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ALFREDO BINI, UNEXPECTED GUEST
A film by Simone Isola
International title: Alfredo Bini, The Unexpected Guest directed by: Cast: Giuseppe Simonelli, Bernardo Bertolucci, Claudia Cardinale, Manolo Bolognini, Gianni Bisiach, Piero Tosi, Enrico Lucherini, Bruno Torri, Rino Barillari, Giuliano Montaldo, Ugo Gregoretti, Don Backy , Valerio Mastandrea; photography: Luca Lardieri, EdoardoRebecchi; editing: Mario Marrone; producer: Simone Isola , Gianluca Arcopinto; production: Kimerafilm , Axelotil Film , Istituto Luce Cinecittà , Giuseppe Simonelli, with the collaboration of Factory10, Bielle re, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Teche Rai; distribution: Istituto Luce Cinecittà [Italy]; foreign sales: Istituto Luce Cinecittà [Italy]; duration: 84 '
In the Italian film production, the name of Alfredo Bini occupies a not negligible place, although his best known and most appreciated activity is limited to the 1960s. Bini began his own business in 1960, founding the production company Arco Film and making Il bell'Antonio by Mauro Bolognini, based on the novel of the same name by Vitaliano Brancati. From this first work emerges the rebellious personality of the producer, deaf even to the calls of the Minister of Entertainment Alberto Folchi who tries to dissuade him from tackling a risky topic like that of male impotence. But the name of Alfredo Bini is known above all for the long and intense collaboration with Pier Paolo Pasolini, who made his debut in 1960 with Accattone and of which he produced all the films up to Edipo re of 1967. Bini defended his works by publishing a essay with the emblematic title "Notes for those who have the civil, professional and political duty to defend Italian cinema". Bini's human and professional parable follows the fate of Italian cinema. The last few years have been lived in loneliness and bitterness. This is the story of one of our bravest and most free producers.
Presented at the 2015 Venice Film Festival - Venezia Classici
Nastro d'Argento 2016 best documentary on cinema
No Filters. The Unconventional Cinema of Claudio Caligari
A film by Simone Isola and Fausto Trombetta
From an idea of Marco De Annuntiis . Produced by a Kimerafilm with Rai Cinema and Minerva Pictures. With the contribution of MIBACT, distributed by Pablo. international sales Minerva Pictures
photography Maurizio Calvesi editing Mario Marrone; with Emanuel Bevilacqua, Mauro Bonanni, Alessandro Borghi, Maurizio Calvesi, Laura Casalini, Marco Caramella, Francesca DʹAloja, Silvia DʹAmico, Fabio Ferzetti, Marco Giallini, Marco Guidolotti, Marida Lombardo Pijola, Luca Marinelli, Valerio Mastandrea, Roberta Mattei, Giordano Meacci, Michela Mioni, Serafino Murri, Nicola Pankoff, Adelina Ponti, Marco Risi, Manuel Rulli, Francesca Serafini, Simone Spada, Roberto Stani, Pamela Schettino, Giorgio Tirabassi, Paolo Vivaldi
Life and cinema are two indissoluble elements in Claudio Caligari's human parable. The film tells them through the stages of the making of "Don't be bad", with the images and memories of actors and technicians of that troupe / family that has tightened around him, allowing him to complete his third and last film. The film is a lucid and profound reflection on one of the most 'mysterious' authors of our cinema, who left us prematurely with a filmography of only three titles. Following the fundamental stages of the production of his latest work, "Non essere bad", the documentary offers the passionate portrait of a man and a filmmaker who gave us, with his ethical and aesthetic coherence, works of great expressive freedom. On the fringes of industry, far from the spotlight, outsider by choice (not only his own), Caligari entered the cult by recounting the drug addiction of a group of young people from Ostia in his first film, Amore toxicico, presented at the Venice Film Festival in 1983. Singer of the street, of the "last", without pietism or commiseration, the director then returned behind the camera only fifteen years later, in 1998, bringing to the screen the violence of a gang of Roman robbers with "The smell of the night ". Protagonists of that film Giorgio Tirabassi, Marco Giallini and Valerio Mastandrea. The latter, who over the years remained tied to the director, accompanied him in the difficult realization of his latest work, presented posthumously in Venice, greeted by applause and tears.
Presented at the 2019 Venice Film Festival - Venezia Classici
Best documentary nomination - David di Donatello 2020
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ALFREDO BINI, UNEXPECTED GUEST
A film by Simone Isola
International title: Alfredo Bini, The Unexpected Guest directed by: Cast: Giuseppe Simonelli, Bernardo Bertolucci, Claudia Cardinale, Manolo Bolognini, Gianni Bisiach, Piero Tosi, Enrico Lucherini, Bruno Torri, Rino Barillari, Giuliano Montaldo, Ugo Gregoretti, Don Backy , Valerio Mastandrea; photography: Luca Lardieri, EdoardoRebecchi; editing: Mario Marrone; producer: Simone Isola , Gianluca Arcopinto; production: Kimerafilm , Axelotil Film , Istituto Luce Cinecittà , Giuseppe Simonelli, with the collaboration of Factory10, Bielle re, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Teche Rai; distribution: Istituto Luce Cinecittà [Italy]; foreign sales: Istituto Luce Cinecittà [Italy]; duration: 84 '
In the Italian film production, the name of Alfredo Bini occupies a not negligible place, although his best known and most appreciated activity is limited to the 1960s. Bini began his own business in 1960, founding the production company Arco Film and making Il bell'Antonio by Mauro Bolognini, based on the novel of the same name by Vitaliano Brancati. From this first work emerges the rebellious personality of the producer, deaf even to the calls of the Minister of Entertainment Alberto Folchi who tries to dissuade him from tackling a risky topic like that of male impotence. But the name of Alfredo Bini is known above all for the long and intense collaboration with Pier Paolo Pasolini, who made his debut in 1960 with Accattone and of which he produced all the films up to Edipo re of 1967. Bini defended his works by publishing a essay with the emblematic title "Notes for those who have the civil, professional and political duty to defend Italian cinema". Bini's human and professional parable follows the fate of Italian cinema. The last few years have been lived in loneliness and bitterness. This is the story of one of our bravest and most free producers.
Presented at the 2015 Venice Film Festival - Venezia Classici
Nastro d'Argento 2016 best documentary on cinema
SHOWBIZ
A film by Luca Ferrari
Cast: Massimo Marino, Riccardo Modesti, Shultz, Stefano Natale; subject and script: Luca Ferrari; photography: Luca Ferrari; editing: Adriano Patruno; producer: Simone Isola , Paolo Bogna , Valerio Mastandrea; production: Kimerafilm , Relief , with the contribution of MIBACT; d urata: 75 '
After Pezzi, Luca Ferrari tells about four characters who witnessed the Roman nightlife, including beauty contests and parties attended by nobles and VIPs. A documentary that plunges us into a world full of contradictions, apparently easy to judge, and which instead hides a very fragile humanity that lives every day with loneliness behind the bright colors of the lights of the nightclubs.
Presented at the 2015 Rome Film Fest - Hidden City
THE SOUL OF THE GATTOPARDO
A film by Annarita Zambrano
screenplay: Annarita Zambrano; photography: Maura Morales Bergmann; editing: Aline Hervé
producer: Simone Isola; c ast: Mole Cicero Giovanna, Alessandro Modica, Antonino Salibra, Roberto Vincenzo Sindoni, Piero Tosi, Agatina Trigona; production: Kimerafilm , Rai Cinema , with the contribution of the Ministry of Culture , Sicily Region; duration: 52 '
The soul of the Leopard is the soul of Sicily, the solar, violent, immutable and indomitable one, forged to withstand 25 centuries of invasions without ever losing its enamel. But it is also the melancholy, fatalistic, lazy nature ... what Tomasi di Lampedusa for the first time calls “Sicilianity” in his novel. Five years later, in 1963, Luchino Visconti will sublimate this soul to the rhythm of a waltz that will conquer the whole world. But what happened after all these years?
"The soul of the Leopard" is a historical-political documentary that starts in search of the spirit of the Leopard in the crisis of Italy today and tackles head-on the themes of the cultural identity of a Sicily taken as a mirror of our country.
Presented at the 2014 Taormina Festival
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BERTOLUCCI ON BERTOLUCCI
A film by Luca Guadagnino and Walter Fasano
Editing: Walter Fasano; production: Frenesy , Kimerafilm , Istituto Luce Cinecittà , with the contribution of the Ministry of Culture , Sigmund Freud Foundation, Emilia Romagna Region, Rai Teche, INA - Institut Nationel de l'Audiovisuel, BBC Motion Gallery, RTS - Radio Télévision Suisse, in collaboration with the New Cinema Exhibition in Pesaro; duration: 120 '
Cinema told in the first person by Bernardo Bertolucci. Through a montage that articulates statements and thoughts in a flow of passions, psychological introspection, anecdotes and visions, we penetrate the identity of an authentic and extraordinary mettle en scène. After two years of work, the authors signed the film-essay Bertolucci on Bertolucci, digging with patience and passion in over three hundred hours of material from archives around the world.
Dublin International Film Festival 2015: Real To Reel; International Film Festival of Guadalajara 2015: Documental cine italiano; Tiburon International Film Festival 2015: A Tribute to Bernardo Bertolucci; Documenta Madrid 2014: Focus on Directors; Hong Kong International Film Festival 2014: Filmmakers and Filmmaking; Indielisboa 2014: Director \ 's Cut; Istanbul Film Festival 2014: Documentary Time; Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2014: Out of the Past; BFI London Film Festival 2013: Love; Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival 2013: Cinema, je t'aime; Rome Film Fest 2013: Portraits of cinema; Madrid Italian Film Festival 2013: Documentaries; La Biennale di Venezia 2013: Classics; Mostra Internacional de Cinema 2013: Perspectiva Internacional
Nomination Nastro d'Argento 2016 as best documentary on cinema
THE SOUL OF THE GATTOPARDO
A film by Annarita Zambrano
screenplay: Annarita Zambrano; photography: Maura Morales Bergmann; editing: Aline Hervé
producer: Simone Isola; c ast: Mole Cicero Giovanna, Alessandro Modica, Antonino Salibra, Roberto Vincenzo Sindoni, Piero Tosi, Agatina Trigona; production: Kimerafilm , Rai Cinema , with the contribution of the Ministry of Culture , Sicily Region; duration: 52 '
The soul of the Leopard is the soul of Sicily, the solar, violent, immutable and indomitable one, forged to withstand 25 centuries of invasions without ever losing its enamel. But it is also the melancholy, fatalistic, lazy nature ... what Tomasi di Lampedusa for the first time calls “Sicilianity” in his novel. Five years later, in 1963, Luchino Visconti will sublimate this soul to the rhythm of a waltz that will conquer the whole world. But what happened after all these years?
"The soul of the Leopard" is a historical-political documentary that starts in search of the spirit of the Leopard in the crisis of Italy today and tackles head-on the themes of the cultural identity of a Sicily taken as a mirror of our country.
Presented at the 2014 Taormina Festival