Column: Busiest weeks of the season brings golden statues, saints, and a trip back in time
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Next time you see Charles Cohen, give him a great big attaboy.
His Cohen Media Group just received its ninth Academy Award nomination, this time for Io Capitano, which is up for Best International Film.
According to a review in last Friday’s New York Times (where it was chosen as the Critic’s Pick), the movie from Italian director Matteo Garrone “tracks a pair of Senegalese cousins as they struggle to make their way from their home in Dakar to Europe… It’s an often-punishing trip, one punctuated with, and increasingly defined by violence that can be near-phantasmagoric in its depravity.”
Sounds like the Publix parking lot on Sunday afternoon.
Variety describes the movie as having a “grand, honestly felt emotional sweep…”
That's the Publix parking lot when you find a shaded parking spot.
Cohen Media Group won an Oscar in 2017 for The Salesman, and picked up other nominations for films including Faces Places (2018), Mustang (2016), and Timbuktu (2014). In 2008, Charles Cohen was executive producer of the film Frozen River, earning two nominations.
Charles and his knockout wife Clo are currently visiting Paris and London but they will be back early this week for Winter Market at Charles' DCOTA (Design Center for the Americas) in Dania Beach on March 6.
The Reel Thing: We're starting to think the film business is the new side hustle for Palm Beachers.
Take John and Jana Scarpa.
Through their John and Jana Scarpa Foundation, the couple hosted an intimate, by-invitation screening of Cabrini at the Kravis Center's Rinker Playhouse on Feb 20.
John is an investor/producer of the film, which was executive-produced by J. Eustace Wolfington, his dear friend and neighbor in Avalon, N.J.
Alejandro Monteverde, the director of last summer’s blockbuster Sound of Freedom, directed Cabrini, the true story of Francesca Cabrini, the first American saint of the Roman Catholic Church. The setting is 1889, when hostility toward Italian immigrants ran high in New York. As an Italian immigrant, Cabrini was greeted by not only hostility but also crime, disease, and dangerous living conditions, especially for orphaned children.
Mother Cabrini, as she came to be known, and her Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus set out on the dangerous mission to provide housing and education for society’s most vulnerable.
The Scarpas hosted a pre-screening cocktail buffet in the Cohen Pavilion, followed by the movie popcorn. At the end of the movie, there's a beautiful musical piece written by Andrea Bocelli that the Italian tenor performs with his daughter.
After the screening, lead actress Cristiana Dell'Anna, director Monteverde, and cinematographer Gorka Gomez fielded audience questions
The movie will be released by Angel Studios on March 8, International Women’s Day.
More than 250 people attended, including Paul and Kathy Leone, Mike Belisle and Linda Gary, John Preston, Jay and Gretchen Jordan, Jim and Gaye Engel, Mary Robosson. Gail Coniglio, Janet Pleasants and Michael Reiter, Mickey Beyer, Tim and Bridget Moran, Lynda and Anthony Lomangino, Michael Dixon and Rose Lambert.
Parties, parties parties: The Prostate Cancer Foundation hosted a gala dinner to kick off its annual five-day Palm Beach visit, which combines a pro-am tennis and golf tournament and the2024 Milken Institute South Florida Dialogues.
The event took place at the Flagler Museum and honored John and Daria Becker Barry and the Barry familyin recognition of their efforts to accelerate new life-saving treatment options for prostate cancer patients.
The staid Gilded Age manse was throwing a decidedly retro vibe, with world-renowned mentalist Oz Pearlman and a special musical performance by Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo.
Ah, the Eighties. Remember them? Neither do we.
Seen: Bill Koch, John Paulson, Howard Cox, Larry Leeds and Ginger Feuer Leeds, Joe and Michelle Jacobs, Kneeland Youngblood, Alicia Dahill, Herbie Wertheim, Gina Carithers, Chris and Katia Oberbeck, Ed and Brooke Garden, Monica Seles, Colin McNish, John Hope Bryant and Chaitra Bryant.
This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Daily News: In society: Golden statues, saints, and a trip back in time
