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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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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Florent Gouelou, Pablo Pauly and Romain Eck, directors and actors of the film Three nights a week.

Florent Gouelou brings on screen, with Three times a week, a realistic love story between a straight guy and a drag queen, with taste, style and the right amount of lightness. We talked with him and the actors about this lack of melodrama and struggle that usually are present in such plots, and the contemporaneity of a generation that does not care about labels and social conventions.

Three nights a week: 29-years-old Baptiste is in a relationship with Samia when he first meets Cookie Kunty, a young drag queen from the Parisian scene who immediately mesmerises him. Initially motivated by the idea of a photography project revolving around Cookie, he immerses himself into this world, eventually embarking upon a relationship with Quentin, the young man behind the drag queen.

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Oliver Stone, Joshua Goldstein, Fernando Sulichin, director, screenwriter, producer of the film Nuclear.

Director Oliver Stone visits FRED alongside with screenwriter Joshua Goldstein and producer Fernando Sulichin to discuss ‘Nuclear’, a documentary out of competition in Venice Film Festival. Stone talks about the importance of boosting nuclear energy in times of energy crisis, and tries to denounce the tricks financed by oil companies aimed to destroy nuclear resources’ image

Nuclear: As fossil fuels continue to cook the planet, the world is finally becoming forced to confront the influence of large oil companies and tactics that have enriched a small group of corporations and individuals for generations. Beneath our feet, Uranium atoms in the Earth’s crust hold incredibly concentrated energy. Science unlocked this energy in the mid-20th century, first for bombs and then to power submarines and the United States led the effort to generate electricity from this new source. Yet in the mid-20th century as societies began the transition to nuclear power and away from fossil fuels, a long-term PR campaign to scare the public began, funded in large part by oil interests. This campaign would sow fear about harmless low-level radiation and create confusion between nuclear weapons and nuclear power. With unprecedented access to the nuclear industry in France, Russia, and the United States, director Oliver Stone explores the possibility for the global community to overcome challenges like climate change and reach a brighter future through the power of nuclear energy.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Teona Strugar Mitevska, director of the film The happiest man in the world.

After God exists, her name is Petrunya Teona Strugar Mitevska is back at representing society through the lens of satire and comedy. With The happiest man in the world, in the Orizzonti competition at the 79th Venice International Film Festival, the macedonian director relies once again on a female protagonist to analyze war, the Ex-Yugoslav past and what defines us:our ethnicity, religion, gender and what divides us or unites us.

The happiest man in the world: Asja, a 40-year-old single woman lives in Sarajevo. In order to meet new people, she ends up spending her Saturday in a speed dating event. She is matched with Zoran, a 43-year-old banker. However, Zoran is not looking for love, but forgiveness.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Patricia Clarkson, actress of the film Monica.

The nice and funny Patricia Clarkson revels her ideas and thoughts on the character she portrays in Monica, the new Andrea Pallaoro film, in Competition at the Venice Film Festival. Her sensibility is well known and we understand why while listening to her replies in this interview with Angelo Acerbi.

Monica: Monica is an intimate portrait of a woman who returns home after a long absence to confront the wounds of her past. Reconnecting with her mother and the rest of her family for the first time since leaving as a teenager, Monica embarks on a path of healing and acceptance. The film delves into Monica’s internal world and state of mind, her pain and fears, her needs and desires, to explore the universal themes of abandonment and forgiveness.

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