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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Stefania Spampinato, actress of the film Il giorno più bello del mondo.

Italian movie stars reach a point in which they dream about working at Hollywood. For Grey’s Anatomy star, Italian and proud Sicilian Stefania Spampinato, it was the other way around: after working many years in Los Angeles, she’s finally the protagonist of Il giorno più bello del mondo, by Neapolitan actor and director Alessandro Siani, one of the box-office king of comedies. Stefania Spampinato reveals how this italian experience helped her become more keen to improvise and be even more comfortable with her acting skills. Il giorno più bello del mondo will be out in Italian cinemas on October 31st.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Rupert Goold, director of the film Judy.

Rupert Goold talks with Angelo Acerbi about the inspiration form the play the film is inspired to, and the incredible performance, especially vocal, of Zellweger who is here at the highest moments of her performance skill.

Judy: A defiant last stand in full view of her passionately supportive fans. It was Judy’s emotional Alamo in the face of parasitic husbands, spiteful press and misogynist showbiz overlords – beginning with studio chief Louis B Mayer, who ruined her childhood on the yellow brick road to stardom.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Eva Cools, director of the film Cleo.

Eva Cools tells the story of a young girl who loses her parents in a car accident with no responsible and tries ti cope with this fact. the director then bases part of the film on her personal story but then the analysis of the issue of grief and guilt becomes more universal, and haunting too.

Cleo: Seventeen-year-old Cleo survives a tragedy accident in which both parents lose their life. His grandmother offers Cleo and her brother a house, but ends up having to manage the rebellious teenager, the which seeks comfort in the mysterious Leos, a man of twelve years older.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Daniel Schechter, director of the film Safe Spaces.

There is something of Daniel Schechter’s life in this film, but a lot of fiction too. In any case the sense of family and brotherhood and realism are there. He tells us the reason of many choices he does in the film, the importance of being true to what life really is and to what really happens. And about the cast, that is amazing.

Safe Spaces: The divisions in adjunct professor Josh’s (Justin Long) professional and personal lives are taking a toll. He’s been known to bumble his way into trouble, like when his romance with his young nieces’ nanny led to her firing. Now his college students are forming warring factions after a triggering incident in his classroom, and administrators are growing alarmed over Josh’s uncertain response. His family is also chaotic: loving but splintered in the face of his beloved grandmother’s (Lynn Cohen) illness. His mother (Fran Drescher) sorts logistics while struggling to face the imminent loss of her mother. His father (Richard Schiff) is supportive but distant, trying to balance his adult children with his new wife and young son. Josh’s aunt just skipped town, and his sister (Kate Berlant) might need to lay off the pills. Everyone convenes at the hospital, trying to give and find support in the face of uncertainty.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Sophie Kinsella, writer of the film Can You Keep a Secret?.

She’s the best-selling author of the Shopaholic book series and the queen of chick-lit: Sophie Kinsella is in Rome to present the film adaptation of her book Can you keep a secret? at Alice nella Città. Kinsella wrote the book in 2003 and a lot has changed and happened since then in everyday women’s lives. However, though not understanding why it took so long for the movie industry to turn her book into a film, she’s very happy with the way Elise Duran the director and actress/producer Alexandra Daddario did to make it still actual in 2019. Some dilemmas, values, situations have no time frame, they’re universal.

Can You Keep a Secret?: Thinking they’re about to crash, Emma spills her secrets to a stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger…Until she later meets Jack, her company’s young CEO, who now knows every humiliating detail about her.

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PODCAST | Diego Aparicio interviews Ioakim Mylonas, Artistic Director of International Short Film Festival of Cyprus.

“The production [of Cypriot shorts] is of a higher standard than it was a few years ago. And this is not [just] wishful thinking. You can see Cypriot short films being screened in [well-respected] film festivals and winning awards. I think the quality is on the rise.”

The International Short Film Festival of Cyprus, now in its 9th edition, has very recently joined the family of festivals accredited by the European Film Academy. We talked to one of its two artistic directors, Ioakim Mylonas, about its steady growth over the years, and everything unique about it. This year’s edition comprised a strong competition programme, with parallel events showcasing the new Lanthimos (NIMIC), as well as a tribute to Auteurs of French Cinema with a selection of shorts from the ’90s.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Lorene Scafaria, director of the film Hustlers.

After Seeking a friend for the end of the world and The Meddler, Lorene Scafaria presents Hustlers starring Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu. Inspired by the article published by New York Magazine entitled “The Hustlers at Scores” written by Jessica Pressler, the film follows a crew of savvy former strip club employees who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients. At the 14th Rome Film Fest, Lorene Scafaria talks about a line in the film that reflects its metaphoric intention to talk about today’s America and financial system: “This whole city, this whole country is one big strip club”. Hustlers celebrates sisterhood while managing not to judge its characters or their actions. Do women and female characters always need to justify, explain why they become villains? Lorene Scafaria comments on this big question arising from the film.

Hustlers: In 2007, Destiny has become a stripper so she can provide for herself and her grandmother; her life will change when she meets Ramona, the star of the strip joint, and the two immediately hit it off. Destiny learns how to win over her male audience from Ramona, and also that when you’re inside a corrupt system, you have to exploit the situation instead of being exploited. To that end, Ramona gives Destiny a complete rundown on her Wall Street customers at the club. From that point on, the two women start raking in much more money than they can ever spend, right up to the Great Recession of 2008. Destiny and Ramona are joined by two dancers, Mercedes and Annabelle, and make a stab at changing the rules of the game, but it quickly spirals out of their control.

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Jesper Ganslandt, director of the film 438 Days.

Jesper Ganslandt, director of 438 Days, talks to FRED Film Radio in the context of the 14th edition of the Rome Film Festival. He talks about what interested him about directing a film based in a real event -an a book by the two journalists involved-, and how difficult was the shooting, that took place in South Africa.

438 Days: On the eve of June 28th, 2011 Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson put everything at stake by illegally crossing the border from Somalia into Ethiopia. After months of research, planning and failed attempts, they were finally on their way to report on how the ruthless hunt for oil effected the population of the isolated and conflict-ridden Ogaden region. Five days later they lay wounded in the desert sand, shot and captured by the Ethiopian army. But when their initial reportage died, another story began. A story about lawlessness, propaganda and global politics. After a Kafkaesque trial they were sentenced to eleven years in prison for terrorism. And they were far from alone. Their cellmates were journalists, writers and politicians persecuted for not bowing down to dictatorship. Their reportage about oil was transformed into a story about ink, and their daily lives turned into a fight for survival inside the notorious Kality prison in Addis Ababa. Exposed to deadly diseases, daily beatings and fierce repression – deprived of their shoelaces and their freedom of speech – they fought to preserve the most valuable thing of all: the freedom to determine who you are and what you believe. This is their story of 438 days of hell.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Jim Carter, Michelle Dockery, Imelda Staunton, Gareth Neame, Liz Trubridge and Michael Engler of the TV series Downtown Abbey.

On the red carpet of Downtown Abbey‘s Italian premiere, at the 14th Rome Film Fest, actors Jim Carter, Michelle Dockery, Imelda Staunton, director Michael Engler and producers Gareth Neame and Liz Trubridge talk about the making of Downtown Abbey, the film and going back breathing that sense of family which is the main reason why we all love the series. Imelda Stanton thanks the good writing for her fitting perfectly in the family as her character is the new entry in the film and the story. Cast, producers and director all agree on the fact that Downtown Abbey is loved because we are all nostalgic for important values such loyalty and devotion in a world that doesn’t really seem to care anymore.

Downtown Abbey: The television series Downtown Abbey followed the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who worked for them at the turn of the 20th century in an Edwardian English country house. Over its 6 seasons, the series garnered 3 Golden Globe Awards, 15 Primetime Emmy Awards, 69 Emmy nominations in total, making Downtown Abbey the most nominated non-US television show in the history of the Emmys – even earning a Special BAFTA award and a Guinness World Record for the highest critically rated TV show along the way.

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PODCAST | Sarah Bradbury interviews Amanda Nevill, Chief Executive Officer of BFI London Film Festival.

BFI London Film Festival Cheif Executive Officer, Amanda Nevill, spoke to us about this year’s festival from the red carpet of The Irishman, explaining what had stood out for 2019 and why Scorsese’s film was chosen to close the festival.

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