Stars: Lou Ferrigno, John Steiner, Roland Wybenga, Ennio Girolami, Hal Yamanouchi, Yehuda Efroni, Alessandra Martines, Teagan Clive, Leo Gullotta, Stefania Girolami Goodwin, Donald Hodson, Melonee Rodgers, Cork Hubbert, Romano Puppo, Attilio Cesare Lo Pinto | Written by Luigi Cozzi | Directed by Enzo G. Castellari
Supposedly based on Edgar Allan Poe’s The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade (it’s not), Sinbad of the Seven Seas is yet another Italian fantasy film starring Lou Ferrigno. This time Luigi Cozzi, director of the two Hercules movies, take writing duties on a film directed by Enzo G. Castellari – the same Enzo G. Castellari who made the original Inglorious Bastards and the fan-favourite Bronx Trilogy (1990: The Bronx Warriors, The New Barbarians, Escape from the Bronx).
Apparently, if the rumours are true, Castellari’s take on Sinbad was so unwatchable that Luigi Cozzi had to film reshoots and re-edit the film into the haphazard mess it is today,...
Supposedly based on Edgar Allan Poe’s The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade (it’s not), Sinbad of the Seven Seas is yet another Italian fantasy film starring Lou Ferrigno. This time Luigi Cozzi, director of the two Hercules movies, take writing duties on a film directed by Enzo G. Castellari – the same Enzo G. Castellari who made the original Inglorious Bastards and the fan-favourite Bronx Trilogy (1990: The Bronx Warriors, The New Barbarians, Escape from the Bronx).
Apparently, if the rumours are true, Castellari’s take on Sinbad was so unwatchable that Luigi Cozzi had to film reshoots and re-edit the film into the haphazard mess it is today,...
- 12/30/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
PARIS -- Organizers of the Deauville Festival of American Cinema said Thursday that the event will open with a French film -- Le Genre Humain -- 1: Les Parisiens, the first installment of Claude Lelouch's Genre Humain (Humankind) trilogy -- for the first time in the festival's 30-year history. Humain will screen out of competition at the festival, which runs Sept. 3-12. Lelouch, who heads the festival's jury, offered the film for its world premiere as a special 30th birthday gift, organizers said. The 35 million ($43.2 million) trilogy, funded almost entirely by Lelouch, has been almost 35 years in the making. Organizers said they are honored to unspool its first part. About the foibles of male-female relationships, Les Parisiens stars Massimo Ranieri, Mathilde Seigner, Arielle Dombasle. Lelouch plays himself in the film, and his partner, Alessandra Martines, and some of his seven children also have roles.
- 8/19/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- Organizers of the Deauville Festival of American Cinema said Thursday that the event will open with a French film -- Le Genre Humain -- 1: Les Parisiens, the first installment of Claude Lelouch's Genre Humain (Humankind) trilogy -- for the first time in the festival's 30-year history. Humain will screen out of competition at the festival, which runs Sept. 3-12. Lelouch, who heads the festival's jury, offered the film for its world premiere as a special 30th birthday gift, organizers said. The 35 million ($43.2 million) trilogy, funded almost entirely by Lelouch, has been almost 35 years in the making. Organizers said they are honored to unspool its first part. About the foibles of male-female relationships, Les Parisiens stars Massimo Ranieri, Mathilde Seigner, Arielle Dombasle. Lelouch plays himself in the film, and his partner, Alessandra Martines, and some of his seven children also have roles.
- 8/19/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- French director Claude Lelouch said Monday that he has begun shooting Les Parisiens, the first film of Le Genre Humain (Mankind), the $38 million trilogy that he has scripted and will direct, produce, distribute and act in. The three planned films are Les Parisiens, set in Paris at the beginning of the 21st century; Theatre de Boulevard, a light comedy and "perhaps the craziest of the lot," according to Lelouch; and Les Ricochets ou La Legende des Siecles, (The Ricochets or the Legend of the Centuries), which borrows its name from Victor Hugo's epic collection of poems. Each of the three will stand alone, but they are best viewed together, Lelouch said. The cast includes several actors who sing, with Italian actor Massimo Ranieri in the lead. Lelouch's wife, Alessandra Martines, will appear along with the director's seven children -- ranging in age from 5-35 -- whom he calls "his little Hitchcocks."...
The fourth film in the series that began with his Oscar-winning "A Man and a Woman", Claude Lelouch's "Men, Women: User's Manual" is the veteran filmmaker's most satisfying installment since the 1966 prototype.
Presented as part of "City of Lights, City of Angels: A Week of New French Films," Lelouch's 35th feature is a richly constructed, end-of-the-millennium primer on love and life.
Both gently humorous and poetic, the picture made some waves in France due to the director's casting of controversial mogul Bernard Tapie in one of the lead roles. The charismatic Tapie proves to be quite a natural in the part of womanizing successful businessman Benoit Blanc, who fatefully crosses paths with Fabio Lini (Fabrice Luchini), a neurotic actor-turned-cop in a doctor's office waiting room where both men are experiencing stomach pains.
As it turns out, the doctor's colleague (Alessandra Martines) was one of Blanc's spurned girlfriends, and she orchestrates very unorthodox therapy as a way of vengeance. Once the two men's test results are back from the lab, she decides to put a theory of Professor Lerner's (Pierre Arditi) involving the healing abilities of the reassured mind into practice. She informs the positively testing Lini that he has tested negatively for cancer, while informing the negatively testing Blanc that he requires immediate treatment if he is to have any chance of conquering the disease.
Of course, her actions prove to have far-reaching effects on not just the two patients involved but on all the characters that make up the filmmaker's intricate, intriguing universe.
While Lelouch has essentially made a "Man/Woman" picture around the middle of each of the past four decades, the closing out of the 20th century appears to have invigorated him. This lyrical rumination on the powers of love, work and health is filled with clever touches and great visuals, not to mention hope for the next millennium.
His entire cast, also including Lelouch regular Anouk Aimee as a gold-digging "widow" who hangs out at cemeteries, shines uniformly brightly. Francis Lai, meanwhile -- who also took home an Oscar for his original "A Man and a Woman" themes -- delivers a fittingly reflexive score featuring some truly existential vocals from male soprano Patrick Husson, who sort of looks like an angelic Dudley Moore.
MEN, WOMEN: USER'S MANUAL
Films 13/TF1 Films
with the participation of Canal Plus
Director:Claude Lelouch
Screenwriters:Claude Lelouch, Rene Bonnell
Producer:Claude Lelouch
Director of photography:Philippe Pavans
Music:Francis Lai
Color/stereo
Cast:
Fabio Lini:Fabrice Luchini
Benoit Blanc:Bernard Tapie
Doctor:Alessandra Martines
Widow:Anouk Aimee
Professor Lerner:Pierre Arditi
Running time -- 100 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Presented as part of "City of Lights, City of Angels: A Week of New French Films," Lelouch's 35th feature is a richly constructed, end-of-the-millennium primer on love and life.
Both gently humorous and poetic, the picture made some waves in France due to the director's casting of controversial mogul Bernard Tapie in one of the lead roles. The charismatic Tapie proves to be quite a natural in the part of womanizing successful businessman Benoit Blanc, who fatefully crosses paths with Fabio Lini (Fabrice Luchini), a neurotic actor-turned-cop in a doctor's office waiting room where both men are experiencing stomach pains.
As it turns out, the doctor's colleague (Alessandra Martines) was one of Blanc's spurned girlfriends, and she orchestrates very unorthodox therapy as a way of vengeance. Once the two men's test results are back from the lab, she decides to put a theory of Professor Lerner's (Pierre Arditi) involving the healing abilities of the reassured mind into practice. She informs the positively testing Lini that he has tested negatively for cancer, while informing the negatively testing Blanc that he requires immediate treatment if he is to have any chance of conquering the disease.
Of course, her actions prove to have far-reaching effects on not just the two patients involved but on all the characters that make up the filmmaker's intricate, intriguing universe.
While Lelouch has essentially made a "Man/Woman" picture around the middle of each of the past four decades, the closing out of the 20th century appears to have invigorated him. This lyrical rumination on the powers of love, work and health is filled with clever touches and great visuals, not to mention hope for the next millennium.
His entire cast, also including Lelouch regular Anouk Aimee as a gold-digging "widow" who hangs out at cemeteries, shines uniformly brightly. Francis Lai, meanwhile -- who also took home an Oscar for his original "A Man and a Woman" themes -- delivers a fittingly reflexive score featuring some truly existential vocals from male soprano Patrick Husson, who sort of looks like an angelic Dudley Moore.
MEN, WOMEN: USER'S MANUAL
Films 13/TF1 Films
with the participation of Canal Plus
Director:Claude Lelouch
Screenwriters:Claude Lelouch, Rene Bonnell
Producer:Claude Lelouch
Director of photography:Philippe Pavans
Music:Francis Lai
Color/stereo
Cast:
Fabio Lini:Fabrice Luchini
Benoit Blanc:Bernard Tapie
Doctor:Alessandra Martines
Widow:Anouk Aimee
Professor Lerner:Pierre Arditi
Running time -- 100 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 4/14/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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