still sexy. Jim Carrey rocked a new long hairdo Wednesday as he dined with a bevy of famous friends ahead of his birthday. “The Grinch” star, who turns 62 on Jan.
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Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Roberto Benigni, whose film “Life Is Beautiful” won three Oscars in 1999, has come out of the woodwork to support Matteo Garrone’s Golden Globe-nominated “Io Capitano,” which is Italy’s current Oscar candidate for best international feature film. The revered yet reclusive Italian actor/director, whose most recent big screen role is playing Geppetto in Matteo Garrone’s hit 2019 live-action adaptation of “Pinocchio,” is clearly a big fan of “Io Capitano” (the title translates to “Me Captain”). The movie narrates the Homeric journey of two young African men, Seydou and Moussa, who decide to leave Dakar to reach Europe.
Garrone’s immigration drama realistically depicts their plight through the pitfalls of the desert, the horrors of detention centers in Libya and the dangers of the sea. Variety critic Guy Lodge in his review called “Io Capitano” the director’s “most robust, purely satisfying filmmaking since Garrone’s international breakthrough with ‘Gomorrah’ 15 years ago.” The film, which at Venice won best director and best emerging actor for its co-star Seydou Sarr, is Italy’s strongest Oscar contender in recent memory. Benigni in his conversation with Matteo Garrone and Seydou Sarr – to which Variety has been given exclusive access – praises “Io Capitano” for harking back to the grand tradition of Italian cinema “that is both Italian and international,” he notes, citing Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica.
But also to John Ford “because it’s epic.” Some edited excerpts below: Roberto Benigni: Seydou is like Pinocchio. In your eyes there’s mystery, suffering, hope, adventure and tragedy. You are able to convey all this.
still sexy. Jim Carrey rocked a new long hairdo Wednesday as he dined with a bevy of famous friends ahead of his birthday. “The Grinch” star, who turns 62 on Jan.
Variety Staff Follow Us on Twitter Want to know which international features vying for Oscar gold are worth watching? Variety‘s team of critics has been on the ground at Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto and other major film festivals, on the hunt for the best of the best. In December, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences unveiled its shortlist of 15 films eligible for the second round of voting in the Best International Feature Film category.
Tom Sandoval got slammed by some of his Vanderpump Rules co-stars again. But this time, it’s not over anything Scandoval related!!
Kim Kardashian and her sister Khloe Kardashian have taken their kids on a family skiing holiday in Utah to celebrate the New Year as they swapped their typical LA sunshine for a far snowier trip to the slopes. Sharing a glimpse of their extravagant trip on Instagram, the famous siblings delighted fans with an inside look at their holiday, which included everything from playing in the snow to enjoying hot chocolates together at the end of a long day.
Mickey Cottrell, the PR executive who specialized in the indie film business and worked both as an actor and a producer, died on New Year’s Day at the Motion Picture and Television Fund in Woodland Hills. He was 79.
EXCLUSIVE: Cohen Media Group has set Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone’s latest pic, Io Capitano, for a nationwide release.
Stacey Solomon has been flooded with happy messages from fans as she started the New Year by sharing a string of sweet family snaps and shared a sweary piece of advice. The Loose Women star is currently soaking up the sun - and time with her loved ones - in Jamaica.
Ryan Seacrest got President Biden to talk about all the chicken parmesan he ate over the holidays while Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper revealed whether they ever need to pee during the show, as both ABC and CNN rang in the new year with their annual specials.
Ciara might only be in the new movie The Color Purple for a few minutes, but she makes an emotional impact in her one scene.
As the directors of Disney‘s Wish, Chris Buck and Fawn Veerasunthorn were in charge of creating a film to honor 100 years of Disney animated features. After looking at every film that came before it, they decided to use the theme of wishing upon a star and created a watercolor storybook style of animation to match.
The Princess of Wales's festive jumper shocked fans after they found out the real price.
Dolly Parton opened up about plastic surgery, the royal family and more in a new interview.
Rose Leslie is currently starring in the second series of the BBC show Vigil, which is set in Scotland and is soon set to come to a nail-biting conclusion. The actress, 36, who is from Aberdeen and was raised at Lickeyhead Castle until she was 10, plays Detective Inspector Kirsten Longacre and stars alongside Detective Chief Inspector Amy Silva (Suranne Jones).They have been investigating a dark conspiracy in the world of the British Air Force during the new episodes of the drama. Away from the acting world, Rose is married to fellow Game of Thrones star Kit Harington, who played Jon Snow.
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Starting in the 2000s, for a little over a decade, 3D was sold as a value-added feature of moviegoing, even though, with rare exceptions (e.g., the “Avatar” films), it never worked too well or added very much. (I would argue that it subtracted.) In most cases, 3D was a rip-off — a carny-barker way for studios to jack up ticket prices.
Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor The Oscars shortlist voting period has closed as of 5:00 p.m. PT. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce the finalists in 10 categories — documentary feature (15), documentary short subject (15), international feature (15), makeup and hairstyling (10), sound (10), original score (15), original song (15), animated short film (15), live action short film (15), and visual effects (10) — on Thursday, Dec.
Refresh for latest…: After opening early in 37 international box office markets last weekend, Warner Bros/Village Roadshow/Heyday Films’ Wonka expanded its release this session to the rest of the world (save Korea which goes in late January). The results are sweet.
Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Discovery-owned Eurosport has acquired streaming rights in 54 countries to Olympic refugee documentary “We Dare to Dream” by Waad Al-Kateab, the Oscar-nominated Syrian director of “For Sama.” “We Dare to Dream” is the story of the refugee Olympic team that competed at the 2020 games in Tokyo, which featured stateless athletes from Iran, Syria, South Sudan and Cameroon who swim, run and fight their way to safety in host nations across the world. It’s told through the personal prism of Al-Kateab while she is coming to terms with the reality that she can never return to Aleppo, where she shot “For Sama.” The doc premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in June and had an Oscar-qualifying theatrical run at New York City’s IFC Center in October.
Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Netflix has set a March 6 premiere date for “Supersex,” the series freely inspired by the real life of global porn star Rocco Siffredi, who has more than 1,500 hardcore films to his name. The series is created and written by prominent Italian screenwriter Francesca Manieri (“We Are Who We Are,” “L’Immensità”) who is known to be a militant feminist.
EXCLUSIVE: Activist Artists Management has brought on Grant Pennel as a Talent Manager, also signing Moustapha Fall, the Senegalese actor who earned praise for his debut performance in Matteo Garrone’s Golden Globe-nominated Io Capitano.
Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Italian director Edoardo De Angelis’ anti-war epic “Comandante” – the opener of this year’s Venice Film Festival – has secured North American distribution via Uncork’d Entertainment, which will release the film theatrically in tandem with partner company Dark Star Pictures. The movie stars Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino as Sicilian World War II naval captain Salvatore Todaro and depicts his act of wartime humanitarianism on Oct.