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In today’s Global Bulletin, “Celebrity Game Face” gets Middle East version; Sophia Loren to get Legend Award; UKTV announces diversity and inclusion writing programs; Fiona Campbell appointed as chair of the Royal Television Society Northern Ireland center; BBC expands documentary slate with Greta Thunberg film; “Assassin’s Creed” game to get physical locations in Saudi Arabia; France Television licenses “The 1% Club” from BBC Studios; and the Far East Film Festival and Sydney Film Festival reveal new dates.
A Middle East version of NBCUniversal Formats’ hit comedy gameshow “
Giuseppe Rotunno was one of the great Italian cinematographers
Renowned for his work shooting several of Luchino Visconti and Federico Felliniâs greatest films, Rotunno, who has died aged 97, worked far and wide with a legion of filmmaking greats from Italy to the USA.
13 February 2021
Giuseppe Rottuno
Equally adept at large-scale epics and intimate chamber pieces, black and white and colour, Academy ratio and cinemascope, Giuseppe Rotunno was best known for his long collaborations with Italian masters Luchino Visconti and Federico Fellini between the 1950s and 80s. These films alone were enough to cement his reputation as a world-class cinematographer, but his rich and varied filmography also took in collaborations with the likes of Vittorio De Sica, Mario Monicelli, Lina Wertmüller and Valerio Zurlini, as well as US filmmakers such as Robert Altman, Alan J. Pakula, Mike Nichols and Bob Fosse.
Sophia Loren: ‘The Life Ahead’ is full of ‘beautiful moments that you never forget, absolutely never’ [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW] Tom O Neil
Edoardo Ponti cast his movie “The Life Ahead,” he didn’t have to press his mom,
Sophia Loren, to take the lead role. “I wanted with everything in my heart to be able to be the actress of this film,” she says. (Watch above.)
“I was completely taken by this great personage” she portrays: a tough ex-prostitute and Holocaust survivor who now runs an impromptu daycare for the abandoned kids of hookers. Reluctantly, she takes in one more vagabond – a defiant, 13-year-old immigrant from Senegal who’d previously tried to rob her on the street. Madame Rosa doesn’t really want him in her home and Momo doesn’t want to be there. Stand-off ensues and what happens thereafter is the central conflict and the throbbing heart of this expertly made, deeply felt film.
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Hollywood worships at the altar of youth and beauty.
Geena Davis won an Oscar for âAccidental Touristâ at age 33. She has been very blunt since then about how Hollywood treats actresses as they age. She founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media in 2004.
The institute has published a report called âFrail, Frumpy and Forgotten: A report on the movie roles of women of age.â
Among the findings: Female characters make up 25.3% of characters over 50.
Can you guess which gender in a film about people over 50 is more likely to be portrayed as âsenile, homebound, feeble or frumpy?â Yes, itâs the ladies by a margin of about 6 to 1.