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Vijay Deverakonda and Rashmika Mandanna’s Lunch Date Pic Goes Viral Online (Photo Credit – Facebook)

Vijay Deverakonda and Rashmika Mandanna have been rumored to be dating for years. Recently, the speculation gained momentum again. In a recent interview, Vijay hinted at being in a relationship, saying, “I am not single.”

Shortly after his statement, a photo of Vijay and Rashmika went viral on social media. The picture shows the duo having lunch together. It was shared on Reddit with the caption, “Vijay Deverakonda and Rashmika spotted together.”

In the photo, Vijay can be seen enjoying his meal. Rashmika sits across from him, with her back facing the camera. Another close-up shot shows Rashmika eating dessert and looking at her plate. This photo originally appeared on Rashmika’s Instagram in August. She shared it as part of her “Dear Diary” series with the caption, “Sweet treats – describes a major part of my life.

If you listen to heavy music, there is a good chance your musical journey has led you to From First to Last. As one of the era-defining bands for the peak of post-hardcore, the band has not only released some of the all-time great albums like Heroine and Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count , but has also been active in the 20 years since their debut. Songwriter/vocalist/guitarist Matt Good has been there every step of the way and has brought his love of anime and Japanese culture with him. With their latest release, “ Genesis ,” that anime fandom shines through brighter than ever before, with the track (which you can listen to below) conjuring images of shonen heroes tapping into new levels of power against their foes. I had the opportunity to speak with Good to learn more about his history with anime, the inspiration for tying...

Indie musician and actress Aditi Saigal also known as Dot, is the most engaged Gen Z actor-artiste of the country, and she has shared how the social media has always been kind to her, calling herself an artist who often ignores “sensible advice”.

With a staggering engagement rate of 24-26 per cent on her posts, Dot, who shot to fame with her acting as well as musical talent, in Zoya Akhtar’s directorial ‘The Archies’, has emerged as a breakthrough artiste of the year.

She composes, sings and writes the lyrics of all her songs. Dot has been topping the Indian music charts with her ‘Archies’ songs too. She has written and sang all four ‘Dear Diary’ themes picturised on Khushi Kapoor, as well as lent her voice to the character of Betty (Khushi), singing and composing the song ‘Asymmetrical’.

She has also sung the other two chartbusters ‘Dhishoom Dhishoom...

Actress-singer Dot, who made her debut in ‘The Archies’ has revealed five things no one knows about her and it includes crochets, cats and her love for aam papad among many other things.

Dot on Tuesday took to her Instagram stories, where she shared a video sharing some details about herself.

In the clip, Dot is heard saying: “Hi I am Dot and these are five things you don’t know about me.”

She then went on to spill details of her life. She said: “When I was growing up I had a cat named Kishmish and another called Dream.”

Dot then added: “I am very good at crochet. I make amigurumi toys and I am quite good at it. I love love with all my heart aam papad and Kala aam papad. I love transportation.”

Dot also shared that she loves to dance.

“I love to Salsa,” she ended the video.

Actress Dot, whose real name is Aditi Saigal, debuted in the Hindi film industry with Zoya Akhtar’s ‘The Archies’, which she says allowed her to express herself both through music and acting.

Dot played Ethel in the musical.

The actress has written and sang all four Dear Diary themes picturised on Khushi Kapoor, as well as lent her voice to the character of Betty (Khushi), singing and composing the song ‘Asymmetrical’.

She has also sung the other two chartbusters ‘Dhishoom Dhishoom’ and ‘Sunoh’.

Dot said: “I’m thrilled with the overwhelming love ‘The Archies’ music is receiving from listeners. Music is a big part of my identity, since I was a songwriter long before I ventured into the film industry. ‘The Archies’ allowed me to express myself both through music and acting, so naturally it will always be my most cherished project.”

The actress added: “This album was particularly...

Netflix’s The Archies held a star-studded music album launch event to showcase the brilliant songs on the soundtrack. The film’s ensemble cast including Dot (Aditi), Agastya Nanda, Khushi Kapoor, Mihir Ahuja, Suhana Khan, Vedang Raina and Yuvraj Menda along with the filmmaker Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti, and music team, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Ankur Tewari, Tejas and Shivam Mahadevan unveiled the 16-song album and even treated the audience by performing some of the tunes.

‘The Archies’ album features collaborations with celebrated artists including lyricist Javed Akhtar and Dot, music composers Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy and singers like Arijit Singh, Ankur Tewari and The Islanders. The album, a 16-track masterpiece, includes the hits ‘Sunoh,’ ‘Va Va Voom’ and ‘In Raahon Mein,’ along with other newly released songs such as ‘Dear Diary,’ ‘Jab Tum Na Theen,’ ‘Dhishoom Dhishoom’, ‘Lonely July,’ ‘Everything is Politics,’ ‘Plum Pudding,’ ‘Yeh Saari Aawazein,’ ‘Choona Aasmaan,’ and ‘Asymmetrical,’ among others.

Two years after his previous effort, “Three Floors” opened with a high-profile belly flop, festival-stalwart Nanni Moretti returns to Cannes with “A Brighter Tomorrow,” a comeback of sorts that also airs a list of grievances and could serve – should need arise – as a closing statement.

Not that it likely will. Funny and endearing in some places, and typically grumpy and old-fashioned in others, “A Brighter Tomorrow” should, at very least, keep Moretti far from director’s jail for years to come. And if the sheer existence of this title proves he wasn’t detained for very long, Moretti was very clearly shook by the experience, and very clearly used this follow-up to work through those anxieties.

As in his earlier beloved films “Dear Diary” and “April,” Moretti plays a version of himself, holding the screen as Giovanni (guess what Nanni’s short for), a Roman director about to shoot an...

The captivating opening sequence of Nanni Moretti’s A Brighter Tomorrow (Il Sol dell’Avvenire) watches as a dusty old Fiat passes Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome and pulls up next to the Tiber. A man with a can of red paint and a rope steps out and scoots halfway down the stone wall that hugs the riverbank, neatly painting the words of the title. The whimsical music instantly alludes to Fellini, an homage confirmed soon after by the arrival in town of a Hungarian circus, and for all intents and purposes, the film is Moretti’s Otto e mezzo. Or at least it wants to be.

More than 20 years after winning the Palme d’Or with his shattering grief drama The Son’s Room, Moretti is back with his 14th feature for his regular appointment with Cannes. But after decades of wildly varying success attempting to stretch beyond his signature auto-fictions,...

Nanni Moretti always dresses impeccably — whether tuxed-up for the Cannes red carpet for his eight competition appearances since 1978 (his ninth, for A Brighter Tomorrow, will come May 24) or walking the Croisette in the casual chic (cashmere sweaters and chinos with open-collar shirts in dark gray or plum) that appears to come naturally to Italian men of Moretti’s generation. But the mantle of elder statesman of Italian cinema seems to hang on the 69-year-old director more like an ill-fitting suit.

It’s hard to deny Moretti’s position as a successor to the great neorealists — Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini — and the generation of New Wave heroes of the 1960s like Michelangelo Antonioni, Bernardo Bertolucci and Lina Wertmüller who reclaimed and restored Italian cinema after the ravages of fascism. His list of awards and acclaims alone — the Palme d’Or for The Son’s Room in 2001, Cannes best director in 1994 for Dear Diary,...

Cinema Italiano is on a roll, as reflected by the fact that this year Italy has scored three Cannes competition slots.

Despite the persisting sore spot that sees the country still lagging behind other European territories in terms of post-pandemic box office returns, Italy “continues to produce and invest heavily in film and is overcoming the crisis,” noted Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux after announcing the lineup.

The robust Croisette contingent marks the second time in 20 years that Italy lands three Cannes competition berths. Though the trio of selected directors — Marco Bellocchio, Nanni Moretti and Alice Rohrwacher — are all Cannes regulars “they represent three different generations of auteurs,” said Paolo Del Brocco, chief of state broadcaster Rai’s Rai Cinema arm that co-produced all three titles. And each of these films, he went on to point out, displays “very different ideas and cinematic visions.”

Moretti is back on the Croisette...

The lineup for the 76th installment of the Cannes Film Festival has finally been announced. Nineteen films will be competing to take home the prestigious Palme d’Or, including a record six films helmed by women. The festival will be taking place in the French Riviera from May 16 to May 27. This year’s jury will be headed by Ruben Östlund, who won his second Palme d’Or last year for “Triangle of Sadness.”

Knowing a filmmaker’s previous track record at Cannes can sometimes help give an idea as to who might be in the best position to claim the Palme. For instance, five of this year’s entries come from directors who have previously won the Palme. Another five are from auteurs who have had previous films win a prize in the main competition other than the Palme. Another five are from directors having their first film screen in the main competition.

Series star Christina Moses takes the director’s chair for ABC’s A Million Little Things season five episode 10. “the salesman” will air on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 at 10pm Et/Pt.

The cast includes David Giuntoli as Eddie Saville, Romany Malco as Rome Howard, Allison Miller as Maggie Bloom, Christina Moses as Regina Howard, Grace Park as Katherine Kim, and James Roday Rodriguez as Gary Mendez. Stephanie Szostak is Delilah Dixon, Tristan Byon is Theo Saville, Lizzy Greene is Sophie Dixon, and Chance Hurstfield is Danny Dixon.

“the salesman” Plot: Delilah reminisces on the past as she closes a chapter, while Greta weighs an offer from Katherine’s mother. Sophie and Tyrell discuss the future.

Christina Moses on the set of ‘A Million Little Things’ season 5 episode 10 (ABC/Darko Sikman)

The Season 5 Plot:

As Rome Howard says, “Life isn’t just about the moments, it’s about who you share them with.

Hey, "A Million Little Things" fans. We are back with another round of great news for you because the ABC people have another new episode of A Million Little Things lined up and ready to air for you tonight, March 29, 2023. This new one that is airing ,tonight, is the 8th installment of A Million Little Things' current season 5, and we've got some spoiler info for it. We were able to track down a couple of new, official teaser spoilers for this new episode 8 from the terrific ABC folks by way of their official episode 8 press release description. So, we're going to tear into it ,right now, and see what's coming up tonight. First off, there is an official title for this new episode 8 of A Million Little Things' current season 5. ABC let us know that the writers decided to name this one,"Dear Diary." It sounds like episode 8 will feature some very interesting,...

Maggie is shocked by a change at work on ABC’s A Million Little Things season five episode eight. “dear diary” will air on Wednesday, March 29, 2023 at 10pm Et/Pt.

The cast includes David Giuntoli as Eddie Saville, Romany Malco as Rome Howard, Allison Miller as Maggie Bloom, Christina Moses as Regina Howard, Grace Park as Katherine Kim, and James Roday Rodriguez as Gary Mendez. Stephanie Szostak is Delilah Dixon, Tristan Byon is Theo Saville, Lizzy Greene is Sophie Dixon, and Chance Hurstfield is Danny Dixon.

“dear diary” Plot: Secrets are revealed when Katherine meets Greta’s parents. Maggie returns to unexpected changes at her workplace. Rome and Omar reluctantly come together to make an important decision.

Season 5 Episode 1 “the last dance” Preview Season 5 Episode 2 “think twice” Preview Season 5 Episode 3 “in the room” Preview Season 5 Episode 4 “a bird in the hand” Preview Season 5 Episode 5 “no place like home” Preview Season...

Piovani composed the Oscar-winning soundtrack to Roberto Benigni’s ’Life Is Beautiful’.

Italian composer Nicola Piovani will receive a lifetime achievement at the 2023 World Soundtrack Awards, held at Film Fest Ghent on October 21.

Piovani is best known for composing the score to Roberto Benigni’s Life Is Beautiful for which he won the Oscar in 1999.

The composer began his career in 1971 with Silvano Agosti’s N.P. Il Segreto and has gone on to compose the music to more than 200 films and series.

He worked with Federico Fellini on a number of his films including Ginger & Fred (1986), Intervista (1987) and...

The “Welcome to the Blumhouse” series of horror features has done well so far in showcasing diverse emerging talent, if not in hitching relevant social themes to stories that are actually scary. Another case in point is “Black As Night,” which joins “Bingo Hell” in a second annual quartet of Halloween releases rolling out on Amazon Prime.

Maritte Lee Go’s solo feature directorial debut is a sort of female African-American spin on “The Lost Boys,” chronicling what its heroine pegs as “The summer I got breasts and fought vampires.” It works well enough as a teen supernatural melodrama, reasonably slick if a tad silly — less well as straight-up horror, let alone as a commentary on race-centric historical and political issues that never feel more than pasted-on here.

Fifteen-year-old Shawna was born in the immediate wake of Hurricane Katrina. That disaster destroyed her family’s former house, as well as...

The liquid-diet trio at the center of What We Do in the Shadows will endure the tortures of endless conflict in season 3. Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak) and Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), will be taken to task by the entire Tri-State vampire community. Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry) will pay, and dearly, for licentious driving.

For psychic vampire Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch), it’s another Wednesday, which some fellas in his office like to think of as Hump Day. What We Do in the Shadows is a series adaptation of the feature film created by Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, and for the uninitiated, it is a mock-doc styled vampire reality show. The vampires’ familiar, Guillermo (Harvey Guillén), keeps things real for the human audience. Colin brings the vampires to ground.

The psychic or energy vampire’s food source is different from traditional vampires, who subsist on the life-giving fluid of living creatures.

Studio71 has linked up with Lithuanian DIY and crafts media company Bored Panda Group to sign 16 of its YouTube channels.

Bored Panda's flagship YouTube hub, Crafty Panda -- which counts 19 million subscribers on the strength of its bizarre how-to videos, such as My Girlfriend Is a College Queen/How to Become Popular at School -- is now joining the Studio71 family, as are its Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Arabic, and Indonesian-language iterations. Other signings include the similarly-themed Kaboom (1.8 million subscribers), female-focused Girly Panda, and quirky news channel Bored Panda

The rest of the signings include: Astuces du Panda, Crafty Panda Go, Crafty Panda School, Dear Diary, Hacks von Panda, Kaboom Zoom, Kaboom! Indonesian, Kaboom! Spanish, Kreatif Panda, Trucos Panda, Truques do Panda, and باندا الإبداعات.

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Enlisting a huge ensemble cast, Tre Piani was already identified as a Cannes entry last year. Following in the footsteps of the agreeable 2015 item Mia Madre, Nanni Moretti won the Best Director prize for Dear Diary in 1993 and of course the Palme d’Or for The Son’s Room in 2001. This stars Riccardo Scamarcio, Margherita Buy and Alba Rohrwacher.

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Former Palme d’Or winner and past Cannes jury president Nanni Moretti returned to a familiar berth in the Cannes competition on Sunday with his Rome-set drama “Three Floors.” However, it’s safe to say the Italian director is unlikely to repeat his feat from 2001, when “The Son’s Room” earned him the highest art-house accolade. Sad to report, this latest is one of the worst efforts in a great career.

Based on a novel by Israeli writer Eshkol Novo and originally set in Tel Aviv, “Tre Piani” is now set mainly in a large, middle-class apartment building in the Roman suburb of Prati. It looks at the intertwined lives of three families who live in it, among them Lucio (Riccardo Scarmacio) who is worried about what happened to his seven-year-old daughter; Monica (Alba Rohrwacher) who is suffering from post-natal depression and loneliness; and, on the top floor, Dora (Margherita Buy...

128 titles will screen the festival’s new Harbour section as well as Bright Future, Cinema Regained and the short and mid-length film sidebars.

The International Film Festival Rotterdam has unveiled the line-up for its special one-off summer event that is due to take place from June 2-6 as part of the festival’s 50th edition celebrations.

The five-day programme follows the first part in early February which took place online after a physical edition was ruled out due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It presented 60 films across IFFR’s Tiger Competition, Big Screen Competition, Ammodo Tiger Shorts and Limelight sections.

This second part will showcase 139 feature,...

Mona Fastvold’s “The World to Come,” starring Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby, will open the hybrid summer component – running June 2-6 – of the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s 50th edition. Hirota Yusuke’s animated feature “Poupelle of Chimney Town” will close the event.

“The World to Come” is a romantic drama about the forbidden love between two women, played by Waterston and Kirby, in 1850s Upstate New York. The film will be shown as a timed premiere online on June 2, followed by physical screenings in Rotterdam theaters during the festival.

The European premiere of “Poupelle of Chimney Town” is an adaptation of Nishino Akihiro’s children book. It is an imaginative family film with the climate crisis at its heart, produced by Studio 4°C, producers of “Children of the Sea,” which ran in Rotterdam last year. The film will be available on demand until June 9.

The first part of the festival,...

Tre Piani

Italian auteur Nanni Moretti should be set to unveil his thirteenth narrative feature in 2021, Tre Piani, co-written by Federica Pontremoli and Valia Santella. As usual, Moretti is part of the cast, joined by a formidable ensemble including Riccardo Scamarcio, Margherita Buy, Alba Rohrwacher, Adriano Giannini, Elena Lietti, Denise Tantucci, Alessandro Sperduti, Anna Bonaiuto, Paolo Graziosi, Tommaso Ragno and Stefano Dionisi. The project is lensed by Dp Michele D’Attanasio.

Moretti won the Palme d’Or in 2001 for The Son’s Room. He competed in 1978 with Ecco Bombo, 1994 with Dear Diary (winning Best Director), 1998 with Aprile, 2006 with The Caiman, 2011 with We Have a Pope and in 2015 with Mia Madre (winning the Ecumenical Jury Prize).…...

Aprile is Nanni Moretti’s semi-autobiographical look at political life in Italy in the mid 90s, and the perils of filmmaking. It is very much in the mode of his earlier Dear Diary, though the charm is less winning in this follow-up.

The film begins with the election of infamous media mogul, AC Milan-owning, Bunga-Bunga-loving Silvio Berlusconi as prime minister. More than 20 years later, the revulsion Moretti’s character (also called Nanni Moretti) feels at the rise to power of a right-wing populist feels like an eerie foreshadowing of global politics in the contemporary moment.

Moretti shelves plans for his new film – a musical about a pastry chef in Fifties Rome – to focus on a state-of-the-nation documentary about Italy under Berlusconi. Indeed, there is certainly something of a wish fulfilment when Moretti, as the fictional director, wanders morosely off set on the first day of shooting his musical to very few.

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In today’s film news roundup, development has launched on “Denali: A Man A Dog, A Friendship Of A Lifetime” and the story of six teenagers who survived for a year on deserted island and a 1961 Peter Sellers comedy is getting re-released.

Project Launches

Spyglass Media Group has signed Charlie Hunnam to produce and star in a movie version of the Ben Moon memoir “Denali: A Man A Dog, A Friendship Of A Lifetime” with Max Winkler adapting and directing.

Hunnam will produce Bona Fide Productions’ Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa. It’s a re-teaming for Hunnan and Winkler following their collaboration of the boxing drama “Jungleland,” which also stars Jack O’Connell and Jessica Barden.

Moon rescued Denali as a mixed-breed puppy in a shelter and set out on the road on an adventure that would take them across the American West until he was diagnosed with cancer at the...

Chicago – Both the Music Box Theatre and the Gene Siskel Film Center have continued their at-home screenings, due to the physical theaters having to close during the pandemic quarantine. Below are the updates to their current offerings.

Music Box Theatre Presents Chicagoland Shorts Vol. 6, Alice, Deerskin, Straight Up, Lucky Grandma and Magnolia Pictures Documentaries

Chicagoland Shorts Vol 6

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The Music Box Theatre will get a percentage of the proceeds from any screening. Click site link below for details.

Scheduled: Now until the theater re-opens.

Description: Chicagoland Shorts Vol 6 is the annual Windy City overview of local short films works, presented by Full Spectrum Productions. See the Music Box website for a list of the films.

Alice Emilie Piponnier is the perfect wife and mother, living happily with her husband Francois and their son in an apartment in Paris. When her credit cards are declined one day while shopping,...

The David di Donatello Awards, which are modeled on the Oscars, were established in the 1950s as Italy’s film industry started thriving amid the country’s postwar reconstruction effort.

Below are some milestones that provide a partial mini-history of postwar Italian cinema.

1956: The first David di Donatello awards ceremony takes place at Rome’s Cinema Fiamma. The gold statuette, which is a replica of Michelangelo’s David, is made by Bulgari. Vittorio De Sica, Walt Disney, and Gina Lollobrigida are among the year’s prizewinners.

1957: The Davids ceremony moves to Taormina’s Ancient Greek Theater, which will host the ceremony for many more years to come. Federico Fellini wins the best director prize for “Nights of Cabiria.”

1958: Anna Magnani wins best actress for George Cukor’s “Wild Is the Wind.” Marilyn Monroe is feted for her role in “The Prince and the Showgirl,” directed by Laurence Olivier.

Film at Lincoln Center has revealed a slate of April and May “openings” in its upcoming Flc Virtual Cinema.

The streaming rentals, a mix of festival titles, commercial releases and catalog fare, range from $10 to $12, some with member discounts. Half of all proceeds will benefit the storied New York film organization.

During the lockdown of Covid-19, with the disease disproportionately affecting New York City, film and the rest of Lincoln Center’s artistic and cultural offerings have taken a significant hit. The Metropolitan Opera, for example, is now reported to be tens of millions of dollars in the hole after canceling its season.

Tre piani

Italy’s Nanni Moretti breaks a five-year hiatus (from feature films) with his thirteenth narrative, Tre piani, which is also the director’s first adaptation. Moretti assembles a high profile cast including Riccardo Scamarcio, Margherita Buy, Alba Rohrwacher, Adriano Giannini, Elena Lietti, Denise Tantucci, Alessandro Sperduti, Anna Bonaiuto, Paolo Graziosi, Tommaso Ragno, Stefano Dionisi and himself. Cinematographer Michele D’Attanasio lensed the feature, produced through Sacher Film, Fandando, Rai Cinema and Le Pacte. Moretti has competed seven times in Cannes, with 1978’s Ecco Bombo, 1994’s Dear Diary (winning Best Director), 1998’s Aprile, 2001’s The Son’s Room (which won the Palme d’Or), 2006’s The Caiman, 2011’s We Have a Pope and 2015’s Mia Madre (winning the Ecumenical Jury Prize).…...

HBO has given a series order to a comedy series based on the film “Skate Kitchen.”

Now titled “Betty,” the series is set against the backdrop of New York City and will follow a diverse group of young women navigating their lives through the predominantly male oriented world of skateboarding. Development on the series was originally announced in December. HBO has given the half-hour show a six episode order. Production is currently underway in New York.

“Skate Kitchen” stars Rachelle Vinberg, Nina Moran, Moonbear, Dede Lovelace, and Ajani Russell will star in the series, reprising their roles from the film. Crystal Moselle, who directed and co-wrote “Skate Kitchen,” will write, direct, and executive produce “Betty.” Lesley Arfin will also write and executive produce. Igor Srubshchik and Jason Weinberg will also executive produce, with Isabella Tzenkova of Kotva Films and Lizzie Nastro producing. Michael Sherman and Matthew Perniciaro of Bow & Arrow Entertainment...

Last call for Emmy voting. The deadline to submit ballots for the 24,000 or so eligible Television Academy members is tonight at 10 Pm Pt. Nominations for the Primetime Emmys will be announced July 16.

One of the interesting aspects of this year’s contest will be to see how a few new rules affect the outcome — in positive or negative ways.

The Academy, with its vast number of categories (well over 100), is forever working on rule changes and adjusting to the realities of the multi-channel, multi-choice TV universe. This year, changes have been made in categories short to long. On the short side, all entries must be at least two minutes long because some jokers entered Tom Thumb-sized shows last year. There also is now a committee that first determines whether your short is even Emmy nominatable in the first place, something that has sparked new controversy this year from the...

German indie powerhouse The Match Factory has added Italian auteur Nanni Moretti’s next film, “La Nostra Strada,” a Rome-set ensemble drama that will start shooting in March, to its Efm slate.

“La Nostra Strada” will be Moretti’s 14th feature and the first time the Palme d’Or-winning director will not be working from an original idea. It is based on Israeli author Eshkol Nevo’s novel “Thee Floors Up,” according to the film’s casting announcement and to the book’s Italian publisher, Neri Pozza.

The novel is set in a Tel Aviv building in which the residents’ lives, secrets, inner turmoils, and interpersonal dynamics provide a prism through which to view Israeli society. “La Nostra Strada” (which translates as “Our Street”) transposes the novel to an Italian setting and “follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighborhood,” The Match Factory said in a statement.

The fifteenth entry in an on-going series of audiovisual essays by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin. Mubi will be showing Nanni Moretti's The Son's Room (2001) May 21 - June 20 in the United States.A water polo celebrity who freezes inexplicably before firing between the goal posts (Palombella rossa, 1989). A newly elected Pope who finds himself unable to address the faithful masses from the Vatican balcony, and instead furtively flees into the streets (Habemus Papam, 2011). A film director who can no longer hold it together on set, as her mother lays dying in hospital (Mia madre, 2015). Nanni’s Moretti’s films often address urgent issues of personal blockage, panic, fear, grief, and especially life-sapping depression—always within the ever-widening, intersubjective circles of family, work, community, and society. His wisdom recalls that of the militant psychoanalyst Félix Guattari, who commented in the 1970s that genuine political change will only occur “from...

A film-maker has to cope with her dying mother and a pompous American star in this tragicomic triumph by Nanni Moretti

Italian tragicomic auteur Nanni Moretti approached the subject of his own mortality in 1993’s international breakthrough feature Caro diario (Dear Diary), which documented, among other things, his all too real encounter with cancer. In his most celebrated feature, the 2001 Palme d’Or winner La stanza del figlio (The Son’s Room), he dealt superbly with parental bereavement and mourning. Now, in Mia Madre, he focuses on the impending loss of a mother, drawing heavily upon personal experience (Moretti’s own mother Agata died while he was completing 2011’s Habemus Papam/We Have a Pope), but also keeping enough distance from his subject to achieve a sense of universality. The beautifully observed and delicately balanced result is a sublimely modulated blend of laughter and tears, a film that cuts to...

In a new series ahead of this year’s Cannes film festival, our writers choose their favourite Palme d’Or winner. Today: Peter Bradshaw on Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 classic

I — say — God — Damn!

The intravenous jab of callous madness, black comedy and strange unwholesome euphoria in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction hits me as hard now as when I first saw it 20 years ago. I sometimes think this is what it must have been like for record-buyers when Elvis Presley’s Heartbreak Hotel was released. It all first broke out at the Grand Théâtre Lumière at the Cannes film festival in 1994: Pulp Fiction was in competition, up against world cinema’s heavy-hitters: Nikita Mikhalkov’s Burnt By the Sun, Nanni Moretti’s Caro Diario, Edward Yang’s Confucian Confusion, and perhaps most prominently Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colours Red — widely tipped for the Palme D’Or. The jury president...

Mia Madre (My Mother)

Director: Nanni Moretti

Writers: Nanni Moretti, Franceso Poccolo and Valia Santella

Producers: Moretti’s Sacher Film production, Le Pacte, Arte Cinema

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

Cast: Nanni Moretti, Margerita Buy

Word on the cobblestone street is that Mia Madre is “partially autobiographical”. In our opinion, among the ten films in his filmography, Nanni Moretti’s biographical Caro diario might be his greatest celluloid legacy.

Gist: Tbd. No plot details have been released.

Release Date: Shooting began in January, which means it’ll be a longshot for a Cannes showing….is a Venice in August preem or his former stomping grounds Torino a possibility?

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Italian comic director Nanni Moretti ("Caro Diario") is back with a new film, and Indiewire has got an exclusive clip! "We Have a Pope" is a comic take on the story of a newly elected Pope (Michel Piccoli) and his relationship with his therapist.  The film opens today courtesy of Sundance Selects. The release follows Moretti's career retrospective this past week at New York's IFC Center.

Deeply shrouded in mystery, the election of the Pope is a strange amalgam of modern democracy and ancient ritual. It is also a circumstance that seems ripe for farce. At least Nanni Moretti, perhaps Italy’s most revered contemporary filmmaker, seems to think so. His newest film, We Have a Pope, which premiered last year in Cannes as Habemus Papam, is an often funny, sneakily moving investigation of the Vatican’s less-than-infallible process of choosing the divine, and one man’s rejection of his supposedly divine calling. Starring Michel Piccoli as a would-be Pope who disappears after his election and Moretti himself as the psychoanalyst charged with helping the new Pope through his post-election panic, We Have a Pope finds the director, as he did in 2006′s veiled Berlusconi biopic Il Caimano, pondering the inner life of one of Italy’s most powerful, iconic men.

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With a career spanning almost four decades, it's about time we put the "Nanni Moretti is the Italian Woody Allen" descriptor to rest. Though ultimately a flattering praise, it doesn't exactly paint an accurate picture. Generally composing movies with a perfect blend of comedic and dramatic elements, most of the humor in a Moretti film comes from cleverly written lines delivered in sincere dryness unlike the self-deprecating rambling/witty quips that live in Allen's scripts. Aside from maybe the Italian director's two diary-form films "Caro Diario" & "Aprile," it's hard to see either's output as even remotely interchangeable. While they definitely write from a very personal place (well, Allen maybe not so often now), Moretti's films explore various feelings such as becoming a father ("Aprile"), contemporary politics ("The Caiman"), religion ("We Have a Pope"), and even his old favorite past-time, water polo ("Red Lob"). Similarities exist, but their voices are very much their own.

Hugo; The Deep Blue Sea; We Have a Pope

Despite the inherent redundancy of the format, each new wave of 3D cinema throws up at least one oddity which goes some way toward justifying this technical gimmick. Die-hard 3D apologists cite Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder as a rare triumph from the 1950s fad (although House of Wax is more fun) while Flesh For Frankenstein outshines all other stereoscopic offerings from the 70s and 80s in terms of sheer bloodcurdling camp. But while the blockbusting Avatar remains the commercial flagship for early 21st-century 3D, my money is on Martin Scorsese's Hugo (2011, Entertainment, U) being the movie which will be retrospectively regarded as the recent wave's most honourable outing.

Rather than toeing the baloney-on-toast "immersive experience" line trotted out by James Cameron et al, Scorsese's nostalgic homage to early cinema uses 3D as an archaic alienation device, reminding us that...

Nanni Moretti, "perhaps the leading cinematic satirist of our time," as Andrew Sarris once wrote, will preside over the Jury of the 65th Festival de Cannes just a few short weeks after We Have a Pope, which premiered in Competition at Cannes last year, opens in the Us on April 6. This Friday at 7 pm, the IFC Center in New York presents a sneak preview of Pope — and Moretti will be there.

This special event is part of La Vita e Cinema: The Films of Nanni Moretti, a complete retrospective running from today through Thursday, April 5. Moretti will also be present at the following screenings:

Friday, March 30

Ecce bombo (1978), 9:30 pm.

Saturday, March 31

Aprile (1998), 5:30 pm.

The Son's Room (2001), 7:30 pm.

Sunday, April 1

The Caiman (2006), 3:25 pm.

Caro Diario (1993), 5:45 pm.

The IFC Center is generously offering two pairs of tickets to each of these showings (they'd have loved to offer...

Veteran Italian film-maker, previous winner of the Palm d'Or, calls role 'a real joy, an honour and a tremendous responsibility'

The Italian actor and director Nanni Moretti has been named president of the jury for this year's Cannes film festival, which is due to be held in May.

Moretti will oversee the committee that decides the 2012 Palme d'Or winner for the first time, though he was a member of the jury in 1997 for the event's 50th anniversary. This year's Cannes is the 65th edition.

"This is a real joy, an honour and a tremendous responsibility to preside over the jury of the most prestigious festival of cinematography in the world, a festival that is held in a country where film has always been treated with interest and respect," said Moretti. "As a director, I was always very moved when my films were presented at the Festival de Cannes. I also...

Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti will preside over the Jury of the 65th Festival de Cannes to be held from May 16 to 27, 2012.

Moretti’s Ecce Bombo was selected in Competition in Cannes in 1978. In 1981, his film Sogni d’Oro (Golden Dreams) won the Special Jury Prize in Venice. Moretti’s La Messa è finita (The Mass is Ended) won the Silver Bear in Berlin in 1986.

His film Caro Diario (Dear Diary) won him the Best Director at Cannes Film Festival in 19994 while La Stanza del figlio (The Son’s Room) won the Palme d’Or in 2001.

In all, he has presented six films at the Cannes Film Festival, including Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope) which was presented in 2011 edition.

Andrew Dickson continues our writer's favourite film series with an ode to Nanni Moretti's journey of self-discovery

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There's something exposing about revealing a favourite film – a favourite anything, I guess. But what about when your favourite film is itself about self-exposure?

Caro Diario (Dear Diary) is a confessional journey into selfhood by the Italian director Nanni Moretti, the gentle court jester of Italian film-making who's been a repeated gadfly in Berlusconi's side (one reason among many to worship him). Not only does Moretti star throughout – and does so as a version of himself – but documentary footage of his treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma weaves its way into the film's final section. Calling Dear Diary up close and personal doesn't really do it justice. Perhaps that's why it gets under my skin.

Cannes may be the festival d'auteurs, but more and more these days, with fewer foreign films reaching stateside art houses, many filmgoers don't know much about the top filmmakers around the world. Nanni Moretti, known as the Italian Woody Allen because he writes, directs and acts in his films, which range from the dramatic to the hilariously self-referential, is debuting his latest, Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope) Friday in the Cannes competition. Here's a quick profile of the filmmaker by Simon Abrams:   Country: Italy Introductory Must-See: Caro Diario (Dear Diary) is organized around scattershot journal entries about everything from how depressing Moretti found Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and how easy it is to get distracted by soap operas and telephones to ...

We're about one month away from the April 14th date when the Cannes Film Festival announce their line-up and we're exactly 54 days from what should be one of the better competition line-ups in years (here is an idea of what & who might turn up on the Croisette in 2011). Among the titles we figure we should be seeing in the Main Comp is the latest from Nanni Moretti. To be released in Italy weeks before it plays out to international critics, we've got the Italian trailer below for Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope) -- a film that I imagine will contain some of the trademark wry sense of humor we find in the non-cancer sections in Caro Diario and more recently, Il caiman). For those who don't speak the language, Nanni leans in and says "Listen, are you experiencing problems with Faith?". Written by Moretti with Francesco Piccolo and Federica Pontremoli,...

I don't normally associate remakes, trilogies, biopics or adaptions with films from the Croisette, but this year we could receive a little bit of all four if Aleksandr Sokurov's Faust, Kornel Mundruczo's The Frankenstein Project, Wong Kar-Wai's The Grand Master and Im Sang-soo's The Housemaid make the cut. Here are the second batch of predictions. - I don't normally associate remakes, trilogies, biopics or adaptions with films from the Croisette, but this year we could receive a little bit of all four if Aleksandr Sokurov's Faust, Kornel Mundruczo's The Frankenstein Project, Wong Kar-Wai's The Grand Master and Im Sang-soo's The Housemaid make the cut. Here are the second batch of predictions. Fair Game – Doug LimanBill Pohlad's River Road might show up with pair of films - both have Sean Penn on board. Like Eastwood, the French have an appreciation for Penn - who was a...

[The Torino Film Festival just wrapped up - naming Tony Manero it’s big winner, a choice that both surprises and pleases me to no end - and our very own Paolo Gilli was present throughout. He weighs in now with his take on events.]

The Torino Film Festival (21-29 November), that closed this past weekend, is probably Italy’s finest Festival, always equally divided between the old and the new, American, Asian and European cinema. This year’s edition, the second under the supervision of actor-director and Cannes favourite Nanni Moretti (Ecce Bombo, Caro Diario, Aprile and La Stanza del figlio), had again an impressive line up, including W (Oliver Stone), Let The Right One In (Tomas Alfredson), Somers Town (Shane Meadows), The Escapist (Rupert Wyatt), festival-winner Tony Manero (Pablo Larrain), Die Welle (Dennis Gansel), Made in America (Stacy Peralta), Religulous (Larry Charles), Hunger (Steve McQueen), Dream (Kim Ki-duk), United Red Army (Koji Wakamatsu) and many more.

But Torino wouldn’t be complete without its traditional retrospectives, covering this time the complete filomgraphies of noir-master Jean Pierre Melville and Roman Polanski (including all of his acting roles). Besides those, there was a third retro,...

ROME -- Nanni Moretti's The Caymen is headed into Friday night's David Di Donatello awards on an up note as it was announced Thursday as one of two Italian entrants for the prestigious Palme d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Moretti's satire is nominated in 13 Donatello categories including best picture, best director, best screenplay, best actor, best actress and best cinematography. Moretti himself is nominated for best supporting actor. The 52-year-old director, who won the best director award at Cannes in 1994 for the film Dear Diary, has attracted headlines in recent months because of his periodic jabs at Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who Moretti says the antagonist in The Caymen is based on.