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 Loosely based on the unpublished novel “Color Betulla Giovane” by Marta Bertini, These Days is a bittersweet road movie following four young girls in…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…
No man is free who is not master of himself: A UNITED KINGDOM
A United Kingdom is not just one of the best true love stories ever told but it’s the tale of a too long-forgotten and shameful chapter of British history. Director Amma Asante and screenwriter Guy Hibbert, helped by lead actors Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo are able to present this amazing story in a sharp…
BFI 60TH London Film Festival Programme Revealed with huge Italian movies
Revealed this morning the full programme for the 60th BFI London Film Festival: 245 features from 74 countries. In addition to already announced Opening Night Gala A United Kingdom and Closing Night Gala Free Fire by High Rise director Ben Wheatley (check here our coverage from LFF 2015) and starring last year star Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy (now on…
Let me go: EDITH
Edith is Christian Cooke (Romeo & Juliet, The Art of More, Witches of East End, Love Rosie) directional debut. It is a script based on Ray Robinson’s novel and written by the same novelist. The story is about an old man, Jake, suspicions about his dead wife, Edith, and consequently about the legitimacy of his son. The film…
A love like ours can burn down a city: VICTORIA
nAfter the Young Victoria starring Emily Blunt, we have an even more younger Victoria coming soon on our tv screens and starring, in the role of the magnificent queen the charming Jenna Coleman ( Doctor Who, Me Before You, Captain America). ITV‘s new drama starts in 1837 when, following the death of her uncle, Victoria is slapped…
FTV de Monte Carlo: a chat Joel Jackson and Mark Fennessy about Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door
We met Joel Jackson and Mark Fennessy on the last day of the Film Festival de la Télévision de Montecarlo, just before their press conference and, as last survivors, we had the great opportunity to meet them for a wonderful one to one interview. Mark left all the space to his star, but, even if he was…
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