Opening the Toronto kermesse with their documentary “From The Sky Down”, by Award Winner Director Davis Guggenheim, Bono and The Edge have presented their carrier in a long-movie essay on music life of one of the most influential bands of the last 20 years, U2. From the album “Achtung Baby” dated 20 years ago, the [ Read More ]
On Tuesday 13 September 2011, one of the most significant and influential artists of modern times passed away, aged 89. Richard Hamilton holds a strong claim as the progenitor of pop art. His 1956 collage Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? is one of the earliest works we can [ Read More ]
Closed with a huge ceremony, consecrating the winners, the Venice Film Festival 2011 with the official jury (from Darren Aronofsky to David Byrne, Mario Martone and Todd Haynes) has awarded the most interesting movies and actors of the entire sections of the kermesse itself. Here the list of the winners: GOLDEN LION for Best Film: [ Read More ]
Last movie in competition at the Venice Film Festival 2011, “Texas Killing Fields” is inspired by true events, this tense and haunting thriller follows Detective Souder (Sam Worthington), a homicide detective in a small Texan town, and his partner, transplanted New York City cop Detective Heigh (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as they track a sadistic serial [ Read More ]
Five years after “Bug”, inspired from Tracy Letts’ pièce for theatre, “The Exorcist” director William Friedkin comes out in competition at the Venice Festival with “Killer Joe”, a dark comedy full of violence, unrest, perversion and characters with double identities. Friedkin has starred lots of names of today’s cinema, from Emile Hirsch to Juno Temple [ Read More ]
THE BRICK LANE GALLERY 196 BRICK LANE EI 6SA LONDON Tube: Shoreditch Liverpool Bethnal Green Bus: 8, 388, 242 CHIARA SPAGNOLI in THE ART IN MIND GROUP EXHIBITION www.chiaraspagnoliart Opening Wednesday 12th October Gallery Open times : From the 13th until the 23rd October 1pm to 6pm Chiara Spagnoli’s διάβασις The Greek word ‘diabasis’ [ Read More ]
Ready to be presented also on the next Toronto Film Festival, “Faust” by Director Alexander Sokurov has been screened for press and public on the horror-violence-day of Venice Film Festival 2011, in association with Friedkin’s “Killer Joe”. The movie, based on Faust legend, already theme of thousand of masterpieces in the past arts and literary, [ Read More ]
Movement Torino Music Festival An extraordinary 2011 edition October 27th to 31st Now in its sixth edition, Movement Torino Music Festival – Italian cousin of the cult Detroit Electronic Music Festival Festival (DEMF) – consistently builds a path of exponential growth, proposing in 2011 a program which does not end with fireworks at the final [ Read More ]
The world is going to an end: Director Abel Ferrara seems to advice all of us to that statement. No escape, no survivors. He tells us in his upcoming movie, “4:44 Last Day on Earth”, from the official competition in Venice Film Festival 2011, starring Willem Dafoe. In a large apartment high above the city [ Read More ]
Inspiration from contemporary and past literature seems to be the center around most of the movies run at the Venice Film Festival 2011. So Director Andrea Arnold has worked to adapt Emilie Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights”, also inspired from cinema-version of the past (starring Laurence Olivier). Since its publication in 1847 Emily Bronte’s only novel “Wuthering [ Read More ]
