Julian, an American fugitive from justice, runs a boxing club in Bangkok as a front for his drug business. His mother, the head of a vast criminal organization, arrives from the US to collect the body of her favorite son, Billy. Julian’s brother has just been killed after having savagely murdered a young prostitute. Crazy  [ Read More ]

Steven Soderbergh, Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, Richard LaGravenese and producer Jerry Weintraub attended the press conference for the biopic about Valentino Liberace: Behind The Candelabra. Selected extracts. About Valentino Liberace Jerry Weintraub : I am the only one old enough at this table to have known him personally. He led an extraordinary life. There was  [ Read More ]

As I Lay Dying is the first major film and first Selection at Cannes by actor, producer and scriptwriter James Franco, who first made a name for himself in the role of Harry Osborn, Spider-Man’s nemesis in the Sam Raimi trilogy. Tell us how your film came about. My father recommended As I Lay Dying  [ Read More ]

The Italian director Paolo Sorrentino and the entire team from his film, The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza), presented in Competition, answered questions from the press. Selected highlights. Paolo Sorrentino on the origins of his film: I’ve known Rome for quite some time. I first went there to work then moved there. I’ve been able  [ Read More ]

Guillaume Canet © FDC / LOB Guillaume Canet, Clive Owen, Marion Cotillard, and the rest of the team of Blood Ties, presented Out of Competition, answered the journalists’ questions. Selected extracts. Guillaume Canet talking about how his film came about: When Tell No One came out, I received various offers to make a film in  [ Read More ]

A revenge film equally suited for art house cinephiles and die-hard genre fans. IT’S ABOUT A BEACH BUM, whose quiet life is upended by dreadful news. He sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance but proves an inept assassin and finds himself in a brutal fight to protect his  [ Read More ]

  Premiered at the Director's Fortnight at Cannes, “Blue Ruin” is the new movie by american filmmaker Jeremy Saulnier ('Murder Party'). It is the story of a man who finds his life ruined by bad news and deciding to set off for his home when he was a child, to carry his total revenge. The  [ Read More ]

Third Person is the upcoming movie by Award winner Paul Haggis, starring superstars Mila Kunis, James Franco, Liam Neeson, Adrien Brody, Olivia Wilde and Kim Basinger. It follows three inter connected love stories of three couples in three cities, looking from the beginning to the middle era step to the end of a relationship. In  [ Read More ]

Lars Ulrich has presented at the Cannes FF 2013 the upcoming docu-film about Metallica's world, “Metallica Through the Never“. We met him at the beach in Cannes for a short interview about his life in music. “Sex and drugs and rock'n'roll? Oh, you know, I've become too old for all of them. Yes for sex  [ Read More ]

  Lee Tamahori (Wellington, 1950) is the famous director from New Zeeland who Started his carreer as a filmmaker with Once Were Warriors (1994), to jump into thriller with Mulholland Falls (1996), just before his success The Edge (1997) and Die Another Day (2002), the twentieth James Bond movie with Pierce Brosnan. After directing too  [ Read More ]

INteRVIew wIthFRANçoIs ozoN What was the catalyst forYOUNG & BEAUTIFUL? Directing Ernst Umhauer and Bastien Ughetto for INTHE HOUSEwas such a pleasure I wanted to work with young actors again. Myearly shorts and features explored adolescence, but from UNDERTHE SAND on, I’ve worked essentially with older actors. SoYOUNG & BEAUTIFUL started with my desire to  [ Read More ]

  Estela is a 12 year old girl who has just fallen crazy in love with a young policecadet who wants to run away with her and get married. Trying to achieve thisdream, her family will have to live the violence that is devastating the region. INTERVIEW WITH AMAT ESCALANTE HELI is your third movie  [ Read More ]

  BE OPEN is a creative think tank whose mission is to promote people and ideas: a cultural and philanthropic initiative that aims to harness the brainpower of the global creative minds in the arts, education, design, business, and the media – and asks them to imagine and then build solutions for the future. BE  [ Read More ]

Belladonna is a great Italian rock band, whose mold recalls the splendor of the great foreign music of the past. Creating a real Noir Rock, from their first 2006 record, “Metaphysical Attraction“, attracted the attention of critics and public, also  nominated for two Grammy Awards in 2008, and hailed by Rolling Stone , GQ, Glamour,  [ Read More ]

Interview by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi   Picture yourself on a boat on the Amstel, traversing a world populated by cheerful strange creatures, through a stylised scenery, defined by clear shapes, bright colours and strong black, lines. Welcome to the visionary realm depicted by the Dutch artist, Jacqueline Schäfer. Her paintings, silkscreens and sculptures are currently  [ Read More ]

Marina Suma: the icon, cinema and her jewels interview by Alessandra Izzo It was in 1981 when at the Venice Film Festival, all shouted to the miracle, about a new star of cinema born after years of dark. The star, Marina Suma, actress and icon of cinema of these years, was the protagonist of the  [ Read More ]

“I figli di Baal – La Guida Rossa”: interviewing Francesca Costantino   Meet beautiful creatures is not so common these days, but thanks to the great mother life / earth, pure-hearted people still live. Francesca Constantino, journalist, writer and blogger (www.raccontifantasy.com) is the editor of fashion magazine and editor for Italian publishers. His passion for  [ Read More ]

  Thinking about women-music legend, you may think to great artists like Janis Joplin, Patti Smith, Debbie Harry, Stevie Nicks, Grace Slick, Joan Baez and so on.But in the world of the music and first of all of rock from that amazing period of 60s and 70s there were other types of woman-myths. Beauty, audacious,  [ Read More ]

Presented at the end of the Rome Film Festival 2012, in MAXXXI competition, “Tar” is a movie adapted by James Franco and the students in the class he teaches at New York University, as a compilation of ten short films each directed by a student, based on a book of poems titled Tar by Pulitzer  [ Read More ]

  Based on writer & musician Willy Vlautin first novel (dated 2005), The Motel Life is an intense and dramatic movie directed by Alan Polsky and Gabriel Polsky, starring Emile Hirsch, Stephen Dorff and Dakota Fanning. Full of emotion, realism and centered on the sad story of two brothers, inspired on writing on Charles Bukowski’s books  [ Read More ]

        Epic and magical adventure about the story of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman, and Jack Frost, legendary characters with previously unknown extraordinary abilities. When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces to protect  [ 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 ]

Based on R.L. Stevenson’s short-novel “The Ebb-tide“, and surounded by the noir athmosphere, “Waves” is the first movie by Corrado Sassi, and tells the story of three men sailing  from Italy to the Eastern Mediterranean. A sailorman and two suspected  men with a specific reason to escape from their own country. The cast (Director Corrado  [ Read More ]

  “Le Guetteur is like a French version of my Crime Novel“. Italian Director Michele Placido told us about his upcoming movie, 'Le Guetteur', presented at the Rome Film Festival 2012 out of competition. An extremely strong spy story about killers, bandits and policemen, in Paris, with co-production by Rai Cinema, RTBF, Canal+, Cine+ and  [ Read More ]

Brad Bernstein’s film, Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story, depicts a man’s continuous pursuit to find his place in the world as a human being and as an artist. The documentary combines traditional storytelling with original animation from over 70 years worth of art from the renegade children’s book author and illustrator,  [ Read More ]

Lucca Comics 2012 Rebecca Dautremer Amazingly suspended between modern surrealism and childhood stories, we met French artist Rebecca Dautremer during Lucca Comics and Games 2012, where she has a special exhibition at Lucca's Palazzo Ducale, with some of the most important illustrations and paintings from her productin, from Alice in Wonderland to Cyrano. “Wow! I  [ Read More ]

From Death Note to Bakuman, headmaster in manga-world Maestro Takeshi Obata, told us about his masterpieces in comics and his art. “During the inspirations session in creating Death Note, I've been hardly inspired by one of my trips in Rome. It's an amazing city, that gave me lots of input informations for my project. I've  [ Read More ]

  From the typical Argentinian comics tradition toward Italy and Sergio Bonelli's Tex: master comic hero Enrique Breccia, since 1970's pop-comic icon, illustrated King's Road something on his amazing art, also concerning his great exhibition at Lucca Comics & Games 2012. “Comics and paintings are two completely different parts of my work. I can consider  [ Read More ]

        by Chiara Spagnoli Andrea Marinelli, a promising Italian journalist pursues his quest: accomplish the coverage of 2012’s US Presidential Elections State-to.State. His greatest allies have been crowdfunding, hitchhiking and CouchSurfing. The entire chronicle, initially reported on his blog http://iltradingpost.wordpress.com, has become a self-published book “L’Ospite: Pullman, divani e autostop all’inseguimento delle  [ Read More ]

PATRICK MC MULLAN the interview by Chiara Spagnoli from New York city Patrick Mc Mullan, world wide known photographer, columnist and television personality, has the largest collection of topical photo-archives of famous people. His eclectic talent, that embraces all media, draws the best from every human being he meets, be it through a photograph, an  [ Read More ]

Interview to the son and director Claudio Risi Regarded by many as Dino Risi's finest film, The Easy Life (Il Sorpasso) casts Vittorio Gassman as Bruno, a jaded, ageing roue, who introduces young Roberto Mariani Jean-Louis Trintignant to his hedonistic lifestyle. Previously a man with a purpose in life, Roberto soon becomes as wanton and  [ Read More ]

  TALKING WITH THE STARS OF STEP UP 4 REVOLUTION 3D Kathryn McCormick, dancer known to the public for the talent show ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ and model Ryan Guzman describe their actorial debut in the most popular of dance movies STEP UP: How was your first acting experience? Kathryn: The show ‘So  [ Read More ]

Lithian Ricci was born in Rome, where she took her degree in Architecture, she attended the Heatherley School of Fine Arts in London and eventually moved to Milan where she still lives and works. Her trademark are fabulistic portraits, nevertheless her exquisite art envelops all fields of day to day life from clothes to cutlery:  [ Read More ]

Art met fashion when la petite robe noire worn by Madam X in John Singer Sargent’s painting inspired Coco Chanel’s little black dress. Chiara Boni, the Italian sophisticated fashion designer of the brand La Petite Robe has always been avant-guard in combing fashion shows with unconventional locations. This time the lady of the catwalk has  [ Read More ]

The trilogy exploring the liaison between man and nature, begun in Mongolia and continued in the Andes, draws to a closure in the Flanders, home country of the directors. Peter Brosens, Belgian filmmaker, and his wife Jessica Woodworth, former actress, Belgian of adoption, depict an apocalyptic portrait of human kind. A mysterious calamity strikes: spring  [ Read More ]

Four sexy college girls plan to fund their spring break getaway by burglarizing a fast food shack. But that’s only the beginning… During a night of partying, the girls hit a roadblock when they are arrested on drug charges. Hungover and clad only in bikinis, the girls appear before a judge but are bailed out  [ Read More ]

Great korean director Kim Ki-duk comes back to the Venice FF and to the scenes after explorating personal feelings in Arirang and Amen, in a story full of his typical themes, from human tragedies to disturbing scenes and moods, in the tragedy of modern capitalism where victims and hangmen are the same. Hired by moneylenders,  [ Read More ]

Amazingly not in the official competition of the Venice FF 2012, ‘Disconnect’ by Henry-Alex Rubin revealed to be ine of the best things presented at the italian kermesse, mixing extremely high actors performances and a script like an intense and deep jump into human beings and contemporary moods. The movie investigates in communication in today’s  [ Read More ]

Strong, icely, without pity and regret: Richard Kuklinski has been one of the worst serial killer in USA history, also known for being adopted by Italian Mafia thanks to his attitude to kill without asking and in a short time. Director Ariel Vromen and actor Michael Shannon, interviewed by King's road magazine at the Venice  [ Read More ]

SIGIS The artist who invented the technique of Vinylism The Venice Biennale of 2012 has declared Matteo Vaccari Sigismondi an actual Art Maestro, bestowing him the official recognition of having invented an artistic technique: Vinylism. The young Milanese artist, began as an enfant prodige deejay, in times when this profession could not be improvised, but  [ Read More ]

GADDO DELLA GHERARDESCA The acclaimed advertiser, descendent of one of the most ancient aristocracies, is a fond advocate of BOLGHERI MELODY Count Gaddo della Gherardesca was born in Florence to one of Europe’s oldest families, which records back to 745A.D. Dante Alighieri and Giosué Carducci have extolled the death of his ancestor: in 1289 Count  [ Read More ]

LORENZO BORGHESE Prince Lorenzo Borghese, is a member of the House of Borghese and is known to the public for his television appearances in shows such as ‘The Bachelor’ and ‘Selling New York.’ The aristocratic in him doesn’t deny his noble origins, he has for instance published a book on his ancestor ‘The Princess of  [ 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 ]

SALVATORE CARRUBBA – IL CUORE IN MANO The Italian journalist, writer and academic has presented his most recent publication, a love tribute to the city of Milan. ‘Il cuore in mano’, the so called heart-in-hand, has always been the utmost quality of the town qualified as the moral capital of the Bel Paese. Salvatore Carrubba,  [ 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 ]

AN ITALIAN ON BROADWAY: LORENZO THIONE’S MUSICAL Lorenzo Thione, born in Mariano Comense (a small village near Lake Como), moved to the US through a scholarship he earned at Austin’s Texas University. In the course of a few years he started Powerset, an IT company based in San Francisco that sold to Microsoft in the  [ Read More ]

ANTONIO MONDA & THE CITY Antonio Monda, journalist in Manhattan, is an Italian pride. He started as an essayist and film critic and eventually directed documentaries, commercials and a feature film presented at the Venice Film Festival, winner of several prizes. He is currently a professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts  [ 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 ]