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…
Blood of my Blood is a summary of all Marco Bellocchio’s cinema. In this movie we find lots of Bellocchio‘s favourite topics: the figure of the brother who commits suicide (subject also used in Gli Occhi, La Bocca; but he was unhappy with the result), the topic of the two single sisters, his favourite city Bobbio where…
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…
Five years after Io Sono l’Amore (I Am Love), Luca Guadagnino returns to Venice and, once again, is a shower of boos. This doesn’t mean that the boos are completely justified. We have just to think that I Am Love has grossed $5 million at the US box office; but, above all, it has collected…
Few years ago, he introduced the verb to weep into the common use instead of the form to cry…they were the days when Les Miserables (Tom Hooper again as director) conquered the scene during the Oscar Night. And since then, Mr Eddie Redmayne has never ceased to make us weep, to excite us with his…
TAKE YOUR SHOT. BUT MAKE SURE ITS YOUR BEST! ‘CAUSE IF I DON’T GO DOWN, I’LL EAT YA Drop shades, icy eyes and a heart of stone. He is the Irish gangster James “Whitey” Bulger; one of the ten FBI most wanted felons. Turned in to a beast by a family tragedy, Bulger becomes…
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…
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