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 ]
Great World has to be saved! Here's the aim of Rob Stewart's work as a videomaker, here at Cannes FF 2013 to spread the absolutely amazing documentary Revolution, already presented and winner at Toronto FF and Vancouver FF, and produced by Gus Van Sant. REVOLUTION is a film about changing the world, going for it, [ Read More ]
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 ]
by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi Pope Francis’ pontificate has been blessed by sustainability from the very start! When the 266th Bishop of Rome made his first appearance as Pontiff on the balcony of Saint Peter’s Basilica, 5 solar panel compactors were present in the Vatican area, dealing with the large amount of waste produced by the [ 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 ]
by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi Love for green fashion gushes out of Amour Vert’s garments. The brand’s creed is that women shouldn’t have to sacrifice style for sustainability: “We put fashion first, but always employ a zero-waste design philosophy and use only organic and sustainable fabrics along with low impact dyes.” The Ethic Chic philosophy of Amour [ 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 name Alice, due to Lewis Carroll's contamination of social imaginary, always evokes candour and earnestness. This is the exact feeling propelled by Alice Dami, the host and chef who unveils the beauty of Tuscan mansions with the exquisite cuisine of the surrounding area. Alice embraces all sorts of leisures for [ 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 Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi Art is one of the first victims when recession strikes hard, and this can undoubtably be testified by the 18th edition of the International Art Fair in Milan, taking place from April 5th until the 7th. The habitual location of the pavilions in Fieramilanocity in the past editions displayed the artwork [ Read More ]
FROM CANNES FF 2013 website: http://www.festival-cannes.fr It is on The Great Gatsby by Australian director Baz Luhrmann, that the curtain will rise at the inauguration of the 66th Festival de Cannes, on Wednesday 15th May, in the Grand Théâtre Lumière of the Palais des Festivals, out of Competition in the Official Selection. Adapted from the [ Read More ]
By Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi “Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman, Be he live, or be he dead I'll grind his bones to make my bread.” Is the historical and most popular quatrain chanted by children who are fond of the British fairytale ‘Jack and the Beanstalk. Bryan Singer’s movie is mainly inspired by [ 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 ]
By Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi What triggers a producer to pick a script amongst heaps of screenplays? This question remains unanswered after viewing ‘The Place Beyond The Pines,’ a movie that makes no sense from start to finish and if it weren’t for Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper, no-one would bother considering it. The plot is [ Read More ]
Review by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi The French animation movie created by Rémi Bezançon and Jean-Christophe Lie, is inspired by the true story of 1826, when the first giraffe travelled from Alexandria to Paris. France’s ambassador to Egypt came up with the idea of giving the little giraffe Zarafa as a present from the Pasha to [ Read More ]
Review by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi The Flintstones are beyond shadow of a doubt the timeless cartoon-family of the stone age. But DreamWorks tries to supply its own 3D animation version of prehistoric kith and kin cavemen facing evolution. ‘The Croods’ tells the story of the world’s first family road trip: when their cave is [ 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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
Beautiful Creatures review by Chiara Spagnoli After obsessive-Twilight-saga years, people have grown a certain allergic reaction to romantic dramas between mortals and supernatural creatures. And yet ‘Beautiful Creatures’ is undoubtably a delightful surprise. The film directed by Richard LaGravenese is based on the New York Times bestselling fantasy young adult novel, written by the girl-power [ Read More ]
A Good Day To Die Hard review by Chiara Spagnoli “Bang Bang” is what Nancy Sinatra sang in the late 60s and how the 5th Die Hard film would generally add up to: “Bang bang, he shot me down, Bang bang, I hit the ground, Bang bang, that awful sound, Bang bang, my baby shot [ Read More ]
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Chiara Spagnoli ‘The Perks Of Being A Wallflower’ started out as a coming-of-age epistolary novel, written by the American writer Stephen Chbosky: it was published in February of 1999 by MTV and in 2012 was made into a movie starring Logan Lerman, Ezra Miller, Emma Watson, and was [ 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 ]
Broken City, the review by Chiara Spagnoli ‘Broken City’ is a crime drama, that unveils the dark side of the moon of mayorship interacting with the police department. Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) is an NYPD detective who is arrested for the murder of Mikey Tavarez, who raped his girlfriend Natalie Barrow (Natalie Martinez). [ Read More ]
First show of the 2013 program of the Vicenza Theatre, ‘Macbeth’, the well known tragedy by William Shakespeare, in the modern version directed by Italian director Andrea De Rosa, with translation by Nadia Fusin,is a production by Fondazione Teatro Stabile of Torino and of Teatro Stabile of Veneto “Carlo Goldoni”. Main role given to the [ 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 ]
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 ]
Berlinale 2013: International Jury With WONG Kar Wai serving as Jury President, the International Jury will decide who will receive the Golden Bear and Silver Bears of the 2013 Berlinale Competition. The other members of the International Jury will be Susanne Bier, Andreas Dresen, Ellen Kuras, Shirin Neshat, Tim Robbins and Athina Rachel Tsangari. Chinese [ Read More ]
The Last Stand The review by Chiara Spagnoli The governor is back on the silver screen! Indeed ‘The Terminator’, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who had taken time off from film-making to dedicate himself to taking care of the State of California, having concluded his mandate as governor, has returned to his acting career. The South-Korean [ Read More ]
RIDI-CUL by Silvana Soffia In the beginning there was the Man, and we all saw that Men’s fashion was good. There used to be no confusion between what a guy should wear and what he actually wore – thumbs down for handbags, strass shirts, pedal pushers (unless you’re a real fisherman), leggings, skirts (except of [ Read More ]
Looper by Chiara Spagnoli Have you ever asked yourself “if only I could turn back time?” The new American science-fiction film written and directed by Rian Johnson actually deals with the topic of time travel. In a futuristic gangland in the year 2044, 25-year-old Joseph Simmons (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), is a ‘looper’, i.e. a professional hit [ Read More ]
Silver Linings Playbook When two negatives make a positive By Chiara Spagnoli Every cloud has a silver lining just as every distortion has the potential to be fixed by love. This is essentially what the feature film directed by David Owen Russell, starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, is all about. ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ is [ 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 ]
Warm Bodies by Chiara Spagnoli In the past few years we’ve been sucked up in the realm of vampire love stories: pathos, blood, pretentiousness, all elements that produced the audience’s exasperation. This time the Transylvanians get substituted by a funny new twist on a classic love story between dead and alive, between cold bodies and [ Read More ]
“Hip Hop Hassid” by Francesca Pagani by Chiara Spagnoli Shneur Hasofer has chosen DeScribe as nome de plume. He’s a very unique artist as he’s probably the only known rapper to be Jewish. The Hasidic performer lives in Brooklyn, combining his music with his spiritual call, [ 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 ]
LOTUS EATERS by Chiara Spagnoli from NY Once upon a time there was a contemporary Alice in Wonderland who got plunged in London’s West End of wealthy spoilt kids, engaged in procrastination, sex, drugs and ennui. “Lotus Eaters” sets Alexandra McGuinness’ debut as a director through, an incredibly alluring movie, which has had a great [ 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 ]
“A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III“, by Roman Coppola, is the story about Charles Swan III (Charlie Sheen) has it all. He’s an eccentric and highly successful graphic designer whose fame, money and devilish charm have provided him with a seemingly perfect life. But when his true love, a perplexing beauty named [ 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 ]
CAN’T STAND LOSING YOU “I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing, I can't stand losing you,” is the refrain of the eponymous song of The Police, the British new wave band, with a rock n’roll style influenced by punk, reggae and jazz. The American editor of documentaries Andy Grieve and television producer Lauren [ 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 ]
Road to Ruins Film Fest 2012 October 11th-14th 2012 Nuovo Cinema Aquila in Rome One of the annual venues when cinema meets music is back! ROAD TO RUINS, praised by the accomplished SXSW American festival, has been for 12 editions an important international festival of Rock n’Roll. In 2011 it has broadened to the movie [ 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 ]
