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Italian production designer Paolo Comencini, whose recent credits include the box office hit There’s Still Tomorrow, will be feted with the Campari Passion for Film Award at the 81st Venice International Film Festival.

The ceremony will take place on September 6 to be followed by the Out of Competition screening of Il Tempo Che Ci Vuole by the production designer’s sister Francesca Comencini, which features the production designer’s work.

The father and daughter drama, starring Fabrizio Gifuni and Romana Maggiora Vergano, takes inspiration from their father, the iconic director Luigi Comencini.

Having cut her cinema teeth as an intern on Billy Wilder in Italy, Avanti! in 1978, Comencini began working with her father, before branching out into productions by her sisters and other directors.

Comencini’s more than production designer 50 credits include Michele Placido’s award-winning film Romanzo Criminale for which she received the David di...

It is the film that just keeps on delivering in Italy. Paola Cortellesi’s smash hit There’s Still Tomorrow (C’è Ancora Domani) returned to cinemas in Italy for International Women’s Day on March 8, taking €137,000 to finish in second place at the box office behind Dune: Part Two.

The post-war comedy drama has now taken $39.8m (€36.6m) since its release by Vision Distribution on October 26, 2023, after its premiere opening the Rome Film Festival. There’s Still Tomorrow was the top film at the Italian box office in 2023, ahead of Barbie (€32.1m) and Oppenheimer (€27.9m). It is also the first Italian film...

There’s Still Tomorrow, the new film that has just passed Greta Gerwig’s Barbie to become the most-watched movie in Italy this year, opens on a domestic scene. Delia, played by actress-turned-director Paola Cortellesi, wakes up next to her husband, Ivano (Valerio Mastandrea). “Buongiorno!” she says, brightly. Without a word, he slaps her. Hard. Then, as the soundtrack swells with a 40s romantic tune, Delia gets up to start her day. Violent abuse, it appears, is as much a part of her routine as brushing her hair and getting dressed for work.

It’s a shocking scene. At first, it looks like There’s Still Tomorrow, shot in stark black-and-white, will be a tribute to Italian neo-realist classics like Bicycle Thieves and Rome Open City. But this is no kitchen sink social drama. First come the one-liners: “All the problems started when people stopped marrying their cousins!” Ivano’s father-in-law complains to Delia.

Italy has submitted Matteo Garrone’s Io Capitano as its candidate for Best International Film at the 96th Academy Awards.

The timely drama follows the hardships of two Senegalese teenagers as they try to make it to Europe via the Sahara desert and the Mediterranean Sea.

The film world premiered to critical acclaim in Competition in Venice winning Best Director for Garrone, Best Young Star for co-star Seydou Sarr and Best Production Director for Claudia Cravotta.

The Deadline review out of Venice describes the film as “a blisteringly topical drama” that could be Garrone’s “best” film to date, in a filmography that also includes Gomorrah, Tale of Tales and Dogman.

The selection was made by a committee overseen by Italian cinema organisation Anica. Its members comprised Alessandro Araimo, Domizia De Rosa, Esmeralda Calabria, Daniela Ciancio, Francesca Lo Schiavo, Giorgio Moroder, Cristiana Paternò, Michele Placido, Paola Randi, Riccardo Tozzi and Gianpiero Tulelli.

Exclusive: Italian actress Eleonora Romandini, known in the U.S. for her role as Isabella, a concierge in HBO’s The White Lotus, has signed with Stride Management for representation.

Romandini shares a SAG Award nomination for Best Ensemble in a Drama Series for her role as Isabella, the object of hotel manager Valentina’s (Sabrina Impacciatore) affection on Season 2 of The White Lotus, created, written, directed and executive produced by Mike White.

A graduate of the 09 Academy in Milan in law, Romandini’s Italian series credits include Rai’s Il paradiso delle Signore and the short film Mythe Dior, directed by Matteo Garrone. She also appeared in the Raiuno series Makari 2 directed by Michele Soavi. She was most recently seen on the film side in the Riccardo Milani-directed Corro da te and in Il grande giornio, directed by Massimo Venier. On television she was most recently seen in...

Comic-Con isn’t the only movie convention generating buzz this week. Fledgling Italian distributor Vision, the potent collaboration between Sky Italia and leading local producers Cattleya, Wildside, Lucisano Media Group, Palomar and Indiana Production Company, revealed an impressive upcoming movie slate this week at Italian trade event Cinema Days.

Among buzzy projects revealed on the lineup was crime pic La Paranza Dei Bambini (literally Kids Gang), Gomorrah writer Roberto Saviano’s adaptation of his best-selling novel about youth gangs in Naples.

In the book, a new kind of gang rules the streets, the Paranze are groups of teenage boys who divide their time between Facebook or Call of Duty, and stalking the streets armed with pistols and Ak-47s in order to mark out their mafia bosses’ territories.

It tells the story of the rise of one such gang and its leader, Nicolas, known to his friends and enemies as...

'Father of the Bride': Steve Martin and Kimberly Williams. Top Five Father's Day Movies? From giant Gregory Peck to tyrant John Gielgud What would be the Top Five Father's Day movies ever made? Well, there have been countless films about fathers and/or featuring fathers of various sizes, shapes, and inclinations. In terms of quality, these range from the amusing – e.g., the 1950 version of Cheaper by the Dozen; the Oscar-nominated The Grandfather – to the nauseating – e.g., the 1950 version of Father of the Bride; its atrocious sequel, Father's Little Dividend. Although I'm unable to come up with the absolute Top Five Father's Day Movies – or rather, just plain Father Movies – ever made, below are the first five (actually six, including a remake) "quality" patriarch-centered films that come to mind. Now, the fathers portrayed in these films aren't all heroic, loving, and/or saintly paternal figures. Several are...

European Film 2013 The Best Offer, Giuseppe Tornatore Blancanieves, Pablo Berger The Broken Circle Breakdon, Felix van Groeningen La Grande Bellezza, Paolo Sorrentino Oh Boy! Jan Ole Gerster La Vie D...

The Broken Circle Breakdown, The Great Beauty and Adele: Chapters 1 & 2 among nominees.

The nominations for the 26th European Film Awards have been announced at the Seville European Film Festival.

More than 2,900 European Film Academy members will now vote for the winners who will be presented during the awards ceremony on Dec 7 in Berlin.

Nominated are:

European Film 2013

The Best Offer

Italy, 130 min

Written & Directed By: Giuseppe Tornatore

Produced By: Isabella Cocuzza & Arturo Paglia

Blancanieves

Spain/France, 104 min

Written & Directed By: Pablo Berger

Produced By: Ibon Cormenzana, Jérôme Vidal & Pablo Berger

The Broken Circle Breakdown

Belgium, 100 min

Directed By: Felix van Groeningen

Written By: Carl Joos & Felix van Groeningen

Produced By: Dirk Impens

La Grande Bellezza

The Great Beauty

Italy/France, 140 min

Directed By: Paolo Sorrentino

Written By: Paolo Sorrentino & Umberto Contarello

Produced By: Nicola Giuliano & Francesca Cima

Oh Boy!

Germany, 83 min

Written & Directed By: Jan Ole Gerster

Produced By: Marcos Kantis & Alexander Wadouh

La Vie D’Adele:...

Pedro Almodovar's I'm So Excited (Los Amantes Pasajeros) is one of four films competing for the inaugural best European comedy honor during the upcoming 26th edition of the European Film Awards. Among other big-name nominees for various honors unveiled on Saturday are Keira Knightley and Jude Law in the acting categories. The comedy category is being introduced this year at the awards dished out by the European Film Academy at a ceremony to be held in Berlin on Dec. 7. Almodovar's film is up against Riccardo Milani's Welcome Mr President! (Benvenuto Presidente), Susanne Bier's Love is All You Need

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