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Osella D'Oro
The Golden Osella is the name of several awards given at the Venice Film Festival. They are awarded irregularly and in various categories such as directing, screenwriting, cinematography, and technical contributions. The name derives from the ''osella'', a medal awarded by the Doges of Venice The Doge of Venice ( ; vec, Doxe de Venexia ; it, Doge di Venezia ; all derived from Latin ', "military leader"), sometimes translated as Duke (compare the Italian '), was the chief magistrate and leader of the Republic of Venice between 726 a ... to various persons between 1521 and 1797. Best Cinematography Best Director Best Original Music Best Screenplay Best Set Design Outstanding Technical Contribution References External links Venice Film Festival - Overview on ''IMDb''{{Venice Film Festival Italian film awards Lists of films by award Venice Film Festival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamerica
''Lamerica'' is a 1994 Italian drama film directed by Gianni Amelio. It entered the competition at the 51st Venice International Film Festival, in which Amelio won the Golden Osella for Best Director. The film was selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 67th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. Plot The film Lamerica is a story of two men caught up in the startup of a scam shoe company. The main characters Gino anSpiro(later discovered to be Michele), go on an adventure of misfortune. Gino is a young man originally from Sicily who is involved in a company that is trying to “give every Albanian good shoes,” but it truly is a scam. Mr. Fiore (Gino’s boss) and Gino were unsatisfied with the officials that were originally set up to run the company. With the help of an Albanian middleman, they decided to find their own candidate who would be a “man of straw”, meaning he would do what they say. Spiro, or Michele, was the old m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tit And The Moon
''The Tit and the Moon'' ( es, La Teta y la luna) is a 1994 Spanish/ French film, directed by Bigas Luna. It entered the competition at the 51st Venice International Film Festival.Edoardo Pittalis, Roberto Pugliese, ''Bella di Notte'', August 1996. Plot The film is about a nine-year-old boy's obsession with women's breasts. Tete becomes jealous of his baby brother who is breast fed by their mother. Tete goes on a personal mission to find the perfect pair of lactating breasts to feed on. Estrellita, a beautiful French dancer (Mathilda May), arrives in town, the answer to Tete's prayers. Unfortunately for Tete, Estrellita is the attention of many adult men's affections including her husband Maurice (Gérard Darmon), an older man working as the other half of her travelling act, and attractive Flamenco-singing teenager Miguel (Miguel Poveda). With this amount of competition will Tete ever fulfil his wish? Cast * Biel Durán as Tete * Mathilda May as Estrellita * Gérard Darmon as M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mississippi Masala
''Mississippi Masala'' is a 1991 romantic drama film directed by Mira Nair, based upon a screenplay by Sooni Taraporevala, starring Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, and Roshan Seth. Set primarily in rural Mississippi, the film explores interracial romance between African Americans and Indian Americans. It was released in France on 18 September 1991, in the United Kingdom on 17 January 1992 and in the U.S. on 5 February 1992. The film grossed $7,332,515 USD at the box office. The film was made a part of The Criterion Collection on May 24, 2022. Plot In 1972, dictator Idi Amin enacts a policy of forceful expulsion of Asians from Uganda. Jay, his wife Kinnu, and their daughter Mina, a family of Ugandan Indians residing in Kampala, reluctantly and tearfully leave their home behind and relocate. After spending a few years in England, the family settle in Greenwood, Mississippi to live with family members who own a chain of motels there. Despite the passage of time, Jay is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
48th Venice International Film Festival
The 48th annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 3 to 14 September 1991. Jury The following people comprised the 1991 jury: *Gian Luigi Rondi head of jury * Silvia D'Amico Bendico *James Belushi *John Boorman *Michel Ciment *Moritz de Hadeln *Naum Kleiman *Oja Kodar *Pilar Miró Official selection In competition Autonomous sections Venice International Film Critics' Week The following feature films were selected to be screened as ''In Competition'' for this section: * ''Railway Bar'' (''Bar des rails'') by Cédric Kahn (France) * ''Drive'' by Jefery Levy (United States) * ''The Sky Above Paris'' (''Le ciel de Paris'') by Michel Béna (France) * ''Nowhere Man'' (''Muno no hito'') by Naoto Takenaka (Japan) * ''Clouds'' (''Nuvem'') by Ana Luísa Guimarães (Portugal) * ''The Intruder'' (''Razlucnica'') by Amir Karakulov (Soviet Union) * ''Scorpion’s Garden'' (''Sady skorpiona'') by Oleg Kovalov (Soviet Union) * ''Vito And The Others'' (''Vito e gli altri'') by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sirup (film)
''Sirup'' is a 1990 Danish drama film written and directed by Helle Ryslinge. It was entered into the main competition at the 47th Venice International Film Festival. Plot Lasse Jager, a salesman at a Danish convenience store, decides to move to the fictional village of Raker, Minnesota, home to a large Danish diaspora. Lasse meets and marries an American woman, and returns with her to Denmark. However, unbeknownst to him, they are filming a sitcom called "Sirup" in the convenience store he works at, which parodies the store's workers - including him. Lasse must decide if he wants to star in the sitcom as an actor, or take it to the police, while also having to deal with a man who is a regular at the store, but later finds out that he is a rapist who escaped from prison. Cast *Peter Hesse Overgaard as Lasse *Kirsten Lehfeldt as Ditte *Steen Svare as Jesper *Henrik Scheele as Terje *Pernille Højmark as Pia *Aage Haugland as Goldbauer *Søren Østergaard Søren Østergaard (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
47th Venice International Film Festival
The 47th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 4 to 14 September 1990. Jury The following people comprised the 1990 jury: *Gore Vidal: head of jury *María Luisa Bemberg *Edoardo Bruno *Gilles Jacob * Kira Muratova *Omar Sharif * Ula Stöckl *Anna-Lena Wibom *Alberto Lattuada Official selection In competition Out of competition * , Czechoslovakia/Italy, directed by Juraj Jakubisko * '' Henry and June'', USA, directed by Philip Kaufman * '' Romeo.Juliet'', Belgium, directed by Armando Acosta * ''Dick Tracy'', USA, directed by Warren Beatty * ''The Company of Strangers'', Canada, directed by Cynthia Scott * '' Blood Oath'', Australia, directed by Stephen Wallace * '' Il y a des jours... et des lunes'', France, directed by Claude Lelouch * , Italy, directed by Francesco Ranieri Martinotti, Rocco Mortelliti, Fulvio Ottaviano * ''Dancin' Thru the Dark'', UK, directed by Mike Ockrent * '' Un week-end sur deux'', France, directed by Nicole Garcia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Want To Go Home (1989 Film)
''I Want to Go Home'' is a 1989 French comedy film directed by Alain Resnais, from a screenplay by Jules Feiffer. It explores the differences between French and American cultural values through a story about a veteran cartoonist who encounters conflicting reactions to his work during a trip abroad. Plot Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in Paris about the comic strip (''bande dessinée'') which features his work. He also hopes to be reconciled with his daughter Elsie who has been a student in Paris for two years, in flight from the American culture of which she sees her father as a typical example. Elsie is naively infatuated with French literature, and is trying to secure an introduction to the brilliant university professor Christian Gauthier, an expert on Flaubert but also an enthusiast for comic books. The meeting of father and daughter goes badly, but Elsie is persuad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown
''Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'' ( es, Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios) is a 1988 Spanish black comedy film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Carmen Maura and Antonio Banderas. The film brought Almodóvar to widespread international attention: it was nominated for the 1988 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and won five Goya Awards including Best Film and Best Actress in a Leading Role for Maura. It debuted at the 45th International Venice Film Festival and was released on 11 November 1988. Title The actual Spanish title refers to an ' (attack of the nerves), which is not actually well translated as "nervous breakdown" ('). ' are culture-bound psychological phenomena during which the individual, most often female, displays dramatic outpouring of negative emotions, bodily gestures, occasional falling to the ground, and fainting, often in response to receiving disturbing news or witnessing or participating in an upsetting event. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Games
''House of Games'' is a 1987 American neo-noir heist thriller film directed by David Mamet, his directorial debut. He also wrote the screenplay, based on a story he co-wrote with Jonathan Katz. The film's cast includes Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Ricky Jay, and J. T. Walsh. Plot Psychiatrist Margaret Ford has achieved success with her recently published book about obsessive-compulsive disorder, but feels unfulfilled. Her patient, Billy Hahn, says his life is in danger because he owes money to a criminal figure named Mike Mancuso. He threatens suicide, brandishing a gun. Margaret persuades him to surrender the weapon to her and promises to help him. That night, Margaret visits a pool hall called House of Games where she confronts Mike. He is willing to forgive Billy's debt if Margaret accompanies him to a back-room poker game and identifies the tell of George, another player. She agrees, and notices George plays with his ring when he bluffs. She discloses this to Mike, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
44th Venice International Film Festival
The 44th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 29 August to 9 September 1987. Jury The following people comprised the 1987 jury: * Irene Papas (head of jury) (Greece) * Sabine Azéma (France) * John Bailey (USA) * Anja Breien (Norway) * Beatriz Guido (Argentina) * Carlo Lizzani (Italy) * Károly Makk (Hungary) * Sergei Solovyov (Soviet Union) * Vittorio Storaro (Italy) * Ana Carolina (Brazil) * Michael York (United Kingdom) * Regina Ziegler (West Germany) Official selection In competition Autonomous sections Venice International Film Critics' Week The following feature films were selected to be screened as ''In Competition'' for this section: * ''True and Faithful Account'' (''Relação fiel e verdadeira'') by Margarida Gil (Portugal) * ''Italian Night'' (''Notte Italiana'') by Carlo Mazzacurati (Italy) * ''Killing Time'' (''Poussière d'ange'') by Edouard Niermans (France) * ''The Burglar'' (''Vzlomšcik'') by Valerij Ogorodnikov (Soviet Union) * '' Hidd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Box
''Chinese Box'' is a 1997 movie directed by Wayne Wang and starring Jeremy Irons, Gong Li, Maggie Cheung and Michael Hui. The movie is set and was made at the time of Hong Kong's handover to the People's Republic of China on June 30, 1997. The film credits Paul Theroux as a source for the story, based on themes he explores in his 1997 novel ''Kowloon Tong''. Plot The movie unfolds at least nine different stories on very different levels. First, there is John as a reporter, trying to capture interesting scenes on the streets of Hong Kong, persuading himself his work gives his life a tangible meaning. Second, there is Vivian who is looking to find a balance in life, trying to escape from the underground she once was a part of and forget about her past, but is hindered in her attempts by prejudices that go back thousands of years in the Chinese society (including Hong Kong). Third, there is Vivian (still), with a chance to discard most of her problems by simply marrying John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
