A ridosso delle Elezioni USA un tuffo nel ventre molle dell'impero americano Sinossi: Iranian-Danish director Abbasi's first English-language feature film shows Donald Trump as a young real estate executive in 1970s New York in a "Faustian agreement" with lawyer and fixer Roy Cohn - from a screenplay by the author of The Loudest Voice In The Room by Gabriel Shermann. Review: You remember the Fahrenheit catchphrase 11/9 in Michael Moore del 2018 who explained Trump's rise to power in his own way. Well in “The apprentice”
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Directly from the #Cannes77 Festival ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT by Payal Kapadia
What it means to live in India today? What is the condition of women? Payal Kapadia answers these questions with her second feature film: All We Imagine As Light vincitore al Festival di Cannes È la storia di tre infermiere che lavorano in un piccolo ospedale nella moderna Mumbai: the brave and taciturn Prabha (Kani Kusruti), the young and dreamy Anu (Divya Prabha) and The Elderly and Never Tamed Parvaty (Chaya Kadam). The three women came to the big city from their villages, when they were younger. Let's observe the three women at work
Sample of #CineMexicanoAutumn Casa del Cinema – Roma, 4/6 October 2024
The only Mexican cinema festival in Italy has reached its fifth edition, guests are the producer Bertha Navarro and the director Valentina Leduc, inaugurazione con “Il labirinto del fauno” di Guillermo Del Toro Ingresso libero fino a esaurimento posti Diretta dalla Fondazione Cinema per Roma e con la direzione artistica di Cecilia Romo Pelayo, the festival offers a heterogeneous program that includes 11 feature films and 5 short films, some in preview, all in the original language with Italian subtitles. The festival opens on Friday 4 October with the film “Pan's Labyrinth”, written and directed
Directly from #VENEZIA81 Joker: folie à deux by Todd Phillips flies in the box office charts
Synopsis: Joker: Folie à deux vede Arthur Fleck internato ad Arkham, awaiting trial for his crimes as the Joker. Struggling with his dual identity, Arthur not only stumbles upon true love, but he also discovers the music he has always had inside him. Commento del regista Quando lavoravamo a Joker nel 2018 we never imagined it would strike such a deep chord with audiences around the world. With Joaquin we had talked about a sequel, and seriously, until we witnessed the reactions that the story
#Autumn Readings by Vittorio De Agrò – n. 2
#IlGiardinierediWimbledon in Jane Crilly (published on 2 July 2024 from Feltrinelli, pages 224. Price 16,15 euro) Synopsis: For fifty years, Henry Evans was the world's most famous lawn gardener, national heritage of Great Britain: Wimbledon. For fifty years, he personally took care of the camp day and night, in every season, wetting it and cutting it to perfection. When he decides to retire, the young journalist Cara Gibson is sent to interview him. They meet in Henry's red brick house, not far from the legendary All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, in front of
RUBEN ÖSTLUND inaugurated his artwork #TheSquare at the National Cinema Museum in Turin
The director was awarded the Stella della Mole award and participated in the inauguration of the work of art “The Square / Rutan” con una live performance di Terry Notary Così il Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino ha deciso di celebrare il regista, Swedish screenwriter and artist Ruben Östlund, winner of numerous prestigious international awards, including two Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival: in 2017 con The Square, pungent reflection on society and contemporary art, with a great criticism of the cynicism of our times, and 2022 con Triangle of Sadness,
#Autumn Readings by Vittorio De Agrò – n. 1
#DifesaAzona is a novel written by Petros Markaris (republished on 16 January 2024 from “The Ship of Theseus”, once 474. First edition Bompiani in May 2002) Synopsis: Commissioner Kostas Charitos is not used to holidays and rest, especially if to save money he is forced to spend them at his sister-in-law's house on the island of Patmos. Making his mood worse, there is also the earthquake and the consequent discovery of a mysterious corpse unearthed by a landslide caused by the earthquake. On the bright side, he now has a good excuse to get back into the
#Venezia81 – 28.8/7.9 2024 SPECIAL #23 (DAY 10)
Maria Vittoria's pills from the WEB (MyMovies) (from Venice Luigi Noera and Valentina Vignoli with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò (RS) and Marina Pavido - the photos are published courtesy of the Venice Film Festival) Vakhim by Francesca Pirani (Venetian nights) chiude le GdA Sinossi: Adopted in Cambodia at four years, Vakhim arrives in Italy in 2008. He only speaks Khmer and everything around him is unknown around him, He is a sunny child and to adapt removes the traces of his short life that, But, does not disappear of the
#Venezia81 – 28.8/7.9.2024 SPECIAL #22 (DAY 10)
Valentina's critical gaze from the Lido (from Venice Luigi Noera and Valentina Vignoli with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò (RS) and Marina Pavido - the photos are published courtesy of the Venice Film Festival) Si chiude con Love (LOVE) di Dag Johan Haugerud, film che è stato quasi ignorato sicuramente sottovalutato nella selezione ufficiale negli ultimi giorni della Mostra di Venezia SINOSSI: Marianne, a pragmatic doctor, and Tor, a compassionate nurse, they are both avoiding conventional relationships. One evening, after a blind date, Marianne
#Venezia81 – 28.8/7.9.2024 SPECIAL #19 (DAY 9)
Valentina's critical gaze from the Lido (from Venice Luigi Noera and Valentina Vignoli with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò (RS) and Marina Pavido - the photos are published courtesy of the Venice Film Festival) Orizzonti rivolge la sua attenzione da Nord a Sud del Continente Africano Aïcha di Mehdi Barsaoui Una giovane ragazza tunisina che lavora come cameriera in un hotel si trova costretta dalla famiglia a sposare un uomo ricco. She must therefore resort to an operation to have her hymen reconstructed. When the opportunity presents itself