BUYER & CELLAR: in the corner of my rounded mind

Amazon is getting  crazy; in a week, in the Uk shop there are just 3 copies left of the book My Passion for Design by former Broadway star Barbra (please is Barb-ra without the middle A) Streisand. And it’s all Michael Urie fault. Because Buyer and Cellar it’s so great and funny you can’t go…

The Invisible Woman: London Première

“The Invisible Woman” London première in London was simple and elegant as it is the movie. Just a red carpet under a little fall of rain outside Odeon in Kensington High Road. On the carpet we met the composer Ilan Eshkeri (Trinity, Stardust, From Time to Time, Coriolanus, I Give it a Year, Austeland),  the…

Look in a mirror darlin: Farragut North

Ryan Glosling who?  Please, we have Max Irons on stage. We just saw him as the charming King Edward IV in the Starz and BBC series The White Queen but now Max Irons has turned his attention to an equal enchanting political PR in Beau Willimon’s play Farragut North at the Southwark Playhouse in London.…

Do not say ‘Forgive our Romans’: Coriolanus

Like a dull actor, I have forgot my part …. No, he is grown from man to dragon. Putting next to each other, a work as Coriolanus and a small theater without stage as the Donmar, it may seem like a paradox worthy of the best Zeno. But, if we avoid the frustrating war to…

The Invisible Woman: suffering is stronger than all other teaching

Intimate and intelligent, Ralph Fiennes‘ second effort as director is the story about the affair between a mid-aged Charles Dickens (Fiennes) and the young actress Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones). Their relationship, after the first meeting (when Nelly was a new actress in Dickens’ play The Frozen Deep) grew deeply but slowly. The writer found for…

Critics Circle Film Awards: George MacKay and the rising stars

They Are The Future At the Critics’ Circle Film Awards we met the stars of tomorrow. Someone was holding really tight the coveted prize, others unfortunately not. But we are sure.: they are all destined to shine. Barkhad Abdi winner as Supporting Actor in Captain Phillips. Are you happy? It’s a honor. Yes, I’m happy…

RoboCop: World Première, London

Perhaps it was the choice of a different place from other major world premières (the BFI IMAX rather than the Odeon Leicester Square) but Robocop World Première was definitely, artistically speaking, below expectations. Two Robocop(s) walked along the blue carpet taking pictures with the fans while two life-size replicas guarded the BFI entrance. No signs…