TODO MODO restoration to premiere during Venice Film Festival

We are both proud and honored to announce that the restoration of TODO MODO will have its world premiere during the upcoming Venice Film Festival, in the section Venice Classiscs  Stay tuned for another press release about the restoration process.

TODO MODO. Elio Petri's masterpiece coming to BLU RAY released worldwide by us!

We are very excited and happy to announce that we secured worlwide rights to release a Blu Ray edition of Elio Petri's masterpiece TODO MODO.

The movie has been unavailable for a long time anywhere in the world, in any format. Time to get rid of those blurry VHS taped from Italian TV (also a shorter version) and delete those youtube files of the same rotten source. The film is going under a major restoration with a 4K film scan of the original negatives and frame by frame clean up. 

There are details to be unveiled very soon about this release, it is just that we couldn't keep it for ourselves anymore. 

Todo Modo is possibly the most sought after political film of all times, directed by Academy Award winner Elio Petri (best foreign film 1970, Investigation on a citizen above suspicion) and starring some of the finest actors of Italian Cinema like Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Gian Maria Volontè, Ciccio Ingrassia, Franco Citti and Mariangela Melato.

The film caused such a stir at the time of its release because of the gritty depiction of the meeting of a leading politcal party while an unstoppable disease is spraeding in streets of Rome. Church, poltical leaders, Capitalists are showed at their very lowest using sex, corruption and even murder to achieve their goal. The film also was a forerunner of following events that led to the tragic killing of Prime Minister Aldo Moro by the terrorist group Red Brigades.

It's an unforgettable experience, a film that grows up within the viewer leaving a sense of discomfort and uneasiness. It is brilliant and compelling.

We are actually working on an event to present the film in Rome during the fall, but there is more than that, as written above, we'll be unveiling soon.

The film will be featured on double layered BRD with extras tbc. 

Tech spec: OAR1.85:1, 16:9, 1920X1080 24P

Audio Italian DTS HD Master Audio original Mono restored

Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish, Macedonian, Serbian

REGION FREE

street date: spring/summer 2015

Available only for purchase on our site and trhough selected retaillers.

This a major step for us and bring us back to what we know to do best.

In the past we have been working in distribution and our work has been compared to the one of Criterion and more. The New York Times in 2006 voted us amongst the 10 best North American distributors. The Magazine Premiere that year did the same. We were the first in Italy to restore and trasfer a movie in HD back at the end of the 90's and the releases of our labels on DVD are amongst the most sought after from Collectors all around the world.

more details coming soon

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About DOORS - a making of

This is the excellent video shot and edited by Bojan Mitkovski and Dalibor Mitkovski at the end of the shooting of our short film DOORS. It features interviews with cast and crew, including Michele De Angelis, Viktorija Stepanovska, Steve Brooke Smith and Aleksandar Grozdanovski. IN ENGLISH!!!

Special aired on Macedonian Tera TV about DOORS and Cannes Film Festival

This was aired few days ago on Tera Tv in Macedonia. It's a 7,15 mins special made with interviews with me, actresses Viktorija Stepanovska and Maja Andonovska. Thanks to journalist Neda Maretic that gave us so much room in her cultural show. 

Screening of DOORS in Cannes getting international recognition

CONGRATULATIONS MICHELE,

SELECTION IN THE PROGRAM OF CANNES SHORT FILM CORNER IS A NEW AFFIRMATION OF YOUR FILM AND YOU AS HIS AUTHOR!

I AM ALSO PLEASED THAT I SELECTED THE FILM FOR LAST YEAR'S MANAKI BROS FEST WHERE THE FILM HAD THE REAL START SINCE IT WAS SHOT IN BITOLA. IT IS NICE THAT YOU HAVE THAT FACT ON YOUR BLOG/KINOGLAZORAMA. NEXT TIME IT WOULD BE NICE IF YOU PUT SOME MORE INFO ABOUT THE MANAKI BROTHERS FEST, AS THE FIRST AND THE OLDEST IN THE WORLD DEDICATED TO THE ARTISTS-CINEMATOGRAPHERS.

Blagoja Kunovski

(film critic, publicist, Festival's Artistic Director and Official Competition Selector)

Dear Dore, ICFF Manaki Brothers is the house of art and light. The best Cinematographers in the world meet there every year to talk with people and share their knowledge and skills. It was, as i wrote before a great honor and pleasure to be selected there. Not to mention the festival is held in the city of Bitola, Republic of Macedonia, the same city in which my short was shot. I really feel this place and this festival to be very important to me, since there I met my wife for the first time. For anyone interested this is the link to the festival site http://www.manaki.com.mk/

For a lover like me of silent film it was a dream come true to be selected in a festival named after visionary pioneers of filmmaking like the Manaki Brothers, the first to bring a movie camera in the Balkans early 1900. I publicly thank you again to show such enthusiasm and interest for my work as a director. 

DOORS to be screened at Cannes Film Festival 2013

This is a very special moment for me and all the people that worked with me, my crew, my dop, and all the friends that supported me in a long journey started 25 years go.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way"

Thank you all!

DOORS was selected to be screened at the short film corner of the Cannes Film Festival. Look forward to see you in Cannes from the 15th to 26th of May 2013

DOORS in Argentina at FCI 2013 in Buenos Aires

We are both proud and honored to announce that DOORS has been officially selected for the Festival de Cine Inusual de Buenos Aires. The short will be screened in Buenos Aires during the next edition of the festival, October 2013. We'll keep you posted on dates and location. Thanks Argentina e special thanks to Silvia G. Romero and Fabian Sancho who selected our work!