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As Spanish TV production stands strong, largely resisting the cut-back in commissions suffered in most of the world, few higher profile new series will be brought to market at Mipcom than Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The New Years” (“Los años nuevos”).

A Movistar Plus+ Original, produced with Caballo Films, the fast-rising Sorogoyen co-founded Madrid production label, in association with Arte France, “The New Years” follows on Sorogoyen’s “The Beasts,” which established him as one of Europe’s youngest top-tier filmmakers.

Few other directors will have won a Best Foreign Film César, as “The Beasts” did in 2023, beating four Cannes Festival 2022-23 competition winners: “Triangle of Sadness,” “Eo,” “Close” and “Boy from Heaven.” Not that many will have grossed $2.5 million in France with a Spanish-language film as well as an extraordinary €6.8 million ($7.5 million) in Spain, despite its artistic ambition.

Sold outside Spain and France by Movistar Plus+ International, “The New Years...

Imitation of Life: Giordana Composes an Old-Fashioned Miracle

Music seems to be the language of the heart in The Life Apart (La vita accanto), a bizarre tale of suffering and expiation relayed with sedate repose by director Marco Tullio Giordana. Having directed a number of films over the past forty-plus years, Giordana won Locarno’s Golden Leopard for his 1980 debut Damn You, I Will Love You (Maledetti vi amerò), and has been a staple in the Italian film industry ever since. Often dealing in period dramas and coming-of-age sagas, his latest is in keeping with his thematic interests, spanning the childhood of a troubled young pianist in 1980s Vicenza.…...

When renowned Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio called up his friend, fellow Italian auteur Marco Tullio Giordana (“Best of Youth”), about a project years in the making, the director promptly jumped on board. The resulting film is “The Life Apart,” premiering out of competition at this year’s Locarno Film Festival, where Giordana will also receive a Lifetime Achievement Pardo.

Adapted from Mariapia Veladiano’s acclaimed eponymous novel, “The Life Apart” is set in the Italian city of Vicenza between the 1980s and 2000s, where a young girl is shunned by her mother due to a large facial birthmark. Rebecca, played by Sara Ciocca as a child and Beatrice Barison as a young woman, finds solace in the piano, a talent she discovers with the help of her aunt and patron Erminia (Sonia Bergamasco).

“[Bellocchio] asked me to read the screenplay and I just loved it. Then I read the novel and...

Italian auteur Marco Tullio Giordana, best known internationally for sweeping terrorism-themed epic “The Best of Youth” (2003) is set to soon return behind the camera on “La Vita Accanto” a psychological drama about a talented young woman contending with profound rejection due to her looks.

Shooting is set to start on June 5 in Vicenza, Northern Italy, on “Vita Accanto,” (the title can be translated as “the life beside”) which is co-written and produced by Marco Bellocchio – the Italian master who is currently competing for a Cannes Palm d’Or with “Kidnapped.”

Italy’s Intramovies has started launching pre-sales on “Vita Accanto” in Cannes.

Giordana’s new project is based on an eponymous prizewinning novel by Italian writer Mariapia Veladiano about a girl named Rebecca who from the very moment of birth becomes ostracized by her family and the world around her “because she does not conform to aesthetic canons [of beauty],” Giordana told Variety.

Exclusive: On the eve of his acting return at the Cannes Film Festival, Johnny Depp has set a buzzy first round of cast for Modi, his first directorial effort in 25 years.

The biopic of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani will be led by Italian star Riccardo Scamarcio (John Wick Chapter 2), Cesar Award winner Pierre Niney (Yves Saint Laurent) and screen icon Al Pacino (The Godfather).

Filming is due to get underway in Budapest this fall and the hot package is being sold at the Cannes market by The Veterans. Additional casting is underway.

Based on a play by Dennis McIntyre and adapted for the screen by Jerzy and Mary Kromolowski, the film will tell the story of the famous painter and sculptor Modigliani during his time in Paris in 1916.

The movie will chronicle the life of the Italian artist across a turbulent and eventful 48 hours which sees him on the...

Experience the richness of world cinema with these classic foreign language films. From intense drama to thrilling action, each one offers an unforgettable cinematic experience that will stay with you long after watching. These iconic movies break boundaries while teaching viewers more about diverse cultures, so grab some popcorn today.

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Foreign films have been inaccurately labeled as arrogant. However, these movies offer many genres, including action flicks, comedies, musicals, and thrillers. This list of best foreign movies includes those from non-English speaking countries but no silent films. This is your cinematic passport to the world’s movie scene.

10 Best Foreign Movies, Ranked on IMDb The Lives of Others (2006) – 8.4 Oldboy (2003) – 8.4 The Best of Youth (2003) – 8.5 Cinema Paradiso (1988) – 8.5 The Intouchables (2011) – 8.5 Parasite (2019) – 8.5 Harakiri (1962) – 8.6 Life Is Beautiful (1997) – 8.6 City of God (2002) – 8.6 Spirited Away (2001) – 8.6 10 The Lives of Others (2006)

IMDb: 8.4/10 396K | Popularity: 1,156 | Top 250: #58 | Metascore: 89

The Lives of Others...

The last French acting star to preside over the jury was Isabelle Huppert in 2009.

French actor Vincent Lindon has been named president of the jury for the 75th Cannes Film Festival, running May 17-28.

He will be joined by eight other jury members comprising UK actress and director Rebecca Hall, Indian actress Deepika Padukone, Swedish actress Noomi Rapace, Italian actress and director Jasmine Trinca, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, French director Ladj Ly, US director Jeff Nichols and Norwegian director Joachim Trier.

In the same release, Cannes also announced that Trinca’s debut feature Marcel! will world premiere as a Special Screening.

So, How Was Your 2020 is a series in which our favorite entertainers answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their year. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December.

In October, Low Cut Connie released their sixth LP Private Lives, a double album which — recorded pre-pandemic — featured frontman Adam Weiner collaborating with over 40 musical friends. “I’m obsessed with understanding people’s interior lives,” Weiner said of the album in April, before society was forced to spend the rest of the year with a...

The opening of “The Domain” is a classic mid-length widescreen shot of a solitary tree silhouetted against the sky. The camera slowly pans left to reveal a second tree, with a man hanging from a branch. This too feels fairly familiar, if disturbing, and one watches imagining that director Tiago Guedes is using such archetypal images to then play with the form, or do something unusual with the subsequent nearly three-hour running time. Instead, his sprawling family epic spanning from 1946 to 1991 largely shifts from the derivative to the banal. Designed like a meaty novel in which Portugal’s political fortunes impact a privileged family of landowners,

Guedes (“Noise”) points to Westerns and some melodramas like Vincente Minnelli’s “Home From the Hill” as major influences, which demonstrably act as templates with added political overtones. Certainly the way the tug-of-war between dictatorship, revolution and capitalism batters the independent-minded Fernandes family does...

“Pasolini” is not a biopic of the late Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (played here by Willem Dafoe). The complicated director of “The Gospel According to St. Matthew,” “Teorema” and “Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom” (a scene involving its editing opens the film) was more personality than a 90-minute movie could handle. Any filmed biography presuming to grapple with the whole of his life would beg to be, at least, a limited TV series.

This is, perhaps, one reason why director Abel Ferrara (“Bad Lieutenant”) has scripted a 24-hour ticking clock that mostly ignores chronology and backstory. It’s the final day of Pasolini’s life, presented as part historical detail and part imagined glimpse into the man’s mind, and it culminates, as it must, in his brutal murder at age 53.

Fittingly, to touch on the life of a man who was a writer, a filmmaker, a philosopher,...

Italy’s state broadcaster Rai is leading the way in the country’s international TV boom.

Though pay-tv Sky Italia and Netflix are churning out some edgier Italian shows for the international marketplace, the bold Italian pubcaster is now riding high after making a splash at the Venice Film Festival with the world premiere of HBO/Rai’s powerful female friendship saga “My Brilliant Friend,” based on the first of Elena Ferrante’s globally best-selling novels.

Next up are its buzzed-about “The Name of the Rose” series, starring John Turturro, and the third season of Frank Spotnitz’s hit “Medici” saga, currently shooting in Italy.

“My Brilliant Friend,” which Rai fiction chief Eleonora Andreatta started developing before the book’s big success, marks a milestone for Italy’s TV industry because unlike Sky’s crimer “Gomorrah” and Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Young Pope,” it’s classic highbrow TV of the...

This weekend the Toronto International Film Festival will have the North American premiere of The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki, a film which Mubi will be releasing theatrically in the Us and UK next year. Winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes this year (a prize won in recent years by such gems as Blissfully Yours, The Best of Youth, Moolaadé, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Tulpan, Dogtooth, The Missing Picture, White God and Rams) this beautiful, charming love story set in the world of boxing will be Mubi’s first ever theatrical release.Set in Finland in 1962 (the Finnish title Hymyilevä Mies translates as Smiling Man), The Happiest Day... tells the true story of national featherweight champion Olli Mäki and his world championship fight against American Davey Moore (a tragic figure commemorated in Bob Dylan’s song “Who Killed Davey Moore?”). Director Juho Kuosmanen...

Exclusive: Film to market premiere at Toronto.

Paris-based Indie Sales has secured sales on Stefano Sollima’s Rome-set organised crime thriller Suburra.

The film has sold to Benelux (Lumiere), Germany and Austria (Koch Films) and Switzerland (Praesens Films).

Sollima previously directed most of the episodes of hit TV series Gomorrah, which sold to more than 100 territories including the Us, where it was acquired by The Weinstein Company.

Other credits include the 2012 film A.C.A.B., about a squad of riot police in Rome, and TV series Romanzo Criminale.

Indie Sales, which will market premiere the high-octane Suburra at a private screening today (Sept 12), is also reporting strong interest from Australia and the UK.

“Stefano Sollima is an amazing director and the actors are great” said Indie Sales chief Nicolas Eschbach.

The film is based on a novel of the same name by Giancarlo De Cataldo and Carlo Bonini, painting a nebulous web of corruption interlinking politicians, the Vatican...

• Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air) is in talks to play Cinderella in Disney’s adaptation of the musical Into the Woods, not to be confused with Disney’s live-action adaptation of Cinderella. That version of the glass-slippered heroine will be played by Lily James. In Into the Woods, Kendrick would be part of a larger ensemble and paired with a prince played by Chris Pine (Star Trek Into Darkness). Kendrick showed off her singing skills on film in 2012′s Pitch Perfect, but has been performing in musicals since she was a child. [THR]

• Daniel Huttleston, who played the role of...

After making his directorial debut four decades ago with “Fists in the Pocket,” Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio has tackled many genres and styles, but one consistent characteristic has been his savage socio-political themes and undertones. His 2010 film, “Vincere,” proved to be the most explosive yet, capturing disgraced Italian leader Benito Mussolini’s rise to power from his abandoned wife’s perspective, and now he plans to do it again, this time with one of the world’s most talented actresses in tow.

Cineuropa reports that Bellocchio will explore the right-to-die issue with “Sleeping Beauty,” which follows three interconnected storylines against the backdrop of Italy’s 2009 Eluana Englaro controversy. “The Best of Youth” scribe Stefano Rulli and novelist Veronica Naimo supplied the script, which follows in one storyline a retired movie star, played by Isabelle Huppert, as she cares for her comatose daughter, and in another thread, Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher...

ROME -- In a ceremony marred by news of the possible killing of one of four Italians held hostage in Iraq, Italy's top movie prizes, the David di Donatello awards, were awarded Wednesday night in Rome. Marco Tullio Giordana's La Meglio Gioventu (Best of Youth), a boxoffice hit about the lives of two Roman brothers, won the David for best film, director, screenplay, producer, editing and sound. Salvatore Mereu, a young filmmaker from Sardinia, won the debut director award for Ballo a Tre Passi (Three-Step Dance), a film based on four true interconnected stories about life in Sardinia.

ROME -- La Meglio Gioventu, Marco Tullio Giordana's drama about the lives of two Roman brothers through the years 1966-2000, was the big winner at Italy's 59th Nastri d'Argento (Silver Ribbon) awards Tuesday. A RAI Cinema co-production, Gioventu won the prizes for best director, producer, screenplay, actress, actor, live take and editing. Gioventu has been a boxoffice success in Italy and has received rave reviews in Italian newspapers. The best actress prize was awarded to the film's entire female cast, while the best actor award went to its male cast on equal merit with actor Roberto Herlitzka (Buongiorno Notte).

ROME -- The organizers of Italy's biggest film awards ceremony, the Nastri d'Argento, have unveiled their 2004 nominations a few weeks earlier than in the past with an eye to extending the life of Italian movies at the boxoffice and help make up for last year's poor sales. Marco Bellocchio for Buongiorno, Notte (Good Morning, Night), Bernardo Bertolucci forThe Dreamers, Daniele Cipri and Franco Moresco for Il Ritorno di Cagliostro (The Return of Cagliostro), Marco Tullio Giordana for La Meglio Gioventu (The Best Youth), Ermanno Olmi for Cantandp Dietro I Paraventi (Singing Behind the Windscreen), and Paolo Virzi for Caterina Va in Citta (Caterina Goes Into Town) were nominated for the best Italian movie director award.

NEW YORK -- Miramax Films has snapped up North American rights to Marco Tullio Giordana's six-hour Italian feature La Meglio Gioventu (Best of Youth), which won the top prize in the Festival de Cannes' Un Certain Regard sidebar this year. As part of the Youth pact with Italy's Rai Trade, the mini-major also picked up rights for the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Although the film screened over two nights at Cannes (HR 5/27) and is also being released in two parts in Italy, Miramax said Monday that it has yet to be determined how the film will be rolled out domestically.

CANNES -- La Meglio Gioventu (The Best of Youth), a six-hour miniseries from Italian director Marco Tullio Giordana, snatched the top prize in Cannes' Un Certain Regard sidebar, one of a raft of awards presented at the festival during the weekend. The film, which screened over two nights in Cannes, is a portrait of an Italian family spanning four decades from the 1960s to the turn of the millennium. It stars Luigi Lo Cascio and Alessio Boni as brothers Nicola and Matteo, whose lives go in starkly different directions after a prescient meeting with mentally ill girl Giorgia (Jasmine Trinca). The runner-up Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard went to Iranian helmer Jafar Panahi for his Talaye Sorgh (Crimson Gold), the story of lowly pizza delivery man Hussein (Hossain Emadeddin), who longs for the life of luxury he sees represented in the windows of a Tehran jewelry shop. The award for best first film in the Un Certain Regard selection went to Moroccan director Faouzi Bensaidi's feature-length debut Mille Mois (A Thousand Months), about a child living in a village in the Atlas Mountains of North Africa.

La Meglio Gioventu (The Best Of Youth), a six-hour miniseries from Italian director Marco Tullio Giordana, snatched the top prize in Cannes' Un Certain Regard sidebar, one of a raft of awards presented at the festival over the weekend. The film, which screened over two nights in Cannes, is a portrait of an Italian family spanning four decades from the 1960s to the turn of the millennium. It stars Luigi Lo Cascio and Alessio Boni as brothers Nicola and Matteo, whose lives go in starkly different directions after a prescient meeting with a mentally ill girl Giorgia (Jasmine Trinca). The runner-up Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard sidebar went to Iranian helmer Jafar Panahi for his Talaye Sorgh (Crimson Gold), the story of lowly pizza delivery man Hussein (Hossain Emadeddin) who longs for the life of luxury he sees represented in the windows of a Tehran jewelry shop. The award for first film in the Un Certain Regard selection went to Moroccan director Faouzi Bensaidi's feature-length debut Mille Mois (A Thousand Months), about a child living in a village in the Atlas Mountains of North Africa.