Category Archives: Venice Film Festival 2011
Focus on the 68th Venice Film Festival
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A look at the Festival before the conclusion
Today in Great Hall of the Palazzo del Cinema on the Lido, Bernardo Bertolucci (awarded this year’s Cannes Palme d’Or with the Lifetime Achievement) has given to Marco Bellocchio the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, celebrating its eleventh participation in … Continue reading
Ami Canaan Mann last in competition
In Texas Killing Fields, just outside the area from Texas City, were discovered more than fifty bodies of victims of sexual violence, which had been abandoned there since 1969. This is a true story that took an interest Ferraroni Donald … Continue reading
Something unexpected, never seen before and with a surprisingly attractive results; this is the case of “Killer Joe”.
Texas. The twenty-two Chris Smith is at a bad time because of a drug debt, but it has a solution to their problems, decide, also involving his father, stepmother and younger sister, to kill his mother and collect the insurance … Continue reading
4:44 Last Day in Earth, a controversial film
The perfect adjective to describe “4:44 Last Day on Earth” is “controversial”; the movie has positive features and others able to crash it miserably. The plot is easily guessed by the title, the end of the known world, at 4:44. … Continue reading
A heavy day
Don’t misunderstand the title of the article, nothing bad to say about “Wuthering Heights” and “Il villaggio di cartone”, but certainly they’re not comedies to enjoy in spare time. Apparently this year at Venice Festival, film adaptations are cool and … Continue reading
(Italiano) Vanity Fair Beach Party
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After a hot Sunday there cool British spies
Film version of the homonymous best seller of John Le Carré, “Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy” arrives today at Lido Casinò. 1973, Cold War. The mission of the special agent Jim Predaux (Mark Strong) in Hungary fails miserably; it’s a blow … Continue reading
A hot Sunday at the Lido
Sunday is considered a rest day but the atmosphere of the Lido seems more heated than ever; much of the credit can be attributed to the actor Michael Fassbender, star of “Shame” directed by Steve Mc Queen.
With “Poulet Aux Prunes”, Marjan Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud conquered the heats of the auduance
A true transformation for directors of the famous “Persepolis”, that for once leave animated films to direct actors in the fresh, in a film adaption of the homonymous graphic novel, by which the same author is Marjan.

