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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews director Mel Gibson and actor Andrew Garfield, who talk about their new film Hacksaw Ridge of the 73rd Venezia Film Festival.

HACKSAW RIDGE is the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss who, in Okinawa during one of the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in World War II to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. Doss was the first conscientious objector to ever earn the Congressional Medal of Honor.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews director John Landis, who talks about his classic 1988 film An American Werewolf In London from Venezia 73.

John Landis, the American filmmaker, presented a restored version of his 1981 beloved horror classic An American Werewolf in London. The film has certainly stood the test of time, and in our quick chat with Landis, the director tells us of the origins of the film and how he feels his own taste in movies, beginning from so called B-movies, influenced it as well as the other works of his career.

AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON. David and Jack, two American college students, are backpacking through Britain when a large wolf attacks them. David survives with a bite, but Jack is brutally killed. As David heals in the hospital, he’s plagued by violent nightmares of his mutilated friend, who warns him that he is becoming a werewolf. When he discovers the horrible truth, he contemplates committing suicide before the next full moon causes him to transform from man to murderous beast.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews actress Emmanuelle Seigner, who talks about her new film Heal the Living of the 73rd Venezia Film Festival.

Playing the role of a mother whose son was taken away from her could not have been an easy thing. Which is why, as Emmanuelle Seigner tells us in this interview shortly after the 73rd Venice Film Festival conference, when she was given the script of Heal the Living, she threw it away, never wanting to think of it again. Until one day, she met the director of the film, Katell Quillévéré, and realized she wanted to work with her.

The film requires a type of solemnity, silence and concentration that sometimes, one would presume, a set works against by its very nature. How did she find the challenge of working with this, and how did the crew and everybody on set help her out in achieving her final performance? Find out.

HEAL THE LIVING: It all starts at daybreak, three young surfers on the raging seas. A few hours later, on the way home, an accident occurs. Now entirely hooked up to life-support in a hospital in Le Havre, Simon’s existence is little more than an illusion. Meanwhile, in Paris, a woman awaits the organ transplant that will give her a new lease on life.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Andreas Dalsgaard co-director of The War Show from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

Andreas Dalsgaard is the co-director of The War Show, screening in the Venice Days section of the 73rd Venice Film Festival. A documentary that talks about a group of friends from Damascus, headed and filmed by a woman who used to be a DJ and quits her job to join the revolution. Through her footage, we witness the evolution of Syria overtime.

The vast amount of footage meant that there were plenty of ways to use them effectively, and the collaboration between the two directors of the film led to the final process. The film is as shocking as it is effective in revealing the men and women that it follows as being quite similar to their so called “Western counterparts,” a label that, nevertheless, Dalsgaard seems to not be comfortable with overall – as much as his understanding of the label of “Western world” in general.

In this interview we discuss the reasons for Obaidah Zytoon to start filming, and the people around her as well.

THE WAR SHOW. In March 2011, radio host Obaidah Zytoon and friends join the street protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Knowing the Arab Spring will forever change their country, this group of artists and activists begin filming their lives and the events around them. But as the regime’s violent response spirals the country into a bloody civil war, their hopes for a better future will be tested by violence, imprisonment and death. A deeply personal road movie, The War Show captures the fate of Syria through the intimate lens of a small circle of friends.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Sophia Takal, director of Always Shine presented at Venezia 73 [Venice Days]

FRED Film Radio meets with Sophia Takal to learn what drove the making of her second feature Always Shine, here at Venice Days 2016. A thriller about one of the scariest things in the movie industries – actresses’ competition – Always Shine makes us reflect on the physical, emotional and even philosophical struggle that every female actor must face in her career.

ALWAYS SHINE. Two actresses embark on a road trip to Big Sur to mend their damaged friendship, but jealousy begins to open old wounds in this twisted thriller about obsession, fame, and femininity.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Matteo Borgardt, director of You Never Had It. An Evening with Bukowski from Venezia 73 [Venice Days]

FRED Film Radio has the pleasure to talk to Matteo Borgardt, director of You Never Had It, a documentary that shows the humanity behind Charles Bukowski‘s damned legend. Here at Venice Days 2016, we had the pleasure to know ‘Hank’, as the close friends would call one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.

YOU NEVER HAD IT. AN EVENING WITH BUKOWSKI. This documentary is based on a video interview conducted by Italian journalist Silvia Bizio in January 1981 with writer Charles Bukowski, at his home in San Pedro, California. It was a long night of smoking cigarettes and drinking wine with Bukowski and his soon-to-be wife, Linda Lee Beighle, talking about all kind of subjects, from writers to sex, love and humanity. The interview was shot on Umatic tapes, which were almost lost for over 30 years; they have been digitized and edited along with new shots in Super8 of scenes of Los Angeles today and poems read by Bukowski himself.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Hana Jusic, director of Quit Staring At My Plate from Venezia 73 [Venice Days]

FRED Film Radio talks to Hana Jusic, first-feature director of Quit Staring at my Plate. Set in rural Croatia, the film moves on to depict the universal struggles of a shy and reserved girl, who now feels ready to free herself from the multi-layered prison she lives in.

QUIT STARING AT MY PLATE. Marijana’s life revolves around her family, whether she likes it or not. They live on top of one another in a tiny apartment, driving one another crazy. Then her controlling father has a stroke and is left completely bedridden, and Marijana takes his place as head of the clan. Soon, she is working two jobs to keep everything afloat, while her mother and disabled brother do their best to scupper the ship. Driven to the edge, Marijana finds comfort in seedy sex with random strangers; and this taste of freedom leaves her wanting more. But now that she has finally found freedom, what’s she meant to do with it?

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Ben Young, director, and Emma Booth, actress of the film Hounds Of Love presented at Venezia 73 [Venice Days]

FRED Film Radio had the chance to talk to Ben Young and Emma Booth, director and lead actress in Hounds of Love, here at Venice Days 2016. A tale that goes way further its gruesome premises, Hounds of Love looks deep in the psyche of a female serial killer, stuck in a titanic battle between Perversion and the primal instinct of motherhood.

HOUNDS OF LOVE. In the mid-1980’s seventeen-year-old Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple. As she observes the dynamic between her captors she quickly realizes she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Valérie Muller and Angelin Preljocaj, directors of the film Polina (Polina, Danser Sa Vie) from Venezia 73 [Venice Days]

FRED Film Radio meets with the two minds behind Polina, Danser Sa Vie, a graceful portrayal of dancing and life through the life of Polina, played brilliantly by Anastasia Shevtsova.

POLINA, DANSER SA VIE. Moscow, early 90s. Polina, aged 8, is a gifted ballerina. From a modest background, she joins the prestigious school of Professor Bojinsky, who trains dancers for the Bolshoi. He immediately grasps her tremendous potential and makes her work so hard that, at just 18, her dream finally comes true and she joins the prestigious Bolshoi. This is when she meets Adrien, a charming French dancer. He will help her to discover not only love but, more importantly, a new form of dance, more contemporary and expressive, a kind of dance that will change her life forever

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews director Alice Lowe, who talks about her film Prevenge  from the 73rd Venice Film Festival [International Critics’ Week]

Alice Lowe is a talented and funny woman who decided that she wanted to do a movie, when pregnant, about a pregnant woman with a slightly deranged mind. And we are glad she did it! With an obvious love for B movies and slasher movies she created a funny but also intense portrait of a strange relationship between a woman and the baby in her womb. With a touch of splatter, that always works.

PREVENGE. Ruth is to be a single mother, for reasons which become plain, and is also suffering from the paranoid delusion that her baby is telling her to kill people – which she duly does, over and over again. Some of the people she kills are nasty, such as the creepy specialist pet-shop owner, and the 70s disco DJ who throws up into his afro wig. But some are nice and some appear to have no connection at all with Ruth’s current situation.

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