(l-r) Filippo Scotti, Toni Servillo and Teresa Saponangelo, in The Hand Of God by Paolo Sorrentino. Photo by Gianni Fiorito. Courtesy of Netflix.
Memory can be a powerful thing. The vivid autobiographical tale from Oscar-winning writer/director Paolo Sorrentino, The Hand Of God is a coming-of-age tale about an awkward teenage boy growing up in 1980s Naples, a sun-splashed, gritty, quirky place where he is surrounded by loving family and colorful characters, a place where the mundane and the magical exist side-by-side. Soccer and cinema are his obsessions but fate or luck – the hand of God – steps in and shapes the direction of his life.
Fabietto Schisa (Filippo Scotti) lives with his parents Saverio Schisa (Toni Servillo) and Maria Schisa (Teresa Saponangelo), older brother Marchino Schisa (Marlon Joubert) and a sister we never see because she is always in the bathroom, sharing an apartment near the the port city’s old harbor.
Memory can be a powerful thing. The vivid autobiographical tale from Oscar-winning writer/director Paolo Sorrentino, The Hand Of God is a coming-of-age tale about an awkward teenage boy growing up in 1980s Naples, a sun-splashed, gritty, quirky place where he is surrounded by loving family and colorful characters, a place where the mundane and the magical exist side-by-side. Soccer and cinema are his obsessions but fate or luck – the hand of God – steps in and shapes the direction of his life.
Fabietto Schisa (Filippo Scotti) lives with his parents Saverio Schisa (Toni Servillo) and Maria Schisa (Teresa Saponangelo), older brother Marchino Schisa (Marlon Joubert) and a sister we never see because she is always in the bathroom, sharing an apartment near the the port city’s old harbor.
- 12/3/2021
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
After the success of Paolo Sorrentino’s HBO series The Young Pope, the Italian director is back to launch the second season of his semi-realistic Vatican anthology reboot aptly titled The New Pope.
For the upcoming second season, Sorrentino has cast actor John Malkovich, who will portray a cardinal working closely with Pope Pius Xiii, played once again by Jude Law. Other castings for the upcoming season includes both Marilyn Manson and Sharon Stone, which comes as a bit of surprise.
Image via Gianni Fiorito/HBO
According to Variety, the singer and actress are huge fans of The Young Pope and of Paolo Sorrentino’s work in general. The roles they’ll be playing remain enigmatic, but HBO has revealed two photos which provide a few details. Marilyn Manson will be playing a character rather like himself, while Sharon Stone will be a relative or acquaintance of the cardinal played by John Malkovich.
For the upcoming second season, Sorrentino has cast actor John Malkovich, who will portray a cardinal working closely with Pope Pius Xiii, played once again by Jude Law. Other castings for the upcoming season includes both Marilyn Manson and Sharon Stone, which comes as a bit of surprise.
Image via Gianni Fiorito/HBO
According to Variety, the singer and actress are huge fans of The Young Pope and of Paolo Sorrentino’s work in general. The roles they’ll be playing remain enigmatic, but HBO has revealed two photos which provide a few details. Marilyn Manson will be playing a character rather like himself, while Sharon Stone will be a relative or acquaintance of the cardinal played by John Malkovich.
- 5/29/2019
- by Kristyn Clarke
- Age of the Nerd
Series will be available in full as a Sky Atlantic box set.
Source: Gianni Fiorito
‘Gomorrah - The Series’
The UK release details for the third season of Gomorrah - The Series have been announced.
All 12 new episodes of the hit mafia series will be available as a Sky Atlantic boxset from 31 January 2018.
Double episodes of the show will also be broadcast every Wednesday (also starting 31 Jan) from 9pm on Sky Atlantic.
The series, produced by Sky Atlantic, Cattleya and Fandango in association with Beta Film, is based on the book Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano about the Naples mafia.
It is one of Italy’s most successful TV exports and has been distributed across 190 territories.
The show also topped the Italian box office in November after the first and third episodes of the third season were shown back-to-back in theatres.
The limited cinema release for a TV drama is unprecedented in Italy, according to [link=co...
Source: Gianni Fiorito
‘Gomorrah - The Series’
The UK release details for the third season of Gomorrah - The Series have been announced.
All 12 new episodes of the hit mafia series will be available as a Sky Atlantic boxset from 31 January 2018.
Double episodes of the show will also be broadcast every Wednesday (also starting 31 Jan) from 9pm on Sky Atlantic.
The series, produced by Sky Atlantic, Cattleya and Fandango in association with Beta Film, is based on the book Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano about the Naples mafia.
It is one of Italy’s most successful TV exports and has been distributed across 190 territories.
The show also topped the Italian box office in November after the first and third episodes of the third season were shown back-to-back in theatres.
The limited cinema release for a TV drama is unprecedented in Italy, according to [link=co...
- 1/3/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Did you light a candle? HBO has finally confirmed The Young Pope will premiere on Sunday, January 15th at 9:00pm Et/Pt. The second episode of the new 10-episode limited drama series will bow the next night, Monday, January 16th at the same time. The remaining episodes will debut on subsequent Sundays and Mondays through the first season's run.Jude Law stars as Lenny Belardo, aka Pius Xiii. Diane Keaton stars as Sister Mary, a nun from the U.S., who now lives in Vatican City. The cast also includes Silvio Orlando, Scott Shepherd, Cécile de France, Javier Cámara, Ludivine Sagnier, Toni Bertorelli, and James Cromwell.Read More…...
- 11/2/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Photo by Gianni Fiorito. © 2015 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation All Rights Reserved
Youth centers on two life-long friends, both successful and famous, a film director and composer/orchestra conductor, who are vacationing together in a posh Swiss resort. Michael Caine plays the retired composer/conductor Fred Balinger and Harvey Keitel plays director Mick Boyle, who isn’t retired but is working on what he thinks may be his last important film.
This lushly beautiful, intelligent, and moving English-language film is directed and written by Paolo Sorrentino, who won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for “The Great Beauty” last year. Besides that Oscar winner, Sorrentino also directed “Il Divo,” a chilling look inside Italian politics, and the comic and strange road movie “This Must Be The Place,” with Sean Penn as an aging rocker honoring his Jewish grandfather’s last request. Sorrentino’s skill as a director is widely acknowledged but his complex,...
Youth centers on two life-long friends, both successful and famous, a film director and composer/orchestra conductor, who are vacationing together in a posh Swiss resort. Michael Caine plays the retired composer/conductor Fred Balinger and Harvey Keitel plays director Mick Boyle, who isn’t retired but is working on what he thinks may be his last important film.
This lushly beautiful, intelligent, and moving English-language film is directed and written by Paolo Sorrentino, who won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for “The Great Beauty” last year. Besides that Oscar winner, Sorrentino also directed “Il Divo,” a chilling look inside Italian politics, and the comic and strange road movie “This Must Be The Place,” with Sean Penn as an aging rocker honoring his Jewish grandfather’s last request. Sorrentino’s skill as a director is widely acknowledged but his complex,...
- 12/18/2015
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
From Paolo Sorrentino, the internationally renowned writer and director of Italy’s Oscar-winning foreign language film The Great Beauty, comes Youth – a poignant tale of how we each find our own passion in life.
Starring Academy Award winner Michael Caine as Fred and Academy Award nominee Harvey Keitel as Mick, Youth explores the lifelong bond between two friends vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement.
While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena (Academy Award Winner Rachel Weisz), Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda (Golden Globe nominee, Academy Award winner Jane Fonda). And where will inspiration lead their younger friend Jimmy (Paul Dano), an actor grasping to make sense of his next performance?
Set against a sprawling landscape of unforgettable sights and intoxicating music,...
Starring Academy Award winner Michael Caine as Fred and Academy Award nominee Harvey Keitel as Mick, Youth explores the lifelong bond between two friends vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement.
While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena (Academy Award Winner Rachel Weisz), Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda (Golden Globe nominee, Academy Award winner Jane Fonda). And where will inspiration lead their younger friend Jimmy (Paul Dano), an actor grasping to make sense of his next performance?
Set against a sprawling landscape of unforgettable sights and intoxicating music,...
- 12/11/2015
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Photo by Gianni Fiorito. © 2015 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation All Rights Reserved
From Paolo Sorrentino, the director of Italy’s Oscar foreign language winner The Great Beauty comes Youth, about two longtime friends vacationing in the Swiss Alps.
Oscar winning actor Michael Caine plays Fred, an acclaimed composer and conductor, who brings along his daughter (Rachel Weisz) and best friend Mick (Harvey Keitel), a renowned filmmaker.
While Mick scrambles to finish the screenplay for what he imagines will be his last important film, Fred has no intention of resuming his musical career. The two men reflect on their past, each finding that some of the most important experiences can come later in life.
Fox Searchlight has released an emotional new clip from the upcoming movie.
The film features an original score by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang, who first met Sorrentino when his composition “I Lie” was used in The Great Beauty.
From Paolo Sorrentino, the director of Italy’s Oscar foreign language winner The Great Beauty comes Youth, about two longtime friends vacationing in the Swiss Alps.
Oscar winning actor Michael Caine plays Fred, an acclaimed composer and conductor, who brings along his daughter (Rachel Weisz) and best friend Mick (Harvey Keitel), a renowned filmmaker.
While Mick scrambles to finish the screenplay for what he imagines will be his last important film, Fred has no intention of resuming his musical career. The two men reflect on their past, each finding that some of the most important experiences can come later in life.
Fox Searchlight has released an emotional new clip from the upcoming movie.
The film features an original score by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang, who first met Sorrentino when his composition “I Lie” was used in The Great Beauty.
- 11/18/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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