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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Rupert Friend and Maya Hawke, actors of the film Asteroid City.

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Interview with Maya Hawke and Rupert Friend, actors in Asteroid City by Wes Anderson, presented at the 76th Festival de Cannes in Competition.

Asteroid City: As a film is a team effort, this concept has even more meaning when it comes to Wes Anderson’s cinema counting on the participation of many great actors. This is what happens with Asteroid City, in competition at the 76th Cannes Film Festival where Maya Hawke and Rupert Friend play, respectively, June, a school teacher and Montana, a musician cowboy. Asteroid City is the name for a dot-on-the-map desert town in the American Southwest in the year is 1955 but, we will soon discover that it is also a play in its preparation, directed by a renown director, played by Edward Norton. Maya Hawke and Rupert Friend are also two actors then, working on this show in the Broadway and Hollywood of the 50’s. Hawke and Friend talk about the innocent and sophisticated pastel colored world of Wes Anderson and how it felt to be cast in this film. Have their ever wished to live and be actors in a different era like the 50’s? Listen to the interview to find out.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Magalie Lepine-Blondeau, actress of the film The Nature of Love.

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Interview with Magalie Lepine-Blondeau, actress in The Nature of Love by Monia Chokri, presented at the 76th Festival de Cannes in Un Certain Regard.

The Nature of Love: She’s not only among the most famous Canadian actresses but Magalie Lepine-Blondeau is also director’s Monia Chokri’s best friend. As the protagonist of Chokri’s new feature film, The Nature of Love, Symple Comme Sylvain, at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, she plays Sophia, a 40-year-old philosophy professor, who, from a stable if somewhat socially-conforming relationship with Xavier ends up falling in love with her craftsman, Sylvain, who turns her world upside down. Magalie Lepine-Blondeau walks us into her work with Chokri on relationships, passion, cultural differences, trying to analyze answering the question: “Opposites attract, but can they last?”.

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Inês Teixeira, director of the film Shimmering Bodies.

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Interview with Inês Teixeira, director of Shimmering Bodies, first short film, presented at the 62° Semaine de la Critique during the Cannes Film Festival.

Shimmering Bodies: It is always a great emotion to discover new young directors making their cinematic debut, as in the case of Inês Teixeira with her short, in competition at the 62nd Semaine de la Critique, a parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival. Inês was inspired by teenage memories to tell the story of Mariana, a shy teenager who is invited by her friend Jorge to spend a weekend at her house in Leiria. She will discover aspects of herself that she did not know. The director tells us about her first day on set, what she learned making her first film, and how it feels to be in such a significant competition as La Semaine de la Critique.

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PODCAST | Bénédicte Prot interviews Amjad Al Rasheed, director of the film Inshallah A Boy.

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Amjad Al Rasheed, author of the first Jordanian film to ever grace the Critics’ Week, tells us how he came to decide to make his debut a striking and potent criticism of his society from such an intimately feminine angle, talks about the patriarchal oppression at the centre of his film, and reveals some details on the writing process as well as his work with his formidable lead actress.

Inshallah A Boy: Jordan, nowadays. After the sudden death of her husband, Nawal (Mouna Hawa), in her 30s, has to fight for her part of inheritance in order to save her daughter and home in a society where having a son would be a game changer.

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PODCAST | Giulia Bianconi interviews Emily Mortimer, jury president of the Riviera International Film Festival 2023.

At Riviera International Film Festival 2023 actress, director, scriptwriter and producer Emily Mortimer talks about her role as jury president, the importance of the failures in her career, her new projects and her point of view about Woody Allen affair

Emily Mortimer about the importance of failing: “Alive in the arts, but particularly in film as an actor, writer, director or producer. Anything is very difficult and it’s mainly going to consist of things not working and making a movie is the processes pretty much impossible. Getting the money to make the movie is pretty much impossible. The chances of making a good film are pretty impossible. The chances of that film, even if it’s good, being seen by anybody are very slim. It’s a crazy thing to do with your life. It’s more hope than expectation. But it’s all these reasons, I think a really beautiful thing to do, because everybody that’s here at this festival, everybody that puts their life into this kind of storytelling really believes in it and has at some point in their lives been really affected by a movie or television show or whatever that someone else has made. And I just find this kind of the beauty in this kind of everybody getting together to make things and nobody knowing the outcome. And it’s really in the face of so much adversity, yet people’s passions persists. And sometimes something magical happens and that’s what you hope and pray for but in the meantime, you go on an amazing journey with a lot of people who have light mines, and you probably fail but you fail nobly and beautifully”.

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Interview with Wim Wenders, director of “Anselm“, a 3D film on artist Anselm Kiefer, presented at the 76th Festival de Cannes as a Special Screening.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Hopper Jack Penn and Zoë Bleu, actors of the film Signs of Love.

After winning the first edition of the Corbucci Award – Premio Corbucci at the 20th edition of Alice nella Città in Rome, Signs of love, the debut feature by Clarence Fuller with Hopper Jack Penn and Zoë Bleu, is finally coming out in Italian movie theatres from May 11,2023. Hopper Jack Penn and Zoë Bleu talk about the film being a love story but also a coming of age and how their characters changed their mindset on a lot of life themes and values.

Signs of Love: A young man struggling for a good life meets a deaf girl from a well-off nearby family, he suddenly sees hope for love, and a better life but only if he can escape the predicament of the streets and the influence of his older sister.

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PODCAST | Francesca Raffi interviews Marina Ramos Caro, Lecturer at the Department of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Murcia.

Research on audio description has undergone an enormous development in the last decade. Marina Ramos Caro, one of the speakers at ARSAD 2023, tells us more about emotions, objectivity versus subjectivity, and the role of ideology in audio description. Since 2007, ARSAD has been the meeting point for researchers, industry, trainers, trainees, users, practitioners, regulators, broadcasters, policy makers, social activists, cultural managers and anyone interested in audio description. ARSAD aims to be a thought-provoking event where we can learn about the present of audio description across the globe from multidisciplinary perspectives and where we can get a glimpse of the future of this fascinating access mode.

Marina Ramos Caro, PhD, is a Lecturer at the Department of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Murcia, Spain. She is particularly interested in the influence of emotions and personality in the process and reception of translation and audio description. Marina Ramos has been awarded several international grants, presented her work at international conferences, and published in journals (Journal of Pragmatics, MonTi, Translation Spaces, The Translator, Perspectives, Journal of Specialised Translation, Onomázein). As a professional translator, she has mainly worked within the fields of subtitling, dubbing, and transcreation. She is also the founder and director of Latrium, the Laboratory for Inclusive Translation of the University of Murcia, a project aimed at promoting the accessibility of the performing arts in the Region of Murcia by means of live surtitles and AD.

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PODCAST | Laura Della Corte interviews Sophia Wong Boccio, founder and executive director of the Asian Pop-Up Cinema.

In the interview with Sophia Wong Boccio, we talked about her experience at Far East Film Festival and about her work as founder of Asian Pop-Up Cinema in Chicago.

In the early 1990’s where that love of film launched her own career in the industry. While working in Beijing, Sophia launched a Sophia’s Choice movie series, bringing Chinese films and cultural exchange with the film’s actors and directors to Beijing’s expatriate and diplomatic community.

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PODCAST | Laura Della Corte interviews Johnnie To, director of the film Sparrow.

In the interview with Johnnie To, director of Sparrow and Election we talked about the usual Milkyway Image technical expertise that characterizes his works; to underline, in particular, the versatile photography of Cheng Siu Keung and the persuasive music of Xavier Jamaux and Fred Avril.

Sparrow: Kei is the expert leader of a pickpocket team. (Pickpockets are also known as “Sparrows” in Hong Kong slang). He enjoys a carefree lifestyle by taking pictures with his vintage Rolleiflex. One day a charming beauty, Chun-Lei, suddenly appears in Kei’s sights. Kei is hypnotized. Each member of her team has an encounter with her… But behind her attractive facade of her Chun-lei hides a mysterious past and a mission to get rid of her.

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