Elsa Martinelli, the Italian bombshell actress known for her classic looks and jet-set lifestyle, working between Hollywood, Paris and Rome, died Saturday in Rome. She was 82.
Martinelli was originally discovered as a model in 1953 by designer Roberto Capucci. She began taking on small roles, beginning in 1954 with Claude Autant-Lara’s The Red and the Black.
But her most famous role came just two years later after Kirk Douglas (or his wife, according to an alternate version of the story) claimed to have spotted her on a Life magazine cover. Douglas recruited her to play a Sioux chief’s daughter...
Martinelli was originally discovered as a model in 1953 by designer Roberto Capucci. She began taking on small roles, beginning in 1954 with Claude Autant-Lara’s The Red and the Black.
But her most famous role came just two years later after Kirk Douglas (or his wife, according to an alternate version of the story) claimed to have spotted her on a Life magazine cover. Douglas recruited her to play a Sioux chief’s daughter...
- 7/10/2017
- by Ariston Anderson
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Italian actress Elsa Martinelli, known to U.S. audiences her breakout role in 1955’s The Indian Fighter opposite Kirk Douglas, died Saturday in Rome at the age of 82, according to Italian media.
Born in Tuscany, Martinelli began her career as a model — appearing in the pages of Vogue and on the cover of Life. She then began taking on smaller roles in films, becoming one of the first models to make the crossover into film and paving the way for stars like Cameron Diaz, Sofia Vergara, and Charlize Theron.
A role in 1954’s Le Rouge et le Noir — the French...
Born in Tuscany, Martinelli began her career as a model — appearing in the pages of Vogue and on the cover of Life. She then began taking on smaller roles in films, becoming one of the first models to make the crossover into film and paving the way for stars like Cameron Diaz, Sofia Vergara, and Charlize Theron.
A role in 1954’s Le Rouge et le Noir — the French...
- 7/8/2017
- by Dave Quinn
- PEOPLE.com
Chicago – On a hot and humid night – with dark ominous clouds enveloping the Hollywood Casino Amphitheater in Tinley Park, Ill. on June 15th, 2017 – the crowd gathered to see Iron Maiden, and spilled into their seats like a cold beer from the tap. The heavy metal-loving masses, with their torn jeans and ever-present mullets, got ready for the latest show in the band’s “The Book of Souls” World Tour by responding in Pavlovian fashion to UFO’s “Doctor Doctor” (Maiden’s intro song), as it boomed from the venue’s speakers.
The band’s frontman Bruce Dickinson initially appeared on stage, staring enchantingly into a steaming cauldron while summoning the spirits of all things Iron Maiden. The 58 year-old singer’s recent brush with cancer does not appear to be slowing him down. If anything, it has helped him appreciate his incredible fortune to be on stage with his fellow metal mavericks.
The band’s frontman Bruce Dickinson initially appeared on stage, staring enchantingly into a steaming cauldron while summoning the spirits of all things Iron Maiden. The 58 year-old singer’s recent brush with cancer does not appear to be slowing him down. If anything, it has helped him appreciate his incredible fortune to be on stage with his fellow metal mavericks.
- 6/19/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
On Sunday, January 24th, Fox will bring back Chris Carter’s brilliant series, The X-Files, for a six-episode revival run that will reunite beloved FBI Special Agents Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) for more alien-related exploits.
The last time we saw The X-Files on the airwaves during its initial run was back in May 2002, so if you watched the series throughout its nine seasons, you may be in need of a refresher on all the key players and integral storylines that make up the core mythology of The X-Files.
Mythology in regards to The X-Files could mean various things: the existence of aliens and how our government plays into that, various characters that fit in with different prophecies, the “Black Oil” that became a prominent antagonistic force during season three, the various conspirators and their attempts to derail Mulder and Scully’s work on the X-Files, Scully’s...
The last time we saw The X-Files on the airwaves during its initial run was back in May 2002, so if you watched the series throughout its nine seasons, you may be in need of a refresher on all the key players and integral storylines that make up the core mythology of The X-Files.
Mythology in regards to The X-Files could mean various things: the existence of aliens and how our government plays into that, various characters that fit in with different prophecies, the “Black Oil” that became a prominent antagonistic force during season three, the various conspirators and their attempts to derail Mulder and Scully’s work on the X-Files, Scully’s...
- 1/14/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Los Angeles, Calif. (October 8, 2015) – The truth is out there…and now it can be found in its entirety when Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment exposes the complete world of The X-Files on Blu-ray for the first time – just ahead of the event series premiere Sunday, January 24, 2016. The X-Files: The Collector’s Set – featuring a slot for the upcoming six-episode event series – releases on December 8, giving fans the chance to own a piece of television history and one of the year’s must-have giftset collections. Fans can also purchase each season individually on Blu-ray on December 8.
Since its inception in 1993, The X-Files has remained a worldwide phenomenon, garnering a loyal cult following, 16 Emmys® and five Golden Globes® Awards, including “Best Dramatic TV Series” during its nine-season run.
Now for the first time, all nine exhilarating, groundbreaking seasons of The X-Files, along with special features, can be yours to own on Blu-ray!
Since its inception in 1993, The X-Files has remained a worldwide phenomenon, garnering a loyal cult following, 16 Emmys® and five Golden Globes® Awards, including “Best Dramatic TV Series” during its nine-season run.
Now for the first time, all nine exhilarating, groundbreaking seasons of The X-Files, along with special features, can be yours to own on Blu-ray!
- 10/8/2015
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
For the first time ever, the complete series of The X-Files is coming to blu-ray in one massive set, that brings together all the episodes you loved, plus 23 hours of bonus features to keep you occupied until the show's return next year. Come inside to get all the details.
The best way to get ready for a show's return, is of course watching all the previous ones to get caught up on...Fox is now making that easy with a ginormous complete series blu-ray collectors set for The X-Files launching on December 8th.
The truth is out there…and now it can be found in its entirety when Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment exposes the complete world of “The X-Files” on Blu-ray for the first time – just ahead of the event series premiere Sunday, January 24, 2016. “The X-Files” The Collector’S Set – featuring a slot for the upcoming six-episode event series...
The best way to get ready for a show's return, is of course watching all the previous ones to get caught up on...Fox is now making that easy with a ginormous complete series blu-ray collectors set for The X-Files launching on December 8th.
The truth is out there…and now it can be found in its entirety when Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment exposes the complete world of “The X-Files” on Blu-ray for the first time – just ahead of the event series premiere Sunday, January 24, 2016. “The X-Files” The Collector’S Set – featuring a slot for the upcoming six-episode event series...
- 10/8/2015
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Jordan Maison)
- Cinelinx
With The X-Files being available on Netflix in HD, we knew this announcement wasn't far away. Today, Fox officially announced a Blu-ray Collector's Set for The X-Files, containing every episode in high definition and hours of bonus features:
Los Angeles, Calif. (October 8, 2015) – The truth is out there…and now it can be found in its entirety when Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment exposes the complete world of “The X-Files” on Blu-ray for the first time – just ahead of the event series premiere Sunday, January 24, 2016. “The X-Files” The Collector’S Set – featuring a slot for the upcoming six-episode event series – releases on December 8, giving fans the chance to own a piece of television history and one of the year’s must-have giftset collections. Fans can also purchase each season individually on Blu-ray on December 8.
Since its inception in 1993, “The X-Files” has remained a worldwide phenomenon, garnering a loyal cult following, 16 Emmys® and five Golden Globes® Awards,...
Los Angeles, Calif. (October 8, 2015) – The truth is out there…and now it can be found in its entirety when Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment exposes the complete world of “The X-Files” on Blu-ray for the first time – just ahead of the event series premiere Sunday, January 24, 2016. “The X-Files” The Collector’S Set – featuring a slot for the upcoming six-episode event series – releases on December 8, giving fans the chance to own a piece of television history and one of the year’s must-have giftset collections. Fans can also purchase each season individually on Blu-ray on December 8.
Since its inception in 1993, “The X-Files” has remained a worldwide phenomenon, garnering a loyal cult following, 16 Emmys® and five Golden Globes® Awards,...
- 10/8/2015
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
If it's help navigating The X-Files' many, many episodes you're after, then you've come to the right place...
Maps To TV Shows: Is there a popular show you’d really like to watch but you just don’t have time to wade through years of it all at once? Do you just want to know why that one character keeps turning up on Tumblr? Do the fans all tell you ‘season one is a bit iffy but stick with it, it gets great!’, leaving you with absolutely zero desire ever to watch the boring/silly/just plain weird season one? Then Maps To TV Shows is for you!
In these articles, we’ll outline routes through popular TV shows focusing on particular characters, story arcs or episode types. Are you really into the Klingon episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation? Do you want to get the overall gist...
Maps To TV Shows: Is there a popular show you’d really like to watch but you just don’t have time to wade through years of it all at once? Do you just want to know why that one character keeps turning up on Tumblr? Do the fans all tell you ‘season one is a bit iffy but stick with it, it gets great!’, leaving you with absolutely zero desire ever to watch the boring/silly/just plain weird season one? Then Maps To TV Shows is for you!
In these articles, we’ll outline routes through popular TV shows focusing on particular characters, story arcs or episode types. Are you really into the Klingon episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation? Do you want to get the overall gist...
- 2/26/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
On May 24th, New York’s Film Forum will continue their ongoing resuscitation of the French Old Wave with a revival of a 1956 film that has been all but forgotten outside France: a film whose French title translates as The Crossing of Paris, which was originally released in the Us as Four Bags Full, but which is being re-released now with its more alliterative and far more charming UK subtitle A Pig Across Paris.
Set during the Occupation, this black-sausage comedy may not be quite as cute and animal-friendly as Clément Hurel’s brilliant poster suggests. A hilarious, nail-biting companion of sorts to Wages of Fear, which had been released three years earlier, A Pig Across Paris follows two men (Jean Gabin and comic star Bourvil) who must transport not nitroglycerine across South American mountains, but four black-market suitcases of pork across nighttime Paris, under the nose of the Nazis.
Set during the Occupation, this black-sausage comedy may not be quite as cute and animal-friendly as Clément Hurel’s brilliant poster suggests. A hilarious, nail-biting companion of sorts to Wages of Fear, which had been released three years earlier, A Pig Across Paris follows two men (Jean Gabin and comic star Bourvil) who must transport not nitroglycerine across South American mountains, but four black-market suitcases of pork across nighttime Paris, under the nose of the Nazis.
- 5/11/2013
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
Most of us regular folks would only know Mathieu Amalric as “that Roman Polanski-looking* fellow in Quantum of Solace,” but the French multi-hyphenate proved himself behind the camera when, in 2010, he took home Cannes’ Best Director prize for On Tour. In making his feature film follow-up, Variety informs us he’s decided to adapt Stendhal‘s 1830 novel The Red and the Black — which was translated to film in 1954 — a (oddly untitled) project that producer Laetitia Gonzalez claims will be Amalric‘s “most ambitious directorial effort” to date.
The original book revolved around Julien Sorel, an energetic teacher whose attempt to step outside societal lines — an attempt instigated with an affair — causes a stir and threatens to bring everything crashing down. Dramatic meat: it’s here in spades. Now, I’m obviously speaking out of turn, making predictions on a project that’s still in the early days, but it’s probable that Amalric,...
The original book revolved around Julien Sorel, an energetic teacher whose attempt to step outside societal lines — an attempt instigated with an affair — causes a stir and threatens to bring everything crashing down. Dramatic meat: it’s here in spades. Now, I’m obviously speaking out of turn, making predictions on a project that’s still in the early days, but it’s probable that Amalric,...
- 5/25/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Carrying on the Gallic theme of the Cannes Film Festival, we now have news from two major French talents in the form of Charlotte Gainsbourg and Mathieu Amalric who have both lined up their next projects. We also have the first trailer for Pawel Pawlikowski's Paris-set "The Woman In The Fifth," starring Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott-Thomas.
Gainsbourg will star in comic book artist-turned-filmmaker Riad Sattouf's satirical comedy "Jacky au royaume des filles," roughly translated as "Jacky In Woman's Kingdom." Sattouf latest film is the Cesar-winning "French Kissers," while Gainsbourg is fresh off a starring role opposite former Libertines/Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty in "Confession of A Child Of The Century," which just screened on the Croisette. 'Jacky' will tackle the story of a young man who falls in love with an attractive colonel (Gainsbourg) and dreams of marrying her, even though she's completely out of his league.
Gainsbourg will star in comic book artist-turned-filmmaker Riad Sattouf's satirical comedy "Jacky au royaume des filles," roughly translated as "Jacky In Woman's Kingdom." Sattouf latest film is the Cesar-winning "French Kissers," while Gainsbourg is fresh off a starring role opposite former Libertines/Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty in "Confession of A Child Of The Century," which just screened on the Croisette. 'Jacky' will tackle the story of a young man who falls in love with an attractive colonel (Gainsbourg) and dreams of marrying her, even though she's completely out of his league.
- 5/25/2012
- by Simon Dang
- The Playlist
French actor Mathieu Amalric ("The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," "Quantum of Solace") is set to direct a film adaptation of Stendhal's classic 1830 novel "The Red and the Black" for Les Films du Poisson reports Variety.
The story follows an ambitious young teacher whose passionate affair with a wealthy married woman leads to his downfall. Claude Autant-Lara previously adapted the book in 1954.
Amalric is presently writing the script for the as-yet-untitled project which Yael Fogiel and Laetitia Gonzalez will produce this likely international co-production.
The story follows an ambitious young teacher whose passionate affair with a wealthy married woman leads to his downfall. Claude Autant-Lara previously adapted the book in 1954.
Amalric is presently writing the script for the as-yet-untitled project which Yael Fogiel and Laetitia Gonzalez will produce this likely international co-production.
- 5/24/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Mathieu Amalric is set to take the helm of the big screen adaptation of The Red and the Black written by Stendhal. Variety reports that Amalric is reteaming with Les Films du Poisson's Yael Fogiel and Laetitia Gonzalez for the film which tells of an ambitious young teacher whose liaison with a married, wealthy woman, ends up leading to his downfall. This is the second time The Red and the Black has been made into a movie; the last was 1954's Claude Autant-Lara pic Rouge et noir, starring Gérard Philipe, Daniellle Darrieux, Antonella Lauldi and Jean Mercure. Amalric is busy on the script at this point. The actor and director has an abundance of acting credits since 1985 including more recently David Cronenberg's upcoming Cosmopolis starring Robert Pattinson, and prior to that James Bond pic Quantum of Solace...
- 5/24/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Mathieu Amalric is set to take the helm of the big screen adaptation of The Red and the Black written by Stendhal. Variety reports that Amalric is reteaming with Les Films du Poisson's Yael Fogiel and Laetitia Gonzalez for the film which tells of an ambitious young teacher whose liaison with a married, wealthy woman, ends up leading to his downfall. This is the second time The Red and the Black has been made into a movie; the last was 1954's Claude Autant-Lara pic Rouge et noir, starring Gérard Philipe, Daniellle Darrieux, Antonella Lauldi and Jean Mercure. Amalric is busy on the script at this point. The actor and director has an abundance of acting credits since 1985 including more recently David Cronenberg's upcoming Cosmopolis starring Robert Pattinson, and prior to that James Bond pic Quantum of Solace...
- 5/24/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Above: Andrzej Żuławski on the set of Boris Godounov (1989).
The first American retrospective of Andrzej Żuławski offers the chance to discover an auteur whose idiosyncratic vision is as radical, overwhelming and instantly recognizable—it may take no longer than a few shots—as those of canonized masters like Robert Bresson and Andrej Tarkovskij. But maybe Paul Verhoeven would serve as a better comparison, since Żuławski has remained similarly polarizing due to a punchy sensibility that had the French coin the term "Zulawskienne," meaning "over the top." Consider the opening of his first feature The Third Part of the Night (1971): A woman reads out the apocalyptic passage containing the title from the Book of Revelation, only to be struck down minutes later by one of the soldiers on horseback suddenly intruding in her house. Clearly, this is a world where anything can happen, and Żuławski makes sure it does. Then again,...
The first American retrospective of Andrzej Żuławski offers the chance to discover an auteur whose idiosyncratic vision is as radical, overwhelming and instantly recognizable—it may take no longer than a few shots—as those of canonized masters like Robert Bresson and Andrej Tarkovskij. But maybe Paul Verhoeven would serve as a better comparison, since Żuławski has remained similarly polarizing due to a punchy sensibility that had the French coin the term "Zulawskienne," meaning "over the top." Consider the opening of his first feature The Third Part of the Night (1971): A woman reads out the apocalyptic passage containing the title from the Book of Revelation, only to be struck down minutes later by one of the soldiers on horseback suddenly intruding in her house. Clearly, this is a world where anything can happen, and Żuławski makes sure it does. Then again,...
- 3/16/2012
- MUBI
If Tilda Swinton didn't already exist, a novelist with a truly Baroque imagination would have to invent her. She's a true original, a mercurial medley of unlikely traits. Nearly six feet tall, with the androgynous allure of a changeling and a fondness for David Bowie-style hairdos, she's sometimes taken for a man. She's descended from a posh Scottish family that can trace its roots back to the 9th century and went to school with Princess Diana. At the same, Swinton's sympathies are markedly left-wing.
A fiercely talented fixture of indie cinema, she's notorious for choosing gender-bending roles. In the soon-to-be-reissued "Orlando," she channeled an Elizabethan nobleman who morphs into a woman, and in "Constantine," played the archangel Gabriel. In "Julia," the chameleonic actress played a boozer who tested the sympathy of many viewers. With an aristocrat's disdain, Swinton is less interested in standard notions of success than in personal artistic challenges.
A fiercely talented fixture of indie cinema, she's notorious for choosing gender-bending roles. In the soon-to-be-reissued "Orlando," she channeled an Elizabethan nobleman who morphs into a woman, and in "Constantine," played the archangel Gabriel. In "Julia," the chameleonic actress played a boozer who tested the sympathy of many viewers. With an aristocrat's disdain, Swinton is less interested in standard notions of success than in personal artistic challenges.
- 6/18/2010
- by Erica Abeel
- ifc.com
Is it possible to be addicted to a movie? I've watched I Am Love by Luca Guadagnino three times, once in a theater, twice on a Vcr, and I can feel an urge coming on for a fourth fix. Emma Recchi (Tilda Swinton), a Milanese matron from the mega-rich Recchi family, becomes involved with her grown son's best friend, a chef. A commoner, this guy -- which brings to mind the gamekeeper in Lady Chatterley's Lover and Julien Sorel in Stendhal's The Red and the Black. The damage sustained by the Recchi family and business also references Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks. The film's melodramatic tone, with love presented as an absolute, a religion or calling that must be honored, even as it wrecks lives, suggests director Douglas Sirk, along with opera giants Verdi and Puccini. ...
- 6/16/2010
- by Erica Abeel
- Huffington Post
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