One Kiss (Un Bacio) by Ivan Cotroneo: a slap to bullying and homophobia (UK release this November)
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…
GIFTED: first look to Chris Evans tears extractor movie
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…
We shine like the sun we can be happy: WORLDLY GIRL (La ragazza del mondo) – 60th LFF
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…
Marco Danieli (Worldly Girl director) interview at 60th LFF Film Makers Afternoon Tea
60th LFF: These Days (Questi Giorni)
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 Loosely based on the unpublished novel “Color Betulla Giovane” by Marta Bertini, These Days is a bittersweet road movie following four young girls in…
Giuseppe Piccioni Inteview at 60th BFI LFF Film Makers Afternoon Tea for These Days (Questi Giorni)
Interview with Giuseppe Piccioni (in Italian) at 60th BFI Lodon Film Festival
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…
Here is to the fools who dream: LA LA LAND
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. It doesn’t matter what is going to happen at the 60th BFI LFF or at any other festival this year; because we have the best movie of the last decade. Daniel Chazelle’s La La Land leaves with only a very big huge assurance: a hail of Oscars coming…
Let’s buy some guns: FREE FIRE
One year after High-Rise starring among the others Tom Hiddleston, Luke Evans, Jeremy Irons and Sienna Miller; Ben Wheatley comes back to the London Film Festival with the Closing Gala movie Free Fire. The cast is, once again, made by the best actors and in this case only one actress, from the year before: Armie…
Want me to show you how to fight?: BLEED FOR THIS
I don’t like boxing fight so I don’t like movie about boxing fighters too…but after 2 minutes in front of a big screen I was deeply in love already with Bleed For This…and I think that I’d even stop my review here, because if a movie has a power like this, well, to say it…
Terrorism is just an excuse: SNOWDEN
Oliver Stone’s new movie is based on the story of Edward Snowden, the American analyst who went clear about the abolition of privacy in 2013. The script by Kiera Fitzgerard and Oliver Stone is based on the novels written by Guardian journalist Luke Harding (The Snowdenfiles) and by Anatoly Kucherena (The Time of the Octopus)…
Language is the first weapon drawn in a conflict: ARRIVAL at BFI LFF
Eric Heisser works on short sci-fi tale Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang to write a script that director Denis Villeneuve shoots as one of the most touching sci-fi movie with the precious help of two amazing stars as Amy Adams ( also at the Festival with Nocturnal Animals) and Jeremy Renner. These are…
I’m not the problem: BETTER OFF SINGLE
Have you ever noticed that “when you’re not in a relationship anyone else is in a happy one?” Don’t shake your head, don’t even try to say “me?!?!, never”….it’s just you and your tablet, iPhone, smartphone…or whatever screen so be honest with yourself and just say …yes, it’s true. Well, it’s with this big doubt…
