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October 22, 2019 Carice Van Houten – Instinct #LFF2019
PODCAST | Steve Hargrave interviews Carice Van Houten, actress of the film Instinct.
After the huge success in Game of Thrones, Carice Van Houten partners with her friend Halina Reijn by producing and starring in her debut feature, Instinct. The film, a complex adult, sexual psychological drama, participating to the First Feature Competition at the London Film Festival, explores the complicated and controversial world of sexual and love relationships.
Instinct: In spite of her expertise and experience, a seasoned psychologist is completely infatuated by the sex offender she is treating in a penal institution.

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9 min
October 22, 2019 Eryk Rocha – Burning Night #LFF2019
PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Eryk Rocha, director of the film Burning Night.
Eryk Rocha has his first fiction film after a career in documentaries. He does not see a difference in storytelling or importance in the two genre, he actually does not see the genre specification. He has a strong and clear view and cinema is his tool to tell it.
Burning Night: Down on his luck and recently divorced, Paulo (Boliveira) has begun driving a cab around Rio, hoping he’ll make enough to send his ex money to support their ten-year-old son. He mostly works nights, so in addition to his encounters with a colourful variety of customers, colleagues, cops and others, he must cope with loneliness, fatigue and new faces in his life.

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7 min
October 22, 2019 Mirrah Foulkes, Mia Wasikowska – Judy and Punch #LFF2019
PODCAST | Sarah Bradbury interviews Mirrah Foulkes and Mia Wasikowska, director and actress of the film Judy and Punch.
We spoke to Australian writer and director, Mirrah Foulkes, about her debut feature, Judy and Punch, and heard why she wanted to make an origin-style film about the classic English puppeteers. Lead actress Mia Wasikowska also explained what drew her to the role and her experience working with Mirrah.
Judy and Punch: Writer/Director Mirrah Foulkes delivers an audaciously brilliant first feature, with Mia Wasikowska splendid in this fairy tale with a feminist twist. Taking the strange, misogynistic 16th-century Punch and Judy puppet show as an initial point of departure, Foulkes creates an origin story of sorts, but one that re-imagines what might have happened if Judy decided not to take Punch’s incessant battery quite so meekly. In the town of Seaside, husband and wife puppeteers Punch and Judy stage their shows for rowdy, mob-minded locals for whom a great day out is usually the public stoning of a fellow citizen (invariably a woman accused of witchcraft or some other spurious crime). With a highly accomplished sense of style and directorial confidence that belies her newness to the craft, Foulkes creates a vivid, darkly comic fable – part revenge story, part fantasy epic. Damon Herriman (Justified, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) makes a brilliant Punch – dangerously egomaniacal, and yet somehow still pitiable. And at the heart of this film about the emergence of a reluctant heroine, Wasikowska is a wonderful Judy, who belatedly finds out just how powerful she is. Judy & Punch is rousing, inventive and so much fun.

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5 min
October 22, 2019 Jonathan Pryce – The Two Popes #LFF2019
PODCAST | Sarah Bradbury interviews Jonathan Pryce, actor of the film The Two Popes.
Jonathan Pryce talks to us from the red carpet at the BFI London Film Festival about his role in The Two Popes opposite Anthony Hopkins in the new film from City of God director, Fernando Meirelles. He explains the close relationship the two actors had on set and how his flourishing career shows there are more roles now for actors as they grow older. Director Meirelles spoke about working with the two actors and what he wants the film to say to a contemporary audience. The screenwriter, Anthony McCarten, also stopped to speak with us about his approach to writing.
The Two Popes: Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce tussle over the future of the Catholic Church in this thrillingly cinematic two-hander from Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener). Travelling from the streets of Buenos Aires to the hallowed halls of the Vatican, Jorge Bergoglio (Jonathan Pryce) has become disillusioned with the direction of the Catholic Church, even though he’s a contender for the top job. So when it’s Joseph Ratzinger (Anthony Hopkins) who gets the gig, becoming Pope Benedict XVI, Bergoglio is relieved. However, the institution faces a reckoning with itself. And when the two men are brought together for a few days over one summer, their clash of ideologies – forward-looking and progressive versus a stubborn adherence to tradition – makes for passionate debate. Terrific writing from Anthony McCarten (Bohemian Rhapsody, Darkest Hour) showcases the chemistry between Hopkins and Pryce, who relish the rich dialogue that crackles with humour. Director Fernando Mereilles’ technical bravura depicts – with rich textures – compassion, self-doubt, shame and pride as the intimate debate between these two powerful men progresses. And whatever your stakes in religion, Pryce and Hopkins are a joy to watch together on screen. Hallelujah!

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October 22, 2019 Peter Cattaneo – Military Wives #RomaFF14
PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Peter Cattaneo, director of the film Military Wives.
Peter Cattaneo uses his craft of real life storyteller another time. With the story of military wives building up a choir to keep their minds busy while husbands are on another mission in Afghanistan, he recreates a world of humanity, grief, fun and strength that moves. He talks with Angelo Acerbi about his recipe and the intentions of his filmmaking.
Military Wives: The life of a military wife on the front can be thankless. But not for Kate, who bears the stress and monotony of her condition with grace and stoicism. Kate finds expressive freedom in song, and even persuades a group of wives in the same situation to form the first ‘Military Wives Choir’, which will achieve a huge and unexpected success. The film is based on real stories.
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6 min
October 22, 2019 Lulu Wang – The Farewell #RomaFF14
PODCAST | David Martos interviews Lulu Wang, director of the film The Farewell.
Lulu Wang talks to FRED about telling the story of her own family, casting her own great-aunt and how she is dealing with the Oscar buzz sorrounding the film.
The Farewell: Aspiring Chinese-American writer Billi maintains a close relationship with Nai Nai (a term used to mean ‘paternal grandmother’ in Mandarin) who lives in China. After receiving a rejection letter for a Guggenheim Fellowship, Billi discovers from her parents that Nai Nai has been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, and is predicted to have only a few months left to live. Through deception and manipulation of medical test results, the diagnosis is kept a secret from Nai Nai herself. Nai Nai is, instead, falsely told that her recent doctor visits have only revealed benign findings. A wedding for Billi’s cousin, Hao Hao, from Japan has been planned in China, as an excuse to unite the family to spend what is expected to be one last time with Nai Nai. Fearing Billi will end up exposing the lie to her grandmother, Haiyan and Jian tell her to remain in New York City.
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10 min
October 22, 2019 Douglas Kirkland – That Click #RomaFF14
PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews the famous photographer Douglas Kirkland, protagonist of the film That Click.
It is an honor and a privilege to talk with Douglas Kirkland, the photographer that described and shaped pop culture, stardom and photo journalism for years. iconic shots ( the last Marilyn Monroe over all), praising declarations from all the global show business and press worlds, he is an icon, but still in his heart a young passionate man, hungry for experience. As you can hear in this nice chat with Angelo Acerbi.
That Click: The life and times and superb photographs of Douglas Kirkland, who captured sixty years of popular culture, his work ranging from photojournalism to portraits and from set photos to photoreporting on major global events.
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9 min
October 22, 2019 Ron Howard – Pavarotti #RomaFF14
PODCAST | David Martos interviews Ron Howard, director of the film Pavarotti.
Ron Howard talks to FRED about what attracts him to documentaries, a narrative art close to journalism. Besides, the creator of Solo or A beautiful mind reflects on Pavarotti and how an opera star would behave today. At the end of the interview, the filmmakers talks about his work with actors.
Pavarotti: a documentary by filmmaker and artisan Ron Howard, comes along in his filmography after Eight days a week, another doc on The Beatles. In this film, Howard recovers unknown piece of domestic video from the tenor’s life and leans on the testimonies of friends and members of his family: and this includes Pavarotti’s two wives
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6 min
October 22, 2019 Edward Norton, Gugu Mbatha Raw – Motherless Brooklyn #RomaFF14
PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Edward Norton and Gugu Mbatha Raw, director/actor and actress of the film Motherless Brooklyn.
20 years after his debut feature, Keeping the faith, Edward Norton presents his second film as a director at the 14th Rome Film Fest: Motherless Brooklyn. Set in the 50’s New York, Norton plays Lionel Essrog, a private investigator trying to solve the mistery behind his mentor’s omicide. With Gugu Mbatha Raw, who in the film plays Laura Rose, the activist Lionel falls in love with, Norton comments on his film being a noir but also a coming of age story as it depicts the moment in which both protagonists realise their heroes are human beings with their defects and flaws. “We all got our daily battles” Laura Rose tells Lionel and this sounds like an epiphany that helps him grow up and face life differently. Motherless Brooklyn is very actual though set in the 50’s and it explores the concept of power and how it works.
Motherless Brooklyn: Lionel Essrog (Edward Norton), a lonely private detective living with Tourette Syndrome, ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend, Frank Minna (Bruce Willis). Armed only with a few clues and the engine of his obsessive mind, Lionel unravels closely guarded secrets that hold the fate of New York in the balance. In a mystery that carries him from gin-soaked jazz clubs in Harlem to the hard-edged slums of Brooklyn and, finally, into the gilded halls of New York’s power brokers, Lionel contends with thugs, corruption and the most dangerous man in the city to honor his friend and save the woman who might be his own salvation.
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8 min
October 22, 2019 Bret Easton Ellis #RomaFF14
PODCAST | David Martos interviews the author and scriptwriter, Bret Easton Ellis.
Easton Ellis is one of the most provocative voices in the American landscape. Author of American Phsyco, he’s very outspoken against the Woke Culture and political correctness in Twitter. He attacks the ‘corporate culture’ installed in audiovisual industry and the domination of Disney.
White is Bret Easton Ellis’s first work of nonfiction. Already the bad boy of American literature, from Less Than Zero to American Psycho, Ellis has also earned the wrath of right-thinking people everywhere with his provocations on social media, and here he escalates his admonishment of received truths as expressed by today’s version of “the left.” Eschewing convention, he embraces views that will make many in literary and media communities cringe, as he takes aim at the relentless anti-Trump fixation, coastal elites, corporate censorship, Hollywood, identity politics, Generation Wuss, “woke” cultural watchdogs…
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8 min

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