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PODCAST | Daily news and updates from the 2020 Rome Film Fest, with Matt Micucci.

Matt Micucci presents the final episode of Big FRED Roma, FRED Film Radio’s English-language daily show with news and thoughts in the 2020 edition of the Rome Film Fest. In this episode we talk about about Cosa Sarà by Francesco Bruni, Il Cielo da una Stanza by Virginia Valsecchi and the Disney flick 100% Wolf, and more.

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PODCAST | Daily news and updates from the 2020 Rome Film Fest, with Matt Micucci.

Matt Micucci presents the seventh episode of Big FRED Roma, FRED Film Radio’s English-language daily show with news and thoughts in the 2020 edition of the Rome Film Fest. In this episode we talk about Faithful by Héliér Cisterne and The Shift by Alessandro Tonda, plus Alice nella Cittá titles Punta Sacra by Francesca Mazzoleni and more.

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PODCAST | Daily news and updates from the 2020 Rome Film Fest, with Matt Micucci.

Matt Micucci presents the fifth episode of Big FRED Roma, FRED Film Radio’s English-language daily show with news and thoughts in the 2020 edition of the Rome Film Fest. In this episode we talk about about Ironbark by Dominic Cooke from the official selection, plus Climbing Iran by Francesca Borghetti and Shadows by Carlo Lavagna from Alice nella Città.

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PODCAST | Daily news and updates from the 2020 Rome Film Fest, with Matt Micucci.

Matt Micucci presents the fifth episode of Big FRED Roma, FRED Film Radio’s English-language daily show with news and thoughts in the 2020 edition of the Rome Film Fest. In this episode, we talk about official selection titles Another Round by Thomas Vinterberg and Ammonite by Francis Lee, plus Alice nella Città title Cuban Dancer by Roberto Salinas.

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PODCAST | Daily news and updates from the 2020 Rome Film Fest, with Matt Micucci.

Matt Micucci presents the fourth episode of Big FRED Roma, FRED Film Radio’s English-language daily show with news and thoughts in the 2020 edition of the Rome Film Fest. On this episode, we talk about Official Cannes Selection title True Mothers by Naomi Kawase and Fortuna by Nicolangelo Gelormini. We also talk about Alice nella Città films Palazzo di Giustizia by Chiara Bellosi, the shorts selection and a retrospective of 1995 Italian comedy The Graduates by Leonardo Pieraccioni.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Gabriel Range and Johnny Flynn, director and actor of the film Stardust. 

A conversation with Gabriel Range and Johnny Flynn, respectively director and actor of Stardust, presented at the 2020 Rome Film Fest. The film is inspired by the life of David Bowie. In this interview, Range and Flynn talk about portraying the music legend and how some of the challenges they had to overcome. Range also talks about the film being “mostly fiction” and what that means, as well as exploring mental illness within the movement. Together, they also share their opinion on what they feel would be the best album for Bowie beginners to start on.

Stardust will chronicle the young David Bowie’s first visit to the US in 1971 – a trip that inspired the invention of his iconic alter ego Ziggy Stardust.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Giedre Zickyte, director of the film The Jump. 

A conversation with Giedre Zickyte, director of The Jump, presented at the 2020 Rome Film Fest. The film tells tale of a Soviet sailor who jumped onto a U.S. Coast Guard boat in 1970 in a bid for political asylum. The director talks with us working on the film, whether protagonist Simas Kudirka wanted to share his story and how the events recounted resonate with modern times.

The Jump: In 1970, in the middle of the Cold War, an American patrol boat meets a Soviet fishing vessel in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Suddenly, a Lithuanian sailor jumps across ten feet of icy water, landing on the deck of the American boat in a frantic bid for political asylum. To his horror, the Americans return him to the Soviets. Told through incredible archival footage and re-lived by the would-be defector Simas Kudirka himself, the tale takes us on a stranger-than-fiction journey of imprisonment, twists of fate, and the price of becoming a symbol of freedom.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews filmmaker John Waters at the 2020 Rome Film Fest.

A few words with John Waters from the red carpet of the 2020 Rome Film Fest. The filmmaker was a special guest of this year’s festival and the protagonist of a “Close Encounters” event. We take this opportunity how his creativity has been impacted by the times that we are living in and, given that he is a modern-day renaissance man, what his artform of choice would have been had he been around in the Renaissance days.

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PODCAST | Daily news and updates from the 2020 Rome Film Fest, with Matt Micucci.

Matt Micucci presents the third episode of Big FRED Roma, FRED Film Radio’s English-language daily show with news and thoughts in the 2020 edition of the Rome Film Fest. In this show, we talk about official selection films Tigers by Ronnie Sandahl and Max Barbakow’s Palm Springs, as well as Alice Nella Città titles The Specials by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano, and more. We also talk about two Federico Fellini tributes and discuss Bill Murray movies.

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PODCAST | Daily news and updates from the 2020 Rome Film Fest, with Matt Micucci.

Matt Micucci presents the first episode of Big FRED Roma, FRED Film Radio’s English-language daily show with news and thoughts in the 2020 edition of the Rome Film Fest. Films discussed in this episode include Francois Ozon’s Summer of ’85, and Alex Infascelli’s documentary on Rome’s premiere football legend, My Name is Francesco Totti. We also talk about Trash, the opening film of the Alice nella Città strand and more.

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