by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi, NY city The Queen of the Nightlife, Carmen D’Alessio, is a living New York legend. One of Andy Warhol’s greatest friends and the creator Studio 54, the energetic woman from Lima, Peru, still rocks the night away as the most beloved jetsetter in the Big Apple. And now she reveals her  [ Read More ]

ELEANOR RIGBY (Un Certain Regard) With his unique vision, writer/director Ned Benson ambitiously captures a complete picture of a relationship in the beautifully relatable portrait of love, empathy and truth that is THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY. Once happily married, Conor (James McAvoy) and Eleanor (Jessica Chastain), suddenly find themselves as strangers longing to understand  [ Read More ]

Back at the turn of the century, when ‘Topsy-Turvy’ was released, I wrote that it was “a film about all of us who suffer and strain to make other people laugh.” Now I have again turned the camera round on ourselves, we who try to be artists, with all the struggles our calling demands. But  [ Read More ]

by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi Drake Doremus had moved audiences in 2011 with the beautifully touching ‘Like Crazy,’ capturing all the truthful shades of love: the initial happy folly, the moment when perfection seems to be achieved in that special love bubble and how time alters the magic, drawing soul mates apart. The sensitive-at-heart director is  [ Read More ]

The man and the artist told 20 years after his death by journalist Alessandra Izzo Died on 1993 December 4th, Frank Zappa has been one of the most brilliant musicians, authors, composers and arrangers of the story, with such unmistakable look and important mustache, penetrating gaze, the U.S. passport and the beloved Sicilian origins. Frank  [ Read More ]

“Servo per Due” by and with Pierfrancesco Favino Extraordinary, irresistible, fresh, amusing: Pierfrancesco Favino enchants audiences and critics with his first work as a director at the theater, actor and director from proposing a surprising reinterpretation of Arlecchino’s “The Servant of Two Masters” by Carlo Goldoni adaptation of the play by Richard Bean, “One man,  [ Read More ]

by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi   ‘It Was The Son’ uses Daniele Ciprì’s acid humour to tell a multilayered tale about a Sicilian family tragedy populated with grotesque characters. The film, based on a novel by Roberto Alajmo, is a story within a story narrated by Old Busu, about the Ciraulo family boy who killed his  [ 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 ]

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 ]

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