TORONTO – Twenty years ago, Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ earned $83 million in its opening weekend, the second highest rated-R movie return ever, behind the Matrix Reloaded. The then IFC Entertainment president Jonathan Sehring had this to say about Mel Gibson’s film: “It is about as independent as one can get, certainly wasn’t developed by a studio, wasn’t financed by a studio, wasn’t released by a studio. I don’t know of any individual (Gibson) who has ever put so much of his own money on the line for any movie”.
TORONTO – Nel 1972, l’icona musicale Adriano Celentano pubblicò una traccia incomprensibile intitolata “Prisencolinensinainciusol”…
TORONTO – In 1972, musical icon Adriano Celentano released a gibberish track titled “Prisencolinensinainciusol”. English language songs ruled the charts in Italy during the 70s, and musicians like the Jackson 5, Abba and the Beegees charmed Italians as much as their native audiences. As somewhat of a social experiment, Celentano set out to prove that Italians would sheepishly listen to anything that sounded English – and he did so by releasing a song whose lyrics mimicked American English. He was right. The fake English song went to number 1 on French, German and Italian charts.
TORONTO – Nel 2006, lo sceneggiatore Marco Gianfreda ha scritto un cortometraggio Tana Libera Tutti, in cui un bambino di sei anni desidera ardentemente essere notato da una compagna di classe di nome Flavia. Quel film gli è valso una nomination ai David di Donatello nella categoria cortometraggio e una promettente piattaforma da cui lanciare la sua carriera di sceneggiatore…
TORONTO – In 2006, screenwriter Marco Gianfreda wrote a short film Tana Libera Tutti, in which a six-year-old boy yearns to be noticed by a classmate named Flavia. That film earned him a David Di Donatello nomination in the cortometraggio category, and a promising platform from which to launch his screenwriting career. Fast forward almost 20 years later and Gianfreda is now directing his first film, Tre Regole Infallibili, which centers around an adolescent boy courting a girl – yet again – named Flavia.
