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Title: Io, Arlecchino (I, Harlequin) Director: Matteo Bini, Giorgio Pasotti Starring: Giorgio Pasotti, Roberto Herlitzka, Valeria Bilello, Lunetta Savino, Lavinia Longhi, Gianni Ferreri, Eugenio De’ Giorgi, Massimo Molea. Paolo (Giorgio Pasotti) is an established television host in Rome. One day he receives a phone call that informs him that his father (Roberto Herlitzka) has been hospitalised in his hometown, Cornello del Tasso in the province of Bergamo. Paolo joins his father Giovanni to newly discover his great passion for the theatre, particularly the Commedia dell’Arte. Giovanni is in fact rehearsing, with his tiny theatre company, a show that tributes the 16th century comedy of craft, playing the light-hearted, nimble and [ Read More ]

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Title: The Great Beauty Director: Paolo Sorrentino Starring: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso, Iaia Forte, Pamela Villoresi, Galatea Ranzi, Massimo de Francovich, Roberto Herlitzka, Isabella Ferrari, Franco Graziosi, Giorgio Pasotti, Massimo Popolizio, Sonia Gessner, Anna della Rosa, Luca Marinelli, Serena Grandi, Ivan Franek, Vernon Dobtcheff, Dario Cantarelli, Lillo Petrolo, Luciano Virgilio, Giusi Merli, Anita Kravos, Giulio Brogi, Fanny Ardant. From the 30s to the 60s Italian Cinema was known worldwide, acclaimed, praised and represented a model of beauty. Today very few Italian movie directors have managed to establish themselves beyond their mother country, genuinely moving audiences and critics. The Neapolitan Paolo Sorrentino in these past few years has  [ Read More ]

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La Grande Bellezza

Director: Paolo Sorrentino

Writer(s): Sorrentino and Umberto Contarello

Producer(s): Francesca Cima and Nicola Giuliano

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

Cast: Toni Servillo, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Verdone, Isabella Ferrari and Giorgio Pasotti.

We give credit where credit is due – Paolo Sorrentino might have ceremoniously belly-flopped with his last feature, This Must Be the Place, but we’d be hard pressed to completely dismiss this revenge film oddity. On the flipside, his previous political epic Il divo is gold. La Grande Bellezza (English translation would be The Great Beauty) sees Sorrentino reteam with Toni Servillo in what is said to be Fellini-esque venture.

Gist: The story of an aging journalist Jap Gambardella (Toni Servillo) who bitterly recollects his passionate, lost youth. A portrait of today’s Rome.

Release Date: An April release date is set for Italy – so this logically will be included in the Cannes Main Competition.

• Pictured above: Laurence Kardish (MoMa) Antonio Monda (Nyu), Giampoalo Letta (Medusa Films), Salvatore Ferragamo (Ferragamo), and Mario Sesti (Film Critic) MoMA has done it again. Another tribute to Italian Cinema has arrived at the Museum of Modern Art. Following the tribute to Antonio Capuano and the tribute to Gianni Amelio, MoMA has hooked up with Medus Films and Salvatore Ferragamo to celebrate Medusa Film’s 10th Anniversary. As I was sitting in at the press conference for this event, I looked on stage and saw Ettore Scola. I turned to my right and saw Dario Argento. I look behind me and saw Paolo Sorrentino. I looked in front of me and saw Stefano Accorsi. It was the who’s who of Italian Cinema yesterday and today. To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the production and distribution company Medusa, the president of Medusa donated 14 of their most popular titles to

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