The review of Marina fearful: Rebecca Miller's She came to me disappoints critics and audiences (Berlin Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Marina fearful- Photos are published courtesy of the Berlinale) She came to me by Rebecca Miller, the opening film of the 73rd Berlin Film Festival – within the Berlinale Special section – is the story of two families who take turns on the big screen. Steven (played by Peter Dinklage) he is a composer in full creative crisis, married to psychologist Patricia (Anne Hathaway) – an extremely charming woman,
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Il Great Diagonal Acting Award 2023 will go to Margarethe Tiesel
As part of the inauguration of the festival, the 21 March, the Diagonale'23 will award the Großer Diagonale Schauspielpreis for the sixteenth time for services rendered to Austrian film culture. La Diagonale is pleased to announce that this year's award goes to the legendary actress Margarethe Tiesel. The theater actress, cinema and television will personally receive the award – a work of art by Xenia Hausner - in Graz. "She gives herself. Not just her desire for intimacy, like the lonely Viennese sex tourist Teresa in Paradise: Love di Ulrich Seidl. It has become like this, as he deserved, a
#BERLINALE73 – 16/26 February 2023 SPECIAL #1 (DAY -1)
Le Novità dopo la pandemia e le nostre scelte Oltre trecento pellicole selezionate dalla Berlinale in questa 73ma edizione per rilanciare la Settima Arte dopo la pandemia (from Berlin Luigi Noera and Marina Pavido - The photos are published courtesy of BERLINALE) Domani inizia la prima Kermesse festivaliera del 2023 nel Vecchio Continente, ecco le Novità e le nostre scelte: Wettbewerb / Competition I commenti di Carlo Chatrian, Direttore Artistico ci fanno sognare dopo la pandemia, iniziamo dal Concorso con 19 films: “Più che mai, la selezione di quest'anno attinge dall'intero spettro delle forme
The In Referenz section of the Diagonale'23 was presented
With the In Referenz section, the Diagonal intertwines, conveys and expands the focal points of its current program. In cooperation with Filmarchiv Austria, the Austrian Film Festival dedicates in 2023 a cinematic homage in four sections to the Graz actress Marisa Mell, which will be complemented by an extensive exhibition at the Graz Museum. Marisa Mell, the "Austrian Sophia Loren", was one of the most famous women in European cinema of the 60s and 70s – a citizen of Graz and the world, a revelation! The In Referenz program also includes studies
Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been released from prison
We receive the good news from our colleague Mansour Jahani and we publish it: The signora Tahereh Saeidi, wife of famous Iranian film director “Jafar Panahi”, he announced in a phone call to Mansour Jahani, independent and international film reporter, that with the efforts of Mr. Saleh Nikbakht and Yusef Moulai, his lawyers; Friday 3 February 2023, #JafarPanahi was released from Evin Prison in Tehran. "Saleh Nikbakht", well-known Iranian lawyer, said in an interview with "mansour jahani", independent film journalist, on the latest state of the case "Jafar Panahi": Although I am happy with the release of Mr
The animal in the jungle aprirà la Diagonale'23
La Diagonale is pleased to announce that the Austrian Film Festival will open on Tuesday 21 March with the feature film Das Tier im Dschungel (The beast in the jungle, AT/BE/FR 2023, 103 min.) by Patric Chiha. The feature film will be joined this year by the experimental short film NYC RGB by Viktoria Schmid (US/AT 2023, 7 me), whose world premiere will kick off the gala evening. After the world premiere at the Berlinale, il film The Animal in the Jungle, co-produced by Ebba Sinzinger and Vincent Lucassen (WILDart FILM), it will be projected onto what it is, al
Jafar Panahi announces hunger strike from prison
Ci perviene questa dolorosa notizia che pubblichiamo affinchè la pressione dei socila aiutino la liberazione del regista Il famoso regista iraniano Jafar Panahi ha iniziato lo sciopero della fame nella prigione di Evin contro la repressione mascherata da Giustizia Ne da notizia Tahereh Saeidi, director's wife, held in Evin Jail, posting a statement on his Instagram page. Jafar Panahi's statement thus denounces: "The 20 July of this year, in protest against the arrest of two of our beloved colleagues, Mr. Mohammad Rasulof and Mostafa Al-Ahmad, together with a group
In cinemas directly from #CANNE75 Decision to leave by Park Chan-wook
Murders and impossible loves - Decision to leave - Marina's review (Photos are courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival) Another great name present, in competition, at this 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is the famous Korean director Park Chan-wook. On this occasion, indeed, the filmmaker gave us Decision to leave, a refined yellow with a passionate love story in the background, that does not disdain even a welcome, veiled irony. The corpse of a man - probably fallen during a mountain climb - immediately catches the eye
The retrospectives of the Diagonale'23
The Diagonale is pleased to announce two special programs that will be screened at the Austrian Film Festival in March. The first historical special of Diagonale'23 is entitled FINALE and includes five programs selected together with the Filmarchiv Austria and the Austrian Film Museum and with the collaboration of the ORF archive. In the second historical special Aktion! Action!, SYNEMA - Society for Film and Media e la Diagonale si dedicated al regista, critic and author Bernhard Frankfurter (1946-1999). One cannot deny the present a certain tendency towards the ending, to the climax finale. But what about the
In cinemas directly from #CANNES75: The Envol by Pietro Marcello
Family ties and a future to be discovered - L'Envol - Marina's review (Photos are courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival) The Italian filmmaker Pietro Marcello is a real source of pride as regards contemporary Italian cinema. After the successes of Lost and Beautiful (2015) and Martin Eden (2019) here he arrives at the Croisette with his latest effort: Flight, opening film of the Directors’ Fortnight of the 75° Festival di Cannes. The story staged, therefore, is that of the young Juliette (personified by Juliette Jouan),