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Fragments Festival launches at London’s Genesis Cinema

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The 3rd Fragments Festival is set to open its doors at London’s Genesis Cinema on the 28th of September. Celebrating inclusivity in film, the festival opens with Ken Loach’s new film The Old Oak.  Rumoured to be the acclaimed British filmmaker’s last production, the film completes his ‘Northeast Trilogy’ that began with I, Daniel Blake and […]

Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron to open 2023 Toronto International Film Festival

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Having opened to record-breaking success in Japan earlier this month, TIFF has announced that Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki’s long-awaited new film The Boy and the Heron will serve as the Opening Night Gala Presentation of September’s 48th Toronto International Film Festival.“We are honoured to open the 48th Toronto International Film Festival with the work of […]

Movie Review – How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)

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How to Blow Up a Pipeline, 2022.Directed by Daniel Goldhaber. Starring Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage, Forrest Goodluck, Sasha Lane, Jayme Lawson, Marcus Scribner, Jake Weary, Irene Bedard, Olive Jane Lorraine, Giancarlo Beltran, Mariel Martinez, Jasper Keen, Halle Charlton, Loren Anthony, Sam Quinn, Mark Duke Dalton, Brian Landis Folkins, Kim S. Monti, Calhoun Koenig, […]

Leeds International Film Festival 2014 Review – Birdman (2014)

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Birdman, 2014. Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Starring: Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Edward Norton, Zach Galifianakis and Naomi Watts. SYNOPSIS: Riggan Thomas (Michael Keaton) attempts to distance himself from his famous role as the superhero, Birdman by staging a Broadway play adaptation of Raymond Carver’s ‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Love‘. In […]

Cinecittà Italian Docs Review – Svegliami a Mezzanotte (Wake Me Up At Midnight)

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Svegliami a Mezzanotte (Wake Me Up At Midnight), 2022Directed by Francesco Patierno  Written by Fuani Mariano, Francesco Patierno SYNOPSIS: A young woman who has recently become a mother decides to take her own life. Based on her own autobiographical writings, the film explores her own search for understanding. A haunting and poetic non-fiction piece based on the life […]

Cinecittà Italian Docs Review – Bella Ciao

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Bella Ciao, 2022Directed by Giulia Giapponesi.SYNOPSIS: The story of the folk song “Bella ciao”, from its possible origins in the 19th century to its contemporary renewed popularity.The folk song ‘Bella ciao’ is for many people a call to arms against oppression. In the case of Italy, where many assume the song to have originated, it was […]

Cinecittà Italian Docs Review – Il Posto (A Steady Job)

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Il Posto (A Steady Job), 2022.Directed by Mattia Colombo, Gianluca Matarrese.SYNOPSIS:An on the road documentary focusing on the thousands of people in the nursing profession in Southern Italy who are desperate for only a few reliable positions in the country’s northern cities. An insightful documentary playing as part of the first season of Cinecittà Italian Docs at […]

Italian documentaries festival coming to London’s DocHouse

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Cinecittà is bringing a weekend of powerful Italian documentaries to DocHouse at London’s Curzon Bloomsbury.  Part of the legendary film studio’s efforts to present Italian culture and cinema to international audiences, the first CINECITTÀ ITALIAN DOCS will bring three acclaimed documentaries to London’s Bertha DocHouse on 24-25 June. The three films are all UK premieres, […]

Movie Review – Tetris (2023)

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Tetris, 2023.Directed by Jon S. Baird. Starring Taron Egerton, Nikita Efremov, Sofia Lebedeva, Anthony Boyle, Ben Miles, Ken Yamamura, Igor Grabuzov, Oleg Shtefanko, Ayane Nagabuchi, Rick Yune, Roger Allam, Toby Jones, Ieva Andrejevaitė, Matthew Marsh, Togo Igawa, Miles Barrow, Aaron Vodovoz, Igor Grabuzov, Oleg Stefan, and Polina Sulim.SYNOPSIS:The story of how one of the world’s […]