Here’s our guide to the major players that bowed to great fanfare at fests around the world, including Venice, Cannes and Toronto (TIFF).
This was the year when most of the world’s major film festivals got to do their thing once again on the big screen, after more than enough digital pivots to last a lifetime. Joyously, that means the grand return of the Sydney Film Festiva...
Paolo Sorrentino and Toni Servillo team up again for Loro and this time take on Silvio Berlusconi. Helen Barlow caught up with the two Italian powerhouse talents during the Toronto Film Festival.
A kind of mix of their previous movies Il Divo (about Giulio Andreotti) and their study of decadence, The Great Beauty, Loro is a biting satire about Italian politics.
Helen Barlow caught up with the two Italian powerhouse talents as they ...
Italy has selected Jonas Carpignano's slice-of-life drama "A Ciambra," set in a Romani community in southern Italy, as its candidate for the foreign-language Oscar.
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, "A Ciambra" stars Pio Amato as a 14-year-old growing up in a Romani community in Calabria.
The coming-of-age drama has been described as a companion piece to "Mediterranea,...
The Italian director injects his wry sensibility into his first television series, 'The Young Pope', told in 10 one-hour episodes - and it’s highly addictive.
With his wild hair and anti-authoritarian view of the world, Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino is more punk rock than Catholic. In his evocative and visual stylish way, he creates vastly unusual portraits of powerful men, or powerfu...
Paolo Sorrentino reinvents the political biopic with 'Il Divo', which summons the strange, corrupted career of former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti.
It’s a compelling take on political life
Paolo Sorrentino’s 2008 drama is based on the final act in the tumultuous career of Giulio Andreotti, an enduring figure in Italian politics who served repeatedly as the country’s Prime Minister bef...
Looking at the true cost of next-day deliveries, director Ken Loach drags a camera through the mire of modern working life to expose the human dramas that play out...
Movies and food are two of the things we do best at SBS, and you can now enjoy the best of both worlds in this new column as we match delicious recipes with soul...
