Acclaimed Danish film director Thomas Vinterberg is the winner of the 2013 European Union Prix MEDIA. The prize is awarded to the best new film project with box-office potential eligible for support from the EU MEDIA programme for cinema. The award will be presented to Vinterberg by Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education, [ Read More ]
Cannes FF 2013, may 15th – 25th IN COMPETITION Opening Film Baz LUHRMANN THE GREAT GATSBY (H.C.) 1h45 *** Valeria BRUNI-TEDESCHI UN CHÂTEAU EN ITALIE 1h44 Ethan COEN, Joel COEN INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS 1h45 Arnaud DESPALLIÈRES MICHAEL KOHLHAAS 2h05 Arnaud DESPLECHIN JIMMY P. (PSYCHOTHERAPY OF A PLAINS INDIAN) 2h Amat ESCALANTE HELI [ Read More ]
DOCUMENTA MADRID presents the first titles of the Official Selection. The Oscar nominated documentary “The Gatekeepers”, the best European documentary “Winter Nomads”, the winner of Panorama Berlin “The Act of Killing” and the sequel to the famous hit “The Staircase” directed by the Oscar-winning Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, shall take us in a fantastic voyage from [ Read More ]
By Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi Milan’s latest Design Week has “shed light” on an exceptional master of illumination. Thierry Dreyfus is an art director, photographer and artist since 1985, when he first started experimenting with light inside theatres and operas. Over the past 30 years, Dreyfus has sculpted, drawn, and projected light onto prints, [ Read More ]
By Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi The year 2012 has set a record for French film in Italy, that hadn’t been as high ever since the 80s. This newly achieved peak, is probably due to the craftsmanship approach adopted by the French cinéastes who manage to create “auteur” movies that are popular and emphatically enthralling. This [ 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 ]
By Francesco Cerea (Academician of Italian Cuisine) and Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi According to the Latins Dulcis In Fundo, i.e. we save the sweet/best for last, but during the Art&Pastry Festival the sweet is served before, during and after. The city of Lugano, Switzerland, has hosted on the 2nd and 3rd of March the first edition [ Read More ]
A great goal for four established artists taking part in one of the most regarded art fairs in the world. Four cartoonists, Alberto Corradi, Diavù (Davide Vecchiato), Massimo Giacon and Ale Giorgini, one project: from the 7th to the 10th of March the quartet will develop and perform live the forthcoming show QU4TTRO (four), [ Read More ]
Here we are with the annual Academy Awards Winners article. Are you ready? List of the 85th annual Academy Award winners announced Sunday in Los Angeles: 1. Best Picture: “Argo.” 2. Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, “Lincoln.” 3. Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, “Silver Linings Playbook.” 4. Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, “Django Unchained.” 5. Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, “Les [ Read More ]
by Chiara Spagnoli Art&Pastry is the first edition of a festival that informs on the art of fine pastry, through a program that embraces workshops, tastings, panels, exhibitions and competitions. The festival will take place in the Swiss venue of Palazzo dei Congressi in Lugano, on the 2nd and 3rd of March. On the first [ Read More ]
On Tuesday 4th December ‘Made in Italy’ – the company founded in 2004 by Francesco Belcaro and Francesco Bo – will host an event to promote Italian products and talents at the restaurant Toscan Divino for the 11th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach. The main sponsors in this occasion are [ Read More ]
Triennale Design Museum presents KAMA. Sex and Design, a great exhibition about the relationship between eros and design. The title refers to the Hindu God of sexual pleasure, human love and desire. KAMA tries to deal with one of the more exasperated contemporary “ghosts”, but in the meantime the more [ 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 ]
VALJEAN The acclaimed Broadway production Les Miz that will soon be out in movie theatres, will not devour this smaller low budget production that enhances the story of Jean Valjean. Victor Hugo’s character has been remoulded by Fulvio Crivello (the director), Sandro Cuccuini (composer) and Fabrizio Rizzolo (lyricist). But the changes concern the plot alone, [ Read More ]
GRAN PREMIO TORINO TO ETTORE SCOLA Besides the Gran Premio Torino award which will be presented to Ken Loach at this year’s Torino Film Festival, a second award will also be presented to Ettore Scola, a maestro at depicting Italy’s cultural and social scene. Scola debuted as a director in 1964 with the episode [ 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 ]
GET READY FOR THE BEATLES’ MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR The Beatles’ feature film of 1967 will be available on DVD and Blue Ray all around the globe soon! October 8th all over the world and October 9th in Italy, besides there will be a unique screening in Italian theatres on Wednesday 26th September. Whilst the book [ Read More ]
Robert McKee, guru of storytelling, mentor to the most acclaimed contemporary screenwriters in the world such as Paul Haggis, is about to start his autumn calendar of lectures around the world. He will be giving two different kinds of seminars – one is his classic STORY Seminar, the other is GENRE Seminar. In STORY Seminar, [ Read More ]
David Bowie is: the Exhibition Victoria and Albert Museum – March 23rd – July 28th / 2013 Album cover shoot for Aladdin Sane, 1973. Photograph by Brian Duffy © Duffy Archive The V&A has been given unprecedented access to the David Bowie Archive to curate the first international retrospective of the extraordinary career of David [ Read More ]
Paris, in the early 1970s. Gilles is a young high school student completely swept up in the political and creative effervescence of the times. Like his schoolmates, he wavers between radical commitment and more personal aspirations. Passing from sexual relations to artistic revelations on a journey through Italy and ending in London, Gilles and his [ 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 ]
American filmmaker Michael Cimino to receive the Persol 2012 award the award ceremony will be held on Thursday 30 August Following the award ceremony, Heaven’s Gate will be screened at 14.30 at the Sala Perla La Biennale di Venezia and Persol are pleased to announce that the great American director, screenwriter, and producer Michael Cimino [ Read More ]
Emir Kusturica is the guest star at Lucania Film Festival, which will open on August 10th in Pisticci (Matera), with 50 movies in competition. The director, actor, composer, twice-winner of the Palme d’Or in Cannes and Golden Lion in Venice at the age of 26, will hold a master class on the 12th of August [ 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 ]
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 ]
A spectacular anthological journey through 53 photographs by the American artist, from some of his most famous series: Star System, Deluge (Awakened), Earth Laughs in Flowers, After the Pop, Destruction and Disaster, Excess, Plastic People, Dream evokes Surrealism, Art Reference and Negative Currency, along with two tributes to Michael Jackson. LaChapelle is not the photographer [ Read More ]
Over the years, READING & LEEDS FESTIVAL has seen some of the most memorable musical moments in history. 2012 will be no exception and they are proud to announce three exclusive Main Stage headliners coming to entertain the 160,000 fanatical music enthusiasts who make this the most thrilling festival on earth. If you want to [ Read More ]
Paolo Sorrentino, director and writer, one of Italy’s most stimulating contemporary filmmakers, will be the President of the International Feature Competition Jury at the 30th Torino Film Festival. Kean Loach is the director who will be awarded with the Gran Premio Torino of the 30th edition. Loach will be in Torino along with the screenwriter [ Read More ]
Alberto Testa has been one of the most important Italian lyricists of our century. He has written over 1500 songs. Several of these have become evergreens achieving popularity all over the world and have been sung by world-wide performers such as Luciano Pavarotti, Mina, Julio Iglesias and Shirley Bassey, just to mention a few. Many [ 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 ]
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 ]
DIMORE STORICHE ITALIANE The handy unique platform to discover Italian Historical Mansions http://www.dimorestoricheitaliane.it Historical venues as art promulgators The historical, artistic and architectural heritage of each country, is an essential part of its cultural identity. Every palace, castle, villa or garden has his own story, and memory that must not be forgotten. Thus, the Italian [ Read More ]
BANKSY CELEBRATES ZS40 WITH A LIZ INSANE “One’s painting one’s face…” If you’re in the UK you can’t have failed to notice news coverage of genius street artist Banksy’s ( http://www.banksy.co.uk/ ) latest creation. The enigmatic Bristolian chose his home town as the venue for this latest artwork, where the image of the Queen of [ 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 ]
Che bello quando l’arte – nello specifico il video mapping – incontra la musica e i bravissimi organizzatori, pieni di entusiasmo per la seconda edizione del Video Sound Art, trovano non solo dei nomi di altissimo livello ma anche una location, Villa Simonetta a Milano, suggestiva e di grandissimo fascino. L’associazione che ha organzzato tutto [ 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 ]
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 ]
Artify It Secures Key Investments to Launch a New Platform to Transform Today’s Art Ecosystem Artify It, a San Francisco-based start-up, is unveiling today a new service offering that harnesses technology and a subscription-based model to provide artists, businesses and consumers fresh ways to experience high-quality, contemporary art The company announces today that it has [ 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 ]
DEATH CAN DANCE 100 Artists Images, Symbols & Signs. A Collection. Curated by Lori Hersberger Exhibition: April 13 – June 18 Townhouse Ankengasse 8 CH-8001 Zurich Opening Times / Öffnungszeiten: Friday – Saturday: 12 – 6pm Tuesday – Thursday: By appointment Tel. +0041 (0)76 489 12 85 http://death-can-dance.tumblr.com/ ARTISTS ERIC ANDERSEN, IAN ANÜLL, NOBOYUSHI ARAKI, [ Read More ]
Confirming his multi-tasking attitude in art, Mr James Franco is ready to explore one of the most important talents in photography for an upcoming brave new movie based on Robert Mapplethorpe’s life and art. Directed by Ondi Timoner, and financiated by the Tribeca Film Institude and by Mapplethorpe Foundation, which Director Michael Ward Shout has [ 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 ]
The President of The National Chamber for Italian Fashion introduces 2012’s trends Mario Boselli, appointed Cavaliere del Lavoro in 1990, Commandeur de l’Ordre National de la Legion d’Honneur in 2002 and Cavaliere di Gran Croce Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana in 2007, is unstoppable in his quest to enhance the Italian Fashion Industry. What [ 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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
