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03 Jun, 2021
Tre piani (
Three floors) by Italian director Nanni Moretti has been nominated for the Palme d Or at this year s Cannes Film Festival, organisers announced today.
Moretti s film is an adaptation of the novel of the book
Three Floors Up, by the Israeli writer Eshkol Nevo, which tells the interconnected stories of three middle-class families living in the same building.
The film s cast features Margherita Buy, Riccardo Scamarcio, Alba Rohrwacher, Elena Lietti and Moretti himself.
No stranger to Cannes, Moretti was president of the festival s jury in 2012 and won the Palme d Or in 2001 for his movie
La stanza del figlio (
The Regal theaters were among the last in the Jacksonville area to reopen. The San Marco Theatre plans to reopen on May 28.
There were several other changes in the local movie scene during the shutdown. Sun-Ray Cinema experimented with pop-up drive-in showings before opening a permanent drive-in on the grounds of the Metro nightclub in the Murray Hill area, although Sun-Ray s website states that drive-in shows temporarily suspended.
Also, the 12-screen cinema complex on Fleming Island that previously operated under the Cinemark and New Vision names, reopened last month as AMC Fleming Island 12.
The Rossellinis Review: An Outsider s Inside View of a Dysfunctional Celebrity Dynasty The Rossellinis Review: An Outsider s Inside View of a Dysfunctional Celebrity Dynasty
Alessandro Rossellini, grandson of legendary auteur Roberto, attempts to gather his extended family for an indulgent but interesting exercise in documentary therapy.
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Director: Alessandro Rossellini
With: Alessandro Rossellini, Isabella Rossellini, Renzo Rossellini, Robin Rossellini, Ingrid Rossellini, Gil Rossellini, Nur Rossellini, Katherine Cohen, Elettra Wiedemann. (English, Italian, French dialogue)
Running time: Running time: 99 MIN.
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“I think you have to go back to therapy. It wasn’t enough,” says Isabella Rossellini, drily and only somewhat jokingly, to her nephew Alessandro, as he interviews her on some hard family truths. The documentary he’s making
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Roman Polanski has announced his first film to be put into production since the director was expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Ampas) in 2018.
According to Variety, Polanski has secured backing from Italian media giant Rai Cinema for The Palace, a drama Polanski has co-written with fellow Polish film-maker Jerzy Skolimowski. Rai Cinema’s CEO Paolo Del Brocco said that The Palace is set on New Year’s Eve in 1999, and is about “a big hotel immersed in the Swiss Alps where the lives of the guests and those who work for them intersect”.
Roman Polanski to Direct ‘The Palace’ for Italy’s Rai Cinema
“We care about films, that’s our job. We don’t care about personal history,” Rai general director Paolo Del Brocco says
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Roman Polanski has set his next directorial feature, “The Palace,” which will be produced by Italian film outfit Rai Cinema.
Polanski is a convicted child rapist who has been shunned from Hollywood and is in exile from America. Nevertheless, he continues to work in Europe and won the Silver Bear from the Venice Film Festival in 2019 for his film “An Officer and a Spy.”