Venice 2009: Ennio Morricone, Giuseppe Tornatore, Margareth Madè
Ennio Morricone, Margareth Madè, Giuseppe Tornatore, Francesco Scianna at the Baarìa photocall at the 2009 Venice Film Festival
Margareth Madè
Francesco Scianna
Ennio Morricone
Photos: Courtesy Venice Film Festival
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by Monica Montenegro | September 13, 2009
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Tags: Ennio Morricone, Film Festivals, Francesco Scianna, Giuseppe Tornatore, Margareth Madè, Photos, Venice 2009, Venice Film Festival
Cannes 2009: INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
Brad Pitt in Inglourious Basterds
Richard Corliss/Mary Corliss in Time:
"… Inglourious Basterds — first word as in "glower," second as in "turds" — is an alternative history of World War II from the writer-director of Pulp Fiction, the Palme d’Or winner 15 years ago. As with all of his recent work — the two Kill Bill movies and Death Proof — Basterds draws portraits of strong women facing down evil men; and in Shoshanna (Mélanie Laurent) and Third Reich screen star Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) he’s created two of his fullest female portraits. But Basterds is long and, for the hypercharged auteur, surprisingly wan. It has to be declared a misfire."
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J. Hoberman in The Village Voice:
"So what is [...]
by Massimo David | May 20, 2009
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Tags: Brad Pitt, Cannes 2009, Cannes Film Festival, David Bowie, Diane Kruger, Ennio Morricone, Film Festivals, Geoffrey Macnab, Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill, Mélanie Laurent, Nazis, Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, Rod Taylor, The Independent, Total Film, Uma Thurman, Winston Churchill, World War II
Nastri d’Argento 2008
2008 Nastri d’Argento
National Union of Italian Film Journalists’ 2008 Nastri d’Argento (Silver Ribbons) nominations: May 11, 2008
2008 Nastri d’Argento winners: Teatro Antico di Taormina, Sicily, on June 14, 2008
(”*” denotes the winner in each category)
Isabella Ragonese plays a college grad who struggles to find work in A Whole Life Ahead
Best Director
Antonello GRIMALDI – Caos calmo
Daniele LUCHETTI – Mio fratello è figlio unico
Silvio SOLDINI – Giorni e nuvole
* Paolo VIRZÌ – Tutta la vita davanti / A Whole Life Ahead
Gianni ZANASI – Non pensarci
Best European Film
Across the Universe – Julie Taymor
Elizabeth: The Golden Age – Shekar Kapur
Atonement – Joe Wright
La vie en [...]
by Andre Soares | June 14, 2008
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Tags: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A Whole Life Ahead, Abdellatif Kechiche, Across the Universe, Agente matrimoniale, Alba Rohrwacher, Alessandro Gassman, Alina Marazzi, Amore bugie e calcetto, Andrea D’Ambrosio, Andrea Molaioli, Ang Lee, Angela Finocchiaro, Anita Caprioli, Anna Bonaiuto, Anna Negri, Antonello Grimaldi, Antonia Liskova, Antonio Albanese, Arnaldo Catinari, Atonement, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Bianco e nero, Biùtiful càuntri, Brad Bird, Caos calmo, Carla Vangelista, Carlo Lizzani, Carlo Mazzacurati, Carlo Poggioli, Caroina Crescentini, Carolina Crescentini, Catia Dottori, Cemento armato, Chris Kraus, Civico Zero, Claudio Collepiccolo, Claudio Piersanti, Colpo d'occhio, Come tu mi vuoi, Cover boy, Cristian Mungiu, Cristiana Capotondi, Cristina Comencini, Daniel Silverman, Daniele Luchetti, Daniele Silvestri, Daniele Vicari, Dante Ferretti, Davide Marengo, Domenico Procacci, Doriana Leondeff, Eduardo Crespo, Elio Germano, Elisabetta Montaldo, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Ennio Morricone, Esmeralda Calabria, Fabio Bonifacci, Federica Pontremoli, Film Awards, Four Minutes, Francesca Calvelli, Francesca Lo Schiavo, Francesca Marciano, Francesco Bruni, Francesco Maselli, Francesco Piccolo, Gianna Nannini, Gianni Zanasi, Giorgio Diritti, Giorni e nuvole, Giulia Calenda, Giuliano Gemma, Giuliano Montaldo, Giuseppe Battiston, Hotel Meina, I demoni di San Pietroburgo, I Viceré, I'm Not There, Il mio paese, Il vento fa il suo giro, Ilaria Fraioli, Into the Wild, Io l'altro, Irina Palm, Isabella Ragonese, Jason Reitman, Joe Wright, Joel and Ethan Coen, Julian Schnabel, Julie Taymor, Kasia Smutniak, Kazuko Kurosawa, La giusta distanza, La graine et le mulet, La ragazza del lago, La seconda volta non si scorda mai, La Vie en Rose, Le ferie di Licu, Lele Marchitelli, Lezioni di cioccolato, Lezioni di felicità, Lionello Cerri, Luca Lionello, Luca Lucini, Lucia Ragni, Lust Caution, Maddalena Ravagli, Marco Chimenz, Marco Pettenello, Marco Stabilini, Margherita Buy, Marina Confalone, Mario Venuti, Marjane Satrapi, Massimo Ghini, Massimo Zamboni, Michele Pellegrini, Milena Canonero, Mio fratello è figlio unico, Mirco Garrone, Mohsen Melliti, Nanni Moretti, Nastri d'Argento, Nastri d'Argento 2008, National Union of Italian Film Journalists, Nelle tue mani, Nero bifamiliare, Nessuna qualità agli eroi, Nicola Pecorini, Nicola Piovani, Nicoletta Ercole, No Country for Old Men, Non pensarci, Notturno bus, Olivier Dahan, Paolo Virzì, Parlami d'amore, Paul Thomas Anderson, Peppe Ruggiero, Persepolis, Peter Del Monte, Piano solo, Piera Degli Esposti, Piero De Bernardi, Pino Daniele, Questa notte è ancora nostra, Ramiro Civita, Ratatouille, Riccardo Tozzi, Riprendimi, Roberto Cimatti, Sabrina Ferilli, Sam Garbarski, Sean Penn, Sergio Rubini, Seta, Shekar Kapur, Sidney Lumet, Signorina Effe, Silver Ribbons, Silvio Muccino, Silvio Soldini, Sonetàula, Sweeney Todd, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Secret of the Grain, The Simpsons Movie, There Will Be Blood, Tideland, Tim Burton, Tiro Mancino, Todd Haynes, Toni Servillo, Tonino Zera, Tre donne morali, Tutta la vita davanti, Valerio Mastandrea, Vier Minuten, Vincent Paronnaud, Vittorio Moroni, Vittorio Storaro, Vogliamo anche le rose, Wilma Labate
Oscar 2007: Best Documentary Short, Animated Short
Oscar 2007: Best Cinematography, Music
Achievement in makeup
Apocalypto (Buena Vista) Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
Click (Sony Pictures Releasing) Kazuhiro Tsuji and Bill Corso
* Pan’s Labyrinth (Picturehouse) David Marti and Montse Ribe
Best documentary short subject
* The Blood of Yingzhou District
A Thomas Lennon Films Production
Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon
Recycled Life
An Iwerks/Glad Production
Leslie Iwerks and Mike Glad
Rehearsing a Dream
A Simon & Goodman Picture Company Production
Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
Two Hands
A Crazy Boat Pictures Production
Nathaniel Kahn and Susan Rose Behr
Best animated short film
* The Danish Poet (National Film Board of Canada)
A Mikrofilm and National Film Board of Canada Production
Torill Kove
Lifted (Buena Vista)
A Pixar Animation Studios Production
Gary Rydstrom
The Little Matchgirl (Buena Vista)
A Walt Disney Pictures Production
Roger Allers and Don Hahn
Maestro (Szimplafilm)
A Kedd Production
Geza M. Toth
No [...]
by Andre Soares | January 23, 2007
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Tags: 2007 Oscar, Academy Awards, Ari Sandel, Ennio Morricone, Film Awards, Ruby Yang, Sherry Lansing, The Blood of Yingzhou District, The Danish Poet, West Bank Story
Oscar 2007: Ennio Morricone to Receive Honorary Academy Award
Over his 45-year career, prolific composer-conductor Ennio Morricone has created more than 500 scores for both films and television — including my all-time favorite movie score, the Once Upon a Time in the West ballad.
He will finally be given his Oscar due on February 25, 2007, when he’ll be picking up an Honorary Academy Award for his contributions to film art. More than a film composer, Morricone has been frequently the lone savior of poor films made bearable — at times even memorable — merely because of his compositions.
Thus far, Morricone has earned five Academy Award nominations for original score — for Days of Heaven (1978), The Mission (1986), The Untouchables (1987), Bugsy (1991) and Malena [...]
by Andre Soares | December 14, 2006
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Tags: 2007 Oscar, Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Cinema Paradiso, Composers, Ennio Morricone, Film Awards, Honorary Oscar, Once Upon a Time in the West
