More from Boris Sollazzo
Adult Film Icon Rocco Siffredi on Netflix’s ‘Supersex’: “I Was Born to Do Porn”
Supersex, which premiered on Netflix on March 6, tells the story of Rocco Siffredi, who came from the small coastal town of Ortona, Italy to become one of the most famous porn stars of all time. Born Rocco Tano in 1963, Siffredi has starred in more than 1,300 pornographic films since beginning his career in […]
- By
Italian Filmmaker Stefano Sollima on His Upcoming Netflix Serial-Killer Drama ‘Il Mostro’
“Very beautiful and very challenging.” Those are the first two words that director Stefano Sollima uses to describe his upcoming, four-part Netflix crime series Il Mostro, which has just finished filming. Created by Leonardo Fasoli and Sollima (who also co-produced with Lorenzo Mieli), and produced by The Apartment — a Fremantle company — and AlterEgo […]
- By
‘Formula E Unplugged’: The Racing Show Looking to Be the E-Car Version of ‘Drive to Survive’
On Jan. 13, the 10th season of Formula E (a race car competition consisting only of teams using electric and sustainable engines) kicks off with the Hankook E-Prix in Mexico City. On Jan. 2, the new season of Formula E Unplugged, the docuseries on the fast-growing motorsport, drops on YouTube, chronicling last year’s exciting and […]
- By
The Bernstein Children on ‘Maestro’
The interview takes place over three continents. There’s one virtual Zoom window overlooking four living rooms: Two in New York, one in New Zealand and one at THR Roma’s office in Italy. Maestro, Bradley Cooper’s take on the life, personal and professional, of legendary conductor Leonard Bernstein and his wife, Felicia Montealegre, played by Carey […]
- By
Meet Bonelli Entertainment, Italy’s Answer to Marvel
There are no capes and there is no spandex in Dampyr, the fantasy horror film by Italian director Riccardo Chemello. But the English-language feature, which has been a surprise hit on Netflix, is the first entry in what you could call the Bonelli Cinematic Universe. The vampire-hunter tale, starring Wade Briggs, Stuart Martin, Frida Gustavsson, […]
- By
European Parliament Celebrates Italian Oscar Contender ‘Io Capitano’
Matteo Garrone presented his film Io Capitano, Italy’s contender for the 2024 best international feature Oscar, to a packed theater of European parliamentarians and attendees on Nov. 15, for an event titled “Europe Seen by Others.” The refugee drama, which follows two Senegalese men who travel across Africa and the Mediterranean in an effort to […]
- By
Italian Box Office Hit ‘There’s Still Tomorrow’ Sells Worldwide (Exclusive)
There’s Still Tomorrow (C’è Ancora Domani), the surprise box office hit that has taken Italian cinemas by storm, has become a global sales hit as well, with international distributors snatching up the historic dramedy from actress-turned-director Paola Cortellesi. The black-and-white feature is set in Rome in 1946, a few days before the first-ever Italian referendum […]
- By
Sophia Loren Hospitalized After Fall, Has Several Fractures
Sophia Loren underwent emergency surgery Sunday after suffering several fractures, including one to her femur, after a bad fall at her Swiss home. The Italian acting icon, who turned 89 on Sept. 20, fell in her bathroom and sustained several fractures to her hip as well as a serious fracture to her femur, which needed […]
- By
THR Roma Critics on the Best (and Worst) Movies So Far at the 80th Venice Film Festival
Seven takes on the hits and misses of the 80th Venice International Film Festival, from the reviewers at THR Roma, The Hollywood Reporter‘s first European-language edition, on the hottest Venice titles so far. Dogman, by Luc Besson “A bizarre and powerful work that has the stigmata of the best Besson, the one that allows us […]
- By
Locarno: Oscar-Winning Editor Pietro Scalia on the “Existential Crisis” of the Hollywood Strikes, Working With Ridley Scott, Oliver Stone and Michael Mann
There is one thing that strikes you immediately about Pietro Scalia. The ability to chisel his answers in an interview into the right timing, the right pauses, the right gestures. Not too long, not too short, not too fast, not too slow, as if he was seeking, even in a dialogue, that perfection he seems […]
- By
Why ‘Matrix’ Star Lambert Wilson Has Always Been Afraid of AI
French actor Lambert Wilson is perhaps most famous, worldwide, for his portrayal of the Merovingian, a sinister — and delightfully camp — artificial intelligence in the Matrix movies. But when it comes to actual AI, the 65-year-old star shares the concerns, and fears, of his U.S. colleagues, who are manning the SAG-AFTRA picket lines in […]
- By