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840 articles available in total starting from 31/05/2002. Last article published on 27/12/2018.

Liars tell truth in Brechner’s Bad Day To Go Fishing

After a successful tour of international film festivals, kicking off with its screening in Cannes Critics’ Week, Spanish/Uruguayan co-production Bad Day To Go Fishing, the debut feature by Álvaro...  

24/11/2009 | Films | Spain

Meadows foregoes serious subjects to go on tour with Le Donk

UK director Shane Meadows has taken a break from his “normal” projects to make Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee, a mockumentary reminiscent of jokes between friends, which has just been presented at the...  

23/11/2009 | Films | UK

Turin FF: Medal of Honor a post-communist dramatic comedy

The first to realize that Romania’s Calin Peter Netzer was a great actor’s director was the jury of the 2003 Locarno Film Festival, which presented the Silver Leopard to the two stars of his...  

20/11/2009 | Films | Romania/Germany

Turin FF: Two local films look at Arab immigrants

Fifty years ago, there were Sicilians, Calabrians and Apulians, today there are northern Africans, people from the world’s southern hemisphere, who in Turin hope to find a better life. The arrival...  

19/11/2009 | Films | Italy

Turin FF: Bomber a typically British “nightmare”

An 80-year-man talks to someone in close-up: “More than anything, we need courage to make decisions we’ve put off for a long, long time”. Thus begins the feature debut (after numerous shorts and...  

19/11/2009 | Films | UK

De Matteo’s Beautiful People are anything but at Turin fest

The characters of the ironically titled second feature film by Ivano De Matteo, La Bella Gente (“The Beautiful People”) – in the Festa Mobile sidebar of the Turin Film Festival – are anything but...  

17/11/2009 | Films | Italy

Turin FF: Bocca del Lupo pays homage to Genoa’s marginalized

The surprise film (for now) of the relatively understated Turin Film Festival is Italian. Screening in competition today is La Bocca del Lupo (“The Mouth of The Wolf”, from a novel by Gaspare...  

16/11/2009 | Films | Italy

Turin fest opens with surprising biopic Nowhere Boy

For the second year in a row, the Turin Film Festival (November 13-21) opens with a biopic. A year after Oliver Stone’s relentless W., the 27th edition of the festival kicks off with Nowhere Boy...  

16/11/2009 | Films | UK

Dzhordzhadze returns with uneven Rainbowmaker

Georgian director Nana Dzhordzhadze’s films have served as an intimate guide for foreigners to her beloved homeland for a long time. From her breakthrough Robinsonada or My English Grandfather,...  

13/11/2009 | Films | Germany/Russia/Netherlands/Finland

Emotion and subversion in The Front Line

Preceded by controversies over the fact that the state was to fund a film about terrorism, Renato De Maria’s The Front Line hits domestic screens on November 20. During development, however,...  

12/11/2009 | Films | Italy

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