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PODCAST | Live from the 78th Venice Film Festival, it’s the BIG FRED VENICE! A daily journal from the oldest and one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world with news, reviews and all kinds of fun stuff, hosted by Matt Micucci and Nicolò Comotti. In this episode, we talk about some of the main films presented in Venice, including: Pablo Larraín’s Spencer; Denis Villeneuve’s Dune; Harry Wootliff’s True Things and more.

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PODCAST |Matt Micucci interviews Chen Guan, director of the film Shen Kong.

A conversation with Chen Guan, director of Shen Kong, the opening film of the 2021 Giornate degli Autori, the parallel and independent section of the Venice Film Festival. The film follows a young boy and a girl and their blooming romance as they go around their town in the pandemic looking for “something to play with,” as the director puts it. In this interview, Chen Guan talks about the challenges of shooting the film in the streets, the natural feeling shared in the relationship between the two lead actors and also gives us his own personal definition of desire. (Translation is provided by the producer of the film, He Xuan.)

Shen Kong : When a pandemic breaks out, Li You is given a long vacation while Xiao Xiao is forced to remain in a city that she does not know well. A strange atmosphere hangs over the urban landscape. The two of them wander the streets in search of fun things to do. Meanwhile, their emotions, state of mind, ethical values, and physical instincts gradually become tools of desire. Once they have indulged in their pleasures and their euphoria reaches a climax, what else is left for them to set their hearts on, apart from the marks they have left on the city?

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Pablo Larraín and Kirsten Stewart, director and actress of the film Spencer.

Pablo Larraín and Kirsten Stewart briefly talk to FRED’s Nicolò Comotti about their collaboration on the Chilean director’s latest work Spencer, starring a dazzling Stewart as Princess Diana – and her strive towards independence.

Spencer: The marriage of Princess Diana and Prince Charles has long since grown cold. Though rumors of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at the Queen’s Sandringham Estate. There’s eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. But this year, things will be a whole lot different.Spencer is an imagining of what might have happened during those few fateful days.

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PODCAST | Live from the 78th Venice Film Festival, it’s the BIG FRED VENICE! A daily journal from the oldest and one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world with news, reviews and all kinds of fun stuff, hosted by Matt Micucci and Nicolò Comotti. In this episode, we talk about some of the major films presented at the festival, including: Paolo Sorrentino’s most personal feature yet, The Hand of God; Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter; the Giornate degli Autori film Californie and more.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Jake Wachtel, director of the film Karmalink.

A conversation with Jake Wachtel, the director of Karmalink. Described as a Buddhist sci-fi set in Cambodia, the film was this year’s opening film of the International Critics’ Week at the Venice Film Festival. In this interview, Wachtel talks about his interest in Buddhism and neuroscience, and the fascinating way in which he slowly shaped and produced this profound and visionary feature. In the end, he also plays us a classic Cambodian song by Sinn Sisamouth on vocals and ukulele.

Karmalink: In near-future Phnom Penh, a teenage boy teams up with a street-smart girl from his neighborhood to untangle the mystery of his past-life dreams. What begins as a hunt for a Buddhist treasure soon leads to greater discoveries that will either end in digital enlightenment or a total loss of identity.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Shirin Neshat, director of the film Land of Dreams.

A conversation with Shirin Neshat about her talest feature, Land of Dreams, presented in the Orizzonti Extra section of the 78th Venice Film Festival. Neshat is one of the foremost multimedia artists of our time. This is the Iranian filmmaker’s second feature directorial effort and her first American production. Surrealist, dystopian but also intimate and autobiographical, Land of Dreams is an exploration of the powerful nature of dreams and the subconscious, and an investigation on what it means to be a free American. In this interview, Neshat talks about the origins of this idea, its autobiographical elements and some of the characteristic traits of her art.

Land of Dreams is a political satire set in the near future where America has closed its borders and become more insular than ever. The story follows Simin, an Iranian American woman, on a journey to discover the core of what it means to be a free American. She works for the most important government agency of her time, the Census Bureau. In efforts to understand and control its populous, the government has begun a program to record the citizen’s dreams. Simin, one of the Census Bureau’s lead dream catchers, is unaware of this devious plot. She herself, being among the last immigrants allowed into the country, is torn between her appreciation for America’s acceptance, compassion for those whose dreams she is recording and a truth she must find within. Playful and poignant, Land of Dreams acknowledges the greatness of the American experiment while offering a warning beacon for what could come.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Dayna Goldfine, director of the film Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song.

An interview with Dayna Goldfine, co-director with Dan Geller of the documentary Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song, presented out of competition at the 78th Venice Film Festival. As the title suggests, the documentary is about the great poet/singer/songwriter but it also explores the life of a song as iconic as “Hallelujah,” the many ways it shape and moulds over the years, becoming its own thing. In this interview, Goldfine offers insight into the multi-year work that this project required and the challenge of working within a structure that is different from the typical biographical documentary. She also shares her personal memories of first becoming aware of Leonard Cohen and more.

Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song : This feature-length documentary explores the life of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, Hallelujah.

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PODCAST | Live from the 78th Venice Film Festival, it’s the BIG FRED VENICE! A daily journal from the oldest and one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world with news, reviews and all kinds of fun stuff, hosted by Matt Micucci and Nicolò Comotti. In this episode, we finally get to talk about movies, including the opening film of the festival, Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers. Other films discussed include The Promises by Thomas Kruithof, Jane Campion’s latest The Power of the Dog and more.

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PODCAST | Live from the 78th Venice Film Festival, it’s the BIG FRED VENICE! A daily journal from the oldest and one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world with news, reviews and all kinds of fun stuff, hosted by Matt Micucci and Nicolò Comotti. In this episode, we break the ice by introducing the official competition and Orizzonti juries, the career achievement Golden Lion to Roberto Benigni, talk about some of the films we’re most looking forward to seeing in Venice this year and more.

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PODCAST |Matt Micucci interviews Tea Lukač, director of the film Roots.

A conversation with filmmaker Tea Lukač about her latest feature film Roots. The film is screening as part of the East of the West Competition at the 2021 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Roots is an intimate portrait where different sets of people share stories and conversate at the back of a moving car, as it crosses the town of Dvor in Croatia. In this conversation, Lukač talks more about this concept and her personal connection to the Dvor, the importance of nature in this film and more.

Roots : A silent landscape flashes past the windows of a moving car conveying different sets of passengers. The conversations veer towards such diverse themes as carol-singing, nuclear waste, and the dangers of hornets’ nests. Tea Lukač’s anthropological probe gets by with a minimum of cinematic devices in order to deliver a focused study of the phenomena of memory, history and tradition.

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