Unique mixture between childhood mood, malice, fright, nightmares and subconscious instinct, London born artist Ray Caesar makes illustrations and paintings able to suspend daily fears into a vortex of genial creativity, perversion and obsessions. What do you feel  staring at his latest artworks? So scaring, so true, so lovely. http://www.raycaesar.com all images: © Ray Caesar  [ Read More ]

Here the final list of the nominations of the 84th Academy Awards 2012, that will take place next feb 26th. Actor in a Leading Role Demián Bichir in “A Better Life” George Clooney in “The Descendants” Jean Dujardin in “The Artist” Gary Oldman in “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” Brad Pitt in “Moneyball” Actor in a  [ Read More ]

“Henri Cartier Bresson – images & words” is an unique exhibition started on January 19, 2012, at Palazzo Incontro in Roma, promoted by Nicola Zingaretti, President of the Province of Rome. The exhibition has been organized by Henri Cartier Bresson Fundation, Contrasto and Magnum Photos and it will be visited till may 6th, in the  [ Read More ]

The promising Italian actor, Elio Germano, takes a stab at Will Eno Elio Germano, repeatedly anointed by the Italian cinema, has established himself for choosing quality films, acting his roles outstandingly. An endless list of prizes, – such as the David of Donatello and Best Actor in Cannes – testify his skills. The rambling monologue  [ Read More ]

Shining Beverly Hills for the 69th Golden Globes edition! The annual awards have been given to the most influent and talented artists, actors, directors and crew for the movies and tv series held in 2011. Here the list of the winners and a special photo-focus for the dreamy look of the stars! Best Actress in  [ Read More ]

McQueen’s “Shame” on sex and freedom interviewing Michael Fassbender and Steve McQueen What a “Shame”, Mr. McQueen! The British artist & filmmaker, already director for his “Hunger”, has gifted common people with his brand new masterpiece, “Shame”, in competition at the Venice Film Festival 2011, Toronto Film Festival 2011, NY FF2011 and London FF 2011.  [ Read More ]

The new generation of art is a mixture between street art and 3D paintings: here you are 3d street art! Lots of contemporary artists, and writers too, are now involved in this particolar new art, and also some brands have adopted this vehicle in order to create their adv , for example Reebok Crossfit, which  [ Read More ]

After so many Sofia Coppola’s soundtracks, French synth-pop duo Air has created a forthcoming new album (out on Feb 7) re-inventing their own score for George Méliès‘1902 “Le Voyage Dans La Lune”. The movie’s last surviving color print had been re-discovered in 1993 before   the 2010 Cannes premiere. Air and cinema: so strong union.

  Between surrealism and illusionism, Ukrainian artist Oleg Shuplyak takes inspiration from past drawings by east romantics artists of the XIX century, to hide Darwin, Freud and Gogol faces. Macig and abstract, experimental and visionary: amazing talent. all images: © Oleg Shuplyak by Ilaria Rebecchi

TAP DOGS Take Fred Astaire’s grace and place it in the physicality of the labour-class. Or take a dancing Stanley Kowalski gifted with a strong sense of humour. Choose Escher’s settings where gravity is an option. Horizontal scaffolding, vertical ladders, diagonal platforms and upside down pavings. Let claquettes rule all over with beat and dazing  [ Read More ]

After graduating from Ryerson University with a degree in Fashion Design, Toronto-born Caitlin Cronenberg (Director David Cronenberg’s daughter) decided to pursue a career in photography, a field she has had a passion for since childhood. Starting out shooting for a local community newsmagazine as well as doing freelance work, she has since been published in  [ Read More ]

Inspired by the mixture between Alfons Mucha’s Art Noveau and Ezio Auditore’s carachter, artist Silvestris has covered the Assassin’s Creed protagonists, on deviantart.com. Take a look to his illustrations! images © Silvestris

On january 19th Paris Sotheby’s will auction 40 original pictures from the most important covers of “L’Uomo Vogue” during this 5 years under Franca Sozzanbi’s direction. Photograpies of David Cronenberg, Dustin Hoffman, De Niro, Zidane and Mortensen, from contemporary art protagonist, to cinema icons and literature stars, taken by photographers Weber, Paolo Roversi, Mark Seliger,  [ Read More ]

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Mr Robert Downey Jr. has been selected for Burton and Warner Bros.’ for the forthcoming new Burton’s version of “Pinocchio”. The actor is currently attached to star in both a “Perry Mason” feature also by Warner Bros., and “Iron Man 3” by Shane Black  which for release on May 3,  [ Read More ]

The most critically acclaimed series of 2011 forges full steam ahead into the new year as Marvel is pleased to present your first look at Daredevil #9 by Mark Waid & Paolo Rivera. Hot off his team-up with the world’s greatest super hero, Spider-Man, Daredevil heads underground to tackle a threat that only he can  [ Read More ]

Actress Julianne Moore has been photographed as Modigliani’s and Klimt’s muse in an amazing art-work by photographer Peter Linderbergh for Harper’s Bazaar. Transforming  the subjects, she became a glamour icon for art and photography world. Have a look to the pictures!   by Ilaria Rebecchi

Mexican artist José Rodolfo Loaiza Ontiveros has created a series of provocative artworks parody to Disney’s main characters and stories: from Pinocchio to Snow White and Dumbo, the artist has shown (acrylic and oil) a new view of infant stories world, with irony and disenchanted view, from sexuality to war, without an ideal happy ending.  [ Read More ]

Catwoman has been played by so many actress over the years, but Anne Hathaway (for next Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises” – out in a few months), had to prepare studying Hollywood sex icon Hedy Lamarr, used by “Batman” comic book franchise creator Bob Kane as one of his inspirations for Catwoman, along with  [ Read More ]

BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA THE DESCENDANTS Ad Hominem Enterprises; Fox Searchlight Pictures THE HELP DreamWorks Pictures, Participant Media; Touchstone Pictures HUGO Paramount Pictures presents a GK Films Production; Paramount Pictures THE IDES OF MARCH Columbia Pictures, Cross Creek Pictures, Exclusive Media Group, Crystal City Entertainment; Sony Pictures Releasing MONEYBALL Columbia Pictures; Sony Pictures Releasing  [ Read More ]

Glenn Closes’ terrific performance for “Albert Nobbs” movie might top-score the Oscar 2012 for best “female” performance. Directed by Rodrigo Garcia (“In Treatment”, “Nine Lives”) and starring Mia Wasikowska, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Aaron Johnson and Brendan Gleeson, the movie tells the story of a woman passing as a man in order to work and survive  [ Read More ]

David Fincher’s adaptation to Stieg Larsson’s novel (already become a movie in 2009 directed by Niels Arden Oplev and starring Noomi Rapace) is the confirmation that north European arts of the last years can influence the international productions in adaptations and remakes (see “Let Me In” story: from John Ajvide Lindqvist’s story to Tomas Alfredson’s  [ Read More ]

Back in 2011 at the Venice FIlm Festival, Mr. Thomas Alfredson, took a piece of UK to conquer that red carpet with the spy-story “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”, by Alfredson, starring the 2011 Academy Award Colin Firth, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, David Thewlis, Mark Strong and Ciaran Hinds, adapted from John Le Carrè’s book. Set  [ Read More ]

2011 Mozambique Fashion Week had the mission to promote  creativity and beauty of the Mozambican people, including an event with the subject of breast cancer, which is of course an enduring threat that affects millions and millions of women around the world. For this year’s campaign, MFW with Associação da Luta Contra o Cancer created  [ Read More ]

The documentary by Henry William Bateman depicts the strong-willed passion and determination of the icy region to stand out of the crowd and make its way through towards a sustainable future. The country has the potential to be the testing ground for new technologies to fulfil an economy of subsistence farming, in complete vouchsafe of  [ Read More ]

Avatar Sculpture Works represents the works of Hyper- Realist sculptors Jamie Salmon and Jackie K. Seo. Jamie Salmon is a British born, self taught contemporary sculptor, living and working in Vancouver, Canada. He started his career working as a commercial artist and sculptor for the movie effects industry. He specializes in hyper-realist sculpture, both figurative  [ Read More ]

2012 Sundance Film Festival Announces Films in Premieres and Documentary Premieres Sections Special Event with Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s hitRECord on Jan. 26 Sundance Institute announced today the films selected to screen in the out-of-competition Premieres and Documentary Premieres sections of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. The Festival will be held January 19 through 29 in Park  [ Read More ]

Darrell K. Sweet (1934 –2011), died last December 5th. He’s been one of the most important illustrators in contemporary art, since 1975 covering about over 3000 images mostly for fantasy and science fiction novels, best known for covers of “The Wheel of Time” saga. Here’s only a short gallery of his artistic effort to contemporary  [ Read More ]

Dakota Fanning’s provocative advertising for Marc Jacobs‘ latest fragrance, Oh, Lola!, recently banned for being too explicit, has been not the first adv campaign banned in some countries all over the World. In Italy (Venice) Julienne Moore’s Bulgari billboard was banned, because it offered  the image of the actress sitting in her birthday suit with  [ Read More ]

Well-versed in bringing women of extraordinary beauty to the forefront of mainstream popular culture, Mazzucco searched the globe for the world’s most stunning women to appear in the book. The result is a 248 page collection of color photographs and art pieces showcasing a diverse group of women—some already legendary, some about to become so—who  [ Read More ]

The 24th edition of the European Film Awards, held in Berlin last Saturday, have awarded Lars von Trier with his apocalyptic drama “Melancholia”, and for the Director’s prize,  Susanne Bier for her thriller “In a Better World”. Also British stars Colin Firth and Tilda Swinton won the acting prizes, and “The King’s Speech” won the  [ Read More ]

AMOS GITAI MEMORIAL ARCHITECTURE From the 4th of November 2011 to the 8th of January 2012 The Video Installation in the underworld of the Mole Antonelliana The enthralling basement of the Mole Antonelliana building opens, for the first time ever, to host the artwork of one of the greatest film directors of our times, Amos  [ Read More ]

from Variety.com (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118046434) © Variety ‘Shame’ “There is a heavy use of classical music to make the New York atmosphere feel heavier, the sets are generally pristine and sterile, and the lighting is dark and moody, but most of all, Michael Fassbender’s regal presence is at the center of everything in ‘Shame.’ That is the  [ Read More ]

GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD by Martin Scorsese With mesmerizing archival footage, Martin Scorsese’s  documentary on the Beatles’ lead guitarist—and of one of the greatest musicians of the 1960s and ’70s—traces in detail all aspects of Harrison’s professional and personal life. Friends (Eric Clapton, Eric Idle), family (wives Patti Boyd and Olivia Harrison),  [ Read More ]

Retrospective: Robert Altman, the guests The names have been announced of the guests who will be in Torino for the 29th Torino Film Festival’s retrospective dedicated to Robert Altman. To date, besides his wife, Kathryn Altman, and his son, Stephen Altman (set designer and a collaborator of his father’s), the actors Keith Carradine and Michael  [ Read More ]

JOHN LASSETER IN MILAN TO CELEBRATE 25 YEARS OF PIXAR Just a little bit of…Pixar dust and away we fly to the world of childhood dreams, of light-heartedness and blithe. That is indeed the talent of John Lasseter, creator of Pixar. For the  intrinsic trait that has made the animation company like no other on  [ Read More ]

The Poetry Brothel, a unique and immersive poetry experience, takes poetry outside classrooms and lecture halls and places it in the lush interiors of a bordello. The Poetry Brothel presents poets as high courtesans who impart their work in public readings, spontaneous eruptions of poetry, and most distinctly, as purveyors of private poetry readings on  [ Read More ]

In a performance for the Vicenza Theatre, The Stomps have conquered the multi-aged public, capturing and creating energy from zippo lighters, garbage can lids, plastic bags, boxes of matches, rubber tubes, newspapers, water and more objects stomped with an extraordinary talent. Stomp is an amazing a show with an eccentric cast that do not utter  [ Read More ]

A DREAM FACTORY NAMED MILAN Lights, camera, action… ‘Miracolo a Milano’ and ‘La vita agra’ The film-industry of the 50s and 60s relives at Società del Giardino   Palazzo Spinola, in the heart of Milan, lodges from the beginning of the nineteenth century the oldest gentlemen’s club in town. The Società del Giardino, dates back  [ Read More ]

“A world without Art and Creativity, is like a Harry Potter novel without Magic. With every stroke, the wish is to enliven every piece of Art with spells of enchantment from a “magic wand” dipped in the ink of an artist’s soul”. From Hong-Kong comes this amazing artist in illustration, comics and design world: Man-Tsun.  [ Read More ]

  9th November – 18th December 2011 Free Entrance   The first Italian solo exhibit of the artist Pipilotti Rist at Fondazione Nicola Trussardi opens, once again, the doors of the historical Manzoni movie theatre, that for over fifty years has been one of the most important cinemas in Milan. The elegant ambiance with fresco  [ Read More ]

Songwriter Fabrizio De’ Andre titled an album tributing Edgar Lee Masters “Non al denaro, non all’amore, né al cielo” (Not to money, not to love, nor to the sky). This film re-echoes that poetry in a contemporary key. “Not to money, not to the wind, nor to the sun” explores a very delicate and unspoken  [ Read More ]

Simon Lycett is the most important floral artist all over the World, with clients like the British Royal Family and lots of artistic events. Not to be surprised for Rome Film Festival 2011 Simon J Lycett Ltd have been commissioned to design the Red Carpet backdrop on the theme of “Punks and Patriots”, by critic  [ Read More ]

Immortality behind reality: that’s Shreya Shetty’s art. She’s one of the most interesting illustrators-artists in digital painting, with  3 years of VFX experience at Rhythm and Hues Studios where she worked as a Look Development artist, writing shaders and painting textures for characters and props for films and commercials: Shreya’s creatures are amazingly stolen from  [ Read More ]

Early in the summer of 1956, American film star Marilyn Monroe set foot on British soil for the first time. On honeymoon with her husband, the celebrated playwright Arthur Miller, Monroe came to England to shoot THE PRINCE AND THE SHOWGIRL – the film that famously united her with Sir Laurence Olivier, the British theatre  [ Read More ]

Here some other movies presented at the 2011 Rome Film Festival. “Trishna” Starring Freida Pinto and Riz Ahmed, with original songs by Amit Trivedi and an original score by Shigeru Umebayashi. Based on the novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Produced by Melissa Parmenter. “Page Eight” Spy thriller written  [ Read More ]

A haunted-house movie, coming from the minds of Director James Wan (“Saw”) and producer Oren Peli (“Paranormal Activity”), that’s “Insidious”, the new paranormal-thriller-horror movie presented at RFF 2011. About a couple (Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne)) whose home is infected by unusual growls and sinister disturbances, when one of their young children  lapses into a  [ Read More ]

Special Event at the 2011 Rome Film Festival, “Pina” by Wim Wenders’ is a huge miracle of the connection between cinema, dance, art and technologies. The first European 3D ever made, “Pina” is a feature-length dance film with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch (died in 2009), featuring the unique and inspiring art  [ Read More ]

Audrey in Rome Audrey a Roma – Esterno Giorno 26th October – 4th December 2011   To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ during the Rome International Film Festival, the Ara Pacis in Rome hosts the tribute-exhibit to Audrey Hepburn’s Roman days. The exhibition will raise funds to fight child malnutrition, an issue  [ Read More ]

Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton. Based on Brian Selznick’s book, Director Martin Scorsese at his very best first time in approaching the 3D technologies, in a movie featuring stars Christopher Lee, Sasha  [ Read More ]

Presented at RFF 2011, “From Up On Poppy Hill” is the brand new masterpiece by Miyazaki family & Studio Ghibli, directed by son Goro. Set in Yokohama in the year 1963, “From Up On Poppy Hill” is a love story whose main characters are the high school students who were to become the first generation  [ Read More ]