by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi If you thought you would be seeing a film related to Ernest Hemingway you couldn’t be further off track. Dom Hemingway (Jude Law) is a larger-than-life safecracker with a screw loose. The profane and nutty man, returns on the streets of London after twelve years in prison, to collect what he’s  [ 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 ]

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 ]

“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 ]

September 3rd, Lido of Venice. The 68th edition of the Venice Festival today’s gifted critics and public of rare pearls of contemporary cinematography. From Yorgos Lanthimos’ greek movie, in competition, “Alps”, where a group of 4 persons combine each other into a little associations, with rules and things to declare, called Alps, where everyone is  [ Read More ]

Some extracts from Cannes 2011 Festival winners’ speeches Maryna Vroda (Short Film Palme d’or for Cross): “When I got to Cannes, I couldn´t sleep. Then I made a decision. Whatever happens, I said to myself, award or no award, I´m going to carry on making films.” Wannes Destoop (Short Film Jury Prize for Badpakje 46):  [ Read More ]

Sean Penn: “Paolo has magic hands when filming.” The Italian director Paolo Sorrentino came to present This Must Be The Place, his latest film selected In Competition, accompanied by the actor Sean Penn, who plays Cheyenne, the film’s principal character. Selected extracts. Sean Penn on the beginnings of this collaboration with Paolo Sorrentino: “We met at  [ Read More ]

The actors Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain attended the Press Conference for Terrence Malik’s latest flim, The Tree of Life, accompanied by the film’s four producers: Sarah Green, Dede Gardner, Bill Pohlad et Grant Hill.  Brad Pitt on the film: “It would take many days to explain the film’s creative process. The screenplay was wonderfully  [ Read More ]

From http://www.festival-cannes.com : Gus Van Sant opens Un Certain Regard with a movie dedicated to youth and love. Restless is the fifth feature film by the US film-maker to appear in the Official Selection. His movie Elephant won the Palme d’or in 2003. His new film relates a tale of young love that is graceful  [ Read More ]

Steven Soderbergh ( “Che”, “Oceans Eleven”, “Erin Brockovich”, “Traffic”) has already revealed he’ll work on only two movies before ending his career in film direction. The director  told to the media he’s preparing a biopic on pianist Liberance, starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, and a cinema adptation to the ‘60s tv series “The Man  [ Read More ]