Light off on the 57th Monte-Carlo Television Festival
Light off on the 57th Monte-Carlo Television Festival
FTV Monte Carlo: what to expect from Criminal Minds season 13. A chat with Paget Brewster
We know her as Emily Prentiss, from Criminal Minds. In the season seven finale, Prentiss receives an offer to run Interpol’s London office. While still pondering her decision on the offer, Prentiss decides to leave the BAU. In the season eight premiere, Morgan and Garcia mention seeing her while they were in London and that…
57th Monte-Carlo Television Festival: John Corbett and his poker face.
We met jury member John Corbett the day before the closing night. As we seat he orders a coke for him and for us too because they are served in very small cans and you can’t miss them. It’s his very first time in Monte-Carlo and he is extremely exacted. Now we are ready to…
57th Monte-Carlo Television Festival: HAPPY 20th MIDSOMER MURDERS!!
Wonderful party at the Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel for Midsomer Murders 20th Anniversary. In the extraordinary set of the hotel, turned in a sunny Midosmer for all evening…between special cocktails, canapes and special packs of cards, we met the cast of the outstanding British series before moving to another glorious party for the The Bold and The Beautiful. With us,…
57th Monte-Carlo Television Festival: The Last Tycoon preview
Huge curiosity for the presentation of the new series starring White Collar‘s star Matt Bomer. The Last Tycoon is an American series originating from a pilot produced in 2016 and based on F.Scott Fitzgerald‘s last book The Last Tycoon. In the cast also Lily Collins. Premiering on Amazon on July 28th. Here the live from…
Raphael: the Lord of the Arts
Fourth Art Movie by Sky, Raphael – The Lord of the Arts is the first movie about Raffaello Sanzio. Through docu-film not only about his art but also about his childhood, the impact on his art of his mother death and the love of his life, the daughter of a baker better known as La Fornarina. But…
Crystal Nymph to Dame Helen Mirren and This Is Us stars Justin Hartley and Chrissy Metz for the 57th Monte-Carlo Television Festival
This morning, May 9th, Laurent Puons, CEO of the 57th Monte-Carlo Television Festival announced that this year, the prestigious Crystal Nymph Award will be awarded to the acclaimed British actress Dame Helen Mirren, winner of Academy, Emmy and Tony Awards.The Crystal Nymph Award, which recognizes a “stellar body of work by a major international actor or actress” will be presented by H.S.H Prince Albert II,…
Cinema Made in Italy: Andrea Molaioli for Slam – Tutto per una ragazza
Samuel is 16 and has a passion for skateboarding. He has big dreams: going to university, move to California, and travel, but things change when he meets Alice, who could be the girl of his life. Director: Andrea Molaioli Screenplay: Francesco Bruni, based on Nick Hornby novel Cast: Ludovico Tersigni, Barbara Ramella, Jasmine Trinca, Luca Marinelli, Fiorenza Tessari,…
Cinema Made in Italy: Irene Dionisio, Pawn Streets (Le Ultime Cose)
Set in the almost Dickensian confines of a modern Pawnbrokers, Le Ultime Cose depicts the lives of several different characters who are all variously forced by personal circumstances and lack of any public help into pawnbrokers to part with precious things. Also as a clever contrast it plots the initiation of an enthusiastic, honest and…
Cinema Made in Italy: Pif and Michele Astori, At War for Love (In Guerra per Amore)
A tender love story intertwines with the allied conquer of Sicily during WWII, where the US Army had to find partners in the local society. A love story set in July ’43 when Allied forces landed in Sicily. Arturo loves Flora, daughter of a restaurant owner, but she has been promised in marriage to a…
Victoria and 11.22.63 nominated for the 57th Monte-Carlo Golden Nymph Awards
The 57th edition of the Monte-Carlo Television Festival will take place this year from 16 to 20 June. The nominations were announced today and next to a huge number of British works, in primis BBC acclaimed series Victoria starring Jenna Coleman, Tom Hughes, David Oakes and Rufus Sewell (read here our review). Among the others…
Cinema Made in Italy: Roberto Andò, The Confessions
A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. The world’s most powerful economists are gathered to enact important provisions that will deeply influence the world economy. One of the guests is a mysterious Italian monk, invited by Daniel Rochè, the director of the International Monetary Fund. He wants the…
You have to let her go: SWEET DREAMS (Fai Bei Sogni)
Sweet Dreams is the first movie directed by Marco Bellocchio not based on a director’s script. This is the real story of Italian journalist Massimo Gramellini and it’s adapted from Gramellini’s 2012 novel Sweet Dreams, Little One. On screen outstanding actor Valerio Mastandrea is Massimo, while another great Italian actor, Guido Caprino ( Medici: Masters…
You have to be careful with it. You might never get it again: NOCTURNAL ANIMALS at BFI LFF
Take a inch of Hitchcock, add a sip of Lynch and mix with a tea spoon of Kubrick. This is the perfect recipe for the seductive, enchanting, toxic new Tom Ford-s thriller Nocturnal Animals. Starting from Tony and Susan by Austin Wright, for his second feature after A Single Man, Ford puts together life essential…
When Jesus has been executed by the police he never “did give up”: TREPASS AGAINST US
Trepass Against Us is the first shy try to talk about Gypsy and traveller community. But when the men in charge are patriarch Brendan Gleeson and his son, on screen, Michael Fassbender well…you actually pretend a little better feature. Even if the two main actors, as patriarch Colby and his son Chad are stunning as…
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