#L'Abbaglio by Roberto Andò – the review by Vittorio de Agrò (RS)

#L'Abbaglio or the expedition of the thousand in the illusion of creating a united Italy , fair and equal was a mistake? Ma forse lo è stato anche il film a cui si ispira Sinossi: 5 May 1860. Giuseppe Garibaldi prepares to carry out the feat of the Thousand and entrusts Colonel Vincenzo Giordano Orsini with the task of recruiting volunteers. They're all good, even the very young and the naive. Among the latter there are Domenico, a limping Sicilian specialized in fireworks, and Rosario, a man from Palermo who emigrated to the North who boasts of a title

The cinephile tribute to #Lynch by Alexandre O. Philippe

#Lynch / Oz is a DOC presented at the Rome Film Festival in 2022 in the FREESTYLE section directed by Alexandre O. Philippe, creative director of Cinema Vertige (Denver), winner at Venezia Classics 2024 con Chain Reactions Giudizio: 5/5 Synopsis: After the highly acclaimed essay films The People vs. George Lucas and 78/52 (about the shower scene in Psycho), Alexander O. Philippe investigates the links between The Wizard of Oz (1943) by Victor Fleming and the disturbing and fairy-tale universe of David Lynch, finding the influence of the first not only where it is most evident

#EMILIAPEREZ by Jacques AUDIARD – the review by Vittorio De Agrò (RS)

Bittersweet vision , smooth and also fun and exciting, tenendo la barra dritta senza eccedere sbanca i #GoldenGlobe e non solo Sinossi: Emilia Perez, film directed by Jacques Audiard, is set in present-day Mexico, where the lawyer Rita lives and practices. One day the lawyer receives a completely unexpected offer: help a feared local boss, linked to the Mexican cartel, to retire from his shady business and disappear forever. The man would like to undergo sex reassignment surgery and thus become the woman he has always wanted to be. In this

#Conclave by Edward Berger – review by Eleonora Ono

From the novel of the same name by Robert Harris, Italian premiere at the Rome Film Festival, adesso al cinema Sinossi: One night, a much loved pope dies suddenly; the Dean Cardinal Lawrence must organize and preside over the conclave that will elect the new pontiff, and the one hundred and eighteen most powerful cardinals of the Catholic Church close themselves in the Vatican for the votes. The purple red of the cardinal's clothes cuts through the sumptuous and rigorous architecture and the white, neri, gray of the Vatican marbles: Lawrence has to juggle power plays, intrigues, alliances, mysteries and must himself

#IoSonoNannarella : the review by Vittorio De Agrò (RS)

Carla Cucchiarelli firma una storia in cui l’amore per il cinema è mescolata con sapienza e creatività alla dolorosa e scontata tematica della violenza di genere e femminicidio Io sono Nannarella. Intrigo in Florence is a novel written by Carla Cucchiarelli and published on June 1st 2023 from Viola editrice-pages 230-euro 17,00 Synopsis: In the post covid era, A young woman who claims to be Anna Magnani was emergency admitted to a hospital in Florence. It resembles her like a drop of water, he talks and laughs like her. Under the empathetic gaze of doctors, nurse and residents

#A Star Is Born : #Hope and #BeneSayNotMaleSay, the best of CINEMA!

Dear Readers, dalla redazione di Raccontar di Cinema un Augurio di un Santo #Natale2024 in Famiglia Come ogni anno il nostro motto rimane #E’NataUna Stella a cui abbiamo aggiunto #Speranza (theme of the Holy Year 2025) and that is what Pope Francis suggested this year by wishing the Roman Curia well with a new denunciation of the violence in the Gaza Strip, those that don't even spare children, the speech that the Pope, he urged never to curse others. Bombing children in Gaza is cruel. Introduced by the greeting of Cardinal Giovanni Battista

#WESTSIDESTORY inaugurates the season 2024/2025 of the Sistine Chapel

  #WESTSIDESTORY il Musical - Colossal revisited by MASSIMO ROMEO PIPARO in the Italian version for the Roman public at the Sistina Theatre (from the Teatro Sistina Luigi Noera - the photos and videos are published courtesy of the SISTINA Theatre) - The masterpiece "par excellence" of musical theatre, acclaimed by viewers around the world, is ready to set the stage of the Sistina Theater on fire: the Musical-Colossal "West Side Story", in the version adapted for the Italian public by Massimo Romeo Piparo who also directed it. Based on the musical of the same name by Arthur Laurents,

#Theater #GliEsclusi : the children of famous parents pay the price for their membership – the review by Vittorio De Agrò (RS)

#GliEsclusi is a theater show by Roberta Calandra, adaptation and direction by Valentina Ghetti, on stage until December 1st 2024 al Teatro dei Documenti di Roma Interpreti e Personaggi: Alessio De Persio Eduard Einstein Camilla Ferranti Lucia Joyce Caterina Gramaglia Rosemary Kennedy Dario Marcello Giorgio Agnelli Leonardo Zarra Albino Mussolini Luca Di Giovanni Aldo Togliatti Recensione: We have few certainties in our lives, two should be foundational: have health and be able to count on the unconditional love of our parents. We delude ourselves, we hope that money can guarantee us some semblance of happiness. Certainties and illusions often mix, making us fall. But

#Mimì – The Prince of Darkness by Brando De Sica (2023) – Valentina's review

FROM 15 NOVEMBRE IN STREAMING SU #MYmoviesONE Presentato a Locarno e Menzione speciale per la miglior fotografia alla 56a edizione del Sitges – Festival internacional de cinema fantàstic de Catalunya Brando De Sica racconta la “sua” Napoli, la sua città di “vampiri” Mimì – Il principe delle tenebre,which will be presented to 33 BLACK FF, a preview of Brando De Sica's first work transports the viewer into a magical realism that also feeds on expressionist references but where the horror impulse flows into exaggerated bloody violence. Mimì is a Neapolitan-faced pizza chef

Criticism film from the #SNCCI: #JUROR NUMBER 2 by Clint Eastwood

#JUROMAN NUMBER 2 by Clint Eastwood presented at the Terzo Millennium Film Festival and distributed by WARNER BROS ITALIA, (release in theaters 14 November), has been designated Critics Film by the National Union of Italian Film Critics - SNCCI with the following Motivation: “A 94 years, in what could be his last film, Eastwood finds a perfect synthesis, with a classic and clear work in form, more than contemporary in its outlook and burningly topical in addressing the issues of justice, of truth and morality in current societies. A precise political and human reasoning

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