Adorf, who has made more than 200 films with directors including Sam Peckinpah, Dario Argento and Luigi Comencini, will be honoured with the film festival’s Pardo Alla Carriera.
German actor and screen personality Mario Adorf is to receive the Pardo Alla Carriera at the 69th Locarno Film Festival (Aug 3-13), honoring his 60 years in cinema.
The tribute will tie in with the festival’s 2016 Retrospective on German Cinema with screenings of Adorf’s early films such as Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam by Robert Siodmak (1957) and Der Arzt von Stalingrad by Géza von Radványi (1958), as well as later performances and a special conversation with the festival audience.
Carlo Chatrian, artistic director of Locarno, praised the “seemingly endless gallery of characters” played by the Swiss-born actor.
“He has left his mark not just on German but on European cinema, with a legacy spanning different cultures, periods and forms of expression,” said Chatrian.
German actor and screen personality Mario Adorf is to receive the Pardo Alla Carriera at the 69th Locarno Film Festival (Aug 3-13), honoring his 60 years in cinema.
The tribute will tie in with the festival’s 2016 Retrospective on German Cinema with screenings of Adorf’s early films such as Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam by Robert Siodmak (1957) and Der Arzt von Stalingrad by Géza von Radványi (1958), as well as later performances and a special conversation with the festival audience.
Carlo Chatrian, artistic director of Locarno, praised the “seemingly endless gallery of characters” played by the Swiss-born actor.
“He has left his mark not just on German but on European cinema, with a legacy spanning different cultures, periods and forms of expression,” said Chatrian.
- 4/18/2016
- ScreenDaily
Read More: Attention, Filmmakers: Learn How to Replicate Fritz Lang's 'Beam of Light' Effect from 'Metropolis' In collaboration with The Deutsches Filminstitut, Frankfurt am Main and Cinémathèque suisse, the 69th Festival del film Locarno has announced that it will feature a retrospective based on West German Cinema 1949 to 1963. The program will be a part of next year's festival and is intended to shed light on forgotten stories of the era. The retrospective has been curated by Olaf Möller and Roberto Turigliatto, who initiated their endeavor in pursuit of analyzing national cinemas. Industry icons, including directors like Fritz Lang and Robert Siodmak, will be showcased in the retrospective; most notably because they ended their successful careers in Germany and influenced the next generation of innovative filmmakers like Géza von Radványi, Harald Braun and Peter Pewas. The retrospective will be conclude with films that...
- 12/18/2015
- by Elle Leonsis
- Indiewire
Simone Simon in 'La Bête Humaine' 1938: Jean Renoir's film noir (photo: Jean Gabin and Simone Simon in 'La Bête Humaine') (See previous post: "'Cat People' 1942 Actress Simone Simon Remembered.") In the late 1930s, with her Hollywood career stalled while facing competition at 20th Century-Fox from another French import, Annabella (later Tyrone Power's wife), Simone Simon returned to France. Once there, she reestablished herself as an actress to be reckoned with in Jean Renoir's La Bête Humaine. An updated version of Émile Zola's 1890 novel, La Bête Humaine is enveloped in a dark, brooding atmosphere not uncommon in pre-World War II French films. Known for their "poetic realism," examples from that era include Renoir's own The Lower Depths (1936), Julien Duvivier's La Belle Équipe (1936) and Pépé le Moko (1937), and particularly Marcel Carné's Port of Shadows (1938) and Daybreak (1939).[11] This thematic and...
- 2/6/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"Afterschool" (2009)
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Released by Mpi Home Video
Nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature, Campos' polarizing debut stars Ezra Miller as a high schooler whose Av club assignment leads him to capture the drug-induced deaths of two of his popular prep school classmates. [Sam Adams' review of the film is here.]
"All Men Are Brothers" (1975) and "Return of the 5 Deadly Venoms" (1978)
Directed by Chang Cheh and Wu Ma/Chang Cheh
Released by Well Go USA
Well Go USA do long-suffering American kung fu fans a solid and finally release "All Men Are Brothers," the sequel to the Shaw Brothers' epic "Seven Blows of the Dragon" (a.k.a. "Water Margin") featuring David Chiang and Chen Kuan-tai as warriors battling against the tyranny of despots, and "Return of the 5 Deadly Venoms," which pits Shaw brothers favorites' the Venom Mob against the master that crippled them.
"Afterschool" (2009)
Directed by Antonio Campos
Released by Mpi Home Video
Nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature, Campos' polarizing debut stars Ezra Miller as a high schooler whose Av club assignment leads him to capture the drug-induced deaths of two of his popular prep school classmates. [Sam Adams' review of the film is here.]
"All Men Are Brothers" (1975) and "Return of the 5 Deadly Venoms" (1978)
Directed by Chang Cheh and Wu Ma/Chang Cheh
Released by Well Go USA
Well Go USA do long-suffering American kung fu fans a solid and finally release "All Men Are Brothers," the sequel to the Shaw Brothers' epic "Seven Blows of the Dragon" (a.k.a. "Water Margin") featuring David Chiang and Chen Kuan-tai as warriors battling against the tyranny of despots, and "Return of the 5 Deadly Venoms," which pits Shaw brothers favorites' the Venom Mob against the master that crippled them.
- 9/8/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
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