The larger-than-life saga of Italy’s Agnelli family, the billionaires behind automaker Fiat, is set to be realistically reconstructed in a high-end international TV series that will recount the dynastic tale from a female point of view.
The still-untitled Agnelli skein was announced Saturday by director and producer Ginevra Elkann who is the granddaughter of late Fiat magnate Gianni Agnelli. Gianni Agnelli is being remembered in Italy this weekend on the centennial of his birth. Elkann made the announcement on Saturday speaking on Mediaset talk show “Verissimo.”
Lorenzo Mieli’s The Apartment Pictures, the expanding Fremantle-owned unit known for “The Young Pope,” “My Brilliant Friend” and “We Are Who We Are,” has teamed up with Elkann’s Asmara Film and Virginia Valsecchi’s Capri Entertainment on the Agnelli project.
The Agnelli TV series producers are recruiting a writing team comprising anglo-saxon scribes, according to a source close to the project.
The still-untitled Agnelli skein was announced Saturday by director and producer Ginevra Elkann who is the granddaughter of late Fiat magnate Gianni Agnelli. Gianni Agnelli is being remembered in Italy this weekend on the centennial of his birth. Elkann made the announcement on Saturday speaking on Mediaset talk show “Verissimo.”
Lorenzo Mieli’s The Apartment Pictures, the expanding Fremantle-owned unit known for “The Young Pope,” “My Brilliant Friend” and “We Are Who We Are,” has teamed up with Elkann’s Asmara Film and Virginia Valsecchi’s Capri Entertainment on the Agnelli project.
The Agnelli TV series producers are recruiting a writing team comprising anglo-saxon scribes, according to a source close to the project.
- 3/13/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
April 14 the Official Selection will be announced at the Cannes Film Festival press conference. While waiting, keep up with all the Festival news online and onFacebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram!
The official poster for the 69th Festival de Cannes -- taking place from May 11 to 22 and presided over by Australian director George Mille -- was designed using stills from Jean-Luc Godard 's film "Contempt" by Hervé Chigioni and his graphic designer Gilles Frappier. The 2016 visual identity has been created by Philippe Savoir (Filifox).
The festival described the poster as follows:
"It's all there. The steps, the sea, the horizon: a man's ascent towards his dream, in a warm Mediterranean light that turns to gold. As an image it is reminiscent of a timeless quote used at the beginning of 'Contempt': 'Cinema replaces our gaze with a world in harmony with our desires'."
This year Michel Piccoli will open the Red Carpet for the 69th Festival de Cannes from the roof of the famous villa designed by the writer Curzio Malaparte, It's a symbolic choice, since this film about the making of a film - regarded by many as one of the finest ever made in CinemaScope (the Piccoli/ Bardot pairing along with Fritz Lang, Raoul Coutard's cinematography, Georges Delerue's music, and so on and so forth) - had such a considerable impact on the history of film and cinephilia.
On the eve of its 70th anniversary, by choosing to represent itself under the symbol of this simultaneously palimpsest and unambiguous film, the Festival is reiterating its founding commitment: To pay tribute to the history of film and to welcome new ways of creating and seeing. The steps represent a kind of ascension towards the infinite horizon of a cinema screen." ...
The official poster for the 69th Festival de Cannes -- taking place from May 11 to 22 and presided over by Australian director George Mille -- was designed using stills from Jean-Luc Godard 's film "Contempt" by Hervé Chigioni and his graphic designer Gilles Frappier. The 2016 visual identity has been created by Philippe Savoir (Filifox).
The festival described the poster as follows:
"It's all there. The steps, the sea, the horizon: a man's ascent towards his dream, in a warm Mediterranean light that turns to gold. As an image it is reminiscent of a timeless quote used at the beginning of 'Contempt': 'Cinema replaces our gaze with a world in harmony with our desires'."
This year Michel Piccoli will open the Red Carpet for the 69th Festival de Cannes from the roof of the famous villa designed by the writer Curzio Malaparte, It's a symbolic choice, since this film about the making of a film - regarded by many as one of the finest ever made in CinemaScope (the Piccoli/ Bardot pairing along with Fritz Lang, Raoul Coutard's cinematography, Georges Delerue's music, and so on and so forth) - had such a considerable impact on the history of film and cinephilia.
On the eve of its 70th anniversary, by choosing to represent itself under the symbol of this simultaneously palimpsest and unambiguous film, the Festival is reiterating its founding commitment: To pay tribute to the history of film and to welcome new ways of creating and seeing. The steps represent a kind of ascension towards the infinite horizon of a cinema screen." ...
- 3/26/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
In just about three weeks we’ll be getting the line-up for the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, but first, the official poster has landed. For the 69th Festival de Cannes, featuring a jury presided over by Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller, the yellow-tinted poster honors the Jean-Luc Godard classic Contempt. Check out the description below, along with a full version of the poster.
It’s all there. The steps, the sea, the horizon: a man’s ascent towards his dream, in a warm Mediterranean light that turns to gold. As an image it is reminiscent of a timeless quote by Michel Mourlet used at the beginning of Contempt: “Cinema replaces our gaze with a world in harmony with our desires”.
And so it is Michel Piccoli who in 2016, from the roof of the famous villa designed by the writer Curzio Malaparte, will open the red carpet for the 69th Festival de Cannes.
It’s all there. The steps, the sea, the horizon: a man’s ascent towards his dream, in a warm Mediterranean light that turns to gold. As an image it is reminiscent of a timeless quote by Michel Mourlet used at the beginning of Contempt: “Cinema replaces our gaze with a world in harmony with our desires”.
And so it is Michel Piccoli who in 2016, from the roof of the famous villa designed by the writer Curzio Malaparte, will open the red carpet for the 69th Festival de Cannes.
- 3/21/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The past year has been a great one as concerns the availability and restoration of several titles from Italian auteur Liliana Cavani, a director who came to fame and notoriety alongside peers such as Pasolini, Bellocchio, and Bertolucci. Her work has often faced difficulty in achieving the same sort of international acclaim as those male colleagues, each of them certified as a particular brand within the cinematic canon. And yet, Cavani is as equally provocative and prolific, with boundary pushing titles languishing in obscurity, usually historical reconstructions with gender or sexuality as a unique entry. Her work has often been described as having a feminist bent, but Cavani isn’t aspiring to create female agency in spaces dominated by masculinity. Rather, her concern resides in honest depictions of women ravaged by male dominated systems. Cavani’s most notorious title, 1974’s The Night Porter, received a Blu-ray transfer from Criterion recently,...
- 1/13/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
While editing The Unbearable Lightness of Being in France, Academy Award-winning film editor and sound designer Walter Murch came across a reference to Italian writer Curzio Malaparte’s description of horses being suddenly flash frozen in Lake Ladoga during the siege of Leningrad. He became intrigued by the startling image, and tracked down Malaparte’s 1944 novel Kaputt, the book the image came from. Over time Murch, best known for his work on films such as The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, read all of the obscure Italian writer’s translated writings, then brushed up on his Italian to read untranslated work. He eventually …...
- 6/3/2013
- by David Barker
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg in Breathless As per The Hollywood Reporter, the Berlin International Film Festival will mark its 60th anniversary with the retrospective "Play it Again …!," featuring 40 films compiled by British film critic David Thomson from previous Berlin festivals. Among them are Curzio Malaparte’s The Forbidden Christ, Alf Sjoberg’s Miss Julie, Akira Kurosawa’s To Live, Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter, Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum, Niels Arden Oplev’s We Shall Overcome, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia. Also, Nagisa Oshima’s In the Realm of the Senses, which caused a furor in 1976. German authorities — who probably had better things to do (weren’t the Baader Meinhof running [...]...
- 11/11/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Cologne, Germany -- The Berlin International Film Festival will mark its 60th anniversary with a best-of retrospective of 40 films cherrypicked from Berlin festivals of the past six decades.
The retrospective, titled "Play it Again ...!" was compiled by British film critic David Thomson and will include classics such as Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless," Michael Cimino's "The Deer Hunter" and "Red Sorghum" from Zhang Yimou.
Thomson has also picked lesser-known films that caused a ruckus at the original Berlin debut, such as "The Forbidden Christ" (1950-51) from Italian director Curzio Malaparte or Nagisa Oshima's "In the Realm of the Senses," whose screening in 1976 was such a scandal that authorities confiscated the film print and Ulrich Gregor, director of Berlin's Forum sidebar, was charge with disseminating pornography.
The films will be screened at the CinemaxX theater in Potsdamer Platz in Berlin and at the Zeughauskino. The complete retrospective program will be available at www.
The retrospective, titled "Play it Again ...!" was compiled by British film critic David Thomson and will include classics such as Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless," Michael Cimino's "The Deer Hunter" and "Red Sorghum" from Zhang Yimou.
Thomson has also picked lesser-known films that caused a ruckus at the original Berlin debut, such as "The Forbidden Christ" (1950-51) from Italian director Curzio Malaparte or Nagisa Oshima's "In the Realm of the Senses," whose screening in 1976 was such a scandal that authorities confiscated the film print and Ulrich Gregor, director of Berlin's Forum sidebar, was charge with disseminating pornography.
The films will be screened at the CinemaxX theater in Potsdamer Platz in Berlin and at the Zeughauskino. The complete retrospective program will be available at www.
- 11/11/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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