In Spring 2018 there will be a new show on Broadway: Frozen is ready to become a new stage production for the best musical home in the world. Movie co-director and co-writer Jennifer Lee will provide in fact the book for the show which, obviously, will use music and lyrics by the original composers Kristen…
Vertical Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to the baseball drama Undrafted starring Grease Live and Broadway star Aaron Tveit and Gossip Girl beau Chace Crawford. The baseball drama from writer/director Joseph Mazzarello (The Social Network, Jurassic Park) tells a fictional version of Mazzarello’s brother story and it examines how one moves on from crushing disappointment…
When it premiered in 1960, The Caretaker changed the face of modern theatre. Now Harold Pinter’s groundbreaking classic comes to The Old Vic in a new production directed by Matthew Warchus. Disturbed handyman Aston has invited an irascible tramp to stay with him at his brother’s jumbled London flat. At first it seems that the manipulative…
Few years after Shell (2012), writer-director Scott Graham comes back with another touching Scottish drama. Iona is the tale of a single mum (Ruth Negga) returning home with her teenage son Billy, called Bull (an outstanding debut for Ben Gallagher) to take refuge after a violent incident. If the first version of the movie, screened few months…
1951. Tilly Dunnage (a marvellous Kate Winslet), is a talented stylist who after 20 years spent with the most important stylists in London, Milan and Paris comes back to Dungatar, a small village in Australia. Tilly had been forced to leave the small village while still a child, following a tragic event; but now she is…
As actor he moves from England to USA constantly. He kidnapped European hearts from Italy to Spain as Mercutio in Carlei’s Romeo and Juliet and from Thursday, November 19th, he will be on USA TV screens as Graham Connor in the new series The Art of More, alongside Dennis Quaid and Kate Bosworth. But Christian…
Jonas Carpignano‘s movie is one of the best evidence about immigration in Italy, especially in the south of the country, where we can meet thousands of Ayiva and Abas. Mediterranea starts with our two main characters, Ayiva and Abas precisely, who find themselves in Algeria, having left Burkina Faso and trying to get to the…
Land of Mine is a tragic unknown chapter about the end of the WWII in Denmark with a stunning young cast and great suspense (watch the cast at the Festival screening here) When five years of German occupation come to an end in May 1945, team of 12 young German soldiers were assigned to Danish…
Juliette Binoche in Sicilian Pietro Messina’s movie The Wait is a grieving mother who can’t bring herself to tell her son’s French girlfriend that he’s died (here the link to the Festival screening). Anna (Binoche) lives in an enormous villa her Italian husband left to her in the shadow of Etna volcano. The movie starts with…
The End of the Tour is a quite touching movie based on journalist David Lipsky‘s memoir of spending five days in 1996 with writer David Foster Wallace during his Infinite Jest publicity tour, 12 years before Wallace‘s suicide. In 2008 Wallace hanged himself when he was just 46, and Lipsky used the material in a…
Zev Guttman (an incredible Christopher Palmer) is a 90-year-old widower falling prey with dementia. He lives in a nursing home with Max (Martin Landau). The both are Auschwitz survivor, the five numbers on their left forearms are there to remember it every time they want to forget. Zev escaped from Germany to the United States at the…
Blood of my Blood is a summary of all Marco Bellocchio’s cinema. In this movie we find lots of Bellocchio‘s favourite topics: the figure of the brother who commits suicide (subject also used in Gli Occhi, La Bocca; but he was unhappy with the result), the topic of the two single sisters, his favourite city Bobbio where…
I remember all my summer afternoons spent in front of the TV cheering for the Yellow Machine, for the man who first beat cancer and then started to beat everyone else. So maybe is for these teen memories that The Program glued me to the seat unable to move, to breath and with the heart…
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