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Gary Oldman To Appear in Paolo Sorrentino’s Upcoming Film on Naples

© Apple TV+ 2022 Actor Gary Oldman will be joining the cast of Paolo Sorrentino’s upcoming Italian-language film about his native city of Naples. The movie is yet untitled, and no details are yet available about Oldman’s role. The veteran actor had most recently appeared as British intelligence officer Jackson Lamb in Apple TV+’s Slow Horses…

Paolo Sorrentino Returns to Naples to Begin Shooting His Untitled Next Film

Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino is returning to his hometown of Naples to make his next film, almost two years after the release of his 2021 Netflix drama, The Hand of God. The still untitled upcoming movie is about a woman named Partenope who bears the name of her city but is neither siren nor myth,…

The Hand of God : Q&A with Director Paolo Sorrentino

Synopsis : From Academy Award-winning writer and director Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo, The Great Beauty, The Young Pope) comes the story of a boy, Fabietto Schisa, set in the tumultuous Naples of the 1980s. The Hand of God is a story full of unexpected joys, such as the arrival of football legend Diego Maradona, and…

The Hand of God / Trailer / Directed by Paolo Sorrentino

The Hand of God (È stata la mano di Dio) Release Date: In Select Theaters December 3 | On Netflix December 15, 2021 Written & Directed by:  Academy Award® Winner Paolo Sorrentino Produced by:  Lorenzo Mieli and Paolo Sorrentino The Apartment, A Fremantle Company, Production Cast: Filippo Scotti, Toni Servillo, Teresa Saponangelo, Marlon Joubert, Luisa Ranieri,…

Jennifer Lawrence and Paolo Sorrentino Teamed Up to Make a Talent Agent Sue Mengers Biopic

Apple and Netflix are among the streaming services that are bidding on a biopic about famed Hollywood talent agent Sue Mengers, who will be played by Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence, Deadline is reporting. Fellow Academy Award-winner, Paolo Sorrentino is attached to direct the film, which was written by Lauren Schuker Blum, Rebecca Angelo and John…

The Hand of God, Sorrentino’s Amarcord Is A Work Of Art About Love And Loss

The most intimate and autobiographical film of Neapolitan director, Paolo Sorrentino, will be available on Netflix from December 15th. The Hand of God (È stata la mano di Dio) is a tender love letter to cinema, Naples and most importantly Maradona — who was the Manus Dei that saved the filmmaker’s life, as he chronicles…

Greta Gerwig to Head Nine-Person Jury at the 77th Cannes Film Festival

The jury for the 77th Cannes Film Festival has been selected. To be led this year by Barbie director Greta Gerwig (USA), the five-woman, four-man jury includes some of the leading figures in contemporary global cinema: Juan Antonio Bayona (Spain), Ebru Ceylan (Turkey), Pierfrancesco Favino (Italy), Lily Gladstone (USA), Eva Green (France), Hirokazu Kore-eda (Japan),…

The Cannes Film Festival Reveals Lineup

In what seems to be our favorite directors are back at the French resort, the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has unveiled its line-up, the festival will bring “Godfather” series Director Francis ford Coppola with a highly anticipated film, “Magalopolis” starring Adam Driver, “Mad Max” series Director George Miller “Furiosa” starring Anya Taylor-Joy. “Star War” series director…

Matteo Garrone’s ‘The Captain’ Selected as Italy’s Oscar Nominee

Matteo Garrone’s “Io Capitano” aka “The Captain” has been nominated by Italy as its candidate for Best International Film at the 96th Academy Awards ceremony slated for March 10, 2024. The nomination was made by a committee of eleven under the auspices of Attica, an Italian cinema body, which praised the film for the way it…

Cannes Film Festival: Rapito (Kidnapped), Bellocchio’s Historical Drama Exposes The Violence Of Dogmatism

Marco Bellocchio, the secular director from Piacenza, has often explored the consequences of religious imposition — never being sententious yet remaining truthful to his laical perspective. In his 2002 film, My Mother’s Smile (L’ora di religione), he touched upon the sensitive issue of being baptised in treason. In that case it occurred to the son of the…