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,…
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…
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…
Few years ago, in a pub in Covent Garden I met a young Italian-American boy during the football match Juventus – Naples. I asked him why he was supporting Naples being American and he said, almost with shame, that his grandfather was a Neapolitan; but that he always told him not to tell anyone or…
The day after the successful screening at Shortwave Cinema in London, My Brother’s Voice (La voce di mio fratello) by 30 year -old Italian director Andrea Bersani wins at the UK FILM FESTIVAL. After a marvellous opening night on Tuesday, November 22nd at BFI Stephens Street and the screening of three short-movie, from Wednesday, November…
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…
Sold out screening at Genesis Cinema on Sunday, November 6th for the London Premiere of One Kiss (Un bacio) organised by Cinema Italia UK. The rain and the usual London-November-ish weather, could not stop the desire to attend the screening of the latest highly acclaimed work of the Italian writer, screenwriter and director Ivan Cotroneo; a loud…
In Worldly Girl (La ragazza del mondo) Marco Danieli ( here our interview at the Film Makers Afternoon Tea) throws us into the stiff world Jehovah’s witnesses, an orthodox religious movement which has one of its most thriving communities in Italy. Despite their big presence among us, even us Italian are aware of their presence only…
These Days (Questi Giorni) is the last movie by Giuseppe Piccioni (listen here our Afternoon Tea interview with him in Italian) presented at the BFI London Film Festival in the session Journey. Loosely based on the unpublished novel “Color Betulla Giovane” by Marta Bertini, These Days is a bittersweet road movie following four young girls in…
Interview with Giuseppe Piccioni (in Italian) at 60th BFI Lodon Film Festival
Dopo la tappa a Urk, nei Paesi Bassi (qui il nostro reportage live) il set per il nuovo kolossal di Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk; è stato trasferito in terra britannica e, più precisamente, a Swanage, nel Dorset. Tra i protagonisti delle scene girate nella giornata di ieri alla stazione ferroviaria della cittadina, ancora una volta, l’idolo…
Jack Falahee, meglio conosciuto come il Connor Walsh dell’acclamata serie Le Regole del Delitto Perfetto, arriva al Festival de la Television de Montecarlo pochi giorni dopo la fine delle riprese della seconda stagione dell’altra serie televisiva di cui è protagonista: Mercy Street, serie tv ambientata durante la Guerra Civile Americana. Divertente, affascinante e disponibile, Jack…
Sangue, escrementi, violenza sessuale e fisica,…sì, al centro della scena c’è John…Snow?!?! No, Faustus. Perché no, non è una puntata del Trono di Spade, bensì il nuovo adattamento teatrale del Doctor Faustus marlowiano. Però ci siete andati vicino perché in scena c’è proprio lui: il ventinovenne londinese Kit Harington. Dimenticate l’epoca elisabettiana e il rapporto…
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