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4524 articles available in total starting from 18/05/2002. Last article published on 23/12/2020.

From Sorrentino to Oliviero: Turin offers 24 visions of Naples

It was a true Neapolitan paradox. “The film was commissioned,” says producer Angelo Curti, “then not supported by those who commissioned it. The Campania Region asked us to make a film to help...  

06/12/2010 | Festivals | Italy

Piva returns with Henry, at Turin

Alessandro Piva’s career path has been an odd one. After debuting with the ultra-indie Lacapagira in 2000 and eight years after his sophomore effort My Brother-in-Law, one of Italy’s authentic...  

06/12/2010 | Festivals | Italy

Turin’s Four Lions make up a demented Jihadist terrorist cell

The Jihadist cell in Chris Morris’ Four Lions is more demented than sleeper, a band of unhinged members who oscillate between disarming clumsiness and pure idiocy. The brains of the operation is...  

03/12/2010 | Festivals | Italy

Strong European presence in Sundance selection

The health of European cinema is reflected in the Sundance Film Festival (January 20-30) selection for 2011. Debutant John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard – boasting a host of Irish talent including...  

03/12/2010 | Festivals | Europe

Science, cinema and imagination at Cinémascience

Tuesday marked the opening in Bordeaux of a film event that is unique in Europe: the Cinémascience international festival, which is original in its use of cinema as a vehicle for the...  

02/12/2010 | Festivals | France

The Agnelli family’s “missing piece” shows up at Turin

Unlike in factories, in life “spare parts” don’t exist. Missing parts, however, do and Italy’s Agnelli family (behind Fiat) knows this all too well. Il pezzo mancante (“The Missing Piece”) by...  

01/12/2010 | Festivals | Italy

Berlin French Film Week turns 10

In Berlin today, the 10th French Film Week will open with a screening of Bruno Chiche’s Small World, starring Alexandra Maria Lara (the event’s patron), Gérard Depardieu, Françoise Fabian, Niels...  

01/12/2010 | Festivals | Germany

Political fest’s first edition kicks off in Ronda

Politics, an art much reviled nowadays, is the focal point of the programme at one of Spain’s most original and interesting film festivals. Despite the excessive number of film-related events, the...  

01/12/2010 | Festivals | Spain

Turin’s Infidel is a Muslim Homer Simpson

“Comedy is the best way to tackle dangerous themes such as religious conflicts, in order to play down and defuse absurdities,” says British director Josh Appignanesi, whose sophomore film The...  

30/11/2010 | Festivals | Italy

Clinton and Blair’s Special Relationship captured at Turin

In 1992 Tony Blair took lessons in “political communications” from Bill Clinton’s experts. A few years later he was invited to the White House, highly unusual for an opposition leader, for his...  

30/11/2010 | Festivals | Italy

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