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PODCAST| Nicolò Comotti interviews Maxine Peake, actress of the film Peterloo.

Maxine Peake stops by our radiocall studio in Venice to talk about her interpretation in Mike Leigh’s Peterloo, in competition here in Venice for the 75th Golden Lion.

Peterloo: An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that had gathered to demand political reforms and protest against rising levels of poverty. Many protestors were killed and hundreds more injured, sparking a nationwide outcry but also further government suppression. The Peterloo Massacre was a defining moment in British democracy which also played a significant role in the founding of The Guardian newspaper.

To know more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST| Nicolò Comotti interviews Mike Leigh, director of the film Peterloo.

Mike Leigh is here in Venice to present his latest film Peterloo, in Venice 75’s official competition. It turned out to be a chance for us to hear his view on filmmaking and how the presence of certain, simple things can easily make you a director.

Peterloo: An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that had gathered to demand political reforms and protest against rising levels of poverty. Many protestors were killed and hundreds more injured, sparking a nationwide outcry but also further government suppression. The Peterloo Massacre was a defining moment in British democracy which also played a significant role in the founding of The Guardian newspaper.

To know more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST| Nicolò Comotti interviews Victor Kossakovsky, director of the film Aquarela.

Victor Kossakovsky has the chance to dissect his latest work, Aquarela, for the pleasure of our cinefile audience. A production that proved to be as beautiful as it was dangerous to shoot, Aquarela is a work that combines technology with an old-fashioned, romanticist take on filmmaking.

Aquarela takes audiences on a deeply cinematic journey through the transformative beauty and raw power of water. Filmed at 96 frames-persecond, the film is a visceral wake-up call that humans are no match for the sheer force and capricious will of Earth’s most precious element. From the precarious frozen waters of Russia’s Lake Baikal to Miami in the throes of Hurricane Irma to Venezuela’s mighty Angel Falls, water is Aquarela’s main character, with director Victor Kossakovsky capturing her many personalities in startling visual detail.

To know more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST| Nicolò Comotti interviews Mahmut Fazil Goskun, director of the film Anons.

Mahmut Fazil Goskun talks to FRED about his latest feature, Anons, here in Venice for the Orizzonti official selection.

Anons: May 22nd, 1963. Unhappy with the existing social and political situation in Turkey, a group of military officers has planned a coup d’etat to take down the government in Ankara. Meanwhile in Istanbul, their co-conspirators have undertaken the vital mission of taking over the National Radio station and making a formal announcement about the coup. But nothing goes to plan. Faced with a number of obstacles, including a sudden rainstorm, the absence of the radio station technician, a betrayal, the lack of feedback from Ankara and their own inefficiency, the conspirators scramble to keep their plan on track and announce the success of the coup – that is, if the coup in the capital has taken place at all. Based on actual events and told over the course of a single night, Anons is a wry commentary on Turkey’s uneasy political past – and present. Biting political satire meets subtle comedy in a film that highlights the absurdity of its story without ever being anything less than dead serious.

To know more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST| David Martos interviews David Oelhoffen, Matthias Schoenaerts and Reda Kateb, director and actors of the film Frères Ennemis.

The cast of the film Frères Ennemis talks to FRED about the film presented in competition at the 75th Venice International Film Festival. In the interview we rise the topic of choices in life, given that the two main characters come from the very same background… but end up being in opposite sides of life: cop and drug dealer.

Frères Ennemis: Born and raised in a suburb ridden by drug trafficking, Driss and Manuel were like brothers. As adults, they have gone down exactly the opposite path: Manuel chose to embrace this thug life, while Driss completely rejected it and became a cop. When Manuel’s biggest deal goes terribly wrong, the two men meet again and come to realize they both need each other to survive in their worlds. Between betrayals and resentments, and despite their hatred, they renew deep ties around the one thing they have left in common: their visceral commitment to the place of their childhood.

For the page of the film on the Festival website, click here.

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PODCAST| Nicolò Comotti interviews Mikhael Hers, Isaure Multrier, Vincent Lacoste and Stacy Martin, director and actors of the film Amanda.

Mikhael Hers stops by our Venice Radio Call to talk about his latest film, Amanda, in the Orrizonti section. The main cast – Vincent Lacoste, Isaure Multrier and Stacy Martin was also present.

Amanda: David, who gets by doing odd jobs, meets Lena, who has just moved up to Paris, and falls in love. But soon after, his life is brutally interrupted by the sudden death of his sister. Beyond the shock, and the pain, David now finds himself alone with his young niece Amanda to care for.

To know more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST| Nicolò Comotti interviews Rahi Anil Barve, Adesh Prasad and Sohum Sha, directors and producer of the film Tumbbad.

Rahi Anil Barve, Adesh Prasad and Sohum Sha talk to us about their years and years together on the set of Tumbbad, an epic mythological action film that defies any genre without sacrificing its entertaining soul. Tumbbad is here in Venice in the International Critics Week section.

Tumbbad: India, 19th century: on the outskirts of a decrepit village called Tumbbad lives Vinayak, the stubborn, conniving bastard son of the village lord, obsessed with a mythical ancestral treasure. He suspects the secret lies with his great-grandmother, a cursed witch sleeping for centuries. Confronting her finally puts him face to face with the guardian of the treasure, an evil fallen god. What starts with a few gold coins, quickly spirals into a reckless, perpetual yearning, spanning decades. Vinayak’s greed keeps escalating until he unearths the biggest secret of all, something more valuable than the treasure itself.

To know more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST| Chiara Nicoletti interviews Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga, director/actor and actress of the film A Star is Born.

After George Cukor and Frank Pierson, it is actor turned director Bradley Cooper’s turn to direct A Star is Born in a third remake starring famous singer Lady Gaga, here actress for the film. The film is presented out of competition at the 75th Venice Film Festival. Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga describe how they met in a moment in their life where they both wanted to jump in a new adventure so they found and help each other become a director and an actress. Gaga confirms that there are many similarities between her personal life story and her character Ally’s one, if we consider the transition Lady Gaga did from being Stefani Germanotta to becoming a world famous singer and diva till finally finding the way to combine her two souls. What it means to be a Star? To Bradley Cooper and his first film the answer.

A Star is Born: In this new take on the iconic love story, Bradley Cooper makes his directorial debut and portrays seasoned musician Jackson Maine, who discovers and falls in love with struggling artist Ally, played by Lady Gaga. Ally has given up on her dream to become a successful singer until she meets Jack, who immediately sees her raw talent. This intimate story takes us on a journey through the beauty and challenges of a relationship struggling to survive.

To discover more about the film in the Festival website, click here.

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PODCAST| Matt Micucci interviews Bob Murawski and Jan Filip Rymsza, editor and producer of the film The Other Side of the Wind.

Interview with editor Bob Murawski and producer Filip Jan Rymsza about the special premiere screening of Orson Welles lost epic, The Other Side of the Wind, at the 2018 Venice Film Festival. Rymsza tells us the story of the film and where the wealth of footage was found, while Murawski tells us about his reaction to this original material and the various challenges involved in the process of putting the cinematic mosaic together – especially considering that its filmmaker, Welles, died back in 1985. Murawski also received the newly established Campari Passion for Film Award in Venice.

The Other Side of the Wind: In 1970, legendary director Orson Welles began filming what would ultimately be his final cinematic opus with a cast of luminaries that included John Huston, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg and Welles’s partner during his later years, Oja Kodar. Beset by financial issues, the production ultimately stretched to 1976 and soon gained industry-wide notoriety, never to be completed or released. More than a thousand reels of film languished in a Paris vault until March 2017, when producers Frank Marshall (who served as a production manager on Wind during in its initial shooting) and Filip Jan Rymsza spearheaded efforts to have Welles’s vision completed more than 30 years after his death. Featuring a new score by Oscar-winning composer Michel Legrand and assembled by a technical team including Oscar- winning editor Bob Murawski, The Other Side of the Wind tells the story of famed filmmaker J.J. “Jake” Hannaford, who returns to Hollywood after years in self-exile in Europe with plans to complete work on his own innovative comeback movie. A satire of the classic studio system as well as the new establishment who were shaking things up at the time, Welles’s final film is both a fascinating time capsule of a now-distant era in moviemaking as well as the long-awaited “new” work from an indisputable master of his craft.

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PODCAST| David Martos interviews Jeff Goldblum and Rick Alverson, actor and director of the film The Mountain.

We discussed with Rick Alverson and Jeff Goldblum about the connections between the universe depicted in the film and nowadays America. Besides, Goldblum explained how he worked on the double nature of his character.

The Mountain: 1950s America. Since his mother‘s confinement to an institution, Andy has lived in the shadow of his stoic father. A family acquaintance, Dr. Wallace Fiennes, employs the introverted young man as a photographer to document an asylum tour advocating for his increasingly controversial lobotomy procedure. As the tour progresses and Andy witnesses the doctor’s career and life unravel, he begins to identify with the institutions’ patients. Arriving at a California mountain town, a growing center of the New Age movement, they encounter an unconventional French healer who requests a lobotomy for his own daughter, Susan.

For the page of the film on the Festival website, click here.

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