Gianfranco Rosi's Notturno is exclusively showing in many countries starting March 5, 2021 in Mubi's Luminaries series.Nonfiction films tend to exhibit anxiety over their subjective engagement with the factual world. It’s a tension that makers often feel compelled to resolve, or assuage. Some lean into a journalistic tone or style, gathering witnesses and evidence, telling a cogent story and presenting it soberly, burying or at least deemphasizing subjective choices. Others signal or admit their own interventions by including themselves in the frame, or by embracing an unconventional, conspicuous formal approach, eager to wriggle free from outsized expectations of objectivity. Either way the work is, at least in part, defined by this dialectic. Accepting that subjectivity is not only a given but a necessity, the very source of an artist’s power and mandate, the tension shifts to what the artist chooses to emphasize—what he or she is drawn to,...
- 3/9/2021
- MUBI
Before Oscar season late last year, the name Gianfranco Rosi meant little here in these United States. Outside of globally minded art film scenes, Rosi’s name prior to 2016 would garner mostly head scratches and quick glances at an iMDB page. However, following the release of his brilliant, Oscar nominated documentary Fire At Sea, Rosi is not just a darling of the documentary world, but a filmmaker with a growing audience anticipating what he’s offering up next.
But what about those films the masses have missed? A filmmaker with well over two decades of experience behind the camera, Rosi has seen the occasional retrospective pop up in large cities like New York City. For the most part however, his filmography is a relative blind spot for a large number of cinephiles. Thankfully, Kino Lorber has helped to change that.
The director of six films, four of Rosi’s pictures...
But what about those films the masses have missed? A filmmaker with well over two decades of experience behind the camera, Rosi has seen the occasional retrospective pop up in large cities like New York City. For the most part however, his filmography is a relative blind spot for a large number of cinephiles. Thankfully, Kino Lorber has helped to change that.
The director of six films, four of Rosi’s pictures...
- 4/26/2017
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast is an exploration of how good movies get made through in-depth conversations with filmmakers about their artistic process. This fall and winter we were fortunate to host guests whose films are favorited to take home Academy Awards this weekend. As we get ready for the Oscars, here’s a look back at some of what we learned from the writers, directors and editors behind this year’s best films.
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“Arrival” Screenwriter Eric Heisserer
Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life” is a beloved sci-fi short story, but no one thought it was natural fit for the big screen. Well, nobody besides Eric Heisserer, who was emotionally devastated the first time he read Chiang’s 32 page story. He wanted to find a way to capture that feeling in a movie, but...
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“Arrival” Screenwriter Eric Heisserer
Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life” is a beloved sci-fi short story, but no one thought it was natural fit for the big screen. Well, nobody besides Eric Heisserer, who was emotionally devastated the first time he read Chiang’s 32 page story. He wanted to find a way to capture that feeling in a movie, but...
- 2/25/2017
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
BAFTA wins for Dev Patel and Luke Davies - Lion at The Paris Theatre Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Luke Davies, the screenwriter of Lion (based on Saroo Brierley's memoir A Long Way Home) was a BAFTA Adapted Screenplay nominee along with Tom Ford (Nocturnal Animals) Theodore Melfi and Allison Schroeder (Hidden Figures); Eric Heisserer (Arrival); and Robert Schenkkan and Andrew Knight (Hacksaw Ridge). On Sunday night, it was announced that he and Dev Patel (Best Supporting Actor) for his portrayal of Saroo Brierley were honoured with BAFTAs.
During our conversation, Luke Davies gave me some insight on Sue Brierley and Nicole Kidman, Burt Lancaster in John Frankenheimer's The Train, Anton Corbijn, looking forward to Gianfranco Rosi's Boatman, his work on Felix Van Groeningen's upcoming Beautiful Boy starring Steve Carell for Jeremy Kleiner of Brad Pitt's Plan B, and what he learned at the World Premiere of Lion in New York.
Luke Davies, the screenwriter of Lion (based on Saroo Brierley's memoir A Long Way Home) was a BAFTA Adapted Screenplay nominee along with Tom Ford (Nocturnal Animals) Theodore Melfi and Allison Schroeder (Hidden Figures); Eric Heisserer (Arrival); and Robert Schenkkan and Andrew Knight (Hacksaw Ridge). On Sunday night, it was announced that he and Dev Patel (Best Supporting Actor) for his portrayal of Saroo Brierley were honoured with BAFTAs.
During our conversation, Luke Davies gave me some insight on Sue Brierley and Nicole Kidman, Burt Lancaster in John Frankenheimer's The Train, Anton Corbijn, looking forward to Gianfranco Rosi's Boatman, his work on Felix Van Groeningen's upcoming Beautiful Boy starring Steve Carell for Jeremy Kleiner of Brad Pitt's Plan B, and what he learned at the World Premiere of Lion in New York.
- 2/15/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Luke Davies, Oscar nominated screenwriter for Lion with Anne-Katrin Titze Photo: Susan Engel
Meeting up with novelist, essayist, film critic, and very famous poet, Luke Davies, to discuss his latest screenplay, based on Saroo Brierley's memoir A Long Way Home for Lion, directed by Garth Davis, starring Nicole Kidman, Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, David Wenham and Sunny Pawar, we talked about the Proust moment, Hans Christian Andersen's Little Match Girl, Anton Corbijn, John Frankenheimer's The Train, Felix Van Groeningen's Beautiful Boy starring Steve Carell, Gianfranco Rosi's Boatman, Australian adoption laws, butterflies, and visual cues.
In Lion, memories are the only tools available to the hero for regaining a sense of origin. Luke Davies attaches us firmly to little five-year-old Saroo (Sunny Pawar) who gets lost on a dangerous, life-altering adventure.
Saroo (Sunny Pawar): "He describes this hedge that was filled with butterflies."
Salvation does...
Meeting up with novelist, essayist, film critic, and very famous poet, Luke Davies, to discuss his latest screenplay, based on Saroo Brierley's memoir A Long Way Home for Lion, directed by Garth Davis, starring Nicole Kidman, Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, David Wenham and Sunny Pawar, we talked about the Proust moment, Hans Christian Andersen's Little Match Girl, Anton Corbijn, John Frankenheimer's The Train, Felix Van Groeningen's Beautiful Boy starring Steve Carell, Gianfranco Rosi's Boatman, Australian adoption laws, butterflies, and visual cues.
In Lion, memories are the only tools available to the hero for regaining a sense of origin. Luke Davies attaches us firmly to little five-year-old Saroo (Sunny Pawar) who gets lost on a dangerous, life-altering adventure.
Saroo (Sunny Pawar): "He describes this hedge that was filled with butterflies."
Salvation does...
- 2/9/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The documentary form is designed to inspire discussion, but one thing that isn’t discussed in nonfiction filmmaking is its cinematography. Its directors are judged on their perspectives — how the topics are explored, not the forms used to express them.
Italian master Gianfranco Rosi has received his first Oscar nomination for Best Documentary, in part because “Fire At Sea” stems from the global news story of the European refugee crisis. However, he made it with the same impressionistic cinematic storytelling that has defined his career in films like “El Sicario, Room 164,” which follows a hitman for Mexican drug cartels, or “Sacro Gra,” which traces Italy’s Great Ring Road.
“Fire at Sea” is told largely from the point of view of Samuele, a 10-year-old boy who lives on Lampedusa, a sleepy island on the southernmost point of Europe. Just off the island, a near-daily life-and-death battle rages as rescue boats...
Italian master Gianfranco Rosi has received his first Oscar nomination for Best Documentary, in part because “Fire At Sea” stems from the global news story of the European refugee crisis. However, he made it with the same impressionistic cinematic storytelling that has defined his career in films like “El Sicario, Room 164,” which follows a hitman for Mexican drug cartels, or “Sacro Gra,” which traces Italy’s Great Ring Road.
“Fire at Sea” is told largely from the point of view of Samuele, a 10-year-old boy who lives on Lampedusa, a sleepy island on the southernmost point of Europe. Just off the island, a near-daily life-and-death battle rages as rescue boats...
- 1/26/2017
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Gianfranco Rosi with Anne-Katrin Titze on Boatman at the Brooklyn Academy of Music: "I remember when Jim Jarmusch saw this film many years ago, he thought this film was shot in the Fifties ..." Photo: Emilie Spiegel
Gianfranco Rosi and I met for the first time at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2014 for a conversation on Sacro Gra and last month we had a post-screening discussion on the opening weekend for his latest film, Italy's Oscar submission, Fire At Sea (Fuocoammare), at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, now playing side-by-side with Michael Moore's Hillary Clinton plaidoyer, Michael Moore In Trumpland, two days before the Presidential election.
Gopal in Boatman: "So the film is this hypothetical day on the Ganges. As I say, it took forever."
This past week after the screening of Boatman during the BAMcinématek Presents Gianfranco Rosi retrospective featuring the director's early films Below Sea Level and El Sicario,...
Gianfranco Rosi and I met for the first time at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2014 for a conversation on Sacro Gra and last month we had a post-screening discussion on the opening weekend for his latest film, Italy's Oscar submission, Fire At Sea (Fuocoammare), at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, now playing side-by-side with Michael Moore's Hillary Clinton plaidoyer, Michael Moore In Trumpland, two days before the Presidential election.
Gopal in Boatman: "So the film is this hypothetical day on the Ganges. As I say, it took forever."
This past week after the screening of Boatman during the BAMcinématek Presents Gianfranco Rosi retrospective featuring the director's early films Below Sea Level and El Sicario,...
- 11/6/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Doc NYC Artistic Director Thom Powers at the IFC Center Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
This year's Doc NYC will open with Valentino: The Last Emperor director Matt Tyrnauer's latest, Citizen Jane: Battle For The City, and close with John Scheinfeld's Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary. Thom Powers and I covered a wide range of films including Dawn Porter's Trapped, Kirsten Johnson's Cameraperson, Werner Herzog's Into The Inferno, Roger Ross Williams's Life, Animated, Ben Bowie and Geoff Luck's Naledi: A Baby Elephant's Tale, Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm's David Lynch: The Art Life, Claire Simon's Le Concours, Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson's The Ivory Game, Tom Hanks, John Mayer and Sam Shepard in Doug Nichol's California Typewriter, Lara Stolman's Swim Team, Adam Irving's Off The Rails and scads more when I sat down with the...
This year's Doc NYC will open with Valentino: The Last Emperor director Matt Tyrnauer's latest, Citizen Jane: Battle For The City, and close with John Scheinfeld's Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary. Thom Powers and I covered a wide range of films including Dawn Porter's Trapped, Kirsten Johnson's Cameraperson, Werner Herzog's Into The Inferno, Roger Ross Williams's Life, Animated, Ben Bowie and Geoff Luck's Naledi: A Baby Elephant's Tale, Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm's David Lynch: The Art Life, Claire Simon's Le Concours, Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson's The Ivory Game, Tom Hanks, John Mayer and Sam Shepard in Doug Nichol's California Typewriter, Lara Stolman's Swim Team, Adam Irving's Off The Rails and scads more when I sat down with the...
- 11/3/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Gianfranco Rosi with Anne-Katrin Titze after the screening of Fire At Sea: "The only intuition I had at the beginning was to find a little boy as a point of view." Photo: Emilie Spiegel
In 2014, Gianfranco Rosi presented Sacro Gra, his nonjudgmental gaze that lands on bodies that matter at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. He returned this year for the New York Film Festival with his Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear winner, Fire At Sea (Fuocoammare), a masterpiece not only of documentary filmmaking but of timely and abiding storytelling.
Gianfranco Rosi on Samuele Pucillo: "He was eleven when I met him. He is like an old Woody Allen."
Rosi's early films Boatman, Below Sea Level and El Sicario, Room 164 will be screened at a BAMcinématek retrospective along with Italy's Foreign Language Film Oscar submission Fire at Sea, which will also screen at Doc NYC next month.
Director...
In 2014, Gianfranco Rosi presented Sacro Gra, his nonjudgmental gaze that lands on bodies that matter at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. He returned this year for the New York Film Festival with his Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear winner, Fire At Sea (Fuocoammare), a masterpiece not only of documentary filmmaking but of timely and abiding storytelling.
Gianfranco Rosi on Samuele Pucillo: "He was eleven when I met him. He is like an old Woody Allen."
Rosi's early films Boatman, Below Sea Level and El Sicario, Room 164 will be screened at a BAMcinématek retrospective along with Italy's Foreign Language Film Oscar submission Fire at Sea, which will also screen at Doc NYC next month.
Director...
- 10/24/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Doc Alliance lines up triple day-and-date premiere with Venice winner.
Gianfranco Rosi’s Sacro Gra, the first documentary to ever win the Golden Lion in Venice, has been chosen as the title to mark Doc Alliance Films’ first foray into triple day-and-date releases.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily at this week’s Visions du Réel in Nyon, Doc Alliance Films’ Andrea Pruchová revealed that this coming Monday (May 5), the 2013 Venice winner will simultaneously be shown in six Czech and Slovak cinemas from Prague to Bratislava, at the Doc Alliance online portal DAFilms.com, and on the Film Europe TV channel.
Rosi spent two years filming life along Rome’s main ring road highway, the Grande Raccordo Anulare, for his documentary which is handled internationally by Doc&Film International.
The gala premiere in Prague’s Cinema Světozor will be attended by Rosi in person, with other special events being organised in the other cinemas.
Meanwhile, those...
Gianfranco Rosi’s Sacro Gra, the first documentary to ever win the Golden Lion in Venice, has been chosen as the title to mark Doc Alliance Films’ first foray into triple day-and-date releases.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily at this week’s Visions du Réel in Nyon, Doc Alliance Films’ Andrea Pruchová revealed that this coming Monday (May 5), the 2013 Venice winner will simultaneously be shown in six Czech and Slovak cinemas from Prague to Bratislava, at the Doc Alliance online portal DAFilms.com, and on the Film Europe TV channel.
Rosi spent two years filming life along Rome’s main ring road highway, the Grande Raccordo Anulare, for his documentary which is handled internationally by Doc&Film International.
The gala premiere in Prague’s Cinema Světozor will be attended by Rosi in person, with other special events being organised in the other cinemas.
Meanwhile, those...
- 5/2/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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