#CANNES76 – 16/27 May 2023 SPECIAL #25 (DAY 11)

Ken Loach closes the Competition with a hymn to empathy (from Cannes Luigi Noera and Marina Pavido - Photos are courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival) COMPETITION THE OLD OAK di Ken LOACH Presentato in anteprima mondiale in concorso al 76° Festival di Cannes, The Old Oak is the latest work by acclaimed British filmmaker Ken Loach, as well as, according to the same director, what could even be his last film. Anyway, This feature film contains all the themes dear to the author, for a work that is profoundly pessimistic and touching at the same time

SPECIAL # CANNES72 #5- 14/25 MAY 2019 (DAYS 2&3)

Ken Loach si confronta con opere prime e le animazioni su Kabul forano lo schermo Dopo l’apertura con l’ultimo film di Jim Jarmusch sul tappetto rosso viene presentata dalla Francia l’Opera prima LES MISÉRABLES di Ladj LY, in a manner that shows the didactic balienu Parisian views from the point of view of the cops of the French Securité. Two policemen on duty for a long time take charge of the training of a colleague just transferred from the province. In the capital the contradictions of African socio-cultural ghetto blacks are palpable even against European minorities such

DAVID 2017: Indivisible and Fiore are favorites, but the stuff of dreams will surprise us

On Monday evening there will be the delivery of Donatello's David in the first year of orphans Gianluigi Rondi. Applications were targeted and we are two movies that will make the greatest treasure the statuettes. If last year there was the Mainetti phenomenon called him Jeeg, This year the first place arises indisputably INDIVISIBLE Edoardo De Angelis it deserves in addition to the best director prize also to the best actress (Angela and Marianna FONTANA) ex aequo with Daphne SCOCCIA for the film and the best flower

Special 69FF Locarno: The wind blowing from the East won the Festival goes to Thessaloniki

copyright © Festival del film LocarnoThe 69th edition of the Festival del film Locarno has closed, The fourth edition dedicated to the artistic direction curated by Carlo Chatrian, which awarded the Golden Leopard to Bulgarian director Ralitza Petrova's Godless. The final evening of the Piazza Grande has seen protagonists the many East European filmmakers who are rewarded. After it followed the screening of the spectacular closing film Mohenjo Daro with the grandiose commissioning of Ashutosh Gowarike scene. But here are the award-winning films we had the pleasure of

Special 69FF Locarno: the wind blowing from the east puts a mortgage on Pardi. Meanwhile, awarded the prizes to new talent

copyright © Locarno Film Festival Since the presentation of the films selected for the International Competition, the wait was great, and at the weekend we got to see, among others,  a list of three possible winners all coming from what was once Eastern Europe. Proving once again the cultural ferment taking place in post-communist countries. In order of choice is at the first place Inimi CICATRIZATE the Romanian Radu Jude, well known Aferim. Although exceed half an hour the fateful 120 min and discuss the topic

Special 69FF Locarno: Two days before the start after Bud Spencer is the turn of the TV series GOTTHARD

Copyright © Film Festival LocarnoIeri a first taste of the festival with the screening of the film that crowned the duo Terence Hill and Bud Spencer in the new genre. Tomorrow, the look of the successful world premiere co-production between Switzerland, Germany and Czech Republic titled GOTTHARD. But let's get to the news this year that are synthesized as well by the artistic director Carlo Chatrian: "I dedicate to Michael Cimino and Abbas Kiarostami this edition. Not just as a thank you for the emotions that have given to the Festival audience, but also because they represent that cinema

The new Italian documentary film like abroad but not at home. Waiting for the Venice Film Festival's new on the film presented at the Berlinale and Cannes and the common thread that unites these three events

(Photo courtesy of the Berlinale , the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival)We start from the Berlinale, where Gianfranco Rosi, One Italian selected, It has captivated audiences and the jury. Of the more than fifty films seen in the nine-day festival, we focus on the Official Selection, but also on some titles selected in the Panorama and Forum sidebars in which they outsiders to better understand the spirit of this 66th edition. So let's look at the ranking of feature films from 21 countries and emotions that have aroused dwelling

THE APPOINTMENT WITH "THE STREETS OF CINEMA FROM CANNES TO ROME" IS BACK "

FROM 8 TO 12 JUNE IN THE EDEN ROOMS, FLAME AND FOUR FOUNTAINS ALSO PLANNED THE PALM OF GOLD I, DANIEL BLAKE Like every year the appointment with "Le Vie del Cinema From Cannes to Rome" returns, film festival organized by Anec Lazio, which is part of the wider project of "Cinema through the Great Festivals". The initiative organized by ANEC LAZIO in collaboration with LAZIO REGION and CITYFEST | CINEMA FOUNDATION FOR ROMA, sponsored by CAPITAL ROME, leads from 8 to 12 June in EDEN cinemas, FLAME and FOUR FOUNTAINS a showcase of

Special Cannes 2016: Italians out of Palmares and surprise wins Loach

da Cannes Luigi Noera (photo courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival) If last year the Italian filmmakers (and filmmakers) They had collected the crumbs, This year Italy has remained high and dry. Although Cannes audiences have appreciated Make Beautiful Marco Bellocchio Dreams Flower by Claudio Giovannesi, the gap with the other films in competition in the same independent section was not objectively colmabile. Either we go to the stars tested which are awarded by the jury of the 69th Cannes Film Festival, chaired by George Miller, that beyond

Special Cannes 2016 The old and the new in comparison

da Cannes Luigi Noera– Venerdì 13 May (DAY 3) - Foto per gentile concessione del Festival de Cannes Il secondo giorno di Cannes mette a confronto due generazioni di cineasti. Da una parte la vecchia guardia rappresentata da Ken Loach che presenta in competizione una storia di empatia e socialità nella odierna società dei consumi e del profitto. Dall’altra il nuovo cinema emergente argentino rappresentato da Pablo Larrain, già distintosi a Berlino l’anno passato con El Club. Questo regista vulcanico ci presenta una inedito punto di vista sul poeta

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