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564 articles available in total starting from 18/05/2002. Last article published on 19/06/2019.

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Winter’s Bone wins Turin, Henry gets Audience Award

US title Winter’s Bone by Debra Granik unanimously won the 28th Turin Film Festival, which closed Saturday with the European premiere of Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter (presented by co-star Cécile De...  

06/12/2010 | Festivals | Italy

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

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

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

Noir turns 20

For years now, literature and film have freed noir from the stockades of “genre,” and placed it into the hands of great authors and directors. Proof of which can be found in audiences’ growing...  

25/11/2010 | Festivals | Italy

Rome’s Irish Festa features premieres, co-production conference

The fourth edition of Rome’s Irish Film Festa opens November 24 with the conference Going Irish, which will explore strategies and methods for creating a bilateral co-production agreement between...  

23/11/2010 | Festivals | Ireland/Italy

Turin showcases emerging and established filmmakers

“Films with an innovative and surprisingly efficient language” is how artistic director-filmmaker Gianni Amelio describes this year’s Turin Film Festival (November 26-December 4) selection. Amelio...  

11/11/2010 | Festivals | Italy

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