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PODCAST | Daily news and updates from the 76th Venice Film Festival, with Matt Micucci and Angelo Acerbi.

FRED’s Matt Micucci and Angelo Acerbi come to you with the sixth daily report from Venezia 76. On this episode we talk about Olivier Assayas’ Wasp Network, David Michod’s The King and more, plus the Career Achievement award to Julie Andrews and Martin Scorsese’s New York New York restoration.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Steven Soderbergh, Gary Oldman and Meryl Streep, director and actors of the film The Laundromat.

We all know about the Panama papers but not many of us know how much this issue and the existence of off shore “shell” companies can touch and affect each one of us. Steven Soderbergh found the right way to make everyone aware of that with The Laundromat, in competition at the 76th Venice Film Festival. With Antonio Banderas and Gary Oldman playing both narrators and Jürgen Mossack and Ramón Fonseca, experts in the seductive ways shell companies and offshore accounts help the rich and powerful prosper, Soderbergh counts on Meryl Streep to close the circle and deliver a very balanced tale of comedy and drama. The actors describe the fun and the pleasure in working with such a great director like Steven Soderberg.

The Laundromat: When her idyllic vacation takes an unthinkable turn, Ellen Martin begins investigating a fake insurance policy, only to find herself down a rabbit hole of questionable dealings that can be linked to a Panama City law firm and its vested interest in helping the world’s wealthiest citizens amass even larger fortunes. The charming—and very well-dressed—founding partners Jürgen Mossack and Ramón Fonseca are experts in the seductive ways shell companies and offshore accounts help the rich and powerful prosper. They are about to show us that Ellen’s predicament only hints at the tax evasion, bribery and other illicit absurdities that the super wealthy indulge in to support the world’s corrupt financial system. Zipping through a kaleidoscope of comic detours in China, Mexico, Africa (via Los Angeles) and the Caribbean en route to 2016’s Panama papers incident – where journalists leaked the secret, encrypted documents of Mossack Fonseca’s high- profile patrons – this film is adapted from Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Jake Bernstein.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton and David Michod, actors and director of the film The King.

It is a perfect balance mix of Shakespeare and historical facts, the new film directed by David Michod, written with Joel Edgerton: The King. The film, presented out of competition at the 76th Venice Film Festival is based on the Henry V Shakespeare’s play and sees Timothée Chalamet in the role of King Henry and Joel Edgerton in that of John Falstaff. The King is shaped as a coming of age film and with this guideline in mind, Michod, Edgerton and Chalamet comment and describe their work on the story and the film. When do we really become adults? This is a question every spectator will have to answer while watching the film.

The King: Hal, wayward prince and reluctant heir to the English throne, has turned his back on royal life and is living among the people. But when his tyrannical father dies, Hal is crowned King Henry V and is forced to embrace the life he had previously tried to escape. Now the young king must navigate the palace politics, chaos and war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his past life—including his relationship with his closest friend and mentor, the ageing alcoholic knight, John Falstaff.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Nate Parker and Spike Lee, director and producer of the film American Skin.

Nate Parker and Spike Lee are the director and producer of American Skin, presented in the Sconfini section at the 76th Venice Film Festival. Spike Lee got on board when Nate Parker, former director of The Birth of a Nation, had already shot the film. American Skin is a film and a project as it aims at connecting people, at creating a dialogue between different people. In the film, Nate Parker plays a veteran who is seeking justice for the killing of his 14-year-old son, by a policeman who thought the boy was holding a gun. Parker tries to find a different way to try and put an end to the many injustices Afro-american people have to face in the United States. The only solution is the dialogue and that’s why Spike Lee blessed the project.

American Skin: Lincoln Jefferson is a Marine veteran. Now stateside, he works as a custodian in a prestigious California high school–a job he secured only to ensure enrollment in the school to his 14-year old son KJ. One night, Lincoln and KJ are stopped by police and an altercation leads to the fatal shooting of the unarmed boy. Hopeful the system will provide a trial, Lincoln is dismayed to learn the officer responsible for pulling the trigger will go uncharged and will return to active duty without an indictment. The protagonist desperately takes the matter into his own hands in a series of events he hopes will finally lead to justice for his son.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi and Chiara Nicoletti host the roundtable on The Role of International Film Festivals Today, with Karel Och, Intishal Al Tamimi, Mike Goodridge and Git Scheynius.

FRED’s Matt Micucci and Chiara Nicoletti host a special roundtable session on the role of film festivals today. The roundtable features: Karel Och, artistic director of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival; Intishal Al Tamimi, director El Gouna Film Festival; Mike Goodridge, artistic director of International Film Festival & Awards Macao; and Git Scheynius, director of the Stockholm International Film Festival.

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PODCAST | Daily news and updates from the 76th Venice Film Festival, with Matt Micucci and Nicolò Comotti.

FRED’s Matt Micucci and Nicolò Comotti come to you with the fifth daily report from Venezia 76. On this week, we talk about such films as Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat (starring, among others, Meryl Streep), Yonfan’s animation debut No. 7 Cherry Lane, Paolo Sorrentino’s preview of his new season of The New Pope and more.

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PODCAST | Daily news and updates from the 76th Venice Film Festival, with Matt Micucci and Angelo Acerbi.

FRED’s Matt Micucci and Angelo Acerbi come to you with the fourth daily report from the 76th edition of the Venice International Film Festival. On this episode, we talk about Pablo Larraín’s Ema, Todd Philips’ Joker, the MIU MIU Women’s Tales short films presented in the Giornate degli Autori section including Lynne Ramsey’s first foray in documentary filmmaking and more.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Joaquin Phoenix, actor of the film Joker.

Joaquin Phoenix is the absolute protagonist of Joker by Todd Philips, in competition at the 76th Venice International Film Festival. In the origin story of Batman principal antagonist, Phoenix portrays the evolution or involution of Arthur Fleck who, in a world that lacks of empathy, can’t find his place in despite putting always on his “happy face”. Phoenix reveals how he preferred to be Joker rather than Arthur Fleck as the former is constantly defeated by rules and constrictions while the latter is finally free to be whoever he wants: dancing, laughing out loud.

Joker centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone fictional story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fractured society. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night… but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Zazie Beetz and Emma Tillinger Koskoff, actress and producer of the film Joker.

Zazie Beetz plays Sophie, the single mom of a 5 year old girl in Todd Philips’ Joker, in competition at the 76th Venice Film Festival. in the life of Arthur Fleck aka Joker, played by Joaquin Phoenix, she represents a chance of empathy in a world, of Gotham City, that lacks one. For Emma Tillinger, this is the first time producing a comic book film but she has always considered Joker as an exploration of the human mind as it stands halfway between a blockbuster and a arthouse film.

Joker centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone fictional story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fractured society. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night… but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Todd Phillips, director of the film Joker.

Todd Phillips is at the 76th Venice Film Festival in competition with Joker, an origin story of the most important antagonist of Batman, Joker, played by Joaquin Phoenix. Is turning into Joker a defeat for the wanna be comedian Arthur Fleck or an evolution? Todd Phillips clarifies that the film is structured and narrated in a way that the audience can decide.

Joker centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone fictional story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fractured society. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night… but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study.

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