The 28^ Bergamo Film Meeting started the 6th of Match and will end Sunday the 14th, and in this edition too there was a huge review: more than 80 films in different sections, despite the difficult economical situation of those […]
This is that sort of movie that I like to suggest if you want to spend 109 minutes laughing and thinking about your life at the same time. The director is Jason Reitman, the same director of the successful Juno […]
Bansky & Noah Baumabach A spray can and a good wall is all Bansky needs to express his artistic vision of life. After the walls of London, New York, L.A. and Beijing, he has chosen the poetically apt Berlin for […]
Scorsese’s Noire Games Reaches the Top. Martin Scorsese has chosen Berlin Film Festival as the platform to show his latest movie, “Shutter Island”, a tale of haunting mystery and psychological suspense that unfolds entirely on a remote island housing a […]
“Howl” dir Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman In competition, Howl is about Allen’ Ginsberg’s seminal work, and theresulting obscenity trial involving the beat poet and his publishers. Thestory is told primarily trough three interweaving threads: the trial; the poemitself, animated by […]
For its sixtieth anniversary the International Berlin Film Festival opens with a Chinese movie and closes with a Japanese film marking clearly its cinematic geopolitical orientation. The opening movie “Apart Together” is a bright and funny tale of a Chinese […]
We have spoken so much about it that was likely to get loads of expectations and be disappointed in principle. Also because with what seemed to have promised it was hard not to be disappointed. Instead Avatar is a film […]
Even in Ken Loach and more angry than shocked there’s always room for comedy, as also in the working class is laughing, joking with friends, we exorcise the spleen newspaper in a lively and happy. Besides this formidable carpenter stories […]
The character of Sherlock Holmes would be an action hero like many others, or one of the many skilled solvers which is full of murders of world literature were it not for setting the deductive method. Wishing for a moment […]
The Men Who Stare At Goats is a light-hearted and highly entertaining antidote to pompous large scale movies about Iraq or Aghanistan and ironically may be the biggest hit of them all. Grant Heslov’s nimble second feature, inspired by UK […]
