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With over six decades of an illustrious filmmaking career, Marco Bellocchio’s latest feature, Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara, will be coming U.S. theaters later this month from Cohen Media Group. A story once in the hands of Steven Spielberg to adapt, the 84-year-old Italian director’s latest work follows Edgardo Mortara, a seven-year-old Jewish boy who was taken from his family in Bologna to be raised Catholic in the actual arms of Pope Pius IX. Ahead of the May 24 release, we’re pleased to exclusively announce NYC’s Quad Cinema will be presenting the retrospective “Marco Bellocchio’s Film of Revolution,” taking place May 17-23.

See the lineup below.

Fists in the Pocket In the Name of the Father A Leap in the Dark Enrico IV Devil in the Flesh Good Morning, Night Marx Can Wait

Bellocchio also shared a personal statement ahead of the retrospective, which one can read below.

"There's that mystery." Strand has unveiled a new official US trailer for Marx Can Wait, a very personal documentary made by acclaimed Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio. Some will recognize his name, but this isn't anything like his usual work. 1968 was the year Camillo died. Nearly 50 years after the death of his twin brother at the age of 29, Marco Bellocchio gathers his family to reconstruct Camillo’s disappearance. Combining intimate conversations with the Bellocchio family and those who knew him best with archival material, family movies and his own oeuvre, Marco attempts to manifest a ghost he has been dealing with his entire life. What begins as a family conversation morphs into a study on grief, guilt and responsibility, compassion, empathy, and love. "Marx Can Wait is an attempt at reconciliation and understanding from a filmmaker in his eighties whose work has never shied away from the challenging or the provocative.

Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God” and Gabriele Mainetti’s “Freaks Out” lead the pack at the David di Donatello Awards this year with 16 nominations each.

Here’s the complete list of nominees:

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“Ariaferma” (The Inner Cage), Leonardo Di Costanzo

“The Hand of God,” Paolo Sorrentino

“Ennio,” Giuseppe Tornatore

“Freaks Out,” Gabriele Mainetti

“Qui Rido Io” (The King of Laughter), Mario Martone

Director

“Ariaferma” (The Inner Cage), Leonardo Di Costanzo

“The Hand of God,” Paolo Sorrentino

“Ennio,” Giuseppe Tornatore

“Freaks Out,” Gabriele Mainetti

“Qui Rido Io” (The King of Laughter), Mario Martone

Debut Director

“The Bad Poet,” Gianluca Jodice

“Maternal,” Maura Delpero

“Small Body,” Laura Samani

“Re Granchio” (The Legend of King Crab), Alessio Rigo De Righi, Matteo Zoppis

“Una Femmina” (The Code of Silence), Francesco Constabile

Producer

“A Chiara,” Jon Coplon, Paolo Carpignano, Ryan Zacarias, Jonas Carpignano (Stayblack Productions) — Rai Cinema

“Ariaferma” (The Inner Cage), Carlo Cresto...

Italian director, screenwriter and producer Marco Bellocchio has opened up about his career and upcoming projects during a masterclass at the 53rd edition of Visions du Réel, where he received an honorary award.

The 82-year-old master is guest of honor at the documentary film festival, which includes a retrospective of a dozen of his works and a screening of his latest film, “Marx Can Wait,” a documentary about his twin brother Camilo’s suicide in December 1968.

Featuring footage filmed during a family get-together, personal archive material and clips from his films, it is an intimate and poignant documentary that explores how his brother’s death deeply influenced Bellocchio’s work over the decades.

At the time, Bellocchio explained, “the revolution of ’68 was underway, there were protests and riots, and I said to myself ‘I have to do something.’ So in September, together with friends who had founded the Maoist movement,...

New York Film Festival parent, Film at Lincoln Center (Flc), announced an expanded footprint for the 59th edition of the fest (Sept. 24 – Oct. 10), partnering with local arthouse theaters to bring selections to new audiences.

NYFF is working with with Anthology Film Archives (East Village), Bam, Jacob Burns Film Center, and Maysles Documentary Center (Harlem) to screen a selection of films throughout the festival — complete list below. “These screenings allow filmmakers to share their work with passionate filmgoers across New York, and provide flexibility for movie lovers citywide and beyond,” Flc said.

The festival will also present four outdoor screenings in its own backyard, Damrosch Park on the Lincoln Center campus.

NYFF in August announced its slate for a mostly in-person event, opening with Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, starring Frances McDormand and Denzel Washington. It closes with Parallel Mothers,...

Mike Mills’s C’mon C’mon, starring Joaquin Phoenix with Gaby Hoffmann screens in the 59th New York Film Festival Spotlight program

Film at Lincoln Center has announced the nine Spotlight selections of the 59th New York Film Festival. They are Charlotte Gainsbourg, profiling her legendary mother Jane Birkin in Jane By Charlotte; Maggie Gyllenhaal, adapting Elena Ferrante’s novel The Lost Daughter, starring Olivia Colman; Marco Bellocchio’s Marx Can Wait; Sean Baker’s Red Rocket; Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune; Mamoru Hosoda’s Belle; Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch; Mike Mills’s C’mon C’mon, starring Joaquin Phoenix with Gaby Hoffmann, and Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir.

Joanna Hogg, Honor Swinton Byrne, and Tilda Swinton at Film at Lincoln Center discuss The Souvenir, executive produced by Martin Scorsese

“Our Spotlight section is a new part of our reshaped New York Film Festival, a...

New York Film Festival organizers have unveiled the slate for its Spotlight section, which includes Dune, C’mon C’mon, Red Rocket and other titles of note.

Spotlight is the venue where the festival’s presenting organization, Film at Lincoln Center, aims to showcase the fall season’s most anticipated films. The festival, which is returning to in-person screenings after a 2020 edition at drive-ins and online, runs September 24 to October 10.

A24 is distributing C’mon C’mon, which stars Joaquin Phoenix and is directed by Mike Mills. The company hasn’t divulged plans for its festival run, but Film at Lincoln Center is listing the film as a New York premiere. That’s a common designation for films debuting at Telluride, which falls a few weeks before NYFF but announces its lineup just prior to its first screenings. Dune is ticketed for Venice ahead of Warner Bros’ theatrical release in October. Sean Baker’s...

Every year, the New York Film Festival welcomes “the season’s most anticipated and significant films” to take part in its Spotlight section. And though 2021 has been a really odd year (much like 2020) for the film industry, the Spotlight section for this year is truly stacked with some great picks.

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According to NYFF, this year’s Spotlight section includes highly-anticipated films such as Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune,” Mamoru Hosoda’s “Belle,” Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” Charlotte Gainsbourg’s “Jane By Charlotte,” Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut, “The Lost Daughter,” Marco Bellocchio’s “Marx Can Wait,” Sean Baker’s “Red Rocket,” and more.

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The New York Film Festival has added several new films to its lineup for the 59th edition of the festival, including screenings of “Dune,” “The French Dispatch,” “Red Rocket,” “The Lost Daughter” and Mike Mills’ “C’mon C’mon” with Joaquin Phoenix.

Other films added to the lineup include Mamoru Hosoda’s “Belle,” Charlotte Gainsbourg’s “Jane by Charlotte,” Marco Bellocchio’s “Marx Can Wait” in its North American premiere and Joanna Hogg’s “The Souvenir.”

“C’mon C’mon” will make its New York premiere at NYFF59 and is the latest from “Beginners” and “20th Century Women” director Mills. In it, Phoenix plays a soulful, kindhearted radio journalist deep into a project in which he interviews children across the U.S. about the world’s uncertain future. The film finds him connecting to his 8-year-old nephew, who is suffering from mental health issues, in ways he never expected and takes him on a cross-country journey.

NYFF59 to pay tribute to late film programmer, festival co-founder Amos Vogel.

Mike Mills’s upcoming Telluride world premiere C’mon C’mon starring Joaquin Phoenix, Denis Villeneuve’s imminent Venice world premiere Dune and North American premieres of Cannes selections The French Dispatch by Wes Anderson and Marx Can Wait from Marco Bellochio are among the Spotlight programme at the 59th New York Film Festival (NYFF59) that runs September 24-October 10.

C’mon C’mon from A24 stars Phoenix as a kind-hearted radio journalist who goes on a trip with his nephew. Mills previously played the festival with Beginners and 20th Century Women. Gabbie...

“Fists in the Pocket” director Marco Bellocchio has long woven elements of autobiography into his work, threading personal themes of siblings, madness and suicide through his most intimate films. Far less apparent until now was how the maestro sublimated himself behind the fiction, using cinema to address such elements on screen so as to avoid processing them on a consciously verbal level. With “Marx Can Wait,” he mixes up that pattern, delivering a frank and revealing documentary about his family — and most especially himself — that centers on his twin brother Camillo, who committed suicide in 1968.

The catalyst was a 2016 reunion of the surviving Bellocchio siblings in their Emilian hometown of Piacenza. Whether planned beforehand or not, the event gave the director the opportunity to involve his brothers and sisters in a discussion about their childhood, but more specifically about Camillo, recalled at the start as “an angel” whose intense, unaddressed...

The Italian film industry, which did not pause during the pandemic, is clearly a top priority within the country’s post Covid-19 recovery plan. The plan sees Rome’s Cinecittà Studios set for a €300 million ($358 million) cash injection earmarked by the European Union’s post-pandemic recovery fund for a radical overhaul of the famed facilities.

In June European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Italian premier Mario Draghi jointly visited the Cinecittà lot and held a press conference in its vast Studio 5, known as the late, great Federico Fellini’s second home. Italian culture minister Dario Franceschini announced still undeveloped plans to upgrade and expand the iconic studios “in order to adequately meet the growing international demand” for studio space.

Meanwhile Cinema Italiano will be out in full force at Cannes. Veteran auteur Marco Bellocchio will present his personal doc “Marx Can Wait” out-of-competition and be feted with an...

Italian director set to receive an honorary Palme d’Or at this year’s festival.

The Match Factory has secured international rights to documentary Marx Can Wait by Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio, who will receive an honorary Palme d’Or after presenting the feature at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival (July 6-17).

The documentary was added to festival’s Official Selection this week, in the new Cannes Premiere strand, and the veteran director will receive his honorary award at the closing ceremony of the 74th edition.

The film will be released in Italy by 01 Distribuzione during Cannes and follows the 81-year-old...

His documentary Marx Can Wait, has also been added to the Cannes Premiere strand.

Italian director Marco Bellochio will receive an honorary Palme d’Or at the closing ceremony of the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival (July 6-17).

His latest film, documentary Marx Can Wait, has also been added to the Official Selection in the newly created Cannes Premiere strand.

Marx Can Wait sees the 81-year-old filmmaker attempt to understand his twin brother’s suicide at the age of 29, and blends excerpts from his films and conversations with people close to him. The Match Factory are handling international sales.