A very happy 80th birthday to Sophia Loren, who's already had quite a year—and it's only September. She was all over Cannes in May, giving a master class and making the rounds for the premieres of her son Edoardo Ponti's La voce umana, in which she plays the lead, and the new restoration of Vittorio De Sica's Marriage Italian Style (1964), in which she stars alongside Cannes 2014 poster boy Marcello Mastroianni. Her memoir will be out in December and two exhibitions are currently celebrating her illustrious career. » - David Hudson...
- 9/20/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
A very happy 80th birthday to Sophia Loren, who's already had quite a year—and it's only September. She was all over Cannes in May, giving a master class and making the rounds for the premieres of her son Edoardo Ponti's La voce umana, in which she plays the lead, and the new restoration of Vittorio De Sica's Marriage Italian Style (1964), in which she stars alongside Cannes 2014 poster boy Marcello Mastroianni. Her memoir will be out in December and two exhibitions are currently celebrating her illustrious career. » - David Hudson...
- 9/20/2014
- Keyframe
The festival will celebrate the iconic Italian actress with a Hollywood tribute on November 12.
Throughout the eight-day festival that runs in Hollywood from November 6-13, Loren will be celebrated in the form of special festival branding (pictured) unveiled by AFI Fest top brass on Wednesday (August 27).
The tribute evening will be open to the public and culminate in the 50th anniversary screening of Marriage Italian Style (Matrimonio All’Italiana), Vittorio De Sica’s 1964 film that earned Loren an Oscar nomination.
The film was restored by Cineteca di Bologna, the Technicolor Foundation for Cinema Heritage and Memory Cinéma, in collaboration with Surf Film.
The Tribute will also include a conversation with Loren about her career, when attendees will be able to watch The Human Voice (La Voce Umana), a 2014 short film starring Loren directed by her son Edoardo Ponti.
Loren became the first actress to win a best actress Academy Award for a foreign-language film for Two Women...
Throughout the eight-day festival that runs in Hollywood from November 6-13, Loren will be celebrated in the form of special festival branding (pictured) unveiled by AFI Fest top brass on Wednesday (August 27).
The tribute evening will be open to the public and culminate in the 50th anniversary screening of Marriage Italian Style (Matrimonio All’Italiana), Vittorio De Sica’s 1964 film that earned Loren an Oscar nomination.
The film was restored by Cineteca di Bologna, the Technicolor Foundation for Cinema Heritage and Memory Cinéma, in collaboration with Surf Film.
The Tribute will also include a conversation with Loren about her career, when attendees will be able to watch The Human Voice (La Voce Umana), a 2014 short film starring Loren directed by her son Edoardo Ponti.
Loren became the first actress to win a best actress Academy Award for a foreign-language film for Two Women...
- 8/27/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Rome -- Paolo Virzi's The Human Capital (Il capitale umano) won the David di Donatello Award for best film, while Paolo Sorrentino won best director for his work on Oscar winner The Great Beauty (La grande belezza). The Human Capital and The Great Beauty dominated the nominations, with 19 and 18, respectively, and both left the show highly decorated. Photos: Cannes: THR's Photo Portfolio With Cate Blanchett, Channing Tatum, Kristen Stewart But it was 79-year-old diva Sophia Loren who stole the show. As in Cannes, she was honored for her work in The Human Voice (La voce umana), a short
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- 6/10/2014
- by Eric Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sophia Loren and her son Edoardo Ponti heading for Cannes One of the grand surviving divas of Italian Cinema Sophia Loren will be the guest of honour in the Cannes Classics section of the official selection, it was announced today (April 30), with a programme of restored works including films by Jean Renoir, François Truffaut, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Marcel Carné, Sergio Leone and Frank Capra.
The selection comprises 22 features and two documentaries about cinema, all screening for the first time exclusively in digiital copies with no 35mm prints on view.
Loren will be present at the screening of The Human Voice (La Voce Umana), directed by her son Edoardo Ponti, which marks her return to the screen after a gap of several years. The short film is based on a one-person play first performed in 1930, and written by the French poet and writer Jean Cocteau. Unlike the stage version, which was written in French,...
The selection comprises 22 features and two documentaries about cinema, all screening for the first time exclusively in digiital copies with no 35mm prints on view.
Loren will be present at the screening of The Human Voice (La Voce Umana), directed by her son Edoardo Ponti, which marks her return to the screen after a gap of several years. The short film is based on a one-person play first performed in 1930, and written by the French poet and writer Jean Cocteau. Unlike the stage version, which was written in French,...
- 4/30/2014
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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