Film reviews in English– category –

For his first French film in nearly a decade (he'd spent the war years in Hollywood), filmmaker Julien Duvivier chose to adapt Les Fiançailles de Monsieur Hire, a novel by Georges Simenon. Panique, as Duvivier's version was titled, is a ...

Varoufakis sparked one of the most spectacular and controversial battles in recent political history when, as finance minister of Greece of a radical government, he attempted to re-negotiate his country's relationship with the EU, provok...

Even if the story is well-known - the good-hearted loser revenging the cruelty of a merciless society - J. Phoenix performance gives the character a decaying romantic touch that makes the movie: Reduced to a skeletal state ... ...

Loro 1, Loro 2, regia Paolo Sorrentino, 2018 “What did you expect: to be the richest man in the country, become prime minister and be madly loved by everyone too?” “Yes, that’s exactly what I expected.” I approached this two instalment m...

If you like classic Westerns, love and hate John Wayne in The Searchers, consider The last of the Mohicans a milestone of mythic American literature, don't miss Hostiles. It is a quintessential Western movie, full of violence and hate, o...

Emilia Romagna Teatro has produced this stage adaptation of George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four). The play is directed by Matthew Lenton, Artistic Director of Vanishing Point, a multi-award-winning the...

Il cinema sotto le stelle: SACCO E VANZETTI - GILDA - LA RICOTTA Location and programme: the best open-air cinema in Italy - for free The best classical movie screening in Italy from the Cineteca di Bologna's restored films SACCO E VANZE...

GOING NOIR: Il testimone invisibile; Wind River; Blade Runner 2049; The Nile Hilton Incident - HISTORY: Darkest Hour; Dunkirk; The Post Il Testimone invisibile Mi ha ricordato Delitto Perfetto e Corda Tesa di hitchcockiana memoria, un se...

Literature and Society: Bohemian Rapsody - A Quiet Passion - The Happy Prince - My Generation Bohemian Rapsody Never seen Queen as cult band in their heyday - too slightly commercial. But now, watching this honest biopic, I was moved, an...