- Title: FJ-HRN-2299
- Summary: Cannes 2008 Italia Party: Cannes Italia Party
- Description:00:00:15 - Sound Bite Elizabeth Guider Thoughts on Vicky Barcelona press conference Well you know the press conference with Vicky Barcelona is like every press conference at Cannes its always wacky and weird. No one ever asks about box office but they do ask up these deep intellectual questions and these very frivolous questions. So the deep intellectual question was so Woody do you, like the characters in that movie have fantasys yourself about a menage a trios. Naturally Woody being Woody ah replied that actually in real life its way too complicated, way too emotional to hook up with more than one person at a time, so that essentially you know hes very good at deflecting that kind of question. You know then the most amusing question was from the journalist from Uzbekistan who is convinced that this movie is going to do well in central Asia because all the women involved in all the houses meaning essentially many of them have a lot of wives or a lot of women helping them out in their houses and she thinks this is going to really spark a lot of um interest in her part of the world. Shes asking Woody, do you think youll come and make a movie in Russia or central Asia, and Woody who is uh not always perhaps terribly diplomatic said his only experience of Russia was 2 hours at the Leningrad airport and he just couldnt wait to get out. 00:02:10 - Sound Bite: Elizabeth Guider Indeed. Well you know shes such an icon here in Cannes, shes been here at least 5 times with different movies so you know people kind of wanted to know a little bit about her love life, again these are frivolous things these press conferences, but also did she enjoy working with Javier Bardem and doing that movie in both English and Spanish and she did seem to spark to that question. She thought that Woody gave uh herself and Bardem a lot of leeway a lot of room to move between the two languages and make the movie more realistic in that sense so that was something interesting to hear about. 00:03:03 - Sound Bite: Elizabeth Guider You know uh theres a lot of intellectualization at these press conferences where people think oh it must be so complicated to finally come up with an idea and where do you shoot it and whatnot, and you know Woody Allen made it sound like, Okay get the phone call, people in Barcelona say, would you be interested in making a movie here in our city, and he said sure, and he said my family wanted to spend a lovely summer in Barcelona and so guess what we went and everybody was great, the crew was good, the food was great, they had a lot of fun, they did get money and again on the money issue there is a growing sentiment in Europe that American directors are taking advantage of the subsidies and the tax incentives to make their movies in Europe rather than the homegrown people, and there was a bit of a little animosity in Spain about that, but Woody Allen said that himself I dont really get involved in the financing, I just come and make the movie and he swore that no director or producer in Spain is mad at him. 00:06:02 - B-Roll Italia Party people walking around outside and kids playing, shots of a merry go round 00:09:18 - B-Roll Italia Party shots of the fountain and kid playing with boats, shots of buildings lining the streets 00:11:49 - B-Roll Italia Party some guys in pink hats walking down the street, shots of Polish Cinema banner and velvet octopus banner, guys in pink hats taking a picture with some women 00:14:15 - B-Roll Italia Party shots of a mime and people checking the mime out 00:17:41 - B-Roll Italia Party shots of another mime and people watching him, 26th Torino Film Festival poster, people lined up on some pavilions, some cameraman walking on the beach, 00:20:19 - B-Roll Italia Party people standing around at what I think is the party, guys shooting on the beach, some weirdos in green capes on beach 00:23:38 - B-Roll Italia Party girl sitting on lavish chair with some dude sipping wine 00:24:36 - B-Roll Italia Party people sitting around table at what seems like a production meeting, more of people standing around at party 00:27:04 - Sound Bite: Alberto Barbara (Torino Film Festival and National Film Museum of Italy look up real Italian name) It will be 26th edition, the second directed by ?, last year we had a huge success, 70% more of uh tickets sold. This year, I mean you know the festival, its a festival devoted to promoting new filmmakers, first and second features, but we also organize huge retrospectives or this year will be a tribute to Roman Polanski, he will come to Reno for the ?, and a second tribute to John Pierre ?, the French filmmaker, he made great noir films during the ?, so were expecting another great success in the festival. 00:28:05 - Sound Bite: Alberto Barbara The city of Torino, the region of ? decided to invest the field of cinema, so they started a film commission 8 years ago which is very effective, uh we have a big film museum in Torino, which is the biggest film museum in the world at the moment so far, and then we have 3 major film festivals in Torino and um actually there are at least 30 percent of the italian film production is shot in Torino now so Torinos becoming again a very interesting city from the point of view of the film industry so there are studios for production, post production, for cities, theyre building a new business center for production companies who like to shot films in Torino so its a nice moment. 00:29:15 - Sound Bite: Alberto Barbara A lot, absolutely. They really put Torino on the map on the international map. It was not at all uh known outside of Italy, most of the people thought that Torino was just an industrial town. We changed, at least it was, but its a beautiful city and one of the most ? cities from the cultural point of view, and uh it was the capital of the southern Italian movies at the beginning of the 20th century, and the film industry is back to Torino again. 00:30:15 - Sound Bite: Frederick Mann (Artistic Director of ? Film Festival The interview mic is not turned on during half of this interview. I suggest not using it. 00:32:02 - Sound Bite: Producer of Gomorra not usable, no light on face Talks about his film Gomorra
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/2008
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 2000s
- File Name: FJ-HRN-2299