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 ]
Anna (Noomi Rapace) and her 8-year-old son, Anders, are on the run from Anders’ violent father. They move to a secret address in a giant apartment building. Anna is terrified that her exhusband will find them and buys a babycall to make sure Anders is safe while he sleeps. But strange noises echoe in the [ Read More ]
Isabelle Huppert in the role of an icy carreer woman of the upper class of Paris: a work in art-management, a lovely husband, a beautiful boy. All perfect, apparently, till the arrive of Patrick. A comedy so realistic and contemporary that Lady Anne Fontaine, headmaster of direction art in France, has created with elegant ambitions [ Read More ]
Great event in the collateral section of the Rome Film Festival 2011, Focus Uk, the retrospective “Punks vs Patriots” is an huge study, through cinema, on british society and culture over the last decays, thanks to a selection of movies chosen by today’s well-known artists, from Terence Davies to David Hare, Douglas Gordon and Michael [ Read More ]
Based on the novel by Patrick White, an aging matriarch controls everything in her life-including her time to die. Directed by Fred Schepisi, and starring Charlotte Rampling, Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis, the movie reveals the story of matriarchal family by Mrs Elizabeth Hunter, at the end of her long life nearby Sidney. A movie [ Read More ]
Centers on a long-distance relationship between a young American man and a young British woman who meet while in college, the romantic drama “Like Crazy” will give you all a jump into romance and tenderness like nothing else in the last years. Starring Felicity Jones, Anton Yelchin, the [ Read More ]
Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of 9-year-old boy, decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. With plenty of talent, energy, love and dreams, but no finance of their own, they find themselves pushed into a jungle of financing and bank loans that quickly overwhelms them. To bail [ Read More ]
I wish you a Sparkling Christmas You better watch out, You better not cry, Better not pout, I’m telling you why… Because this Christmas you could receive ‘Champagne for Life’ This is the introductory jingle to the glamorous ‘Champagne for Life’ Christmas membership gift. Well-established Gentlemen Clubs are just a small example of the prestigious [ Read More ]
From Tanya Wexler the movie “Hysteria” reveals the unknown settings of women’s pleasures, in Victorian London full of high classes ready to disappear because of the coming out of suffragettes and females’ rights. Maggie Gyllenhaall, Rupert Everett, Jonathan Price and an extaordinary performance by Hugh Dancy in the real story of Doctor Mortimer Granville who [ Read More ]
From the writer and producers of “death of A Funeral” and the Director of “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert”, comes this forthcoming outrageous new comedy about a groom and his so called mates, starring Kris Marshall and Olivia Newton John, by Stephan Elliott. Presented Out of Competition at RFF 2011, with huge [ Read More ]
A new 3D motion picture event, from headmaster Director Steven Spielberg: “The Adventures of Tintin”, at the Rome Film Festival 2011. Talent Jamie Bell (“Billy Elliott”) told us: “It’s been my first time in working in performance capture, which is an extremely strange thing to do for an actor. You have to act without a [ Read More ]
“Time to grow up“, we must say. This forthcoming movie by Director Vincent Lannoo, “Little Glory“, presented in “Alice nella Città” section of the Rome Film Festival 2011, revelead emotional darkness and the need of growing for a 19 years old young man, problematic character, full of doubts and anger, first of all. Starring Cameron [ Read More ]
Synopsis THE LADY is the extraordinary story of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband, Michael Aris. It is also the epic story of the peaceful quest of the woman who is at the core of Burma‘s democracy movement. Despite distance, long separations, and a dangerously hostile regime, their love endures until the very end. [ Read More ]
♩♪♫♬ Come and meet those dancing feet ♩♪♫♬ to the venue I’m taking you to: 47th Frith Street. ♩♪♫♬ Ronnie Scott’s, London’s oldest jazz club, ♩♪♫♬ regularly hosts in the upstairs bar, on the fourth Sunday of every month, improvised tap dance sessions. ♩♪♫♬♩♪♫♬♩♪♫♬ Junior Laniyan introduces tap dancers from around the country who go up [ Read More ]
WIMBLEDON STUDIOS Where make-believe overtakes reality Wimbledon Film & Television Studios celebrates this October its first anniversary, for it was set up in the same month of 2010. The goal to unlock the outstanding potential of the former Merton Studios has definitely been pursued. The assets on site include a combination of large sound stages [ Read More ]
The National Theatre’s Backstage The National Theatre Backstage Tours lead you into a land of enchantment. Guides will take you through the backstage areas of the three theatres, following in the footsteps of the greatest actors and directors of the last 35 years, revealing the secrets that bring their work to the stage. One can [ Read More ]
“The Seventh Son” (previously titled The Last Apprentice) is an upcoming fantasy movie directed by Sergei Bodrov (“Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan”) for Legendary Pictures. The film is a movie adaptation of “The Last Apprentice”, a series of novel written by Joseph Delaney. The story follows the seventh son of a seventh son as [ Read More ]
Simon Gargette’s philosophy of Luxury The creative director of the most exclusive channel on glamorous splendour, leads us in a profound reflection on the concept of luxuriousness through time and meaning. Tell me about Luxury Life Channel’s history… Originally it was Luxe Tv and eventually it became Luxury Life Broadcasting. Luxembourg group has made a [ Read More ]
Ray Gelato’s Bar Italia London. Soho on sunny autumn day. A purely Italian cup of coffee. The sun shining bright and I’m mesmerised by Ray. I am not speaking of the sun-beam, but of the company of my dear friend: the jazz legend Ray Gelato. I guess we should have had ice-cream instead of [ Read More ]
“Playing the Building” by David Byrne is a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things [ Read More ]
In London anything, or should I say ‘everything’ is possible…even to stroll inside a chain of high end department store, such as Selfridges, and find yourself inside a museum of wonders. The Museum of Everything is one of Britain’s most successful independent art museum, and it is now hosting an exquisite new show. It is [ Read More ]
“Sette opere di Misericordia” Italian cinema is often scolded for not being up to its mighty past of grandeur. The contemporary Italian film-makers known world wide are few and are definitely of age. In this scenario, the twin film-making brothers from Turin, Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio, find a way to make an outstanding movie [ Read More ]
Rinaldo Bigi at London’s Italian Cultural Institute Carlo Presenti, director of the Italian Cultural Institute, the Henraux Foundation and the Imago Gallery have opened on Tuesday 18th October the exhibition: “Il Sole delle Mie Radici The Sunlight of My Heritage” The exhibition, curated by Rossana Pittelli, will run from the 19th of October until the [ Read More ]
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single (or even united) man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of an expensive piece of contemporary art. The market trends in this field are hard to decipher. What determines the price of a creative work of today? Why are there some oeuvres [ Read More ]
V&A: WHERE WE COME FROM & WHERE WE’RE GOING The Victoria & Albert Museum hosts two incredible exhibitions: POSTMODERNISM: STYLE AND SUBVERSION 1970-1990 24th September 2011 – 15th January 2012 This is the first in-depth survey of art, design and architecture of the 1970’s and 1980’s examining one of the most controversial phenomena in recent [ Read More ]
PAOLO BARBIERI He’s one of the most important artist in fantasy illustration and books, from his collaboration with writer Licia Troisi to lots of Mondadori’s artworks. Now the Italian illustrator Paolo Barbieri comes out with his own first book, “Favole degli Dei”, for which he’s written the story and created the art-characters too. We’ve met [ Read More ]
CORIOLANUS Schindler’s List and English Patient star, Ralph Fiennes, has made his directing debut with a version of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, unveiled at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, now presented at the BFI in London. The play tells of a proud Roman warrior who, having been turned out of the city, joins an enemy tribe and [ Read More ]
SAATCHI THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME: NEW SCULPTURE 27TH MAY 2011 – 16TH OCTOBER 2011 The exhibition of 20 leading and emerging international sculptors has just concluded. Kris Martin: On top of each large megalith-like boulders that compromise ‘Summit’ is a small paper cross crowning each peak. The pun metaphor portrays man conquering [ Read More ]
POWER OF MAKING 6th September 2011 – 21st January 2012 An eclectic selection of over 100 exquisitely crafted objects, ranging from a life-size crochet bear to a ceramic eye patch, a fine metal flute to dry stone walling, celebrate the role of making in our lives. This power is a cabinet of curiosities showing works [ Read More ]
The classy pasta brand has made its way through show business since 2008, producing its first film ‘L’Alchimia del Gusto’ by Edo Tagliavini with Alessandro Preziosi. From then on the company has chosen to develop a Brand Entertainment project investing its resources to support the film-industry, rather than making banal commercials. In 2009 ‘Questione di [ Read More ]
FRIEZE ART FAIR The ninth edition for Frieze Art Fair, the leading international contemporary art fair, takes place in London’s Regent Park from 13-16 October 2011. The fair is sponsored by Deutsche Bank. 173 of the world’s most exciting contemporary art galleries representing 33 countries present new work by 1,000 of the world’s [ Read More ]
“360” is a modern and stylish kaleidoscope of interconnected love and relationships linking characters from different cities and countries in a vivid, suspenseful and deeply moving tale of romantic life in the 21st century. Starting in Vienna, the film beautifully weaves through Paris, London, Bratislava, Rio, Denver and Phoenix into a single, mesmerising narrative. From [ Read More ]
A sophisticated and technically stunning animated reflection on recent history. It’s the end of the 1980s, and as the Berlin Wall is falling down, an event that has huge significance for his country and the wider world, there appears to be little so dramatic in the life of Alois Nebel. Alois is an introverted loner [ Read More ]
‘Funny Looking Angels’ An Album for Christmas, released 28th November 2011 What started as two friends popping into each other’s houses and then home studios, putting down an idea here and a melody there developed into a set of songs with a Christmas theme, then a theoretical album, then, following help from their friends on [ Read More ]
From Tennessee Williams, an inventive melodrama referencing him and “A Streetcar Named Desire”, in a story about lust, rivalry and liberation in Kent countryside. A woman (Anna Madeley) is cycling through narrow rural lanes in glorious sunshine, appearing for all the world as a free spirit. She wanders through a busy loading area, where she [ 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 ]
