After 5 days dedicated to the best international television series, it ended the 56th Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo. Yesterday evening, Thursday 16th June, h.s.h. Prince Albert II of Monaco, joined on the red carpet by many leading American and international celebrities and stars from hit television series such as Transparent, Hawaii 5:0, C.S.I., Chicago…
It’s officially started yesterday evening the 56th Festival de la Télévision de Monte-Carlo. Originally created by Prince Rainier III of Monaco, and now under the Honorary Presidency of Prince Albert II of Monaco, the Monte-Carlo Télévision Festival has, for more than half a century, presented the very best of television from around the world. The…
It took place from the 1st to the 6th March the 13th edition of the Monte Carlo Film Festival de la Comedie. In the splendid setting of the Grimaldi Forum theatre in Monaco, Sunday, March 6th were handed the prizes decreed by the jury chaired by Italian director Gabriele Muccino. Host of the evening Italian comedian,…
On the stage of the amazing Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, during the closing evening of the 13th Montecarlo Film Festival de la Comedie actor Billy Zane has been awarded with one of the six Lifetime Achievement Award of the evening alongside Italian actresses Cristiana Capotondi and Claudia Cardinale, Italian 6-time Accademy awarded Dante Ferretti and Francesca…
The Legend of Barney Thomson by Robert Carlyle wins the Prix du Public as Best Film at the 13th Montecarlo Film Festival de la Comedie. The Scottish director, best known for his roles as actor in 28 Weeks Later, Trainspotting and recently as Mr. Gold in the acclaimed TV series Once Upon A Time wins the favor of…
The 6th edition of Cinema Made in Italy is ready to go with a huge number of celebrities coming to London to answer any question or curiosity can be born from the vision of the masterpieces scheduled. Cinema Made in Italy is an annual festival of Italian contemporary cinema, organised by Istituto Luce Cinecittà, in collaboration…
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…
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…
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