Gaeta is the getaway home for wealthy art dealer Toni (Fabrizio Bentivoglio), who has gathered his Earth Mother sister (Lunetta Savino) and his daughters there for his birthday. Somewhat to their surprise, he’s supposedly rented out the guest house to a clan of working-class strangers led by Roman fishmonger Carlo (Alessandro Gassmann).
But this turns out to be a ruse. In fact, Toni and Carlo have been seeing each other for over a year,...
- 1/4/2020
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Christopher Roth
Guest review by @Dr_Movie
Stars: Joaquim De Almeida, Ben Gazzara, Anna Galiena, Inigo Placido, Jessica Bonanni | Written and Directed by Max Sender/Maxime Alexander
Bestselling novelist Christopher Roth (Almeida) feels in need of a change, the gruesome ideas that have made his novels such a success are starting to take over his dreams and have him pondering the question: How long before I become one of the insane killers I write about? With that in mind he tells his agent Paul Andersen (Gazzara) he wants to try writing something different, something that doesn’t require him to think like a killer, something more romantic. Andersen clearly thinks this is career suicide and instead suggests taking a holiday. It’s a suggestion that Roth accepts and together with his wife Catherine heads off to a remote house in Umbria, Italy. Roth starts work on his great romantic novel...
Guest review by @Dr_Movie
Stars: Joaquim De Almeida, Ben Gazzara, Anna Galiena, Inigo Placido, Jessica Bonanni | Written and Directed by Max Sender/Maxime Alexander
Bestselling novelist Christopher Roth (Almeida) feels in need of a change, the gruesome ideas that have made his novels such a success are starting to take over his dreams and have him pondering the question: How long before I become one of the insane killers I write about? With that in mind he tells his agent Paul Andersen (Gazzara) he wants to try writing something different, something that doesn’t require him to think like a killer, something more romantic. Andersen clearly thinks this is career suicide and instead suggests taking a holiday. It’s a suggestion that Roth accepts and together with his wife Catherine heads off to a remote house in Umbria, Italy. Roth starts work on his great romantic novel...
- 9/4/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
The UK's most amazing horror film festival Film4 FrightFest has released what could very well be another one of the best horror line-ups we've seen ever for its latest show taking place from Thursday the 26th of August to Monday the 30th of August, brimming with films we've been salivating over Stateside!
From the Press Release
This year there are eight British films in the main programme (another record) including Monsters, Gareth Edwards’ sensational post-Apocalyptic debut, The Ford Brothers’ Cannes-hyped African Zombie flick The Dead and Johannes Roberts F – in which a school gets a lesson in horror! Other home-grown titles are Dead Cert (East-End gangsters meet Eastern European vampires), Isle Of Dogs (nasty gangland horror), Paul Andrew Williams’ harrowing Cherry Tree Lane and werewolf thriller 13Hrs. Plus, Jake West will be presenting his in-depth documentary Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship And Videotape, which will be followed by a Q & A panel discussion.
From the Press Release
This year there are eight British films in the main programme (another record) including Monsters, Gareth Edwards’ sensational post-Apocalyptic debut, The Ford Brothers’ Cannes-hyped African Zombie flick The Dead and Johannes Roberts F – in which a school gets a lesson in horror! Other home-grown titles are Dead Cert (East-End gangsters meet Eastern European vampires), Isle Of Dogs (nasty gangland horror), Paul Andrew Williams’ harrowing Cherry Tree Lane and werewolf thriller 13Hrs. Plus, Jake West will be presenting his in-depth documentary Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship And Videotape, which will be followed by a Q & A panel discussion.
- 7/2/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
The complete lineup for the 2010 edition of the Film4 Frightfest has just been announced and, as usual, it is a quality selection of the best in horror film from the UK and around the world. The program splits into two programs - the main lineup and sidebar Discovery program - and you'll find both below!
Programme = Screen 1
Thursday Aug 26
6.30pm Hatchet II (World Premiere)
FrightFest continues its strong relationship with Adam Green by hosting the world premiere of the sequel to his 2006 slasher sensation. Picking up right where the splatter-tastic original ended, Marybeth escapes the clutches of the deformed, swamp-dwelling iconic killer Victor Crowley. After learning the truth about her family's connection to the hatchet-wielding madman, Marybeth returns to the Louisiana swamps along with an army of hunters to recover the bodies of her family and exact the bloodiest revenge against the bayou butcher. Delivering unapologetically unrestrained gushers of gore,...
Programme = Screen 1
Thursday Aug 26
6.30pm Hatchet II (World Premiere)
FrightFest continues its strong relationship with Adam Green by hosting the world premiere of the sequel to his 2006 slasher sensation. Picking up right where the splatter-tastic original ended, Marybeth escapes the clutches of the deformed, swamp-dwelling iconic killer Victor Crowley. After learning the truth about her family's connection to the hatchet-wielding madman, Marybeth returns to the Louisiana swamps along with an army of hunters to recover the bodies of her family and exact the bloodiest revenge against the bayou butcher. Delivering unapologetically unrestrained gushers of gore,...
- 7/2/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Writer-director Max Sender is in post-production on the new thriller Christopher Roth . Joaquim De Almeida ( Desperado ) plays the eponymous role and, to be honest, there's little we know about the film other than what we can glean from the Italian production's Facebook page and official site . The former has a number of behind-the-scenes stills and some footage from the last day of shooting. Ben Gazzara ("Jackie Treehorn" from The Big Lebowski ) co-stars with Anna Galiena. The film's tagline goes like this: It's hard to resist that little thrill you feel right before you go beyond the imaginary and "flirt" with reality. Right-o. Could this be a Mr. Brooks -esque thriller? We'll do some digging and see if we can drum up some more details....
- 12/14/2009
- shocktillyoudrop.com
DVD Playhouse—April 2009
By
Allen Gardner
Milk (Universal) Sean Penn deservedly captured his second Best Actor Oscar (and Dustin Lance Black a statuette for his original screenplay) in director Gus Van Sant’s portrait of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to hold public office in the U.S. Alternately heartbreaking, infuriating and very funny, a film that both captures a bygone era and is still very timely. Fine support from Josh Brolin, Victor Garber, James Franco and Emile Hirsch. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Three featurettes. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 5.1 surround.
Slumdog Millionaire (20th Century Fox) The Best Picture of 2008 is a kinetic, clever audience-pleaser about a determined lad (Dev Patel) from the slums of Mumbai, who has his chance at literal and financial redemption as a contestant on India’s version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Best Director Danny Boyle dazzles...
By
Allen Gardner
Milk (Universal) Sean Penn deservedly captured his second Best Actor Oscar (and Dustin Lance Black a statuette for his original screenplay) in director Gus Van Sant’s portrait of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to hold public office in the U.S. Alternately heartbreaking, infuriating and very funny, a film that both captures a bygone era and is still very timely. Fine support from Josh Brolin, Victor Garber, James Franco and Emile Hirsch. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Three featurettes. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 5.1 surround.
Slumdog Millionaire (20th Century Fox) The Best Picture of 2008 is a kinetic, clever audience-pleaser about a determined lad (Dev Patel) from the slums of Mumbai, who has his chance at literal and financial redemption as a contestant on India’s version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Best Director Danny Boyle dazzles...
- 4/11/2009
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
- The Jury: Claude Lelouch, chairman (France), Felipe Cazals (Mexico), Chang Chen (Taiwan, China), Anna Galiena (Italy), Marcel Jean (Canada), Eberhard Junkersdorf (Germany) and Eva Zaoralová (Czech Republic). Festival President Alain Simard is able to bring out the pearly whites despite a dismal first edition. Damián Alcázar (Mexican actor who was in Citrillo’s Corner) Pascale Marcotte’s short film Revolver Tango collected 3 awards. The Silver Iris for Best Director went to Hiroshi Ishikawa (Left) for Su-ki-da Why is Luc Picard smiling? Cuz he cleaned up at this year's fest. L’audition won the audience award for best Canadian feature, for best performance in a Canadian feature and Golden Iris of Montreal – Grand Prize of the Festival. Photos by Pierre-Alexandre Despatis (c) 2005....
- 9/26/2005
- IONCINEMA.com
TORONTO -- French filmmaker Claude Lelouch (A Man and a Woman) will head up the jury for the inaugural New Montreal FilmFest, which is set to run Sept. 18-25, organizers said Thursday. Lelouch will be joined on the jury by Italian screen star Anna Galiena, Mexican director Felipe Cazals, Chinese actor Chang Chen, Quebec animation producer Marcel Jean, German producer Eberhard Junkersdorf, and Eva Zaoralova, head of the Karlovy Vary Festival. The New Montreal FilmFest jury will screen 14 features and 7 short films in competition for the Golden Iris award.
NEW YORK - Marcello Mastroianni has four of his best roles in years in Raul Ruiz's surreal comedy, "Three Lives and Only One Death", which opens commercially this week after showing at the New York Film Festival.
The actor's presence should shore up the art-house boxoffice for this effort from a director whose previous works ("Three Crowns of a Sailor", "The Golden Boat") have failed to make a dent in the United States.
The film, which the director explains has a "Cubist pattern", interconnects several stories, loosely based on urban myths and some tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Mastroianni plays the central role in each: Mateo, a traveling salesman who walks out on his wife, only to return 20 years later; George, a professor of "negative anthropology" who gives up his life to beg on the streets and who takes up with Tania (Anna Galiena), a beautiful prostitute with a secret life of her own; a mysterious butler who is secretly the millionaire benefactor of a young, penniless couple; and Luc, a successful businessman with an imaginary family that one day becomes all too real. The segments are tied together by the use of a "storyteller," played by French radio personality Pierre Bellemare.
The style of the film has rightly been compared to Luis Bunuel, although it lacks that master's preciseness and mordant wit. Certainly, this fantastical effort has imagination to spare, and for a while it's fun to watch as Ruiz spins his web, using low-rent visual flourishes and tricks that are never less than amusing.
But the movie doesn't deliver on its promise, and it never quite takes off the way it should. Many of the characterizations are overly broad, such as the young lovers who make pig noises at each other to signify their passion, or Tania's husband (Jacques Pieiller), who seems to have escaped from a lunatic asylum.
Although a clever sensibility is clearly at work, the stories are allowed to drag on and fail to reach compelling conclusions. The chief value of the film lies in Mastroianni's amusing portrayals; the actor, who too often these days is used merely for his icon-like presence, is a consistent delight.
Header: Wed, Oct 9, 1996, 5, End of Header.
THREE LIVES AND ONLY ONE DEATH
New Yorker Films
Gemini Films, La Sept Cinema and
Madragoa Filmes
with the participation of Canal Plus
and the Centre National de la Cinematographie
Director Raul Ruiz
Screenplay Raul Ruiz, Pascal Bonitzer
Producer Paulo Branco
Photography Laurent Machuel
Editor Rodolfo Wedeles
Music Jorge Arriagada
Color/stereo
Cast:
Mateo Strano, George Vickers, the Majordomo, Luc Allamand Marcello Mastroianni
Tania Anna Galiena
Maria Marisa Paredes
Martin Melvin Poupaud
Cecile Chiara Mastroianni
Helene Areille Dombasle
Andre Feodor Atkine
Running time - 123 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The actor's presence should shore up the art-house boxoffice for this effort from a director whose previous works ("Three Crowns of a Sailor", "The Golden Boat") have failed to make a dent in the United States.
The film, which the director explains has a "Cubist pattern", interconnects several stories, loosely based on urban myths and some tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Mastroianni plays the central role in each: Mateo, a traveling salesman who walks out on his wife, only to return 20 years later; George, a professor of "negative anthropology" who gives up his life to beg on the streets and who takes up with Tania (Anna Galiena), a beautiful prostitute with a secret life of her own; a mysterious butler who is secretly the millionaire benefactor of a young, penniless couple; and Luc, a successful businessman with an imaginary family that one day becomes all too real. The segments are tied together by the use of a "storyteller," played by French radio personality Pierre Bellemare.
The style of the film has rightly been compared to Luis Bunuel, although it lacks that master's preciseness and mordant wit. Certainly, this fantastical effort has imagination to spare, and for a while it's fun to watch as Ruiz spins his web, using low-rent visual flourishes and tricks that are never less than amusing.
But the movie doesn't deliver on its promise, and it never quite takes off the way it should. Many of the characterizations are overly broad, such as the young lovers who make pig noises at each other to signify their passion, or Tania's husband (Jacques Pieiller), who seems to have escaped from a lunatic asylum.
Although a clever sensibility is clearly at work, the stories are allowed to drag on and fail to reach compelling conclusions. The chief value of the film lies in Mastroianni's amusing portrayals; the actor, who too often these days is used merely for his icon-like presence, is a consistent delight.
Header: Wed, Oct 9, 1996, 5, End of Header.
THREE LIVES AND ONLY ONE DEATH
New Yorker Films
Gemini Films, La Sept Cinema and
Madragoa Filmes
with the participation of Canal Plus
and the Centre National de la Cinematographie
Director Raul Ruiz
Screenplay Raul Ruiz, Pascal Bonitzer
Producer Paulo Branco
Photography Laurent Machuel
Editor Rodolfo Wedeles
Music Jorge Arriagada
Color/stereo
Cast:
Mateo Strano, George Vickers, the Majordomo, Luc Allamand Marcello Mastroianni
Tania Anna Galiena
Maria Marisa Paredes
Martin Melvin Poupaud
Cecile Chiara Mastroianni
Helene Areille Dombasle
Andre Feodor Atkine
Running time - 123 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 10/9/1996
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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