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…
Dr. Robert Laing lives on the 27th floor of a tower block with its own supermarket, its own gym and its own swimming pool. From the first floors where the well-off live, to the top where super rich spend their afternoon between horses kept in the roof-garden and parties; we have the right social order.…
Danny Boyle’s movie closed the 59th London Film Festival as the best icing on the cake ever seen. True; this is a redundant story even on the big screen: Noah Wyle ( E.R.’s Doctor Carter) portrayed Steve Jobs in 1999 in the masterpiece Pirates of Silicon Valley. More recently, in 2013, Ashton Kutcher was Steve…
In a Film Festival focus on gender that opened with Suffraggettes, Sworn Virgin by Italian director Laura Bispuri is for sure a movie that can’t pass unnoticed. Bispuri‘s film (here our interview with her) tells about patriarchal Albanian tradition to ask whether renouncing sex can ever be the path to personal freedom. The movie…
Roger Mortimer was born in 1909, went to Eton, joined the Coldstream Guards, was a prisoner of war and became a correspondent for The Sunday Times. His son Charlie was nicknamed by him as Lupin (probably after Mr Pooter’s useless son in The Diary Of a Nobody). Dear Lupin is a great dramatization by Michael…
I grown up watching Edward Scissorhands every Christmas on TV; but you don’t need to know Tim Burton – Johnny Depp 1990 masterpiece to understand and fall deeply in love with Matthew Bourne’s work. Kim, now old, introduces us to the story that starts with a prologue: Edward is a little boy, one day he…
Michael Winterbottom‘s new movie is a journey inside two really close worlds: journalism and cinema. And, sometimes, for the “men at work”, this direct attack can be hard to accept. This is the only reason I can find to explain why the press, especially the Italian one, has been so mean about this movie at…
Ned Benson‘s London Film Festival version of his three – parts movie The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (Him, Her, Them) is the result of this strong and natural human condition: him + her = them. One story, two points of view: him, Conor (an heartbreaking and extraordinary James McAvoy) and her, his wife Eleanor (the…
In Guantanamo Bay Prison in Cuba (here an abandoned juvenile prison just outside LA), everyone is behind bars: guards and…we usually say prisoners but the first thing you learn from Camp X-Ray is that the word prisoner is forbidden because in that case they will be subject to the terms of the Geneva Conventions. The movie…
L’Homme qu’on Aimat Trop (French Riviera for the London Film Festival) is for sure a little appealing movie for an audience far from la Cote Azure. André Téchiné thriller is a re-creation of the Nièce Casino war in a mix of crime drama, love story and widow mother/daughter melodrama. Renée La Roux (a wonderful silver-haired Catherine…
Duane Hopkins ByPass is a movie about a world so far from the one we’re used to see on screen to seem almost unreal. ByPass is a story about youth, but not the happy-green British youth; this movie is about the other youth, the marginalized one. Tim (talented rising star George MacKay, Private Peaceful, Pride,…
Story of a young squaddie lost on the street of Belfast during the Troubles, ’71 (9 BIFA nominations), the new Yann Demage (Top Boy) movie is a thriller based in an almost Apocaliptic Belfast, even if we are in the 1970. The RUC house to house search becomes a conflict that also involves women and…
The Centrepiece Gala at the London Film Festival is a careful, shaded and forthright adaptation of the memoir written by Vera Brittain about her First World War memories; a strong and stunning woman as she showed to the world at the London Premiere of Testament of Youth (watch the trailer). Vera is rebellious in her…
After Cell 211, the Spanish director Daniel Monzon (Men’s Health Espana Best Cinema Director 2014 yesterday evening) is ready to show the world that if his work is marvellous in a one-small space set, it becomes absolutely terrific in an open-space one. The great thing is we are not talking about a common open space, but…
David Ayer‘s gripping tank drama FURY is set in Germany in April 1945 during Hitler’s Total War and follows the battle hardened crew of a Sherman tank as the Allies make their final push to defeat the Nazis. The movie starts with a man on a white fairy-tale horse who emerges from a bank of…
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