Ferzan Ozpetek Articles

Sibel Kekilli in Feo Aladag's When We Leave (top); Riccardo Scamarcio in Ferzan Ozpetek's Loose Cannons (upper middle); Eric Elmosnino as Serge Gainsbourg, Lucy Gordon as Jane Birkin, in Joann Sfar's Gainsbourg, Je t’Aime… Moi Non Plus (lower middle); Kim Chapiron's Dog Pound (bottom) Tribeca 2010 Winners: WHEN WE LEAVE, MONICA & DAVID, Sibel Kekilli, Eric Elmosnino World Narrative Competition 2010 World Narrative Feature Competition [...]

Stefania Sandrelli, Valerio Mastandrea in Paolo Virzi's The First Beautiful Thing (top); Giuseppe Tornatore's Baaria (middle); Ferzan Ozpetek's Loose Cannons (bottom) Here's a belated report on the 2010 David di Donatello awards. The nominations for Italy's Oscars were announced last week. Paolo Virzi's La prima cosa bella / The First Beautiful Thing, a sentimental comedy-drama about a bitter man (Valerio Mastandrea) who ends up finding [...]

Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi in Marco Bellocchio's Vincere Best Film BAARÌA produced by Medusa Film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore MINE VAGANTI / LOOSE CANNONS produced by Domenico Procacci directed by Ferzan Ozpetek LA PRIMA COSA BELLA / THE FIRST BEAUTIFUL THING produced by Fabrizio Donvito, Marco Cohen, Benedetto Habib for Medusa Film Motorino Amaranto, Indiana Production directed by Paolo Virzì L'UOMO CHE VERRA' produced by [...]

2009 Torino GLBT Film Festival: Filmmaker Ferzan Ozpetek (above, with festival director Giovanni Minerba) presents "the films of his life." Ozpetek's quotes below are from the festival's press release. "I couldn't have been happier when Giovanni Minerba made this proposition to me. I wanted to start out with a series of 'Madames,' ranging from the splendid Madame X, by David Lowell Rich, with Lana Turner, [...]