Network ( 1976), directed by Sidney Lumet, is one of those works that defies labels. They call it satire, they call it a parody of the American television system, but the truth is that it […]
Category: Cinema
CINEMA MAIN NEWS WALL STREET – THE BONFIRE OF GREED
– There’s one film that more than any other captures the heights of unscrupulous finance and the greed of capitalism: Oliver Stone’s Wall Street . Released in 1987, the same year as Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the […]
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE – THE FILM IN WHICH MAN CONFESSES WHERE HE HID HIS MADNESS
Kathryn Bigelow describes the end as the inevitable reflection of an intelligence that has been transformed into a weapon. Mankind has hidden its madness within the mechanisms it thought it controlled. It has disguised it […]
VENICE 82, JUDE LAW PLAYS THE KREMLIN WIZARD IN OLIVIER ASSAYAS’ FILM
THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN WITH JUDE LAW The images accompanying the film in competition here in Venice show Jude Law transformed into Vladimir Putin. The resemblance is striking, and seems to mirror the […]
AFTER THE HUNT: GUADAGNINO’S FILM PRESENTED AT VENICE 82, ACADEMIC ETHICS AND MARKET
AFTER THE HUNT IN VENICE 82 Luca Guadagnino’s new film, After the Hunt, is presented out of competition. This is no coincidence: the Palermo-born director, always interested in exploring the boundaries between desire and […]
VENEZIA 82, THE FILM JAY KELLY SPLITS THE CRITICS: CLOONEY ACCLAIMED, SANDLER UNEXPECTED
CLOONEY ACCLAIMED, SANDLER UNEXPECTED At the Venice Film Festival, Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly was greeted with mixed reactions. The film split critics: on one side, the Times and Vulture raved , calling it […]
JAY KELLY, NOAH BAUMBACH BRINGS TO VENICE A REFLECTION ON IDENTITY WITH CLOONEY, SANDLER AND DERN
JAY KELLY, A FILM ABOUT PERSONAL IDENTITY Jay Kelly , Noah Baumbach’s new film, has arrived at the 82nd Venice Film Festival . This work marks the return of the director of Marriage Story […]
BUGONIA, LANTHIMOS RETURNS TO VENICE: GREEK MYTH AND CONTEMPORARY POWER
BUGONIA, LANTHIMOS’S RETURN TO VENICE The 82nd Venice Film Festival welcomed Bugonia , the new work by Yorgos Lanthimos . After the successes of Poor Things! and Kinds of Kindness, the Greek director returns with […]
WERNER HERZOG RECEIVES THE GOLDEN LION FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AT THE VENICE FILM FESTIVAL
WERNER HERZOG The visionary of New German Cinema celebrated this evening at the Lido This evening, Wednesday, August 27, the Venice Film Festival will award Werner Herzog the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. The award […]
THE GRACE” BY PAOLO SORRENTINO INAUGURATES THE 82ND VENICE FILM FESTIVAL
THE GRACE A highly anticipated film, presented on the Lido as the first real showdown of this edition. The curtain rises: the 82nd Venice Film Festival kicks off with La Grazia, the new […]
