Reset
Eurozine
Reset
2005-08-25
Summary for Reset 91 (2005)
Reset on cinema:
Why isn't Italian cinema an industry? Why is it missing that "central" product with the capacity to attract an audience and critique? How should the state intervene? How much influence does the productive duopoly Rai-Medusa hold? Even if there are conflicting points of view on the gravity of the crisis, there is unanimous agreement on the therapy: there need to be more resources to reinforce the productive structures, less self-reference by authors, and more convincing stories. In sum, less lamenting and more marketing. And a look at the French model.
The forum: Reset with Vincenzo Cerami, Roberto Faenza, Paolo Mereghetti, and Riccardo Tozzi.
The comparison with cinema overseas: Giandomenico Celata, Interviews with Emmanuel Goût, Francesco Gesualdi, and Moira Mazzantini.
The producers: Interviews with Domenico Procacci, Roberto Cicutto, Valerio De Paolis, Carlo Brancaleoni, and Tilde Corsi. And on the problem of Italian-French co-productions Martine Marignac and Anne-Dominique Toussaint.
The directors: Interviews with Alessandro D'Alatri, Ugo Gregoretti. And articles by Leonardo Gandini, Serafino Murri, Vincenzo Marra, and Daniele Vicari.
The screenwriters: Interviews with Francesco Scardamaglia and Stefano Rulli.
What politics can do: An essay by Andrea Colasio and an interview with Gaetano Blandini.
The controversies: Goffredo Fofi against those who want to domesticate criticism. And in particular against Jean-Pierre Jeunet, director of Amélie, who says: "For the French critics, my Amélie was too happy."
Possibilities: Cinema between television and the network, a synergy that produces opportunities and risks: Articles by Enrico Menduni, Michele Trimarchi, and Italo Moscati. And an interview with Peter Kruger.
The interview: Praise for the civil cinema of Ermanno Olmi.