Thursday,
March 15, 2007
Tribeca
Film Festival- 2007- Italian Names and Themes Abound
The
ANNOTICO Report
So
far, with only two feature-film programmes announced for the 2007 Tribeca
Film Festival, Italian Names and Themes abound.
With
Italian Themes and Italian Names , there are:
Emanuele
Crialese's ...."Golden Door (Nuovomondo)";
Agostino Ferrente's "The
Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio (L'Orchestre de Piazza
Vittorio)";
Giuseppe
Gagliardi's "The
True Legend of Tony Vilar";
Nick
Damici's "
With
Italian Named Producers or Directors, but Non
Italian Themes are:
Bob
DeRosa's "The Air I Breathe";
Art D'Alessandro's "The Final Season";
James
Franco, cowrites, stars in and directs "Good
Time Max"
Tandem.
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By
Angela Baldassarre
Mar18, 2007 - Mar25, 2007
So far only two
feature-film programmes have been announced for the
2007 Tribeca Film Festival, and Italian names are
showing up all over the place, including works from
In the Encounters
program there's Emanuele Crialese's ...."Golden Door (Nuovomondo)",
makes its NY Premiere. The turn-of-the-century voyage of a poor family from
rural
Agostino Ferrente's "The
Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio (L'Orchestre
de Piazza Vittorio)" is the
story of how two energetic Romans created an orchestra comprised entirely of
immigrants from all over the world living in one area of the Eternal City. When
a group of 30 different musicians playing 15 unrelated instruments finally
takes the stage, they provide a rousing call to arms for fans of world music,
and all those who believe in the mini-miracles of neighbourhood
cultural initiatives.
Using a
tongue-in-cheek mockumentary style, Giuseppe Gagliardi's "The True Legend of Tony Vilar"
is a half-true, half-imagined tale based on the story of real-life singer Tony Vilar. Born in Italy, he later moved to Argentina and
became one of the most popular crooners in 1960's Latin America, then
mysteriously disappeared, leaving a faint trail apparently leading to New York
City.
There is Bob DeRosa's
The Air I Breathe, about businessman
(Forest Whitaker) who bets his life on a horse race, a gangster (Brendan
Fraser) who sees the future, a pop star (Sarah Michelle Gellar) who falls prey
to a crime boss (Andy Garcia), and a doctor (Kevin Bacon) who must save the
love of his life.
There's Art D'Alessandro's The Final Season where baseball is everything
in
Actor James Franco (Spider-Man) cowrites, stars in and directs Good Time Max, about
two intellectually gifted brothers who take drastically different courses in
life. One evolves into a successful doctor while the other leads a roller
coaster, drug-fueled existence. But even after growing up and growing apart,
they remain inextricably connected to each other.
In the Midnight programme there's Nick
Damici's "
The sixth annual Tribeca Film Festival will run from April 25th to May 6th,
in
***
Aside from working as an entertainment journalist and producer for over a
decade, Melissa DiMarco has appeared in dozens of movies
and television series including Degrassi: The Next
Generation, Riverdale, The Thin Blue Lie, and Death to Smoochy.
For the past five years she's been producing and starring in "Out
There" with Melissa DiMarco, a half-hour
television comedy series where the blonde bombshell plays an entertainment
journalist who tries to overcome the trials and tribulations of interviewing
celebrities and juggling a personal life in the meantime. Real-life stars who've appeared on the show include Matthew McConaughey, Colin Farrell, Barry Pepper and Zach Braff. The show is funny and entertaining, and features
appearances by DiMarco's real-life family as well.
The new s eason of Out There with Melissa DiMarco airs on CanWest Global CHCH this week. Worth checking out.
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