Tag: Gianni Amelio

Campo di Battaglia (Battlefield) | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review

Down with the Sickness: Amelio Probes Wartime Ethical Dilemmas The tagline for Battlefield, the latest from Italian auteur Gianni Amelio, could very well read “You...

2024 Venice: Corbet, Guadagnino, Haugerud, Kulumbegashvili, Salles, Tsangari & Yeo Siew Hua In Golden Lion Competition

21 films were selected for the 2024 Venice Film Festival competition and in the pack we find some surprises and several shoe-ins for the...

2024 Venice Film Festival Predictions: Walter Salles, Athina Rachel Tsangari & Harmony Korine

So here we are. The programming teams headed by Artistic Directors Gaia Furrer (Giornate degli Autori), Beatrice Fiorentino (Settimana Internazionale della Critica) and Alberto...

Lord of the Ants (Il signore delle formiche) | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review

Triumph of the (Court's) Will: Amelio Delves into Infamously Homophobic Italian Court Case Perennial Italian auteur Gianni Amelio goes back to the contentious political climate...

2022 Venice Film Festival: Alice Diop, Poitras, Panahi & Iñárritu Among Front-Runners for the Golden Lion!

With only one title left to be unveiled (for the time being, let's call it the August 30th pre-opener as it will be actually...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #57. Gianni Amelio’s Il signore delle formiche

Il signore delle formiche Septuagenarian Gianni Amelio is showing zero signs of slowing down quickly after 2020's Hammamet he climbed onto a film that could...

Introducing Our Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: A Precursor (Picks 300 to 151)

As we wave au revoir to a year in cinema that gave us the Berlinale Golden Bear winner Synonyms, the Cannes Palme d'Or winner...

The Conversation: Time for TIFF 2019 – Predictions!

The Toronto International Film Festival is set to unspool its latest monolithic program. A major cue to set Oscar season into motion, the line-up...

Venice 2017: Weiwei, Haigh, Maoz, Doueiri & Kechiche Compete for Golden Lion

Despite the number of spoilers in TIFF announcements less than 48 hours back, the are some top filmmaker names and highly anticipated film items...

The Conversation: The 2017 Venice & TIFF Vortex

As the fall festival circuit looms, anticipation is high for a number of items expected to premiere in the fourth quarter. Following a glut...

Stacked 2013 Venice Edition Includes Latest Miyazaki, Ki-Duk, Ming-liang, Dolan and Frederick Wiseman

With still several films not yet announced for the behemoth Toronto Int. Film Festival,  it appears that 2013 will be a significant cross-over year...

TIFF’s Phat 2013 Line-up Includes Latest From: Chomet, Egoyan, Holofcener, Glazer, Gordon Green & Reichardt

With dramatic fare such as August: Osage County, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Dallas Buyers Club, 2013's Toronto Int. Film Festival once again...

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