Italian director Gianfranco Rosi's 'Notturno' (Nocturne) has made the Oscar shortlist, for best documentary, along with Laura Pausini's song for the latest Sophia Loren film, 'La vita davanti a sé', (The Life Ahead), the Academy said Tuesday evening. The make-up and hair work for Matteo Garrone's Pinocchio also made the list, as well as Italian exp...
READ MOREGianfranco Rosi’s latest distinctive documentary, “Notturno,” makes visual poetry out of suffering. A questionable strategy? Sure, but the Italian filmmaker, who does his own cinematography, also gives about equal time to the dignity of surviving here. It adds up to a thing of terrible, experiential and even rather contemplative beauty. Italy’s ent...
READ MORE"A sweeping work of care and one that is often piercing in its painful beauty." Super LTD has released an official US trailer for the acclaimed new documentary Notturno, the latest meditative work from Italian doc filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi, of Fire at Sea (aka Fuocoammare) previously. Rosi's latest, filmed over three years in multiple countries, is...
READ MORERosi shot “Notturno” over three years along the rattled borders of Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria and Lebanon in his signature observational — but also empathetic — style. The impressionistic doc captures people who have long been contending with the ravages of war and terror, most recently inicted by ISIS. After launching from the Venice Film Festival, “N...
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