Matteo Garrone Articles

In Agence France Presse, European Film Award winner Matteo Garrone discusses real-life issues related to Gomorrah (above, with Toni Servillo), his mafia thriller that is a likely contender for the 2009 best foreign-language film Oscar: "The idea of bringing the army to fight them is, for me, superficial. It’s good for the image of the Italian government, but it won’t do anything to fix the [...]

A chronicle of the workings of the Neapolitan underworld, Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah — based on Roberto Saviano’s non-fiction book — was the big winner at the 2008 European Film Awards, receiving honors for best European film, best director, best actor (Toni Servillo, also for Il Divo), best screenplay (Garrone, Saviano, Maurizio Braucci, Ugo Chiti, Gianni di Gregorio, Massimo Gaudioso), and best cinematography (Marco Onorato). Gomorrah, [...]

2008 European Film Awards 2008 European Film Award nominations: Nov 8, 2008 2008 European Film Award winners: Copenhagen on Dec. 6, 2008 Photos: Rune Evensen/ScanPix Click on the photos to enlarge them. ("*" denotes the winner in each category)     EUROPEAN FILM 2008 IL DIVO, Italy written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino produced by Indigofilm, Lucky Red, Parco Film, Babe Films, StudioCanal, Arte France [...]

Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (top); Time and Winds by Reha Erdem (bottom) The London and the Sunday Times critics are apparently quite easy to please. They’ve come up with a list of no less than 100 Best Films for one single year: 2008. Among the best of the best found in the Times list are masterpieces such as: Cloverfield ("An hour in I [...]