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It is the first edition under artistic director Paola Malanga.

Paola Malanga, the new artistic director of the Rome Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for the 2022 edition, taking place from October 13-23.

The international competition will showcase 16 titles including Lila Neugebauer’s Causeway, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Mounia Meddour’s Houria and Firam Khoury’s Alam and Wang Xiaoshuai’s The Hotel.

Francesca Archibugi’s The Hummingbird, starring Pierfrancesco Favino, Bérénice Bejo, Nanni Moretti and Laura Morante will open the festival out of competition, fresh from its world premiere at Toronto and just ahead of its Italian release on October...

The Rome Film Festival is under new management following a political shake-up that has led to the appointment of Rai Cinema executive Paola Malanga as the fest’s artistic director and Gian Luca Farinelli, who heads the Bologna film archives, as president.

Malanga, who was appointed late on Tuesday, replaces Antonio Monda, the New York based journalist and film academic who during his seven-year stint at the helm of the event secured a steady stream of high-caliber guests such as Quentin Tarantino, Tim Burton and Angelina Jolie, to mention a few names on the Rome red carpet at last year’s edition.

Farinelli –– who has been appointed president of the Cinema Per Roma foundation that oversees the Rome fest –– takes the reins from Laura Delli Colli, a prominent film journo and critic who remains on the foundation’s board.

The new Rome fest regime was prompted by the election last...

Rai Cinema executive succeeds Antonio Monda.

Rai Cinema executive Paola Malanga has been appointed artistic director of the Rome Film Festival, succeeding Antonio Monda who has held the role since 2015.

The change at the helm of the Festa del Cinema – as the event is known locally – was announced on Tuesday evening (March 29) following a meeting of the board of directors of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, the body behind the festival.

Malanga’s appointment spans a three-year term, with the new artistic director scheduled to oversee the upcoming 17th edition of the festival in autumn 2022, for which dates have yet to be set.

Quentin Tarantino was at the Rome Film Festival last night to receive a lifetime achievement award from the festival and Italian horror legend Dario Argento.

During a wide-ranging on-stage talk about his career with fest head Antonio Monda, Tarantino discussed his influences, behind-the-scenes anecdotes from his movies and his appreciation for Italian cinema.

At one point, Tarantino was asked whether he would consider making a movie in Italy, specifically at Rome’s famous Cinecitta Studios, site of classic movies including Ben-Hur, Cleopatra, La Dolce Vita and more recently, The English Patient.

The American filmmaker responded enthusiastically: “I would love that. I know my wife would love that. That would be special and wonderful, especially to shoot at Cinecitta. I need to come up with the right story.”

About Italian films of the 70s and 80s, the Pulp Fiction and Django director said: “I was lucky enough to come of age in the 70s.

Quentin Tarantino says he has “no idea” what his next film will be. Could it be “Kill Bill 3”?

“Why not?” the director said when pressed on this burning issue on Tuesday at the Rome Film Festival, where he received a lifetime achievement award from Italian horror maestro Dario Argento.

But Tarantino’s also got other projects on the horizon. They include a film criticism book and possibly a TV series, as Tarantino told talk show host Fabio Fazio, of Italian state broadcaster Rai, on Sunday, before adding: “But first I want to make a comedy.”

Comedy seems to be on Tarantino’s mind. During an onstage conversation with Rome fest chief Antonio Monda, he described an unspecified project that sounded very funny.

“It’s not like my next movie. It’s a piece of something else that I’m thinking about doing — and I’m not going to describe what it is,...

For the Rome Film Festival’s 16th edition — which opens Thursday — Artistic Director Antonio Monda has secured high caliber guests such as Quentin Tarantino and Tim Burton, who are being fêted. Also attending are “Gravity” director Alfonso Cuaron and influential comics writer, artist and director Frank Miller, creator of the “Dark Knight” Batman comics series as well as “Sin City” and “300,” who is coming for the world premiere of celebratory doc “Frank Miller — American Genius” by Silenn Thomas.

The Eternal City’s Festa del Cinema, as the event is known locally, will close with Chloé Zhao’s “Eternals,” which marks “the first time a Marvel movie goes to a festival,” Monda boasts. Angelina Jolie is expected by the Italian press to hit the red carpet, although Monda won’t confirm.

Jessica Chastain and Vincent D’Onofrio are instead confirmed for Rome’s opening film, “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” by Michael Showalter.

Tim Burton and Quentin Tarantino will also receive lifetime achievement awards at the festival.

The Rome Film Fest (14-24 October) has announced that a film version of Emily Mortimer’s The Pursuit Of Love is the first title in its 2021 selection.

Originally a three-part series led by Lily James, Dominic West, Andrew Scott and Mortimer herself, it will be re-edited as a feature film.

The project is based on the novel by Nancy Mitford and first aired on BBC One in the UK. It was produced by Moonage Pictures and Open Book for the BBC, with Amazon co-producing and taking streaming rights for various territories.

Rome Film Festival artistic director Antonio Monda on Monday unveiled a rich lineup for the event’s 15th edition, which is on track to take place Oct. 15-25 as a physical event. It comprises 24 titles repping a well-assorted mix of mainstream movies in the official selection – such as Pixar’s “Soul,” the fest’s opener – and also more eclectic fare.

Most of the films have surfaced previously, including nine entries that carry a Cannes 2020 label. And among these Monda regrets he was unable to get “The French Dispatch” by Wes Anderson, a director with whom he has a personal rapport.

Still, Monda has also secured some world premieres this year, including “Home,” which marks the directorial debut of German actor Franka Potente (“The Bourne Supremacy”), and Algeria-set drama “My Traitor, My Love,” by France’s Helier Cisterne.

And he is expecting some high-caliber international guests to be on hand. Among...

Presented in Rome and overseen for the sixth year by Antonio Monda, the festival programme boasts numerous Italian debuts and international guests. “In what has been a dramatic year for all of us, it might seem inappropriate to talk about a celebration. And yet, it is necessary to do so, in order to send out a signal of recovery and normality”. The show must go on for Antonio Monda, artistic director of Rome Film Fest which will this year be celebrating its 15th edition with obligatory masks, social distancing and temperature checks for all, at this very delicate point in time where Coronavirus infections are rising once again. And so, it was with “happiness and pride” that the director outlined the Film Fest programme in Rome this morning, an event unspooling 15 - 25 October and encompassing various venues in the city, over and above the usual Parco della Musica...

Festival to go ahead as a physical event with guests including Thomas Vinterberg and Francois Ozon.

Rome Film Fest has revealed the programme and plans for its 15th edition, which is set to go ahead as a physical event with digital elements from October 15-25.

A total of 24 films and documentaries will comprise the official selection, most of which have proved critically-acclaimed at festivals such as Toronto, with nine having previously received a Cannes 2020 label.

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These include three titles from Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology: Mangrove; Lovers Rock; and Red, White And Blue. The...

Disney and Pixar’s existential cartoon “Soul” has been set as the opening film of the Rome Film Festival, which is scheduled to take place as a physical event Oct. 15-25.

A festival rep said she was unsure whether the film’s director Pete Docter, who is also chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, will be able to make the trek to Rome.

It is also unclear what Disney’s release plans are for “Soul” for which the studio has set a Nov. 20 U.S. release date, though Variety has reported it is instead exploring various other options, including moving it straight to Disney Plus. A Disney rep did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“Soul” had previously been selected to launch from the cancelled Cannes Film Festival, so it carries the Cannes 2020 label.

It is the third Disney/Pixar film from Pete Docter that made the cut for Cannes.

Uncertainty over whether talent from US will attend amid ongoing pandemic crisis in that country.

Rome Film Fest brass are targeting a physical event that will include Cannes 2020 label films, a tribute to the late Ennio Morricone, and a film about Italian football superstar and local legend Francesco Totti.

Festival director Antonio Monda said on Friday (July 17) that Cannes head Thierry Fremaux will be in Rome accompanying Cannes selections (and to speak on the evolution of festivals in the Close Encounters section).

While the hope is that talent will also attend the event, set to run from October 15-25, uncertainty...

The Rome Film Festival has announced plans to hold a physical edition from Oct. 15-25, featuring several titles from the Cannes Film Festival’s Official Selection, alongside a roster of other pics including David Bowie origin pic “Stardust” and local crowdpleaser “Mi Chiamo Francesco Totti” (“My Name is Francesco Totti”), a doc about the A.S. Roma soccer team’s iconic former captain.

Produced by Fremantle’s Italian units Lorenzo Mieli’s The Apartment and Mario Gianani’s Wildside and other partners including Vision Distribution, Rai Cinema and Amazon Prime Video, “Totti” is described in promotional materials as an intimate tale, told in first person, about both Totti the athlete and the man, a native Roman who spent his entire 24-year career with A.S. Roma before retiring in 2017. Vision is handling international sales.

“Totti” is directed by Alex Infascelli who previously made a well-received doc titled “S is for Stanley,...

Ginevra Elkann with Alba Rohrwacher at the Museum of Modern Art premiere of Magari (If Only) Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

At the Istituto Luce Cinecittà opening night reception for The Wonders: Alice and Alba Rohrwacher at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, while Julian Schnabel circulated through the crowd and Sony Pictures Classics Michael Barker and Rome Film Festival Artistic Director and Le Conversazioni founder Antonio Monda held court, Ginevra Elkann, the director of Magari (If Only) joined me for a conversation on her debut feature film, co-written with Chiara Barzini.

Riccardo Scamarcio as Carlo with Alba Rohrwacher as Benedetta in Magari (If Only)

Magari, shot by Vladan Radovic, stars Oro De Commarque, Alba Rohrwacher, Céline Sallette, Brett Gelman, and Riccardo Scamarcio with Ettore Giustiniani, Milo Roussel, and Benjamin Baroche. After viewing If Only, I thought of my Babsi, Isabella Rossellini’s Nando, and Thom Browne’s Hector with Andrew Bolton,...

Rajendra Roy, the Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film at the Museum of Modern Art with Istituto Luce Cinecittà’s Camilla Cormanni, Alice Rohrwacher, and Alba Rohrwacher Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

At the Istituto Luce Cinecittà opening night reception for The Wonders: Alice and Alba Rohrwacher at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Julian Schnabel circulated through the crowd, Sony Pictures Classics Michael Barker chatted with Magari (If Only) director Ginevra Elkann and Rome Film Festival Artistic Director and Le Conversazioni founder Antonio Monda held court.

Alba Rohrwacher on Alice Rohrwacher’s The Wonders: “I can say it's my life, but from her point of view.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

There is only one actress linked to Gianni Zanasi’s Troppa Grazia (Lucia’s Grace); Giorgio Diritti’s L’Uomo Che Verrà (The Man Who Will Come); Luca Guadagnino’s Lo Sono L’Amore (I Am Love) and Part...

Viola Davis closed out the Rome Film Festival on Saturday night at a special event where she was honored with the fest’s lifetime achievement award.

The actress, who discussed her work at a Close Encounter talk with festival head Antonio Monda, covered a wide range of topics, from her groundbreaking role as Annalise Keating on How to Get Away With Murder to her tough audition for the Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Fences opposite Denzel Washington. Davis not only won the role, but later received an Academy Award for the 2016 film adaptation.

Earlier in the week, Martin Scorsese ...

Viola Davis closed out the Rome Film Festival on Saturday night at a special event where she was honored with the fest’s lifetime achievement award.

The actress, who discussed her work at a Close Encounter talk with festival head Antonio Monda, covered a wide range of topics, from her groundbreaking role as Annalise Keating on How to Get Away With Murder to her tough audition for the Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Fences opposite Denzel Washington. Davis not only won the role, but later received an Academy Award for the 2016 film adaptation.

Earlier in the week, Martin Scorsese ...

Austrian playwright and author Peter Handke, perhaps best-known in film circles for his screenplay of Wim Wenders’ classic Wings Of Desire, has won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature. Playwright, novelist, screenwriter and director Handke also wrote Wenders’ movie The Goalie’s Anxiety At The Penalty Kick and directed movies including The Left-Handed Woman and The Absence, both of which starred Bruno Ganz. The decision to award Handke won’t be without controversy given his support for the Serbs during the 1990s Yugoslav war, and for speaking at the 2006 funeral of Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic, who was accused of genocide and other war crimes. Meanwhile, Polish novelist and activist Olga Tokarczuk belatedly won the 2018 award, which was delayed by a year after a crisis in the academy sparked by allegations against Jean-Claude Arnault, the husband of Nobel Academy member Katarina Frostenson. Agnieszka Holland adapted one of Tokarczuk’s most celebrated novels into the 2017 movie Spoor.

Women stand centre stage in this 14th edition of the event spearheaded by Antonio Monda, while Bill Murray, Ethan Coen, Olivier Assayas and Bertrand Tavernier feature among the great many guests. It’s a dual-natured event: captivating and elegant, much like the face of Greta Garbo which adorns this year’s festival poster, and on the hunt for new discoveries, as befits its 14 years of age… a teenage festival, if you will. This is how Laura Delli Colli, the president of Rome’s Cinema Foundation, summed up edition number 14 of Rome Film Fest, which is set to unspool from 17 to 27 October. As per usual, it’s a celebration of film which doesn’t involve film prizes (with the exception of the Audience Award), which boasts just the right dose of pop culture and which sees big-name guests in attendance not only to promote their most recent works, but also, and quite.

John Turturro’s “The Big Lebowski” spinoff, “The Jesus Rolls,” which follows his “Lebowski” character Jesus Quintana, will world premiere as a pre-opening event at the Rome Film Festival, which announced on Friday a lineup packed with potential awards contenders and plenty of big names booked for onstage conversations.

“The Jesus Rolls,” which Turturro directed from his own script and which also stars Bobby Cannavale, Audrey Tautou, Jon Hamm, Susan Sarandon and Pete Davidson, will screen in Rome on Oct. 16, prior to its release in Italian cinemas via distributor Europictures the following day, ahead of its U.S. release in early 2020.

As previously announced, the Eternal City extravaganza will open with Edward Norton’s new film, “Motherless Brooklyn,” on Oct. 17, followed by a slew of hot titles in the official selection that recently surfaced at other fests or launched directly in cinemas, such as Tom Harper’s “The Aeronauts,” “Downton Abbey,...

Viola Davis will receive a lifetime achievement award at this year’s Rome Film Festival (October 17-27).

The Oscar, Emmy and Tony-winning American actress will attend the festival to pick up her prize and participate in a ‘Close Encounter’ on-stage conversation, in which she will discuss her career across film, theatre and TV.

“Viola Davis is an extraordinary actress, who has transformed sincerity and dignity into sublime thespian art. It is a great honour for me, and for the Rome Film Fest, to celebrate her formidable talent and deep humanity,” said Antonio Monda, Rome’s artistic director.

Rome will hand out two lifetime achievement awards this year, with Bill Murray previously announced as the recipient of the other; Wes Anderson will be in town to present Murray’s award.

Today, the festival also announced it will close with the world premiere of Tornare, from filmmaker Cristina Comencini, whose 2005 drama Don’t Tell was Oscar nominated.

The Rome Film Fest is set to honor Oscar, Emmy, and Tony-winning actress Viola Davis with its second lifetime achievement award this year. Davis will also participate in one of the event’s "Close Encounter" talks, discussing her work with festival head Antonio Monda.

“Viola Davis is an extraordinary actress, who has transformed sincerity and dignity into sublime thespian art,” Monda said Tuesday in a statement. “It is a great honor for me, and for the Rome Film Fest, to celebrate her formidable talent and deep humanity.”

Davis is a three-time Oscar nominee, taking ...

The Rome Film Fest is set to honor Oscar, Emmy, and Tony-winning actress Viola Davis with its second lifetime achievement award this year. Davis will also participate in one of the event’s "Close Encounter" talks, discussing her work with festival head Antonio Monda.

“Viola Davis is an extraordinary actress, who has transformed sincerity and dignity into sublime thespian art,” Monda said Tuesday in a statement. “It is a great honor for me, and for the Rome Film Fest, to celebrate her formidable talent and deep humanity.”

Davis is a three-time Oscar nominee, taking ...

Edward Norton’s U.S. crime-drama Motherless Brooklyn will open this year’s Rome Film Festival, which runs October 17-27. Set against the backdrop of 1950s New York, pic follows Lionel Essrog, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette’s Syndrome, as he ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend. Norton directs and stars alongside, Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Leslie Mann, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Willem Dafoe. Norton will travel to Rome to take part in an on-stage conversation with the festival’s artistic director Antonio Monda. Rome’s full line-up, including the industry-focused Mia Market, will be unveiled in the coming weeks. Warner Bros is handling worldwide distribution on Motherless Brooklyn and will begin the international rollout from October 31. The film debuted at Telluride.

Euro TV sales outfit Drg has boosted its Mipcom slate with titles including Killing Michael Jackson, Zig Zag Productions’ 60-minute TV movie...

Edward Norton's new film Motherless Brooklyn will open the 14th Rome Film Fest on Oct. 17.

The three-time Oscar nominee wrote, produced, directed and starred in the film, based on the novel by Jonathan Lethem.

“Motherless Brooklyn is a magnificent noir, in the tradition of the finest classic cinema," said Rome Film Fest director Antonio Monda. “Edward Norton displays a firm hand and unblinking eye in directing this eternal story of ambition, corruption and racism. It is a great honor to open the Rome Film Fest with a film of such quality.”

After ...

Edward Norton's new film Motherless Brooklyn will open the 14th Rome Film Fest on Oct. 17.

The three-time Oscar nominee wrote, produced, directed and starred in the film, based on the novel by Jonathan Lethem.

“Motherless Brooklyn is a magnificent noir, in the tradition of the finest classic cinema," said Rome Film Fest director Antonio Monda. “Edward Norton displays a firm hand and unblinking eye in directing this eternal story of ambition, corruption and racism. It is a great honor to open the Rome Film Fest with a film of such quality.”

After ...

Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” will be among highlights of the upcoming Rome Film Festival, following its European launch as the closing film at the BFI London Film Festival.

As with the Oct. 13 London premiere, key cast members of the hotly anticipated Netflix film are expected to attend the screening in Rome, as is Scorsese. The Rome premiere, which festival director Antonio Monda described as the event’s “centerpiece,” will take place on October 21.

“The Irishman” reunites Scorsese with his “Gangs of New York” screenwriter Steve Zaillian, who adapts from Charles Brandt’s novel “I Heard You Paint Houses,” about the unsolved mystery of union boss Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance. The long-gestating film provides “a monumental journey through the hidden corridors of organized crime: its inner workings, rivalries and connections to mainstream politics,” according to promotional materials.

Besides Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, who star in the roles of Frank Sheeran and Jimmy Hoffa,...

Martin Scorsese and Netflix’s The Irishman will get a centerpiece screening at the Rome Film Festival on October 21.

The film will have its world premiere at the New York Film Festival on September 27 and its international premiere at the London Film Festival in mid-October before a limited theatrical run in early November and a Netflix release later in the month.

The anticipated crime-epic tells a sprawling story that culminates in the murder of Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa — played by Al Pacino — as seen through the eyes of WWII vet Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), a hustler and hitman who claims he ended Hoffa’s life on orders of mob boss Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci). Hoffa’s body has never been found and Sheeran’s admission is one of numerous theories of the union boss’s demise.

“The participation of The Irishman as the centerpiece at the Rome Film Fest...

Martin Scorsese's new three-and-a-half-hour epic The Irishman is set to play the 2019 Rome Film Festival as its centerpiece screening. 

"The participation of The Irishman as the centerpiece at the Rome Film Fest is a great honor for me and for everyone working at the Fest," said festival director Antonio Monda. "The Irishman is the most highly anticipated film of the year and boasts an exceptional cast: The decision to present it in Rome is yet another acknowledgment of how the fest has grown over the years." 

The Irishman takes place over multiple decades in America, exploring ...

Martin Scorsese's new three-and-a-half-hour epic The Irishman is set to play the 2019 Rome Film Festival as its centerpiece screening. 

"The participation of The Irishman as the centerpiece at the Rome Film Fest is a great honor for me and for everyone working at the Fest," said festival director Antonio Monda. "The Irishman is the most highly anticipated film of the year and boasts an exceptional cast: The decision to present it in Rome is yet another acknowledgment of how the fest has grown over the years." 

The Irishman takes place over multiple decades in America, exploring ...

Like many outdoor screening series, the Rome-based Cinema America gathers hundreds of people during the summer to watch movies from around the world. This month, however, the group’s gathering turned into a battlefield. Following a June 16 screening of Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed,” four young men were hospitalized after brutal attacks by far-right fascists who singled out a victim for wearing a “Cinema America” t-shirt.

Four men were arrested following the 4 a.m. attack, which reflected the mounting showdowns between Italy’s growing far-right faction and anyone perceived as harboring leftist sentiments. It has also cast a light on the resilience of Cinema America, a seven-year-old collective that has fought back against local hate groups.

Schrader compared the ongoing showdown to May 1968, when the riots across France resulted in directors protesting across the country and the cancellation of the Cannes Film Festival. “All of a sudden, we’re having...

Bill Murray, Wes Anderson, Ron Howard, Bret Easton Ellis and Hirokazu Kore-eda all confirmed for masterclasses.

Bill Murray will receive the lifetime achievement award from this year’s Rome Film Fest (Oct 17-27) in an accolade to be presented by longtime collaborator Wes Anderson with whom he has worked on films including The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou and Moonrise Kingdom.

Anderson will also host a masterclass with Murray.

Additionally, the festival will host the a screening of Ron Howard’s documentary Pavarotti and a masterclass with the Us director.

The complete line-up of the festival will be unveiled onf...

The Rome Film Festival will celebrate Bill Murray with its lifetime achievement award, which will be presented to him by Wes Anderson.

Anderson, who has directed Murray in some of his most iconic roles, most notably in “The Royal Tenenbaums,” and in several other films such as “The Darjeeling Limited,” “Moonrise Kingdom” and “Grand Budapest Hotel,” is also scheduled to take part in an onstage conversation in Rome with Murray about the actor’s career.

The fest’s artistic director Antonio Monda also announced Monday that Oscar-winning director Ron Howard will be coming to the Eternal City to launch his “Pavarotti” documentary, which will be screening in the official selection. Howard will hold an onstage conversation.

Other prominent film personalities booked for Rome’s Close Encounters onstage chats, which are becoming one of the fest’s trademarks under Monda’s guidance, are French filmmakers Olivier Assayas and Bertrand Tavernier and American writer Bret Easton Ellis.

Cannes delegate general also reflects on controversial press screening changes and rise of Venice.

Cannes delegate general Thierry Frémaux has addressed the ongoing dispute between the French festival and Netflix during a Q&A at the Rome Film Fest.

He was speaking with Rome director Antonio Monda to an audience composed of industry members, film critics and journalists.

Cannes hosted two Netflix movies In Competition in 2017 (Bong Joon-ho’s Okja and Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories), causing an uproar from French distributors. A Competition ban for all movies that refused to commit to theatrical distribution in France followed in...

Cannes head Thierry Fremaux came to the Rome Film Festival to engage in a conversation with fest director Antonio Monda about the issues that film festivals are facing today in a post-Netflix world.

Naturally the topic of women filmmakers came up, as this year Cannes had just three movies out of 21 directed by women, and Venice had just one pic out of 21, which prompted outrage among some in the industry about how these festivals are choosing their films. Many asked if there was some unconscious bias among fest directors or if they were truly welcoming women filmmakers.

“...

Cannes head Thierry Fremaux came to the Rome Film Festival to engage in a conversation with fest director Antonio Monda about the issues that film festivals are facing today in a post-Netflix world.

Naturally the topic of women filmmakers came up, as this year Cannes had just three movies out of 21 directed by women, and Venice had just one pic out of 21, which prompted outrage among some in the industry about how these festivals are choosing their films. Many asked if there was some unconscious bias among fest directors or if they were truly welcoming women filmmakers.

“...

Cate Blanchett came to the Rome Film Festival on Friday to participate in a “Close Encounter” discussion with the fest’s artistic director Antonio Monda.

Blanchett talked about her life’s work, joking that she had to act to find Brad Pitt sexy in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and admitting that she was so nervous to receive a phone call to work with Martin Scorsese in The Aviator that she accepted the role without even understanding that she had committed to play Katharine Hepburn.

While looking at footage from Todd Haynes’ Carol, based on Patricia Highsmith's novel about ...

Cate Blanchett came to the Rome Film Festival on Friday to participate in a “Close Encounter” discussion with the fest’s artistic director Antonio Monda.

Blanchett talked about her life’s work, joking that she had to act to find Brad Pitt sexy in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and admitting that she was so nervous to receive a phone call to work with Martin Scorsese in The Aviator that she accepted the role without even understanding that she had committed to play Katharine Hepburn.

While looking at footage from Todd Haynes’ Carol, based on Patricia Highsmith's novel about ...

The film offers insight into the systems of the Shari’a court.

Specialist UK distributor Together Films has boarded Erika Cohn’s documentary The Judge, about the first female judge appointed to an Islamic Shari’a law court in the Middle East.

Together will release the film in 15 to 20 sites across the UK on November 23, with select screenings across wider Europe. Its release coincides with November’s Islampohobia Awareness Month in the UK, at a time when anti-Muslim incidents are on the rise, according to monitor group Tell Mama.

The documentary follows the appointment of Kholoud Al-Faqih to the courts,...

Other titles include Bad Times At El Royale and Park Chan-Wook series The Little Drummer Girl;

The 13th Rome Film Fest (18-28 October) has unveiled its line-up. It will feature in its non-competitive official selection 38 films, including the world premieres of Fede Alvarez’s The Girl In The Spider’s Web with Claire Foy and Gilles De Maistre’s Mia Et Le Lion Blanc, featuring Melanie Laurent.

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Opening with Drew Goddard’s Bad Times At El Royale, Antonio Monda’s fourth edition confirms itself as a “fest” and not a “festival” as the director specifies.

This fall's Rome Film Fest is already filling out its lineup.

The Italian festival is set to broadcast the entire History Channel docuseries Watergate from Oscar winner Charles Ferguson (Inside Job).

The 1972 scandal that brought down then-President Richard Nixon has become increasingly relevant as questions on the legalities of how Donald Trump came to office continue to plague the current administration. The Rome Film Fest under artistic director Antonio Monda has taken a great interest in American politics. The 2016 edition included a retrospective of American presidential films.

Also announced: Jonathan Safran Foer, best-selling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely ...

This fall's Rome Film Fest is already filling out its lineup.

The Italian festival is set to broadcast the entire History Channel docuseries Watergate from Oscar winner Charles Ferguson (Inside Job).

The 1972 scandal that brought down then-President Richard Nixon has become increasingly relevant as questions on the legalities of how Donald Trump came to office continue to plague the current administration. The Rome Film Fest under artistic director Antonio Monda has taken a great interest in American politics. The 2016 edition included a retrospective of American presidential films.

Also announced: Jonathan Safran Foer, best-selling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely ...

Screen’s preview of upcoming events from the next seven days.

Sunday June 24 Italy’s Biografilm Festival closes in Bologna with the Italian premiere of Alonso Ruizpalacios’ Museo. Monday June 25 The Sunny Side of the Doc festival opens in La Rochelle in France. It runs to June 28. Artistic director Antonio Monda of the Rome Film Festival will unveil key details of this year’s event to be held October 18-28. Primetime Emmys - 22.00 (Pst) is the deadline for the final voting round before the nominations are announced on July 17. Thursday June 28 Germany’s Munich Film Festival opens with the world premiere of Joachim A.

Martin Scorsese will be honored with the 13th annual Rome Film Fest's lifetime achievement award. Italian director Paolo Taviani will present the honor. 

The announcement was made in Rome on Tuesday by the festival's director Antonio Monda and the head of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, Laura Delli Colli. 

Scorsese has long had ties to Italy. His grandparents on both sides emigrated to the United States from Palermo, Sicily. In 1999, he produced a documentary on Italian filmmakers, My Voyage to Italy, and later directed Gangs of New York in 2002 in Rome's famed Cinecitta ...

Martin Scorsese will be honored with the 13th annual Rome Film Fest's lifetime achievement award. Italian director Paolo Taviani will present the honor. 

The announcement was made in Rome on Tuesday by the festival's director Antonio Monda and the head of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, Laura Delli Colli. 

Scorsese has long had ties to Italy. His grandparents on both sides emigrated to the United States from Palermo, Sicily. In 1999, he produced a documentary on Italian filmmakers, My Voyage to Italy, and later directed Gangs of New York in 2002 in Rome's famed Cinecitta ...

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Anatomy of a Murder*: Edition #600

A virtuoso James Stewart plays a small-town Michigan lawyer who takes on a difficult case: the defense of a young army lieutenant (Ben Gazzara) accused of murdering a local tavern owner who he believes raped his wife (Lee Remick). Featuring an outstanding supporting cast-with a young George C. Scott as a fiery prosecutor and the legendary attorney Joseph N. Welch as the judge – and an influential score by Duke Ellington, this gripping envelope-pusher was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex. But more than anything else, it...

Jake Gyllenhaal discussed his career thus far during a Close Encounter discussion with Rome Film Festival director Antonio Monda during the 12th annual fest. In Italy to promote his new film Stronger, the actor talked about his biggest hits over his more than 25 years in the industry to a packed audience, reflecting on films from Donnie Darko to Nocturnal Animals.

On why Donnie Darko is such a cult film, Gyllenhaal said he thought the story resonated with people in a different way, as a very layered sci-fi film. “It’s ahead of its time, when I look at this movie...

The Rome Film Fest's artistic director Antonio Monda has been confirmed for another three years after being brought on to take over the reins in 2015. 

Monda had a successful first three years, which saw ticket sales rise and the return of A-list talent to Rome through the Close Encounters series. This year, David Lynch will be honored with the fest's lifetime achievement award and other confirmed guests include Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian McKellen and Vanessa Redgrave. 

Monda is also credited with rebranding the festival as a celebration of cinema, canceling the event's awards jury, with the exception of a People's...

Kathryn Bigelow's Detroit will screen at the Italian capital’s biggest film festival later this year, organizers of the Rome Film Fest said Monday.

"It is an extraordinary new film from a great director,” said fest director Antonio Monda. “It is a great honor to present a film of this quality."

The film details the Algiers Motel incident in July of 1967 during the 12th Street Riot in Detroit, resulting in the murder of three black men. Written by Academy Award winner Mark Boal, Detroit stars John Boyega, Will Poulter, Jacob Latimore, Jack Reynor and Hannah Murray.

Bigelow is the first and only woman to win an Academy Award for best director for her...

Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky will have its European premiere in Rome.

The 2017 Rome Film Festival (Oct 26-Nov 5) will honour David Lynch with a lifetime achievement award.

The director of Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks and The Elephant Man will also discuss his career onstage, as well as the three Italian directors that had the greatest influence on his career, including Federico Fellini.

The festival’s artistic director Antonio Monda said: “Mr. Lynch has prepared a great analysis of 8½”.

There will also be onstage masterclasses with Lord Of The Rings star Ian McKellen, who will discuss Jacques Tati; Cannes favourite Xavier Dolan (Mommy); Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk, who will talk horror films, and actress Vanessa Redgrave.

Monda, in his third year as festival director, said of the line-up: “The formula will be the same… but as these five names demonstrate I would like to slide towards the more popular side of the festival audience”.

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