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PODCAST |Matt Micucci interviews Bianca Stigter, director and producer of the film Three Minutes: A Lengthening.

A conversation with Bianca Stigter, director of Three Minutes: A Lengthening, from the program of the 2021 Giornate degli Autori at the 78th Venice Film Festival. This is a one-of-a-kind experiement and investigation, the starting point of which is a three-minute amateur film shot in 1938 of a small Jewish Polish town. Topics discussed in this interview include the process of making such a unique film and of the investigation at large, as well as the importance of film as a document of past history and more.

Three Minutes: A Lengthening presents a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938 in a Jewish town in Poland and tries to postpone its ending. As long as we are watching, history is not over yet. The three minutes of footage, mostly in colour, are the only moving images left of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk before the Holocaust. The existing three minutes are examined to unravel the stories hidden in the celluloid. The footage is imaginatively edited to create a film that lasts more than an hour. Different voices enhance the images. Glenn Kurtz, grandson of David Kurtz, provides his knowledge of the footage. Maurice Chandler, who appears in the film as a boy, shares his memories. Actress Helena Bonham Carter narrates the essay film.

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PODCAST |Matt Micucci interviews Stefano Knuchel and Vittoria Fiumi, director and producer of the film Hugo in Argentina.

A conversation with director Stefano Knuchel and producer Vittoria Fiumi, who presented Hugo in Argentina at the 78th Venice Film Festival’s Giornate degli Autori. The film is part of a trilogy of documentaries Knuchel made about the groundbreaking Italian graphic novelist Hugo Pratt, and it focuses on his intense years in Argentina. In this interview, Knuchel and Fiumi talk about their first memories of becoming aware of Pratt. Knuchel also talks about trilogy of documentaries at large, what it is that makes Pratt such a formidable artist, shares details about the style of the film and more.

Hugo in Argentina : A promising Italian cartoonist lands in Buenos Aires in 1950, with the dream of reaching the United States, to discover that, for him, America will be Argentina. The country immediately overwhelms him with its massive economic boom and a cultural scene among the most vibrant in the world.

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PODCAST |Matt Micucci interviews Harry Wootliff, director of the film True Things.

A conversation with Harry Wootliff, director of True Things from the 78th Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti section. This is a tale of love and obssession based on a Deborah Key Davies. In this film, Wootliff discusses the themes of female empowerment and the blend of the real life and the imagined life in her movie. She also talks about working with lead actors Ruth Wilson (also co-producer of the film) and Tom Burke, and the wonderful chemistry they shared as True Things‘ lead couple.

True Things : It follows a young woman living on the fringes of society who becomes intoxicated by a stranger who overwhelms her quiet life.

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PODCAST |Matt Micucci interviews Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman, directors of the film Californie.

A conversation with Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman, co-directors of Californie, presented at the Giornate degli Autori strand of the 78th Venice Film Festival. They talk with us about the origins of their creative partnership and the work on this film, which marks their scripted feature debut. Both come from a reportage and documentary background, which served them well on this project. They also share the story of how they met Jamila, the young Moroccan-born protagonist living in Torre Annunziata in Italy, who is the protagonist of Californie.

Californie : Jamila is an exuberant Moroccan girl with street smarts, who seems to have enormous potential to achieve great things – or else trigger mega-disasters. Californie follows her day in and day out from age 9 to 14, in the small town in southern Italy where she lives, to reconstruct the fascinating personal journey Jamila undertakes – setbacks and detours included – to find her place in the world.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Jimmy Page, founder and member of Led Zeppelin

A myth on pur microphones: Jimmy Page talks with Angelo Acerbi about his life as a founder and member of Led Zeppelin, on the occasion of the world premiere of Becoming A Led Zeppelin, a documentary presented at the Venice Festival . It is a huge monument to the power, the myth and the never-ending influence that Led Zeppelin music has ( and had) over musicians since the late 60’s..

Becoming Led Zeppelin is a film that no one thought could ever be made. The band’s meteoric rise to stardom was swift and virtually undocumented. With unparalleled access to the group and their personal archives, their full support and never-before-seen footage, Becoming Led Zeppelin will immerse you in the sights and sounds of their early career. For all the millions of people who will never see the band live, this is as close as you will get to being there. Before the stairway and the dragon, before the gold and the girls, there were simply four men and their love of music. Becoming Led Zeppelin reveals their individual journeys as they move through the music scene of the 1960’s, playing small clubs throughout Britain and performing on some of the biggest hits of the era, until their meeting in the summer of 1968 for a rehearsal that changes their lives forever. Their four journeys merge into one as they set out to conquer America on a rollercoaster ride that culminates in 1970 when they become the number one band in the world.

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Oscar Isaac, actor of the series Scenes from a Marriage.

Oscar Isaac is the man of the hour. He talks to FRED in the 78th Mostra de Venezia, where he’s premiering The card counter [Paul Schrader], Dune [Denis Villeneuve] or this Scenes from a marriage, a revision of the classic by Ingmar Bergman. The actor talks about his work with Jessica Chastain and the new model of masculinity depicted in the series.

Scenes from a Marriage: Hagai Levi’s modern adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s classic Swedish series, ‘Scenes from a Marriage’ stars double Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain as Mira a confident, ambitious tech executive left unfulfilled by her marriage and Oscar Isaac as Jonathan, an accommodating, intellectual philosophy professor desperate to keep their relationship intact. A captivating re-examination of the dilemmas explored in the original, the five episode limited series flips the script on traditional gender roles to explore love, hatred, desire, monogamy, marriage and divorce through the lens of a contemporary American couple.

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Jessica Chastain, actress of the series Scenes from a Marriage.

Jessica Chastain faces a huge year in Hollywood, and she talks to FRED about it while presenting in Venice the limited HBO series Scenes from a marriage, directed by Hagai Levy. Chastain talks about her work with Oscar Isaac and how her character portraits a different kind of woman, set in the 21st century.

Scenes from a Marriage: Hagai Levi’s modern adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s classic Swedish series, Scenes from a marriage stars double Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain as Mira a confident, ambitious tech executive left unfulfilled by her marriage and Oscar Isaac as Jonathan, an accommodating, intellectual philosophy professor desperate to keep their relationship intact. A captivating re-examination of the dilemmas explored in the original, the five episode limited series flips the script on traditional gender roles to explore love, hatred, desire, monogamy, marriage and divorce through the lens of a contemporary American couple.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Rebecca Ferguson, actress of the film Dune.

Rebecca Ferguson plays Jessica, in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune. She is the mother of the Duke Paul, but not only that. Talking with her, we discover many other aspects of her character and of the whole film, and some curiosity of the shooting as well.

Dune: An executive manager, his wife and his family, at the moment when his professional choices are about to overwhelm them all. Philippe Lemesle and his wife are in the process of separating, their love irretrievably damaged by pressures of work. An executive working for an industrial conglomerate, Philippe no longer knows how to respond to the contradictory demands of his bosses. Yesterday they wanted a manager, today an executioner. Now he must decide what his life really means.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Kirsten Dunst, actress of the film The Power Of The Dog.

Kirsten Dunst is a funny woman, with a shining smile and a great wit. She talks with Angelo Acerbi about her role in Jane Campion’s The Power of The Dog, Rose. She could not be a more different woman than Rose, but passion and some acting tricks can do the work, as she explains.

The Power of the Dog: Charismatic rancher Phil Burbank inspires fear and awe in those around him. When his brother brings home a new wife and her son, Phil torments them until he finds himself exposed to the possibility of love.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Benedict Cumberbatch, actor of the film The Power Of The Dog.

An interesting talk with Benedict Cumberbatch about his role in Jane Campion’s The Power of The Dog. He plays Paul, the rude, apparently malevolent cowboy who haunts the life of his brother’s wife and her son. This is a role with many layers and hidden sensibility. And Benedict knows how to play it.

The Power of the Dog: Charismatic rancher Phil Burbank inspires fear and awe in those around him. When his brother brings home a new wife and her son, Phil torments them until he finds himself exposed to the possibility of love.

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