Tag: Marco Bellocchio
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...
The Life Apart | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
Imitation of Life: Giordana Composes an Old-Fashioned Miracle
Music seems to be the language of the heart in The Life Apart (La vita accanto), a bizarre...
2024 Venice: Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Fabrice du Welz, Asif Kapadia, Errol Morris & Harmony Korine Out of Comp
While we might still be on the fence about what is being described as a first-person shooter-type experience in Harmony Korine's Baby Invasion, but...
2023 NYFF: Haigh, Hamaguchi, Lanthimos, Triet, Glazer and Annie Baker in Main Slate
We were scratching our heads on where films such as Andrew Haigh's (retitled) All of Us Strangers and the under-the-radar A24 film by Annie...
2023 TIFF: Rustin, The Holdovers, Memory, The Beast, NYAD, Fingernails, Hit Man & The Royal Hotel Get Confirmed Itineraries
With one announcement we got confirmations for films that will either exclusively play in Toronto or will hit either Telluride and/or Venice just prior....
2023 Cannes Film Festival: Nicholas Bell & Eric Lavallée’s Top 10
We arrived. We watched. We reviewed. We lost a lot of sleep and we battled the ticketing system. Combining our efforts to bring you...
Marco Bellocchio’s Kidnapped – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7
If we don't count the pandemic year, it will be four consecutive showings in Cannes for the maestro. The Traitor was in competition in...
Kidnapped (Rapito) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
A Soul to Take: Bellocchio Deliriously Dissects a Papal Delictum
Marco Bellocchio has lost none of his flair nor his energetic zest in his latest...
You BETcha!: Kaouther Ben Hania, Ramata-Toulaye Sy, Alice Rohrwacher, Wang Bing & Glazer Top Contenders for the Palme d’Or
Yesterday the Cannes Film Festival opened with Maïwenn’s Jeanne du Barry (marking the return of Johnny Depp in the French language no less) but...
Live from Cannes: 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
Last year Ruben Östlund took home the big daddy of film prizes winning his second Palme d'Or and this year he gets to be...
2023 Cannes: Glazer, Ceylan, Rohrwacher, Haynes & Ramata-Toulaye Sy Competing for the Palme d’Or
A surprise Wim Wenders project (Perfect Days), a rare directorial debut Ramata-Toulaye Sy (Banel et Adama) and a Wang Bing film (Jeunesse) are part...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #13. Marco Bellocchio’s La conversione
La conversione
The true story has put the fear of god in the directors who consider making it, but finally, it was Italian maestro Marco...
2022 NYFF: James Ivory, Martin Scorsese, Schrader’s She Said, Chukwu’s Till, & Polley’s Women Talking in Spotlight Section
And finally, it is the New York Film Festival that will have lassoed the highly anticipated world premiere to Maria Schrader’s She Said. Initially,...
Esterno notte (Exterior Night) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Dead in Red: Bellocchio Returns to Infamous Kidnapping for Television Debut
In his continuation in recuperating fantastical elements of Italian political and criminal history, Marco...
2022 Cannes: Quentin Dupieux, Panos H. Koutras, George Miller & Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes in Cannes Non-Comp
The best film from Sundance (Shaunak Sen's All That Breathes), the film that Sundance lost (Michel Hazanvicius' Final Cut), Quentin Dupieux's second film to...
Criterion Collection: Fists in the Pocket | Blu-ray Review
Criterion re-releases the mordant directorial debut of Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio, Fists in the Pocket (1965), just as the perennial filmmaker ends his sixth...
The Conversation: The Best of Cannes 2019
Zombies. The Undead. Reincarnation. These were some of the central themes and motifs displayed throughout an alarming amount of films in the 2019 official...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor
Master filmmaker Marco Bellocchio returns to Cannes (he was last there for 2016’s Sweet Dreams - a Directors’ Fortnight entry) for what will be...
The Traitor | 2019 Cannes Film Festival Review
Witness for the Prosecution: Bellocchio Delivers Vigorous Portrait of the Man Who Took Down the Cosa Nostra
Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio, on the verge of...
Live from Cannes: 2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
While the competition jury have some major clout in the likes of Iñárritu, Lanthimos, Pawlikowski, Reichardt, Campillo, Alice Rohrwacher, Elle Fanning, Maimouna N’Diaye, and...
2019 Cannes Film Festival: Mati Diop, Jessica Hausner & Céline Sciamma In Competition
Expect the unexpected. A mix of new faces and veteran filmmakers will make up the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival with first works...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #32. The Traitor – Marco Bellocchio
The Traitor
Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio, whose radical early works were a seminal part of 1960s and 1970s Italian cinema, embarks on his latest feature...
2018 Cannes: Ciro Guerra, Gaspar Noé, Romain Gavras, Jaime Rosales & Debra Granik Fill Directors’ Fortnight
Heavy on Spanish language films (including a Brazilian film not in its mother tongue) and the usual block of French film items, after seven years...
Through the Looking Glass – The Top 50 Foreign Films of 2019: Picks #50 to #11
As we look forward to a plentiful year of new cinematic offerings in 2018, it’s also time to look even further into the horizon...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #100-11
As the cinematic landscape begins to take shape with the upcoming editions of Sundance, Berlin, and Rotterdam, here are 100 titles of note to...
Directors’ Fortnight: Larraín, Nguyen, Lafosse, Poitras, Kashyap, Schrader & Jodo Among 2016 Line-up
Three films from Italy, one posthumous offering from Solveig Anspach and plenty of robust, yet familiar "Quinzaine" faces figure among the eighteen selections announced...
The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell – The 2016 Edition
Tis the season for fevered wish lists and constantly fluctuating prognostications concerning the soon to be revealed 2016 program at the Cannes Film Festival....
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #60. Marco Bellocchio’s Sweet Dreams
Sweet Dreams
Director: Marco Bellocchio
Writer: Massimo Gramellini
Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio shows no signs of slowing down in his sixth decade of filmmaking. Hot off his...
2015 TIFF: Venice Preems from Masters Skolimowski, Bellocchio & Sokurov Among 13
As usual, the Masters programme is cholk-full of carryover items from world renowned auteurs who've already premiered last February (Berlin), this past May (Cannes)...
2015 Venice Film Festival: Guadagnino, Sokurov, Kaufman, Bellocchio & Fukunaga Compete for Golden Lion
With the exception of Cary Fukunaga's Beasts of No Nation and Tom Hooper's The Danish Girl, the nineteen other films in Venice Film Festival's...
Cinema Italiano: 2015 Venice Film Festival Predictions
Now that we’ve come out of the Cannes ether, we can examine several of the names glaringly absent from the lineup that may potentially...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #65. Marco Bellocchio’s L’ultimo Vampiro
L'ultimo Vampiro
Director: Marco Bellocchio // Writer: Marco Bellocchio
Marco Bellocchio is a key figure from mid-60s radical Italian cinema with his 1965 film Fists in...
Video Interview: Marco Bellocchio (Dormant Beauty)
Like most of his contemporaries making their first films in Italy during the 1960s, director Marco Bellocchio has been telling stories rich in social...
Dormant Beauty | Review
Sleepytime Drama: Bellocchio Messy Message Movie
After yet another career peak with his 2009 film Vincere, Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio continues his examination of Italian...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #68. Marco Bellocchio’s La Monaca
La Monaca (La Prigione di Bobbio)
Director: Marco Bellocchio
Writer: Marco Bellocchio
Producer: Simone Gattoni
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Ambra Angiolini, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Lidiya Liberman, Alberto Bellocchio
Bellocchio-ian...
