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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Jakob Bro, actor of the film Music for black pigeons.

Jakob Bro, one of the most influential composers and musicians alive, talks about his experience in these 14 years of shooting and how his perception of music and its evolution changed, without him noticing it at first. We also talk about the essence of music for a musician and how to reach a balance between regualr life and music life.

Music for black pigeons is the first collaboration between Jørgen Leth and Andreas Koefoed. The film poses existential questions to influential jazz players such as Bill Frisell, Lee Konitz, Midori Takada and many others: How does it feel to play, and what does it mean to listen? What is it like to be a human being and spending your whole life trying to express something through sounds? The characters wake up, rehearse, record, perform and talk about music. In some moments they are on the edge, the edge of existence, constantly challenging themselves. They listen. They devote themselves to finding a space to create a connection to something bigger than themselves. Something that will outlast all of us. For the past 14 years, the filmmakers followed Danish composer Jakob Bro, witnessing his musical encounters with acclaimed and eccentric musicians from across generations and nationalities. Through Bro’s compositions, the film’s characters explore the space of music—and in doing so answer some of the questions the film poses, in a poetic, life-affirming and entertaining way.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Jorgen Leth and Andreas Koefoed, directors of the film Music for black pigeons.

Jorgen Leth and Andreas Kofoed tell us the long voyage that Music for black pigeons has been. They met and taped most of the greatest jazz players and built a lasting memoir of their work and on the essence of what being a jazz musician is.

Music for black pigeons is the first collaboration between Jørgen Leth and Andreas Koefoed. The film poses existential questions to influential jazz players such as Bill Frisell, Lee Konitz, Midori Takada and many others: How does it feel to play, and what does it mean to listen? What is it like to be a human being and spending your whole life trying to express something through sounds? The characters wake up, rehearse, record, perform and talk about music. In some moments they are on the edge, the edge of existence, constantly challenging themselves. They listen. They devote themselves to finding a space to create a connection to something bigger than themselves. Something that will outlast all of us. For the past 14 years, the filmmakers followed Danish composer Jakob Bro, witnessing his musical encounters with acclaimed and eccentric musicians from across generations and nationalities. Through Bro’s compositions, the film’s characters explore the space of music—and in doing so answer some of the questions the film poses, in a poetic, life-affirming and entertaining way.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Ti West and Mia Goth, director and actress of the film Pearl.

Ti West is the director of Pearl, starring Mia Goth, who also wrote together with Ti this prequel of the hugely acclaimed X. We talk about how this happened, why making a prequel set one century before, and the way of working as a team.

Pearl: Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions all collide, in the stunning, technicolor-inspired origin story of X’s iconic villain.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Rachel Brosnahan and Christoph Waltz, actors of the film Dead for a dollar.

Rachel Brosnahan and Christoph Waltz talk with Fred Radio about their roles in the new Walter Hill’s western Dead for a dollar, and the singularity of them as told in the script .

Dead for a dollar  follows veteran bounty hunter Max Borlund deep into Mexico where he encounters professional gambler and outlaw Joe Cribbens—a sworn enemy who Max sent to prison years before. Borlund is on a mission to find and return Rachel Kidd, the hostage wife of a wealthy Santa Fe businessman. Discovering that Mrs. Kidd has actually fled from an abusive marriage, Max is ultimately faced with a choice: finish the dishonest job he’s been hired to accomplish or stand aside while ruthless mercenary outlaws and his long-time rival close in… Max and his partner Alonzo Poe have nothing to gain if they resist— nothing save honour.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Willem Dafoe and Benjamin Bratt, actors of the film Dead for a dollar.

Willem Dafoe and Benjamin Bratt, among the players of Dead for a dollar by Walter Hill, tell us about the fun in being thrown in total western atmosphere, with both their characters facing each other in a classic showdown like any proper western has. They had laughs while remembering and we did too.

Dead for a dollar  follows veteran bounty hunter Max Borlund deep into Mexico where he encounters professional gambler and outlaw Joe Cribbens—a sworn enemy who Max sent to prison years before. Borlund is on a mission to find and return Rachel Kidd, the hostage wife of a wealthy Santa Fe businessman. Discovering that Mrs. Kidd has actually fled from an abusive marriage, Max is ultimately faced with a choice: finish the dishonest job he’s been hired to accomplish or stand aside while ruthless mercenary outlaws and his long-time rival close in… Max and his partner Alonzo Poe have nothing to gain if they resist— nothing save honour.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Walter Hill, director of the film Dead for a dollar.

Walter Hill, director of Dead for a dollar, talks about his love for western ( he always had some western in any of his films), and how a genre can be revisited and revived without have to change much.

Dead for a dollar  follows veteran bounty hunter Max Borlund deep into Mexico where he encounters professional gambler and outlaw Joe Cribbens—a sworn enemy who Max sent to prison years before. Borlund is on a mission to find and return Rachel Kidd, the hostage wife of a wealthy Santa Fe businessman. Discovering that Mrs. Kidd has actually fled from an abusive marriage, Max is ultimately faced with a choice: finish the dishonest job he’s been hired to accomplish or stand aside while ruthless mercenary outlaws and his long-time rival close in… Max and his partner Alonzo Poe have nothing to gain if they resist— nothing save honour.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Frederick Wiseman, director of the film Un couple.

Frederick Wiseman, a giant in documentary filmmaking, comes back for the second time in the fiction world with Un couple, an intense and moving monologue based on the diary of Sophia Tosltoj. Wiseman talks about the choice of the text, the curiosity and admiration for Tolstoj and the work withe actress Nathalie Boutefeu.

Un couple is a film about a long-term relationship between a man and a woman. The man is Leo Tolstoy. The woman is his wife, Sophia. They were married for 36 years, had 13 children nine of whom survived. Each kept a diary. Although they lived together, in the same house, they wrote letters frequently to each other. Leo Tolstoy insisted that they read their diaries aloud to guests at dinner parties. The Tolstoys were also a dysfunctional couple, arguing frequently and being very unhappy with each other while occasionally enjoying passionate moments of reconciliation. The film is Sophia’s monologue about the joys and struggles of their life together, loosely drawn from their letters to each other and their diary entries. The film was shot in a beautiful garden on Belle Île, an island off the coast of Brittany. The visible and subterranean life of the garden is also an important element in the story of Un couple.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Nina Hoss, Noémie Merlant and Sophie Kauer, actresses of the film Tár.

Nina Hoss, Noémie Merlant, Sophie Kauer play the three female characters who live next to Lydia Tar (Cate Blanchett) in the film Tar, by Todd Fields. They explain that every woman has a different aim and reason to exist in the film’s narrative and how their characters intertwine with Lydia and among themselves.

Tár: Set in the international world of classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár (fictional character). widely considered one of the greatest living composers/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra. TÁR (2022) – IMDb She is just days away from recording the symphony that will take her to the very heights of her already formidable career. Lydia Tár’s remarkably bright and charming six-year-old adopted daughter Petra has a key role to play here. And when elements seem to conspire against Lydia, the young girl is an important emotional support for her struggling mother.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Yasmine Benkiran, director of the film Queens.

Yasmine Benkiran did the film she would have loved to see as a child. With Queens, she couples female determination with a road movie about a getaway through the Moroccan desert, with a touch of magic too. We talk about this need and other apects of the shooting with her in this interview with Angelo Acerbi.

Queens: Casablanca, Morocco. A trio of women with the police on their tail embarks on a long escape that takes them across the rugged red terrain and flower-filled valleys of the Atlas to finally reach the Atlantic ocean.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Miss Fame, Gianluca Matarrese and Guillaume Thomas, actress and directors of the film Pinned into a dress.

Miss fame tells us about her journey, her being queer and transgender and her relationship with fashion and the catwalk and more, all captured in Pinned into a dress, a short documentary, masterfully created on her and for her by Gianluca Matarrese and Guillaume Thomas.

Pinned into a dress: Growing up silently Queer, within a broken family, Kurtis faced abuse, trauma and addiction. As an escape, he discovered Beauty within his rural upbringing. Eventually unveiling places beyond his wildest dreams he created his alter-ego, Miss Fame, becoming one of the World’s most iconic supermodel drag. A hypnosis session takes us on Kurtis/Miss Fame’s journey into their mind, exploring their salvatory yet torturous relationship to Pain and Beauty.

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