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After more than 50 years in the biz, Jane Fonda is looking, and, I suspect, feeling more youthful than ever. So it seems entirely appropriate that Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's perfectly titled Youth should bring her roaring back into the Oscar conversation. It's been almost three decades since Fonda's last…

Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth leads the field of nominees for the European Film Awards that were unveiled today in Seville, Spain. The English-language drama competed at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and has enjoyed a strong box office run in the helmer’s home country of Italy.  A bittersweet reflection on…

Dividing its opening night in half, HIFF will present the East Coast premiere of Youth on Friday, October 9 at its Southampton venue. The film, from Academy Award winner Sorrentino (The Great Beauty), stars Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel as old friends vacationing in a Swiss luxury resort. Fred (Caine) is a retired…

Paolo Sorrentino's follow-up to Oscar-winning The Great Beauty got a killer standing ovation in competition in Cannes and was quickly snapped up by Fox Searchlight, which has set a December 4 U.S. bow. The trailer for Youth that dropped today shows what all that French fuss was about: The pic follows Fred (Michael Cain…

As I have slowly emerged during the past week from my French fog into the harsher realities of Hollywood, the likely effect of the 68th Cannes Film Festival on this year’s Oscar race has come more into focus. I consider Cannes a “soft start” to the awards season, not as key obviously as the fall trifecta of…

“This is my idea of what older people dwell on later in life,” Italian director Paolo Sorrentino told Deadline today about his latest film Youth, a title much like his Oscar-winning The Great Beauty that centers around accomplished men’s reflection on ‘what could have been’, but against a colorful, absurdist…

Depending on who you talked to (and I talked to just about everyone at tonight’s elegant J.W. Marriott poolside after-premiere screening party for Youth) the Paolo Sorrentino competition film got anywhere from a 10- to 17-minute ecstatic standing ovation at the Grand Theatre Lumiere (I saw it earlier at the 8:30 AM…

Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley are among Britain’s most accomplished film producers. Through their company Number 9 Films, they’ve been behind some of the country’s most successful indies — movies including The Crying Game, How To Lose Friends And Alienate People and a pair of projects at this year’s Canness…

UPDATED, May 13 : I reported last month that Fox Searchlight was nearing a deal for Paolo Sorrentino’s Cannes Competition film Youth. The company now has confirmed its acquisition of the English-language title that screens here on May 20. Company presidents Stephen Gilula and Nancy Utley announced the pickup of North…

EXCLUSIVE: In her second recent teaming with an Italian director, Jane Fonda has boarded Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino‘s men-reflecting-on-life tale, Youth. I’m told Fonda has a key role in the English-language film that starts shooting at the end of the month. This marks a reunion for the actress and the previously…