Director Ermanno Olmi’s The Legend Of The Holy Drinker (1988) Starring Rutger Hauer will be available on Blu-ray from Arrow Academy September 26th
Winner of the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival, The Legend Of The Holy DRINKERr is another classic from the great Italian director Ermanno Olmi (Il posto, The Tree of Wooden Clogs).
Adapted from the novella by Joseph Roth, the film tells the story of Andreas Kartack, a homeless man living under the bridges of Paris. Lent 200 francs by an anonymous stranger, he is determined to pay back his debt but circumstances – and his alcoholism – forever intervene.
Working with professional actors for the first time in more than 20 years, Olmi cast Ruger Hauer as Andreas and was rewarded with an astonishing performance of subtlety and depth. Hauer is joined by a superb supporting cast, including Anthony Quayle (Lawrence of Arabia), Sandrine Dumas (The Double Life of Veronique...
Winner of the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival, The Legend Of The Holy DRINKERr is another classic from the great Italian director Ermanno Olmi (Il posto, The Tree of Wooden Clogs).
Adapted from the novella by Joseph Roth, the film tells the story of Andreas Kartack, a homeless man living under the bridges of Paris. Lent 200 francs by an anonymous stranger, he is determined to pay back his debt but circumstances – and his alcoholism – forever intervene.
Working with professional actors for the first time in more than 20 years, Olmi cast Ruger Hauer as Andreas and was rewarded with an astonishing performance of subtlety and depth. Hauer is joined by a superb supporting cast, including Anthony Quayle (Lawrence of Arabia), Sandrine Dumas (The Double Life of Veronique...
- 9/6/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Anyone that reads this site even on a semi-regular basis probably knows I absolutely love Federico Fellini's 8½ and that is one of the major reasons I am so looking forward to Rob Marshall's musical adaptation Nine. So, to learn Criterion is bringing the Fellini classic to Blu-ray with a brand new 52-minute documentary on Fellini's lost alternate ending for 8½ is almost too much for me to handle and is certainly too long to wait.
Along with the upcoming arrival of 8½, Criterion has also announced Blu-ray and DVD releases for Steven Soderbergh's Che and Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas. Details on these three titles are detailed below, but don't go yet there is a little more...
8½ (January 12, 2010) Introduction by filmmaker Terry Gilliam Audio commentary featuring film critic and Fellini friend Gideon Bachmann and Nyu film professor Antonio Monda Fellini: A Director's Notebook, a 52-minute film by Federico Fellini,...
Along with the upcoming arrival of 8½, Criterion has also announced Blu-ray and DVD releases for Steven Soderbergh's Che and Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas. Details on these three titles are detailed below, but don't go yet there is a little more...
8½ (January 12, 2010) Introduction by filmmaker Terry Gilliam Audio commentary featuring film critic and Fellini friend Gideon Bachmann and Nyu film professor Antonio Monda Fellini: A Director's Notebook, a 52-minute film by Federico Fellini,...
- 10/16/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Rome -- The Rome International Film Festival unveiled the full lineup for its fourth edition Friday, with a globetrotting 14-film in competition lineup made up entirely of world and international premieres and enough big-name stars to keep the city's paparazzi corps happy.
George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Richard Gere, Helen Mirren, Anthony Hopkins, Monica Bellucci, and Colin Farrell are all among the A-list actors expected to stroll across Rome's red carpet, along with directors including Joel and Ethan Coen and nonfilm personalities including opera singer Andrea Bocelli and author Paulo Coehlo, who will bring his first directorial effort -- "Paulo Coehlo's Experimental Witch" -- to Rome.
The main competition lineup for the Oct. 15-23 event includes 14 films and production or co-production credits from 14 countries. Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air," which stars Clooney, is the lone U.S. film in the main competition and, if it wins, it would make...
George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Richard Gere, Helen Mirren, Anthony Hopkins, Monica Bellucci, and Colin Farrell are all among the A-list actors expected to stroll across Rome's red carpet, along with directors including Joel and Ethan Coen and nonfilm personalities including opera singer Andrea Bocelli and author Paulo Coehlo, who will bring his first directorial effort -- "Paulo Coehlo's Experimental Witch" -- to Rome.
The main competition lineup for the Oct. 15-23 event includes 14 films and production or co-production credits from 14 countries. Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air," which stars Clooney, is the lone U.S. film in the main competition and, if it wins, it would make...
- 9/25/2009
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rome -- The Venice Film Festival said Tuesday that it would name its sidebar competition for budding young film essayists in honor of Tullio Kezich, the venerable Rome-based critic who died Monday at 80.
Kezich's career was inextricably linked to Venice. He had attended all but two of the 65 previous editions of the Venice festival and in recent years had become a de facto historian of the storied event.
Kezich was also an author and screenwriter, writing one of the best-known biographies of Federico Fellini and also penning the screenplay to "La leggenda del santo bevitore" (The Legend of the Holy Drinker), directed by Ermanno Olmi and starring Rutger Hauer, which won Venice's Golden Lion prize in 1988.
Kezich, who had been credentialed at every Venice festival between 1946 and 2008, was also on the selection committee for the festival in the 1960s.
The essayist prize will select 10 winning essays among those written about...
Kezich's career was inextricably linked to Venice. He had attended all but two of the 65 previous editions of the Venice festival and in recent years had become a de facto historian of the storied event.
Kezich was also an author and screenwriter, writing one of the best-known biographies of Federico Fellini and also penning the screenplay to "La leggenda del santo bevitore" (The Legend of the Holy Drinker), directed by Ermanno Olmi and starring Rutger Hauer, which won Venice's Golden Lion prize in 1988.
Kezich, who had been credentialed at every Venice festival between 1946 and 2008, was also on the selection committee for the festival in the 1960s.
The essayist prize will select 10 winning essays among those written about...
- 8/18/2009
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Italy has fallen over itself to welcome back its new favourite son - Cannes film festival winner Nanni Moretti. Moretti, 57, won the Palme D'Or at the 54th Cannes festival on Sunday for The Son's Room, a tragic story of a family torn apart by the death of a child. "Nanni Moretti has won, Italian cinema has won", declared a front-page editorial in Rome daily La Republica. "It is a victory for all those in Italy who share Moretti's love for culture, intelligence, zeal and intellectual honesty." It is the first time Italy has won the coveted prize in 23 years, since it saw back-to-back victories with Padre Padrone and The Tree Of Wooden Clogs in 1977 and 1978. "Long live Moretti," announced Milan's Corriere Della Sera. "Simplicity and profundity, sincerity and artistic maturity are what have made The Son's Room a point of reference in modern cinematography," wrote one of Italy's foremost film critics Tullio Kezich, on the front page of Corriere. "This is resounding confirmation that the big screen can be a mirror on life, touching everyone's conscience."...
- 5/22/2001
- WENN
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