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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Gabriel Range and Johnny Flynn, director and actor of the film Stardust. 

A conversation with Gabriel Range and Johnny Flynn, respectively director and actor of Stardust, presented at the 2020 Rome Film Fest. The film is inspired by the life of David Bowie. In this interview, Range and Flynn talk about portraying the music legend and how some of the challenges they had to overcome. Range also talks about the film being “mostly fiction” and what that means, as well as exploring mental illness within the movement. Together, they also share their opinion on what they feel would be the best album for Bowie beginners to start on.

Stardust will chronicle the young David Bowie’s first visit to the US in 1971 – a trip that inspired the invention of his iconic alter ego Ziggy Stardust.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Giedre Zickyte, director of the film The Jump. 

A conversation with Giedre Zickyte, director of The Jump, presented at the 2020 Rome Film Fest. The film tells tale of a Soviet sailor who jumped onto a U.S. Coast Guard boat in 1970 in a bid for political asylum. The director talks with us working on the film, whether protagonist Simas Kudirka wanted to share his story and how the events recounted resonate with modern times.

The Jump: In 1970, in the middle of the Cold War, an American patrol boat meets a Soviet fishing vessel in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Suddenly, a Lithuanian sailor jumps across ten feet of icy water, landing on the deck of the American boat in a frantic bid for political asylum. To his horror, the Americans return him to the Soviets. Told through incredible archival footage and re-lived by the would-be defector Simas Kudirka himself, the tale takes us on a stranger-than-fiction journey of imprisonment, twists of fate, and the price of becoming a symbol of freedom.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews filmmaker John Waters at the 2020 Rome Film Fest.

A few words with John Waters from the red carpet of the 2020 Rome Film Fest. The filmmaker was a special guest of this year’s festival and the protagonist of a “Close Encounters” event. We take this opportunity how his creativity has been impacted by the times that we are living in and, given that he is a modern-day renaissance man, what his artform of choice would have been had he been around in the Renaissance days.

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PODCAST | Daily news and updates from the 2020 Rome Film Fest, with Matt Micucci.

Matt Micucci presents the third episode of Big FRED Roma, FRED Film Radio’s English-language daily show with news and thoughts in the 2020 edition of the Rome Film Fest. In this show, we talk about official selection films Tigers by Ronnie Sandahl and Max Barbakow’s Palm Springs, as well as Alice Nella Città titles The Specials by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano, and more. We also talk about two Federico Fellini tributes and discuss Bill Murray movies.

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PODCAST | Daily news and updates from the 2020 Rome Film Fest, with Matt Micucci.

Matt Micucci presents the first episode of Big FRED Roma, FRED Film Radio’s English-language daily show with news and thoughts in the 2020 edition of the Rome Film Fest. Films discussed in this episode include Francois Ozon’s Summer of ’85, and Alex Infascelli’s documentary on Rome’s premiere football legend, My Name is Francesco Totti. We also talk about Trash, the opening film of the Alice nella Città strand and more.

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PODCAST | Daily news and updates from the 2020 Rome Film Fest, with Matt Micucci.

Matt Micucci presents the first episode of Big FRED Roma, FRED Film Radio’s English-language daily show with news and thoughts in the 2020 edition of the Rome Film Fest. Films discussed in this episode include Gabriel Range’s Stardust, inspired by events in the life of a young David Bowie, and the festival’s opening film, Pixar’s Soul.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Steve Massa, author of the book Rediscovering Roscoe: The Films of “Fatty” Arbuckle.

A conversation with film historian Steve Massa, who recently published a book on early slapstick comedian Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, which he presented at this year’s Limited Edition of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival.

Arbuckle was a prolific film star and auteur, as well as the most famous stars in cinema of his day, yet his career came to a crashing halt following a scandal that continued to taint his reputation to this day. Massa’s book aims to turn attention back to his movies, and he talks about it in this interview. He also takes the time to talk about The Silent Comedy Watch Party, an online series of silent comedies he has been hosting during much of the quarantine period with musician/historian Ben Model.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews David Martinez, festival producer of Raindance Film Festival.

A conversation with David Martinez, festival producer of the Raindance Film Festival, which is set to run this year in London, UK, on October 28-November 7.

In this interview, talks a bit about the identity of the festival, one of the most important independent film festivals in the world, as well as the ways in which it is responding to the coronavirus pandemic this year. In addition, Martinez talks about some of the films featured in this year’s Raindance program as well as its industry events.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Chris Hastings, head of the Satisfied Eye International Film Festival.

A conversation with Chris Hastings, head of the Satisfied Eye International Film Festival, which takes place annually in Epsom, UK. In this interview, Hastings talks about the history and mission statement of the festival, as well as how it has been impacted by the coronavirus and some of the highlights from this year’s program.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Andreas Leimbach-Niaz, co-director 11mm International Football Film Festival Berlin.

A conversation with Andreas Leimbach-Niaz, co-director of the 11mm International Football Film Festival Berlin, which takes place in the German capital this year on October 15-19.

The most important film festival exploring the link between football and cinema had to be postponed due to the pandemic and Leimbach-Niaz talks about how it has responded to the coronavirus as well as some of the films in this year’s program. He also talks a bit about the history of the festival and said link between cinema and football.

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