While the Official Selection of feature films for the 66th Festival de Cannes will be revealed on Thursday 18th April, the list of Short Films is unveiled in advance. The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury, presided by Jane Campion, will nominate the prize-winners for the Short Film Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection. THE SHORT FILMS  [ Read More ]

by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi The author of the ‘Twilight’ franchise, Stephanie Meyer has written the novel ‘The Host,’ adapted on screen by the film-maker from New-Zealand Andrew Niccol. The sci-fi thiller romance reveals a future in which Earth has been occupied by a parasitic alien species that overtakes the human race by controlling their bodies and  [ Read More ]

The Impossible movie review by Chiara Spagnoli The acclaimed Spanish horror-film director, Juan Antonio Bayona, has released an outstanding dramatic masterpiece, based on the true story of Maria Belón who lived, with her husband Enrique and three sons Lucas, Simon, and Tomas, the experience of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Maria is portrayed by Naomi  [ Read More ]

Quartet the movie review by Chiara Spagnoli We are accustomed to seeing Mr Dustin Hoffman in front of the camera ever since he played the young Benjamin Braddock seduced by the sensuous Anne Bancroft-Mrs Robinson in ‘The Graduate’. Today at age 75, Hoffman has decided to step behind the camera for his directorial debut in  [ Read More ]

    ROME FILM FESTIVAL FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DEL FILM DI ROMA   Friday January 4th Lifetime Achievement Award to Quentin Tarantino and Django Unchained gala screening   The 7th Rome Film Festival (Festival Internazionale del Film di Roma) will confer its Lifetime Achievement Award to Quentin Tarantino. The American director, screenwriter, actor, and producer, winner  [ Read More ]

            The silver screen is accustomed to telling the stories of the rock bands who make it, but director David Case has decided to take a different angle with his poignant, vibrant and sardonic ‘Not Fade Away’. The story seems to draw inspiration from the director’s life, since just as  [ Read More ]

          Ever dreamt of meeting in real life a superhero like Superman or Batman? Well you now stand a chance thanks to the young and talented director Sheldon Candis who has spotted out the the contemporary masked heroes who patrol the streets of America as activists, fighting against violent crime. “The  [ Read More ]

A supernatural love story set in the South, “Beautiful Creatures” tells the tale of two star-crossed lovers: Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich), a young man longing to escape his small town, and Lena (Alice Englert), a mysterious new girl. Together, they uncover dark secrets about their respective families, their history and their town. Oscar nominee Richard LaGravenese  [ Read More ]

Captain Zhang (Sun Honglei) and his team will stop at nothing to track down drug criminals. When drug lord Timmy Choi (Louis Koo) is captured, a deal to help Zhang bust a major cocaine ring could save him from the death penalty. But Captain Zhang doesn’t trust Timmy Choi is truly betraying his partners. He  [ Read More ]

              After awards to “Silent Souls” in 2010 and “Killer Joe” in 2011, Mouse d’Oro Award is ready to celebrate, partecipate and vote to the movies (in and out of competition) at the next Venice International Film Festival 2012. KING’s ROAD magazine will be part of the italian online-press  [ Read More ]

Italian director and screenwriter Francesco Rosi has been awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 69th Venice International Film Festival of the Biennale di Venezia (29 August – 8 September 2012). The decision was made by the Board of Directors of the Biennale chaired by Paolo Baratta, on the recommendation by the Director  [ Read More ]

Venice International Film Festival (29th august – 8th september 2012) Maestri, veterans and debutants are attending the official selection 3 Oscar winning directors (Susanne Bier, Jonathan Demme, Robert Redford) and 3 Oscar nominated Directors (Brian De Palma, Spike Lee, Terrence Malick) 3 Directors who have previously been awarded the Golden Lion (Takeshi Kitano, Mira Nair,  [ Read More ]

the awards ceremony which will take place on Friday, August 31st Following the awards ceremony, the world premiere screening of his new documentary, Bad 25 The Biennale di Veneziaand Jaeger-LeCoultre announce that the great American director, screenwriter, actor and producer Spike Lee has been awarded the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker 2012 award of the  [ Read More ]

Venice Film Festival 2012 29th August > 8th September 2012 The 69th Venice International Film Festival, organized by La Biennale di Venezia, will run at Venice Lido August 29th through September 8th, 2012, directed by Alberto Barbera. The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness and promote all the various aspects of international cinema in  [ Read More ]

Marking the 50th anniversary of the 007 film franchise, the James Bond exhibition London event takes over the Barbican spaces, including The Curve and The Pit, to take you on journey through the iconic secret agent’s developing style. Designing 007 Titled Designing 007 – Fifty Years of Bond Style, the James Bond exhibition London event  [ Read More ]

Michael Mann will be the President of the international jury at this year’s Venice Film Festival. Recommended from new festival director Alberto Barbera, Mann will lead the Jury which  has awarded Alexander Sokurov’s “Faust” last year. Also Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino, will lead “Orizzonti” section’s Jury, and Director Shekhar Kapur of “Venezia Opera Prima” one.  [ Read More ]

Cannes Film Festival has its winners: guided by Italian Director Nanni Moretti, the Jury has given their own ambassadors for the 2012 edition of the Cannes FF, full of stars (from Brad Pitt to Nicole Kidman, Edward Nortnon, David Cronenberg & Robert Pattinson, Bruce Willis, the great coming back of Bernardo Bertolucci, Isabelle Huppert  with  [ Read More ]

Luca Manzi is one of the most brilliant screenwriters in Italy, he is the creator of the very successful television series ‘Boris’ and is establishing himself in the Hollywood realm. He has just completed the script of ‘The games of 1940’ with David Seidler (Oscar winner for ‘The King’s Speech’) that will be produced by  [ Read More ]

  Last Saturday, at the Cannes Fil Festival 2012, Composer Alexandre Desplat returned to evoke the great scores that have been an inspiration to him, with extracts: The Misfits (Alex North), Witness (Maurice Jarre), The Soft Skin (Georges Delerue ), Ran Toru Takemitsu)… In 2006, he gave a first lesson on his work and his  [ Read More ]

Jean-Louis Trintignant on his participation in Love: “It’s been a while since I last acted in a film. I didn’t want to make films anymore and I love the theatre. It is only because Haneke, one of the greatest directors in the world, offered me this role that I accepted. But it was a one-off  [ Read More ]

Jean-Paul Gaultier is the first fashion master to join the Jury of the Festival de Cannes: “l’Enfant terrible” of the fashion, who has worked for a number of films, from Besson to Almodovar. Your vocation as a fashion designer began after you saw Falbalas, by Jacques Beker. As things have turned out, has your career been  [ Read More ]

Paris based art director Pascal Witaszek has recently caused a huge twitting with his brand new poster on an imaginary future film by Ron Howard, featuring Ryan Gosling, on Walt Disney’s life, “Walt”. But unfortunately it’s been only a fake poster: in fact the movie itself isn’t a project yet, although the idea has been  [ Read More ]

ROBERT MCKEE Meeting the founding father of the screenwriters’ bible, “Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting”, and Hollywood’s utmost inspiration to screenwriters. Robert McKee regularly teaches an enjoyable and information packed 4-day, 32-hour intensive class to sold-out audiences around the world. Since 1984, more than 50,000 students have taken McKee’s course in  [ Read More ]

TRIBECA FILM INSTITUTE DISCUSSES STORYTELLING IN THE DIGITAL AGE The Tribeca Film Festival has hosted a 7 hour marathon on the new means to be a journalist, through a series of panels with representatives of transmedia communications. Beth Janson, Executive Director of Tribeca Film Institute, welcomed a huge room packed with international members of the  [ Read More ]

Here the list of the scheduled movies in or out of competition at the next Cannes Film Festival 2012: Competition: Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson (film d’apertura) De Rouille et d’os, Jacques Audiard Holy Motors, Leos Carax Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg The Paperboy, Lee Daniels Killing Them Softly, Andrew Dominik Reality, Matteo Garrone Amour, Michael Haneke Lawless,  [ Read More ]

The horror-thriller-documentary by Hollywood star-artist James Franco. Francophrenia is the result of Franco’s collaboration with filmmaker Ian Olds on the set of General Hospital, based on dry footage of the star wandering the small backstage area, talking to cast members and crew. Franco, however, narrates with an increasingly psychotic tone, soon creating a sort of  [ Read More ]

The Associazione Culturale Sezione H, with Yourban MusicLab and Schio Comics has organized a brand new event celebrating the cult comic icon Dylan Dog from March 10th to 18th, in Caldogno (Vicenza, Italy). An occasion to meet  the myth and to celebrate the creative artists that have worked through the years to draw and write  [ Read More ]

Nanni Moretti will be President of the Jury of the 65th Festival de Cannes to be held from May 16 to 27, 2012. Accepting the invitation, the Italian actor and director said: “This is a real joy, an honour and a tremendous responsibility to preside over the jury of the most prestigious festival of cinematography  [ Read More ]

 Berlin Film Festival 2012: SEVEN WONDERS – RICHARD LORMAND Ira Sach’s KEEP THE LIGHTS ON: Heartrending, frank, smart, but real cinema. This beautiful film comes to the Panorama after receiving a very positive reception in Sundance. Outstanding Danish-born actor Thure Lindhardt (FLAME AND CITRON, NORDKRAFT, BROTHER-  HOOD, among many others) brings extra emotional depth  [ 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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

Focus on Great Britain Meetings, films, retrospectives, exhibitions and a red carpet specially created by the artist responsible for the décor of the Royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Directors Terence Davies and David Hare, musician Michael Nyman and writer Hanif Kureishi will be headlining the Focus section which this year the International Rome  [ Read More ]

Here the amazing line-up for 2011 BFI London Film Festival, with 204 feature films and 110 shorts over 16 days. In addition to our previously announced opening and closing night films, Fernando Meirelles’ 360 and Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea, Gala highlights include George Clooney’s The Ides of March, Alexander Payne’s The Descendants, Lynne  [ Read More ]

Five years after “Bug”, inspired from Tracy Letts’ pièce for theatre, “The Exorcist” director  William Friedkin comes out in competition at the Venice Festival with “Killer Joe”, a dark comedy full of violence, unrest, perversion and characters with double identities. Friedkin has starred lots of names of today’s cinema, from Emile Hirsch to Juno Temple  [ Read More ]

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROLLS OUT THE RED CARPET FOR HUNDREDS OF GUESTS FOR 2011 EVENT September 8 – 18, 2011 – Toronto Toronto – The 36th Toronto International Film Festival® welcomes hundreds of guests this year. Filmmakers expected to present their world premieres in Toronto include: Davis Guggenheim, Francis Ford Coppola, Alexander Payne, Agnieszka  [ Read More ]