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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Conrad Vernon, co-director of the film Sausage Party.

After the scandalous success in the US, Sausage Party is finally out in Italy, released on Halloween day to wake up the dead and the sad people to the sound of laughter and irreverent jokes. We have reached Conrad Vernon, co-director of the film with Greg Tiernan, on the phone to talk about the making of the film, compromises and stereotypes. Vernon tells us about the long process that finally took him, Seth Rogen ( producer and voice of the protagonist, the sausage Frank) and Evan Goldberg to do the film. There was the intention of not giving up to compromises: the box office results, the PG 13 possibility, the balance were not conditions and limits they took into consideration. They wanted to do a free film since the beginning and Anna Purna Pictures let them carry on with their project as it was. In order to make fun of everybody and have anyone laughing at the film, the main purpose was to “insult” everybody. To make fun of every race, belief, religion, defect, this was the only way to respect all and really gather the audience under a sort of “fun” umbrella. How do you get, elegantly, into an orgy? A Dirty Dancing theme song can definitely help.

SAUSAGE PARTY is about one sausage leading a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they become chosen to leave the grocery store. The film features the vocal talents of a who’s who of today’s comedy stars – Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill, Bill Hader, Michael Cera, James Franco, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, Paul Rudd, Nick Kroll, David Krumholtz, Edward Norton, and Salma Hayek.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Sofia Sondervan, producer of the film London Town, shown at Alice nella Città 2016.

Sofia Sondervan talks about the idea of celebrating The Clash through an universal coming of age story, London Town. From the genesis of the film, Sondervan confesses her teenage years’ idols, Duran Duran. Sofia Sondervan’s latest productions include Cadillac Records and The Man Who Knew Infinity.

LONDON TOWN follows a 14 (soon to be 15) years old kid named Shay (Daniel Huttlestone) living in the suburbs of London with his Scottish father (Dougray Scott) and his precocious little sister. Shay is good in school and has learned piano at the behest of his father, who owns and operates a piano store when he’s not driving a cab to make ends meet. Shay’s free-spirited mother (Natascha McElhone) took off when the kids were very young, and Shay gets invited to stay with her for the summer, even though he has a heap of familial responsibilities due to her absence. On a trip to the city, Shay meets a young punk girl named Vivian (Nell Williams) who introduces him to the music of the Clash.. After his father gets badly injured while moving a piano and has to remain in hospital for weeks, Shay is forced to work at the store and drive the cab on his own to try to keep everything afloat. As his world starts to fall apart he finds strength in the music and his new found love to get him through.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Selma Vihunen, director of Little Wing, shown at Alice nella Città 2016.

Selma Vilhunen is the winner of the Camera d’Oro Taodue at the 14th edition of Alice nella Città with her second feature Little Wing. The jury was chaired by Matt Dillon and composed, among others, by italian directors Gabriele Mainetti and Claudio Giovannesi and italian actress Anna Foglietta. Little Wing is more than a simple coming of age story as the little protagonist starts by being her mother’s mum to becoming a child again.

LITTLE WING tells the story of 12-year-old Varpu (Linnea Skog), who’s quickly growing to adulthood, and about her mother Siru (Paula Vesala), who doesn’t want to grow up. Varpu lives with her mother and has never met her father. One night Varpu has enough of her riding buddies and her mother. She steals a car and drives up north in search of her father, of whom she only knows the name. But her father is not exactly what she had expected. Meeting him triggers something in Varpu and Siru’s life, making them realize their role in each other’s lives, and in the world.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Daniel Huttlestone, actor of the film London Town, in competition at Alice nella Città 2016.

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Daniel Huttlestone, young protagonist of London Town by Derrick Borte. The film is in competition at the 14th edition of Alice nella Città in Rome. The actor tells us how he got on board of the project and how he learned all the songs of The Clash. Although it is set in a specific time of UK’s history the film has very universal themes that can have teenagers nowadays relate to it.

LONDON TOWN follows a 14 (soon to be 15) years old kid named Shay (Daniel Huttlestone) living in the suburbs of London with his Scottish father (Dougray Scott) and his precocious little sister. Shay is good in school and has learned piano at the behest of his father, who owns and operates a piano store when he’s not driving a cab to make ends meet. Shay’s free-spirited mother (Natascha McElhone) took off when the kids were very young, and Shay gets invited to stay with her for the summer, even though he has a heap of familial responsibilities due to her absence. On a trip to the city, Shay meets a young punk girl named Vivian (Nell Williams) who introduces him to the music of the Clash.. After his father gets badly injured while moving a piano and has to remain in hospital for weeks, Shay is forced to work at the store and drive the cab on his own to try to keep everything afloat. As his world starts to fall apart he finds strength in the music and his new found love to get him through.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Derrick Borte, director of London Town, from the 2016 Alice nella Città.

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Derrick Borte, director of London Town in competitioin at the 14th edition of Alice nella Città. The film is a coming of age story set in London with the music of The Clash to be not only the soundtrack but the narrative structure of the film. Derrick Borte talks about being sixteen and being always to that part of yourself that never ceased to be an adolescent.

LONDON TOWN follows a 14 (soon to be 15) years old kid named Shay (Daniel Huttlestone) living in the suburbs of London with his Scottish father (Dougray Scott) and his precocious little sister. Shay is good in school and has learned piano at the behest of his father, who owns and operates a piano store when he’s not driving a cab to make ends meet. Shay’s free-spirited mother (Natascha McElhone) took off when the kids were very young, and Shay gets invited to stay with her for the summer, even though he has a heap of familial responsibilities due to her absence. On a trip to the city, Shay meets a young punk girl named Vivian (Nell Williams) who introduces him to the music of the Clash.. After his father gets badly injured while moving a piano and has to remain in hospital for weeks, Shay is forced to work at the store and drive the cab on his own to try to keep everything afloat. As his world starts to fall apart he finds strength in the music and his new found love to get him through.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Preston Thompson and Sebastian de Souza, writers and actors of Kids in Love, at Alice nella Città 2016.

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Sebastian De Souza and Preston Thompson among the protagonists of Kids in Love, screening at the 14th edition of Alice nella Città at the Rome International Film Festival. The two young actors are also co-writers of the film, a coming of age story whose characters are inspired by the many people the De Souza and Thompson have met in life.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Clive Oppenheimer, volcanologist and collaborator on Werner Herzog’s Into the Inferno, from the 11th Rome Film Fest.

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Clive Oppenheimer, volcanologist and friend of Werner Herzog, director of Into the Inferno, screening at the 11th Edition of Rome Film Festival in its official selection. This is the second time Oppenheimer works with Herzog and this time they took a trip almost inside the most famous and active volcanos in the world to analyze how these instruments of nature interacted with the population living around them. Everything is unpredictable with Werner Herzog so this is, obviously, more than a documentary.

INTO THE INFERNO. Werner Herzog and volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer embark upon a global journey exploring some of the world’s most mythical volcanoes in North Korea, Ethiopia, Iceland and the Vanuatu Archipelago. Speaking with scientists and indigenous peoples alike, they seek to understand the complex and deeply rooted relationship between mankind and one of nature’s greatest wonders. Produced by Spring Films, Werner Herzog Film and Matter of Fact Media, Into the Inferno artfully blends reportage, history and philosophy into a riveting cinematic experience.

The documentary debuts October 28th 2016 at 12.01 am PT in all territories where Netflix is available.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Kenneth Lonergan, director of Manchester by the Sea, at the 11th Rome Film Fest.

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Kenneth Lonergan, director of Manchester by the Sea, starring Casey Affleck, Kyle Chandler and Michelle Williams. As in his previous films, Lonergan tries to analyze how loss can or can’t be processed and how people deal with it and live through it. Casey Affleck delivers his most extraordinary performance and Lonergan describes in details one of the most cathartic and intense scenes of the film.

MANCHESTER BY THE SEA. In Manchester by the Sea, the latest film from award-winning writer and director Kenneth Lonergan, the life of a solitary Boston janitor is transformed when he returns to his hometown to take care of his teenage nephew. The story of the Chandlers, a working-class family living in a Massachusetts fishing village for generations, Manchester by the Sea is a deeply poignant, unexpectedly funny exploration of the power of familial love, community, sacrifice and hope. After the death of his older brother Joe (Kyle Chandler), Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) is shocked to learn that Joe has made him sole guardian of his nephew Patrick (Lucas Hedges). Taking leave of his job, Lee reluctantly returns to Manchester-by-the-Sea to care for Patrick, a spirited 16-year-old, and is forced to deal with a past that separated him from his wife Randi (Michelle Williams) and the community where he was born and raised. Bonded by the man who held their family together, Lee and Patrick struggle to adjust to a world without him.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Ewan McGregor, director, and Jennifer Connelly, actress of the film American Pastoral

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Ewan McGregor and Jennifer Connelly in Rome to present McGregor’s directorial debut American Pastoral based on the Pulitzer Prize book by Philip Roth.

AMERICAN PASTORAL. Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter’s new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Gaby Dellal, director of About Ray from the 2016 Alice nella Città

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Gaby Dellal, director About Ray, the opening film screening at the 14th edition of Alice Nella Città – Rome International Film Festival.

The film stars Susan Sarandon in the role of the lesbian grandmother, Naomi Watts as the single mother and Elle Fanning as Ramona whose decision to change sex and become Ray define the course of the film as the entire family will have to face an inevitable transformation. Gaby Dellal comments on cliche and tries to define the “perfect family” for her.

ABOUT RAY tells the touching story of three women- all coming from the same New York family and each belonging to a different generation- all of them affected by a life-changing transformation by one. Ray (Elle Fanning) is a teenage girl that wants to become a boy. Ray has lived for years as she was a boy and now he wants to start the hormonal therapy. His single mother, Maggie (Naomi Watts), must track down Ray’s biological father to get his legal consent. Dolly (Susan Sarandon), Ray’s lesbian grandmother, is having a hard time accepting the change. The three women will have to face their own identity to fully understand Ray’s transformation and find again serenity and balance.

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