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5897 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 21/11/2025.

Peter Mullan’s Neds hits hard at San Sebastian 2010

Scottish actor and occasional director Peter Mullan’s latest directorial effort, Neds, had its European premiere in the Official Selection of the San Sebastian Film Festival over the weekend after...  

20/09/2010 | Festivals | France/UK/Italy

Summer audiences, domestic market share on the rise

Admissions went up in August while domestic films conquered 24% of the local market in the first eight months of 2010. According to data from Cinetel (which represents 85% of the entire market) in...  

16/09/2010 | Box Office | Italy

Local titles do well after Venice

Despite picking up no major awards at the Venice Film Festival, Italian titles are doing well at the local box office. Saverio Costanzo’s The Solitude of Prime Numbers, distributed by Medusa and...  

15/09/2010 | Box Office | Italy

Sharm el Sheikh a light-hearted comedy about a serious subject

There may be exotic beaches and bathing beauties (including Michela Quattrociocche, Elena Russo and Laura Torrisi), but don’t call it a cinepanettone [the bawdy Christmas blockbusters]. Sharm el...  

14/09/2010 | Films | Italy

Caccia looks at life/death dichotomy in his first feature-length doc

Prolific documentary filmmaker Andrea Caccia’s first feature-length Life in the Time of Death, is an interesting, three-act and five-years-in-the-making meditation on life through its very...  

10/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Venice Days/Italy

Richard J. Lewis presents Barney’s Version

Paul Giamatti (Sideways, Cinderella Man) and Dustin Hoffman are a perfect pair, together with director Richard J. Lewis, to rise to the challenge of bringing Mordecai Richler’s literary...  

10/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition | Canada - Italy

Costanzo’s horror film of feelings

Oops, wrong theatre. This must be a retrospective of the 1970s films of thriller master Dario Argento. No, this really is it, Saverio Costanzo’s highly-anticipated The Solitude of Prime Numbers,...  

09/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition | Italy

First-time directors offer impressive slices of life in Peace on Earth

Matteo Botrugno and Daniele Coluccini have made an impressive feature debut with their ensemble story Peace on Earth, all the more impressive for the fact that it was made for under €100,000....  

09/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Venice Days/Italy

Heaven Without Earth captures sounds from the ether, images from nature

Venice Days title Heaven Without Earth is a true festival film, in a genre of its own. Perhaps best described as a creative documentary, in the film co-directors Giovanni Maderna and Sara Pozzoli...  

08/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Venice Days/Italy

Fishing, rap and immigration in Scimeca’s Malavoglia

The epic of the defeated par excellence, portrayed in literature by Giovanni Verga and then recreated in film by Luchino Visconti, has been updated for the third millennium in Pasquale Scimeca’s...  

07/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Horizons | Italy

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