Vieri Razzini, the respected critic, producer and writer who co-founded top Italian distribution label Teodora Film, has died in Rome. He was 82.
Born in Florence in 1940, Razzini was a champion of promoting cinema culture in Italy. Having started out as a screenwriter and film critic, he oversaw the classic cinema program of state channel Rai Tre for many years.
He was best-known internationally as the co-founder of Italian arthouse distribution label Teodora Film, which he created in 2000 with husband Cesare Petrillo, who survives him. It was ahead of its time for its special focus on Lgbtqi films and female directors.
The company would become a go-to destination for top auteur titles in Italy, with past releases including Oscar winners such as Susanne Bier’s In A Better World, Michael Haneke’s Amour and László Nemes’s Son Of Saul as well as cult films such as Sam Garbarski’s Irina Palm,...
Born in Florence in 1940, Razzini was a champion of promoting cinema culture in Italy. Having started out as a screenwriter and film critic, he oversaw the classic cinema program of state channel Rai Tre for many years.
He was best-known internationally as the co-founder of Italian arthouse distribution label Teodora Film, which he created in 2000 with husband Cesare Petrillo, who survives him. It was ahead of its time for its special focus on Lgbtqi films and female directors.
The company would become a go-to destination for top auteur titles in Italy, with past releases including Oscar winners such as Susanne Bier’s In A Better World, Michael Haneke’s Amour and László Nemes’s Son Of Saul as well as cult films such as Sam Garbarski’s Irina Palm,...
- 7/11/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Italian distributor sees screen count reduced after the film about a homosexual romance is given a damning rating by Catholic Church body.
Italian distributor Teodora Film has had to scale back the theatrical release of Andrew Haigh’s (45 Years) 2011 debut Weekend due to a negative rating by an influential Catholic Church organisation.
Vatican-based organ Cei (The Italian Episcopal Conference), an assembly of bishops with cultural and political sway, gave Weekend - a romantic drama about two men who fall in love over a weekend - the rare and damning judgement of ‘Not recommended/unusable/indecent’, its worst rating.
Some art-house cinemas in Italy are still subject to Church control.
“These cinemas have standard programming,” explained Cesare Petrillo, co-owner of Teodora, “But since the space in which they operate is owned by the Vatican, renting is subject to a clause forbidding the screening of all movies not advised by the Cei.”
Teodora, which...
Italian distributor Teodora Film has had to scale back the theatrical release of Andrew Haigh’s (45 Years) 2011 debut Weekend due to a negative rating by an influential Catholic Church organisation.
Vatican-based organ Cei (The Italian Episcopal Conference), an assembly of bishops with cultural and political sway, gave Weekend - a romantic drama about two men who fall in love over a weekend - the rare and damning judgement of ‘Not recommended/unusable/indecent’, its worst rating.
Some art-house cinemas in Italy are still subject to Church control.
“These cinemas have standard programming,” explained Cesare Petrillo, co-owner of Teodora, “But since the space in which they operate is owned by the Vatican, renting is subject to a clause forbidding the screening of all movies not advised by the Cei.”
Teodora, which...
- 3/10/2016
- ScreenDaily
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