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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Mark Cousins, director of the film March on Rome.

Mark Cousins talks about his latest film, March on Rome, presented at the Giornate degli Autori independent section of the 79th Venice International Film Festival. The film depicts the ascent of Fascis in Italy and its fallout across 1930s Europe. Cousins also talks with us about his connection to Italy, masculinity and performance, and the archival centrepiece of his film: Umberto Paradisi’s 1922 propaganda film, A Noi.

 The March on Rome: Through little-seen archival material and his characteristically cinematic analysis, Mark Cousins narrates the ascent of fascism in Italy and its fall-out across 1930s Europe. In The March on Rome, which is simultaneously an essay film and a historical document, Cousins contextualises history through the here and now, holding a mirror up to a political landscape marked by a creeping far right and manipulated media.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci presents Big FRED Venice, FRED Film Radio’s daily and live-streamed show from the 79th Venice Film Festival.

Matt Micucci presents Big FRED Venice, FRED Film Radio’s daily and live-streamed show from the 79th Venice Film Festival. In this second episode, Matt is joined by Angelo Acerbi to talk about some of the top films that have been screening at the lido, including Noah Baumbach’s new film, White Noise, which officially opened the 79th edition of the Venice Film Festival. We also talk about a documentary about Ugandan musician-turned-activist-turned-politician Bobi Wine, the Orizzonti film A Man by Kei Ishikawa and more.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci presents Big FRED Venice, FRED Film Radio’s daily and live-streamed show from the 79th Venice Film Festival.

In this first episode, Matt is joined by top FRED correspondents Angelo Acerbi and David Martos, and all three share their thoughts on the films they are looking forward to seeing the most at the lido. Films discussed also include two from the Giornate degli Autori: Mark Cousin’s March on Rome and Wissam Charaf’s Dirty Difficult Dangerous, as well as the festival’s special pre-opening event, a special screening of Henri King’s Stella Dallas from 1925 with live orchestral score curated in partnership with the MoMA.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Greta Gerwig, actress of the film White Noise.

Greta Gerwig is the co-protagonist, with Adam Driver, of White Noise by Noah Baumbach, opening film at the 79th edition of Venice International Film Festival. Based on Don De Lillo’s book of 1985, the film, despite talking about a world and an America of the past, feels like it talks about today’s world. Greta Gerwig confirms this intuition as White Noise, as Baumbach wrote, presents us with the strategies and routines that we’ve invented to make the idea of death acceptable”. The film also deals with another universal theme, family, depicting its chaos and rules.

White Noise: At once hilarious and horrifying, lyrical and absurd, ordinary and apocalyptic, White Noise dramatises a contemporary American family’s attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Sophie Marceau, actress of the film A Woman.

In Locarno, we met Sophie Marceau, who presented her new film in which she stars, A Woman, in the Piazza Grande section. We asked her about her new role and how she prepared herself, but we also talked about her lengthy film career and French cinema.

A Woman: Juliane, a police commissioner in Paris, is a woman with great moral integrity. But when she discovers her husband’s double life, she starts committing acts she never would have thought herself capable of…

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Anna Eriksson, director of the film W.

What does W mean? We asked Anna Eriksson to metaphorically accompany us through the long corridors in which her new film is set to tell us about the suggestions that inspired her for this new visionary work.

W: Europe is a mortally sick woman who is killing time with her Chinese Man Machine. They are at their last post. Outside lies a snow-covered wasteland. Elsewhere, on a glacier is an institute, where a group of nurses are faithfully playing their regressive part in the execution of a new world order. Their trance is disrupted by a stranger. All is lost. The final act is about to begin.

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata, directors of the film Where Is This Street? Or With No Before And After.

João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata tell us about their unique film, which retraces the footsteps of Paulo Rocha’s The Green Years through the streets of Lisbon. A film that is a modern metropolitan symphony but also a great declaration of love for the Portuguese Cinema and life.

Where Is This Street? Or With No Before And After: From our window one can see a set of the 1963 film The Green Years. This was our starting point: guided by Paulo Rocha’s gaze, we look back at the places of that film. The successive geological, urbanistic and social strata of Lisbon, besieged by the pandemic that interrupted the shooting, are drawn out in front of our camera, like a contemporary jazz impro from a score written in 1963.

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Carlos Conceição, director of the film Nação Valente (Tommy Guns).

In competition at the 75 Locarno Film Festival, Carlos Conceição brings his personal reflection on history. We talked with him about the structure of his film Tommy Guns, his influences, zombies and more…

Nação Valente (Tommy Guns): In 1974, the Portuguese and their descendants fled Angola where nationalist groups gradually claimed their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and death when her path crosses that of a Portuguese soldier. Then, a Portuguese squad is barracked inside a wall from which they will have to escape once the past comes out of the grave to claim its long-awaited justice.

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Bianca Lucas, director of the film Love Dog.

Bianca Lucas, brings her first feature film Love Dog in competition at the Cineasti del Presente section, at the 75 Locarno Film Festival. She tells us about the long journey she made making this film, which is also a sensory journey through the sense of trauma and grief that goes through society today, and not just in America. But, as Bianca says with her film, this journey leads in the end to a great life teaching.

Love Dog: After finishing a job on a Texas oil rig, John returns to his home town in Mississippi – where he will finally confront his grief after his girlfriend’s death. Clumsily trying to distract himself from his own pain in an equally traumatized society, he will come to find that grace and healing come at their own pace, and through unlikely meetings of souls.

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Andrew Legge, director of the film Lola.

We meet Andrew Legge, director of LOLA, his debut film, presented out of competition at the Locarno film festival. Andrew tells us about the extraordinary work behind this particular science fiction film, which mixes actual historical footage with those of an alternate reality in which Nazism has won, and You Really Got Me by the Kinks has become a song from the 40s.

LOLA : England, 1941, sisters Thomasina and Martha have created a machine that can intercept broadcasts from the future. This delightful apparatus allows them to explore their inner punk a generation before the movement comes into existence. But with World War II escalating, the sisters decide to use the machine as a weapon of intelligence, with world-altering consequences.

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