It’s a flood of biopics that has been taking over our screens for a few years. Often technical challenges on the part of performers and directors, feature films must succeed in injecting new life into the stories of personalities who are often very popular and adored by their audiences, without distorting their heritage. “Elvis” by … Read more
L’Isola del Cinema torna in presenza e sull’Isola Tiberina non poteva mancare l’appuntamento con il Giappone, alla sua dodicesima edizione all’interno della sezione Isola Mondo. Sinergia tra Ambasciata del Giappone, Istituto Giapponese di Cultura e Ente Nazionale del Turismo Giapponese (JNTO), l’evento è tutto all’insegna dello Shikoku, la più piccola delle quattro isole principali del … Read more
How to speak of Robert Bresson whose Interviews just reappeared? Forty years of cinema, 40 years of responding to journalists and critics to understand what was for him the essence of the seventh art that he preferred to call “cinematograph” not cinema. Forty years and 14 films torn from producers. And an Genesis never shot … Read more
As in a look. A gaze that moves whoever gives it, who receives it, whoever is in its midst. This is the cinema we love, dream of and hope to see again on a big screen. On June 8, 2022, the 23rd edition of SacroexpoInternational Exhibition of Sacred Art and devotional objects, constructions and fittings … Read more
Entre nouvelles sorties et belles redécouvertes, découvrez sans plus attendre notre sélection estivale des films à ne pas manquer. À mesure qu’une mélancolie solaire s’installe, les salles obscures déploient leur programme estival à coups de trésors enfouis, de sorties très anticipées et d’arrivages en provenance des festivals qui auront marqué l’année 2022. Retour sur 20 … Read more
“Lovers” by Nicole Garcia “Amanti” by Nicole Garcia arrives in the room without a trace, if not that of boredom. The Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul signs with “Memoria” another work at the limits of sensory experience (but not for everyone). Marco Contino June 17, 2022 LOVERS Director: Nicole Garcia Cast: Pierre Niney, Stacy Martin, Benoît … Read more
Cinémiracles, religious wonder on screenMiracles by the Thousands A work that would have been greatly appreciated by the great French-speaking specialists in the spiritual approach to cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, such as André Bazin, Henry Agel, Amedee Ayfre Where Michel Esteve. Timothée Gerardin looks, meanwhile, at the representation of miracles and various related … Read more
For Catholics, advent is not an excuse to eat daily chocolate bars from a calendar, but they are the four weeks that mark the way to Christmas. Four weeks that mark the beginning of the liturgical year and in which Christians prepare for the great event, the Birth of Jesus. Many believers use this tense … Read more
Beyond the omnipresent pandemic, the truth is that 2020 has been a very fertile year when it comes to spiritual cinema. In the last 12 months we have seen the release of a good handful of good and profound films that deal with spiritual or existential themes, such as Ether, Jordi’s lyrics or others listed … Read more
the film screening Happinessof Violet Salamahas inaugurated this Thursday the XXII Film Show Made by Women which is celebrated until Sunday, the 20th, in the Olympia Theater from Huesca. The director took it upon herself, with her debut feature, to officially kick off this event from Huesca with women’s cinema and showed this newspaper her … Read more