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Sicilia!
''Sicilia!'' () is a 1999 Italy, Italian black-and-white film directed by Straub–Huillet, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub. ''Sicilia!'' follows a man returning to visit his native Sicily, after living in New York City for many years. The film is an adaptation of Elio Vittorini's anti-fascist novel ''Conversations in Sicily'', which was first published in 1941. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. It was included in the List of films shown at the New York Film Festival, 37th New York Film Festival. Cast * Gianni Buscarino as the son * Angela Nugara as the mother * Vittorio Vigneri as the knife-grinder * Carmelo Maddio as the orange-seller * Ignazio Trombello as policeman * Simone Nucatola as policeman * Giovanni Interlandi as the traveler * Mario Baschieri * Giuseppe Bonta Production Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa's documentary on Straub and Huillet, ''Où gît votre sourire enfoui?'' (alternately translated into Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Straub–Huillet
Jean-Marie Straub (; 8 January 1933 — 20 November 2022) and Danièle Huillet (; 1 May 1936 – 9 October 2006) were a duo of French filmmakers who made two dozen films between 1963 and 2006. Their films are noted for their rigorous, intellectually stimulating style and radical, communist politics. While both were French, they worked mostly in Germany and Italy. '' From the Clouds to the Resistance'' (1979) and '' Sicilia!'' (1999) are among the duo's best regarded works. Biography Straub, who was born in Metz, met Paris-born Huillet as a student in 1954. Straub was involved in the Parisian cinephile community at the time. He was friends with Francois Truffaut and contributed to his publication , although Truffaut refused to publish Straub's more inflammatory writings. He worked as an assistant to the film director Jacques Rivette on the 1956 film ''A Fool's Mate''. He also worked in Paris as an assistant to Abel Gance, Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson and Alexandre Astruc. The p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conversations In Sicily
''Conversazione in Sicilia'' () is a novel by the Italian author Elio Vittorini. It originally appeared in serial form in the literary magazine ''Letteratura'' in 1938–1939, and was first published in book form under the title ''Nome e Lagrime'' in 1941. The story concerns Silvestro Ferrauto and his return to Sicily after a long absence. Major themes of the work are detachment, poverty, exploitation and marital fidelity and respect. ''Conversazione in Sicilia'' literally translates to English as ''Conversation in Sicily''; English translations have appeared under that title and a variety of other titles, including ''In Sicily'' and ''Conversations in Sicily''. The first US edition contains a foreword by Ernest Hemingway, reprinted in several later editions. Plot summary Silvestro Ferrauto, a Sicilian typesetter living in Milan, is overcome by inexplicable feelings of despair. Prompted by a letter revealing his father's abandonment of his mother, Ferrauto decides impulsively to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 Cannes Film Festival
The 52nd Cannes Film Festival took place from 12 to 23 May 1999. Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg served as jury president for the main competition. Kristin Scott Thomas was the host for the opening and closing ceremonies. Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne won the ''Palme d'Or'', the festival's top prize, for the drama film ''Rosetta''. The festival opened with '' The Barber of Siberia'' by Nikita Mikhalkov, and closed with '' An Ideal Husband'' by Oliver Parker. Juries Main competition * David Cronenberg, Canadian filmmaker - Jury President * Dominique Blanc, French actress * Doris Dörrie, German filmmaker and producer * Jeff Goldblum, American actor * Barbara Hendricks, Swedish singer * Holly Hunter, American actress * George Miller, Australian filmmaker * Maurizio Nichetti, Italian filmmaker and actor. * Yasmina Reza, French actor and writer * André Téchiné, French filmmaker ''Un Certain Regard'' * Lambert Wilson, French actor - Jury President ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lubtchansky
William Lubtchansky (26 October 1937 – 4 May 2010) was a French cinematographer. Biography Lubtchansky's first film was Agnès Varda's 1965 short, ''Elsa la Rose''. He shot over 100 films, including several for Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, Jean Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet and Nadine Trintignant. He has also worked with Philippe Garrel, François Truffaut, Marcel Camus and Peter Brook (for the 1989 6-hour version of '' The Mahabharata''). Lubtchansky died in Paris, France, on 4 May 2010 from heart disease. Selected filmography * ''Time to Live'' (1969) * '' It Only Happens to Others'' (1971) * '' Violins at the Ball'' (1974) * '' Speak to Me of Love'' (1975) * '' Noroît'' (1976) * '' Here and Elsewhere'' (1976) * '' Duelle'' (1976) * '' The Woman Next Door'' (1981) * '' Neige'' (1981) * '' Le Pont du Nord'' (1981) * '' Cap Canaille'' (1983) * '' Love on the Ground'' (1984) * '' Class Relations'' (1984) * '' After Darkness'' (1985) * '' I Love You'' (1986) * '' A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Films Shown At The New York Film Festival
This is a list of feature-length films (at least 45 minutes) shown at the New York Film Festival. Films previously released in the U.S. and screened as retrospectives are not included. Films at the first New York Film Festival (1963) * Opening Night: The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel, Mexico) * Closing Night: Sweet and Sour (Jacques Baratier, France) * All the Way Home (Alex Segal, USA) * An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujirō Ozu, Japan) * Barravento (Glauber Rocha, Brazil) * Elektra at Epidaurus (Ted Zarpas, Greece) * The Fiances (Ermanno Olmi, Italy) * Glory Sky ( Takis Kanellopoulos, Greece) * In the Midst of Life (Robert Enrico, France) * Hallelujah the Hills (Adolfas Mekas, USA) * Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, Japan) * Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski, Poland) * Le Joli Mai (Chris Marker, France) * Love in the Suburbs ( Tamás Fejér, Hungary) * Magnet of Doom (Jean-Pierre Melville, France) * Muriel, or The Time of Return (Alain Resnais, France) * RoGoPaG (Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Costa
Pedro Costa (born 30 December 1958) is a Portuguese film director. He is best known for his sequence of films set in Lisbon, which focuses on the lives of the impoverished residents of a slum in the Fontainhas neighbourhood. Biography After completing a degree in history from the University of Lisbon, Costa worked as an assistant for Jorge Silva Melo, Vítor Gonçalves and João Botelho. He released his debut film '' O Sangue'' at the age of 30. Costa's films would receive acclaim from critics consistently throughout his career. He collected the France Culture Award (Foreign Cineaste of the Year) at 2002 Cannes Film Festival for directing '' In Vanda's Room''. '' Colossal Youth'' was selected for the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and earned the Independent/Experimental prize (Los Angeles Film Critics Association) in 2008. Horse Money was awarded the Leopard for Best Director in 2014, while his Vitalina Varela was awarded the Gold Leopard for Best Film in 2019. Style and influe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Yorker
''The New Yorker'' is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a reporter for ''The New York Times''. Together with entrepreneur Raoul H. Fleischmann, they established the F-R Publishing Company and set up the magazine's first office in Manhattan. Ross remained the editor until his death in 1951, shaping the magazine's editorial tone and standards. ''The New Yorker''s fact-checking operation is widely recognized among journalists as one of its strengths. Although its reviews and events listings often focused on the Culture of New York City, cultural life of New York City, ''The New Yorker'' gained a reputation for publishing serious essays, long-form journalism, well-regarded fiction, and humor for a national and international audience, including work by writers such as Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, and Alice Munro. In the late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slant Magazine
''Slant Magazine'' is an American online publication that features reviews of movies, music, TV, DVDs, theater, and video games, as well as interviews with actors, directors, and musicians. The site covers various film festivals like the New York Film Festival. History ''Slant Magazine'' was launched in 2001. On January 21, 2010, it was relaunched and absorbed the entertainment blog ''The House Next Door'', founded by Matt Zoller Seitz, a former ''New York Times'' and '' New York Press'' writer, and maintained by Keith Uhlich, former '' Time Out New York'' film critic, who was the blog's editor until 2012. In the media ''Slant''s reviews, which A. O. Scott of ''The New York Times'' has described as "passionate and often prickly", have occasionally been the source of debate and discourse online and in the media. Ed Gonzalez's review of Kevin Gage's 2005 film '' Chaos'' sparked some controversy when Roger Ebert quoted it in his review of the film for the '' Chicago Sun-Time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery to encourage film production, distribution, and education. It is sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and partially funded under the British Film Institute Act 1949. Activities Purpose The BFI was established in 1933 to encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record of contemporary life and manners, to promote education about film, television and the moving image generally, and their impact on society, to promote access to and appreciation of the widest possible range of British and world cinema and to establish, care for and develop collections reflecting the moving image history, heritage and culture of the United Kingdom. Archive The BFI maintain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sight & Sound
''Sight and Sound'' (formerly written ''Sight & Sound'') is a monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI). Since 1952, it has conducted the well-known decennial ''Sight and Sound'' Poll of the Greatest Films of All Time. History and content ''Sight and Sound'' was first published in Spring 1932 as "A quarterly review of modern aids to learning published under the auspices of the British Institute of Adult Education". In 1934, management of the magazine was handed to the nascent British Film Institute (BFI), which still publishes the magazine today. ''Sight and Sound'' was published quarterly for most of its history until the early 1990s, apart from a brief run as a monthly publication in the early 1950s, but in 1991 it merged with another BFI publication, the ''Monthly Film Bulletin'', and started to appear monthly. In 1949, Gavin Lambert, co-founder of film journal ''Sequence'', was hired as the editor, and also brought with him ''Sequence'' editor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Baschieri
Mario (; ) is a character created by the Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. He is the star of the ''Mario (franchise), Mario'' franchise, a recurring character in the ''Donkey Kong'' franchise, and the mascot of the Japanese video game company Nintendo. Mario is an Italian plumber who lives in the Mushroom Kingdom with his younger twin brother, Luigi. Their adventures generally involve rescuing Princess Peach from the villain Bowser while using power-ups that give them different abilities. Mario is distinguished by his large nose and mustache, overalls, red cap, and high-pitched, exaggerated Italian accent. Mario debuted as the player character of ''Donkey Kong (1981 video game), Donkey Kong'', a 1981 platform game. Miyamoto created Mario because Nintendo was unable to license Popeye as the protagonist. The graphical limitations of arcade cabinet, arcade hardware influenced Mario's design, such as his nose, mustache, and overalls, and he was named after Nintendo of Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
