Tag: Toni Servillo
Love Is in the Air: Mubi Courts Paolo Sorrentino’s “La Grazia” Starring Muse Toni Servillo
Last December we learned that Paolo Sorrentino was quickly moving back into the director's chair for his eleventh feature film, and now Variety reports...
Sicilian Letters (Iddu) | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
Letters to Daddy: Grassadonia & Piazza Continue Their Cosa Nostra Sagas
Italian directors Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza reimagine the circumstances surrounding yet another mafioso...
Adagio | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
Rome, Smoking City: Sollima Languorous Thriller Tiresomely Tests Narrative Cliches
The most apropos element of Stefano Sollima’s Adagio is the title itself, as it’s two-hour-plus...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #128. Stefano Sollima’s Adagio
Adagio
A quartet of heavyweight Italian actors in Pierfrancesco Favino, Toni Servillo, Valerio Mastandrea, Adriano Giannini were put together for Stefano Sollima's next directing gig....
Esterno notte (Exterior Night) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Dead in Red: Bellocchio Returns to Infamous Kidnapping for Television Debut
In his continuation in recuperating fantastical elements of Italian political and criminal history, Marco...
The Hand Of God | Review
Idle Hands: Sorrentino’s Sprawling Saga a Wayward Bildungsroman
There’s almost as much to admire as there is to dismiss in The Hand of God, Paolo...
Ariaferma (The Inner Cage) | 2021 Venice Film Festival Review
Guards and Monsters: Costanzo Finds Humanity in Balanced Ratios
Utilizing the novel opportunity of how power wanes in the crumbling of an institution’s viability, Italian...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #48. Paolo Sorrentino’s The Hand of God
The Hand of God
Produced by Paolo Sorrentino, Lorenzo Mieli
Directed by Paolo Sorrentino
Written by Paolo Sorrentino
Starring: Toni Servillo, Lino Musella, Lubomir Misak
Cinematographer: Daria D'Antonio
Release...
Bunga bunga: Paolo Sorrentino’s Loro Teaser with Salacious Toni Servillo (aka Silvio Berlusconi)
With Cannes just around the corner (and notably should be a great edition for Italian film), we have our first look at Loro with a...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #22. Paolo Sorrentino’s Loro
Loro
Paolo Sorrentino has quickly become one of the most notable Italian auteurs over the past decade. Competing six times at Cannes (he won the...
Viva la Liberta | Review
Dead Ringers: Ando’s Self-Adapted Switcheroo a Highlight for Servillo But Little Else
Politics and doppelgangers have hewn a surprisingly wide berth throughout decades of cinema,...
Video Interview: Marco Bellocchio (Dormant Beauty)
Like most of his contemporaries making their first films in Italy during the 1960s, director Marco Bellocchio has been telling stories rich in social...
Dormant Beauty | Review
Sleepytime Drama: Bellocchio Messy Message Movie
After yet another career peak with his 2009 film Vincere, Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio continues his examination of Italian...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #66. Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grande Bellezza
La Grande Bellezza
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Writer(s): Sorrentino and Umberto Contarello
Producer(s): Francesca Cima and Nicola Giuliano
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Toni Servillo, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Verdone, Isabella...
