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Diverse, defiant choices from Spielberg's jury put a bow on a satisfying Cannes fest
27 May 2013 1:31 AM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
I wonder if Nanni Moretti is feeling just a tiny bit envious of Steven Spielberg right now. A year ago, the Italian filmmaker -- then wrapping up his stint at the president of the Cannes Film Festival -- politely grumbled that the awards hadn't gone entirely as he and his jurors would have liked. So enraptured were they by their universally well-received Palme d'Or choice, Michael Haneke's "Amour," that they wanted to throw it an extra award or two, particularly for its remarkable veteran leads Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant. That'd have fallen foul of a relatively recent, restrictive festival rule »
- Guy Lodge
Popes on Film
29 April 2013 2:15 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Pope Movies (photo: Anthony Quinn in ‘The Shoes of the Fisherman’) [See previous post: "Pope Francis Movie in the Works?"] Now, do we need another Pope Movie? Well, actually there haven’t been that many. Most notable among the Pope Movies of decades past are Michael Anderson’s widely lambasted The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968), with Anthony Quinn as what one pundit called "Zorba the Pope," and Nanni Moretti’s widely acclaimed comedy-drama We Have a Pope, with Michel Piccoli as a cardinal who reluctantly is elected chief of the Catholic Church. Here are a few more: Rex Harrison hammed it up as Pope Julius II to Charlton Heston’s equally risible Michelangelo in Carol Reed’s The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965); Liv Ullmann played the title role in Michael Anderson’s critically massacred Pope Joan (1972), about the alleged medieval female pope; and Finlay Currie reverentially incarnated the official first pope, St. Peter, in Mervyn LeRoy’s dreary (and »
- Andre Soares
Jane Campion to Receive Directors Prize at Cannes Festival
5 April 2013 4:56 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Director Jane Campion will be presented with the Carrosse d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival during the Directors’ Fortnight opening ceremony on May 16.
The kudos is awarded annually by the Film Directors Guild and sponsored by CanalPlus Cinema. It is a tribute paid to a director honoring the innovative qualities, the courage and independence of his or her work.
Campion, who will be in Cannes as president of the Cinefondation and short film jury, will also take part in a “conversation with the filmmaker” event.
Created in 2002, the Carrosse d’Or award has gone to Jacques Rozier, Clint Eastwood, Nanni Moretti, Ousmane Sembene, David Cronenberg, Alain Cavalier, Jim Jarmusch, Naomi Kawase, Agnes Varda, Jafar Panahi and Nuri Bilge Ceylan. »
- Variety Staff
Cannes Palme d'Or-Winner Jane Campion To Get Carrosse d'Or
5 April 2013 11:25 AM, PDT | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
New Zealand director Jane Campion, whose superb neo-noir "Top of the Lake" series is running on Sundance Channel, will receive the Carrosse d’or at Cannes this year. The Society of Film Directors (Srf) will award her with their prize during the opening ceremony of the 45th Directors' Fortnight (May 16 - 26), a sidebar of the 66th Cannes Film Festival. Winner of the Palme d'Or for 1993's"The Piano," Campion is heading to Cannes next month anyway as head of the shorts jury. According to CineEuropa, the Carrosse d’or rewards innovation, boldness and intransigence in directing and production. Since 2002, winners include Clint Eastwood, Nanni Moretti, Ousmane Sembene, David Cronenberg, Alain Cavalier, Jim Jarmusch, Agnès Varda, Jafar Panahi and Nuri Bilge Ceylan. »
- Anne Thompson
Showbiz Plays Up Papal Opportunities
4 April 2013 12:38 PM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Rome — What’s in a new pope’s name?
The recent election of Pope Francis is prompting a flurry of showbiz opportunities, including the launch of “Francesco,” an English-language skein about St. Francis of Assisi to be helmed by Liliana Cavani (“The Night Porter”) and shopped at next week’s MipTV mart in Cannes.
“When I heard that the new pope had decided to call himself Francis, there was an immediate exchange of phone calls between myself, Liliana and the head of drama at (pubcaster) Rai,” said Italo TV producer Claudia Mori (pictured above), who had a project about the saint set up that suddenly gained more impetus.
Rai head of drama Tinny Andreatta and a sales exec for Mori’s Ciao Ragazzi shingle will be seeking international co-producers at Mip for “Francesco,” which is currently casting.
Plan is to start shooting late summer in the Assisi area and the outskirts of Jerusalem. »
- Nick Vivarelli
Showbiz Plays Up Papal Opportunities
4 April 2013 12:38 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Rome — What’s in a new pope’s name?
The recent election of Pope Francis is prompting a flurry of showbiz opportunities, including the launch of “Francesco,” an English-language skein about St. Francis of Assisi to be helmed by Liliana Cavani (“The Night Porter”) and shopped at next week’s MipTV mart in Cannes.
“When I heard that the new pope had decided to call himself Francis, there was an immediate exchange of phone calls between myself, Liliana and the head of drama at (pubcaster) Rai,” said Italo TV producer Claudia Mori (pictured above), who had a project about the saint set up that suddenly gained more impetus.
Rai head of drama Tinny Andreatta and a sales exec for Mori’s Ciao Ragazzi shingle will be seeking international co-producers at Mip for “Francesco,” which is currently casting.
Plan is to start shooting late summer in the Assisi area and the outskirts of Jerusalem. »
- Nick Vivarelli
Nanni Moretti Comedy 'We Have a Pope' Comes Back
14 March 2013 6:22 PM, PDT | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
With all the papal craziness right now, it's no surprise that Sundance Selects is rebooking Nanni Moretti's 2011 competition Cannes entry "We Have a Pope" ("Habemus Papam") in a theater near you. "Recent world events made it irresistible for us to bring back 'We Have a Pope,'" said President of Sundance Selects/IFC Films Jonathan Sehring, "which mirrors what much of the discussion on the world stage has been over the last few weeks." In "We Have a Pope" the newly elected Pope (Michel Piccoli) suffers a panic attack just as he is due to appear on St Peter's balcony to greet the faithful. His advisors seek help from an atheist shrink played by Moretti. My interview with Moretti is here. The run begins next Wednesday at New York's Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, and nationally on multiple digital platforms including iTunes, Amazon, Xbox, GooglePlay, Sony Play Station and SundanceNOW. Moretti »
- Anne Thompson
Sundance Selects Re-Releasing Nanni Moretti's 'We Have a Pope'
14 March 2013 4:01 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Jumping on the papal bandwagon, Sundance Selects said Thursday that it will rerelease Italian director Nanni Moretti's We Have a Pope on March 20 at New York’s Lincoln Plaza Cinemas and nationally on digital platforms including iTunes, Amazon, Xbox, GooglePlay, Sony Play Station and SundanceNow. Moretti stars in the comedy-drama as a psychoanalyst and atheist who is consulted by a newly elected pope (Michel Piccoli) who suffers a panic attack just as he is due to appear on St. Peter’s balcony following his election. Photos: Popes on Screen: Top Papal Performances in Film and TV The film premiered at
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- Gregg Kilday
Holy Papal Tie-In! Sundance Selects To Re-Release Moretti's 'We Have a Pope'
14 March 2013 3:56 PM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Sundance Selects announced today that the company is going to re-release director Nanni Moretti's comedic drama "We Have a Pope" beginning next Wednesday at New York's Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, and nationally on multiple digital platforms including iTunes, Amazon, Xbox, GooglePlay, Sony Play Station and SundanceNOW. "Recent world events made it irresistible for us to bring back 'We Have a Pope' which mirrors what much of the discussion on the world stage has been over the last few weeks," President of Sundance Selects/IFC Films Jonathan Sehring said. "We're happy to remind people of Nanni Moretti's incredible film." In the film, the newly elected Pope (Michael Piccoli) suffers a panic attack just as he is due to appear on St Peter's balcony to greet the faithful, who have been patiently awaiting the conclave's decision. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, seek help »
- Peter Knegt
The film We Have a Pope and the importance of humility
13 March 2013 5:07 PM, PDT | Shadowlocked | See recent Shadowlocked news »
At this point, pretty much everybody has heard the big recent news. No, not the fact that Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher are returning as Luke, Han, and Leia for Star Wars Episode VII, but Pope Benedict XVI announcing his resignation – the first time a Pope has resigned since 1415 – and his successor being announced: Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, or Pope Francis, as he will be known.
In light of this, let's take a look at the film We Have a Pope (aka Habemus Papam), which, fittingly, not only concerns similar (if fictional) events, but also puts forth the theme of humility.
Whatever your religious views (or otherwise) may be, and whatever you may think of either Pope, the outgoing Pope's official statement (and in fact, the resignation itself) shows humility. To quote a few relevant parts of it:
"...both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, »
Cardinals Meeting Inside Vatican to Elect a New Pope -- Real-Life 'Habemus Papam'?
4 March 2013 11:45 AM, PST | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
Four days following Pope Benedict XVI's official step-down from the papacy, more than 100 cardinals are rallying inside the Vatican to begin the election of a new pope. Anyone familiar with Italian auteur Nanni Moretti's Catholicism comedy "Habemus Papam" ("We Have a Pope"), in which a reluctant cardinal (Michel Piccoli) begrudgingly is elected pope and sees a shrink (Moretti) in order to try and come to terms with accepting the job, can grin at the possibility of life imitating art. (Our Cannes interview with Moretti is here.) Reportedly the cardinals are excited at the prospect of a new pope, with one Portuguese cardinal telling TV crews, "A Latin-American pope is possible, anything is possible!" Preparations for the conclave are rigorous, with security measures including closing the Sistine Chapel and confirming that the Vatican hotel is debugged. Many observers, including documentarian Alex Gibney ("Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God »
- Anne Thompson and Beth Hanna
Steven Spielberg to shoot Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon as miniseries
4 March 2013 4:02 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Schindler's List director working with Kubrick's family on project late film-maker predicted would be 'the best movie ever made'
Steven Spielberg is set to bring Stanley Kubrick's unfilmed screenplay about the life of Napoleon to the small screen.
Interviewed by Canal Plus on French TV at the weekend [segment begins at 9:14], Spielberg said he was working on a TV series in conjunction with the late film-maker's family. "I've been developing a Stanley Kubrick screenplay for a miniseries – not for a motion picture – about the life of Napoleon," he said.
Kubrick is said to have abandoned his long-gestating screenplay about the French revolutionary hero turned conqueror of Europe in the 1970s after Hollywood studios refused to fund it. Kubrick is said to have engaged in meticulous research for his planned film, with Oskar Werner and Audrey Hepburn offered the leading roles. "It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to »
- Ben Child
Steven Spielberg to shoot Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon as miniseries
4 March 2013 4:02 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Schindler's List director working with Kubrick's family on project late film-maker predicted would be 'the best movie ever made'
Steven Spielberg is set to bring Stanley Kubrick's unfilmed screenplay about the life of Napoleon to the small screen.
Interviewed by Canal Plus on French TV at the weekend [segment begins at 9:14], Spielberg said he was working on a TV series in conjunction with the late film-maker's family. "I've been developing a Stanley Kubrick screenplay for a miniseries – not for a motion picture – about the life of Napoleon," he said.
Kubrick is said to have abandoned his long-gestating screenplay about the French revolutionary hero turned conqueror of Europe in the 1970s after Hollywood studios refused to fund it. Kubrick is said to have engaged in meticulous research for his planned film, with Oskar Werner and Audrey Hepburn offered the leading roles. "It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to »
- Ben Child
News Shorts: March 1st 2013
1 March 2013 12:06 PM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Stills from G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Kon-Tiki and The Place Beyond the Pines.
Posters for Oblivion, The Conjuring, Spring Breakers, Milo, Disconnect, 42, The Big Wedding, At Any Price and Epic.
"Warner Bros. Pictures has locked down an April 25th 2014 release date for the Johnny Depp-led 'Transcendence'…" (full details)
"Ubisoft have announced the video game sequel 'Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag' for release on October 29th on current gen consoles (PS3, 360, Wii U, PC), followed by a later release on next-gen consoles (PS4, 720). The piracy-themed outing will be set in 1715, prior to the events of AC3.A trailer is set to debut on Monday…" (full details)
"'Stoker' filmmaker Park Chan-wook says he has an idea in development for another American-set film that could be next, but it's not ready to be announced…" (full details)
"Deep Silver, who picked up the video game sequel 'Metro Last Light' after producer Thq went belly up, »
- Garth Franklin
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani: 'For us it was cinema or death'
1 March 2013 12:00 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Directors Paolo and Vittorio Taviani have been unjustly overlooked for two decades. Now they're back with a prize-winning new film acted by a cast of prison inmates
The Taviani brothers are among the last titans of classic Italian cinema. They came of age in the era of Rossellini and Pasolini; they count Bertolucci among their contemporaries; they have been a nurturing influence on younger countrymen such as Nanni Moretti. They won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1977 for Padre Padrone, an odyssey of rural hardship shot through with transformative fantasy and theatricality. It begins with the Sardinian farmer's son, on whose memoir the film is based, handing a prop to the actor who will be playing him; another scene allows us access to the inner monologue of a goat with which a boy is having sex ("I am going to shit in your milk!"). That playfulness persists in the wartime »
- Ryan Gilbey
‘We Have a Pope’, The Now Seminal Film on Pontifical Abdication
28 February 2013 3:40 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Just hours ago, Pope Benedict XVI spent his final moments as Pontiff. His famous Twitter page, @Pontifex now simply reads “Sede Vacante,” or empty seat. Being the first Pope to resign in some 600 years, Benedict XVI leaves the over 1.2 billion Roman Catholics in the world leaderless until the conclusion of the upcoming Papal Conclave. Benedict’s resignation has thrust the media into speculation about his reasons for stepping down. It’s an interesting situation that has many asking; what if the Pope just decides he no longer want to be Pope?
This very question was raised, prophesized in some respects, in last years wonderfully funny We Have A Pope. Italian director Nanni Moretti poignantly captured a Pope’s crisis of faith, in what can now be pointed to as the seminal film about pontifical abdication. In the shadow of Benedict XVI’s final day I revisit We Have a Pope »
- Tony Nunes
Steven Spielberg, jury president of the 66th Festival de Cannes
28 February 2013 10:46 AM, PST | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news »
“My admiration for the steadfast mission of the Festival to champion the international language of movies is second to none. The most prestigious of its kind, the festival has always established the motion picture as a cross cultural and generational medium.” Taking over the reins from the Italian Nanni Moretti, American director and producer Steven Spielberg agrees to head up the jury of the 66th Cannes Film Festival taking place May 15-26 this year. “As they say across the Atlantic”, said Gilles Jacob, President of the Festival de Cannes, “Steven Spielberg is a Cannes ‘regular’: Sugarland Express, Color Purple. But it was with E.T. that I screened as a world premiere in ‘82 that ties were made of the type you never forget. Ever since, I’ve often asked Steven to be Jury President, but he’s always been shooting a film. So when this year I was told “E.T., »
- hnblog@hollywoodnews.com (Hollywood News Team)
Steven Spielberg to head Cannes jury this year
28 February 2013 7:36 AM, PST | Cineplex | See recent Cineplex news »
France's Cannes Film Festival says it has finally snagged Steven Spielberg to serve as president of the award jury.
Gilles Jacob, the festival's president, recounted how he had been trying to get the award-winning director to head the jury for years - but the American was always working. Finally, this year, Spielberg got in touch.
"When this year I was told E.T., phone home,' I understood and immediately replied: 'At last!'" Jacob said in a statement posted on the festival's website Thursday.
Spielberg, who was nominated but didn't win the directing Oscar for his biopic Lincoln this week, takes the reins from Italian Nanni Moretti. The 66th Cannes festival takes place in the glamorous French Mediterranean resort from May 15 to 26.
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- Cineplex.com and contributors
Steven Spielberg to Head Cannes Film Festival Jury
28 February 2013 6:48 AM, PST | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Today, Steven Spielberg was announced as the head of this year's Cannes Film Festival jury. Last year, Italian director Nanni Moretti held the position, and recently Robert De Niro and Tim Burton also took a crack at it. Spielberg often attends the festival, though most of his films are not entered into competition. Either way, if you're planning on entering the festival this year, you still have time to add some reluctant father and his kid stuff to get on Stevie Spiel's good side. »
- Jesse David Fox
Steven Spielberg to lead Cannes jury
28 February 2013 5:45 AM, PST | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
France’s Cannes Film Festival says it has finally snagged Steven Spielberg to serve as president of the award jury.
Gilles Jacob, the festival’s president, recounted how he had been trying to get the award-winning director to head the jury for years — but the American was always working. Finally, this year, Spielberg got in touch.
“When this year I was told ‘E.T., phone home,’ I understood and immediately replied: ‘At last!’” Jacob said in a statement posted on the festival’s website Thursday.
Spielberg, who was nominated but didn’t win the directing Oscar for his biopic Lincoln this week, »
- Associated Press
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