Category Archives: Movies & TV

Maria

Maria, il film sulla leggendaria cantante Maria Callas, regia di Pablo Larraín, con protagonista Angelina Jolie, aveva debuttato al festival del cinema di Venezia, presentato poi ai festival di Telluride, Toronto, New York, Londra, Los Angeles. Uscito nei cinema USA … Continue reading

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Isabella Rossellini-Conclave

Isabella Rossellini è stata candidata dai giornalisti internazionali che votano per Golden Globes fra le migliori attrici non protagoniste per aver interpretato una suora nel film Conclave, regia di Edward Berger dal romanzo di Robert Harris del 2016, con Ralph … Continue reading

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Amy Adams-Nightbitch

Intervista di Elisa Leonelli Amy Adams è stata candidata dai giornalisti internazionali che votano per i Golden Globes fra le migliori attrici protagoniste per la sua coraggiosa interpretazione nel film Nightbitch, regia e sceneggiatura di Marielle Heller dal romanzo di … Continue reading

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Colin Farrell

Sabato 7 dicembre si è svolto a Chicago un ballo di beneficenza per la nuova fondazione lanciata da Colin Farrell per aiutare il figlio James afflitto dalla sindrome di Angelman. L’attore irlandese, a cui la Hollywood Foreign Press aveva conferito … Continue reading

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Sophia Loren

The Academy Museum presented the retrospective “Sophia Loren: La Diva di Napoli” (November 7-30) to celebrate the 90th birthday of the Italian movie star. Included were The Gold of Naples (L’oro di Napoli, 1954) directed by Vittorio DeSica, Too Bad … Continue reading

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Cynthia Erivo-Wicked

Cynthia Erivo è la protagonista di Wicked, regia di Jon M. Chu, il film tratto dal musical di Broadway del 2003, basato sul romanzo di Gregory Maguire del 1995 Strega-Cronache dal Regno di Oz in rivolta. I personaggi sono gli … Continue reading

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Kathryn Hahn-Agatha

Intervista di Elisa Leonelli 6 novembre, 2024 Kathryn Hahn interpreta una potentissima strega dell’universo Marvel nella serie TV Agatha All Along, spin-off di WandaVision (2021) con Elizabeth Olsen e Paul Bettany, entrambe create da Jac Schaeffer. L’attrice risponde alle domande … Continue reading

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Macario at Vidiots

Macario, a 1960 Mexican film restored in 2023 with funding from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (now Golden Globe Foundation), was shown at the Eagle Rock theater on Saturday November 2 to celebrate the Day of the Dead (Día de … Continue reading

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Gabriel Labelle-Saturday Night

Gabriel LaBelle aveva interpretato Steven Spielberg adolescente nel film autobiografico diretto dal famoso regista, The Fabelmans. In Saturday Night, regia di Jason Reitman, presentato alla Festa del Cinema di Roma e in uscita nei cinema, interpreta un giovane Lorne Michaels, … Continue reading

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Saturday Night-Jason Reitman

Saturday Night, regia di Jason Reitman, racconta i retroscena di quella serata in cui questo spettacolo di vignette comiche e musica andò in onda per la prima volta in diretta sul canale nazionale NBC in tutta l’America l’11 ottobre 1975. … Continue reading

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Kris Kristofferson R.I.P.

My colleagues, the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press, had interviewed Kris Kristofferson twice before, in 1976 for A Star Is Born with Barbra Streisand (awarding him a Golden Globe as Best Actor among the five Globes earned by the … Continue reading

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His Three Daughters

Di Elisa Leonelli His Three Daughters (Le sue tre figlie) aveva debuttato il 9 settembre 2023 al festival di Toronto, uscito nei cinema USA il 6 settembre, 2024, è disponibile su Netflix dal 20 settembre. Si tratta di un film … Continue reading

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Richard Gadd-Baby Reindeer

Intervista di Elisa Leonelli 16 settembre, 2024 La miniserie Baby Reindeer ha ricevuto quattro premi Emmy domenica 15 settembre su cinque candidature. Tre per Richard Gadd, come attore protagonista, scrittore e produttore, una per Jessica Gunning, come attrice non protagonista. … Continue reading

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Madame Clicquot

  Madame Clicquot, regia e sceneggiatura di Thomas Napper dalla biografia di Tilar Mazzeo del 2008 La vedova Clicquot, racconta la storia vera di una giovane donna francese, Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin, che dopo la morte del marito, François Clicquot, nel 1805 … Continue reading

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Sigourney Weaver

Sigourney Weaver received the Golden Lion for Lifetime achievement at the 81st Venice film Festival. Speaking to press, she said: ““We’re all so excited about Kamala. Women are strong, and don’t give up, because we can’t, we have to do … Continue reading

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Freud-L’ultima analisi

Freud’s Last Session descrive una discussione immaginaria fra Sigmund Freud (Anthony Hopkins), padre della psicanalisi, e C.S. Lewis (Matthew Goode), autore del ciclo di romanzi Le cronache di Narnia. Freud, 83enne, si era rifugiato a Londra da Vienna nel 1938, … Continue reading

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Cassandra & Paradox

Dopo tante interviste con Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman e Shaw Levy su Deadpool & Wolverine (vedi servizio di contro copertina Best Movie luglio) intervistiamo per la prima volta insieme a loro i due attori britannici, Emma Corrin e Matthew MacFayden, … Continue reading

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Young Woman and the Sea

17 luglio 2024 di Elisa Leonelli Young Woman and the Sea (La ragazza del mare), il film, che racconta la storica impresa sportiva della nuotatrice Trudy Ederle debutterà su Disney+ il 19 luglio, dopo essere stato presentato nei cinema USA … Continue reading

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Shelley Duvall

I interviewed and photographed Shelley Duvall in December 1980, when she talked to us, journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press about the movie Popeye, directed by Robert Altman, where she played Olive Oil opposite Robin William as the Sailor Man. … Continue reading

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Daddio

Di Elisa Leonelli 28 giugno, 2024 Daddio, con Dakota Johnson e Sean Penn, presentato ai festival di Telluride e Toronto nell’autunno del 2023 e a Tribeca nell’aprile di quest’anno, esce nei cinema USA il 28 giugno, ma non ha ancora … Continue reading

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Glen Powell-Hit Man

Di Elisa Leonelli Glen Powell, 35 anni, si era fatto notare come uno dei piloti addestrati da Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick (2022), ma ultimamente la sua popolarità è esplosa a tal punto che l’Hollywood Reporter lo mette in … Continue reading

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Meryl Streep at 75

  Meryl Streep turned 75 on June 22, and that milestone made me reflect about the many times I interviewed the greatest actress of my generation and the numerous articles I wrote about her work, in my long career as … Continue reading

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Donald Sutherland

I will always remember staying up all evening on a cold outdoor set in Vancouver, Canada, waiting for a break in the filming to photograph Donald Sutherland, and his co-star Brooke Adams, who were shooting a movie titled A Man, … Continue reading

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Anouk Aimée, adieu

One of the great actresses of European cinema, Anouk Aimée, died in Paris at age 92. I had the great privilege of interviewing her in 2002, as a journalist in the Hollywood Foreign Press, about Festival in Cannes directed by … Continue reading

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Accidentally Wes Anderson

I visited the unusual exhibit “Accidentally Wes Anderson” (AWA) at the Santa Monica Art Museum on the Promenade, on view until June 20. The photographs on display were taken by people all over the world, after creators, Wally and Amanda … Continue reading

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Ripley

di Elisa Leonelli La serie TV Ripley, regia e sceneggiatura di Steven Zallian, rinomato scrittore di film come La lista di Schindler di Steven Spielberg e The Irishman di Martin Scorsese, adatta il romanzo di Patricia Highsmith del 1955 Il … Continue reading

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Remembering GENE WILDER

Yesterday I went to see the excellent documentary Remembering Gene Wilder that opened at the Laemmle Royal Friday March 22. I enjoyed it tremendously as a long time fan of this amazing comedian. You may read these articles I wrote … Continue reading

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Kate Winslet-The Regime

Di Elisa Leonelli La miniserie TV The Regime – Il palazzo del potere racconta cosa succede dietro le quinte all’interno del sontuoso palazzo di un fittizio regime autoritario centro europeo, governato da una dittatoriale Cancelliera, la bravissima diva britannica Kate … Continue reading

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Lily Gladstone

Lily Gladstone ha vinto un Golden Globe, votato da giornalisti internazionali, come migliore attrice in un film drammatico, protagonista con Leonardo DiCaprio del film Killers of the Flower Moon, regia di Martin Scorsese, dal saggio del 2017 Gli assassini della … Continue reading

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Past Lives

Past Lives (Vite passate), prima regia della scrittrice Coreana Celine Song da una sua sceneggiatura, racconta come Nora Moon (Greta Lee) e Hae Sung (Teo Yoo), amici d’infanzia, vengono separati a 12 anni quando la famiglia di Nora emigra a … Continue reading

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Sandra Milo, addio

Italian actress Sandra Milo died today January 29, 2024 at age 90. She became famous after acting in Federico Fellini’s movies 8 1/2 (1963) as the mistress of Guido (Marcello Mastroianni), and Juliet of the Spirits (1965) as the glamorous … Continue reading

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American Fiction

Jeffrey Wright interpreta uno scrittore e professore di letteratura inglese nel film American Fiction, prima regia di Cord Jefferson, autore della sceneggiatura basata sul romanzo Erasure di Percival Everett del 2001. Jefferson racconta: “Ho fatto il giornalista per anni, e … Continue reading

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Paul Giamatti-The Holdovers

Paul Giamatti Intervista di Elisa Leonelli Paul Giamatti, finalmente libero dalla seria televisiva Billions, che lo aveva tenuto impegnato per sette stagioni dal 2016 al 2023 nel ruolo principale di Procuratore Generale di New York, accettò la proposta dell’amico regista … Continue reading

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ALEXANDER PAYNE-The Holdovers

Di Elisa Leonelli Il regista Alexander Payne parla del suo ultimo film The Holdovers-Lezioni di vita. Ambientato nel 1970 in un collegio del Massachusetts, rimasto vuoto durante le vacanze di Natale, esplora l’amicizia che si forma fra tre persone diversissime … Continue reading

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Saltburn-Emerald Fennell

Emerald Fennel parla di Saltburn di Elisa Leonelli Saltburn, secondo film della attrice, regista e sceneggiatrice Britannica Emerald Fennell, dopo il suo debutto con Una donna promettente (Promising Young Woman) nel 2021, racconta la improbable amicizia tra due studenti dell’università … Continue reading

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Zerocalcare

di Elisa Leonelli Zerocalcare è il nome d’arte del fumettista italiano Michel Rech. La sua seconda serie animata Questo mondo non mi renderà cattivo va in onda su Netflix dal 9 giugno, 2023, negli Stati Uniti e in altri 190 … Continue reading

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CALL JANE for help

By Elisa Leonelli Many women rightly feared that, after the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States over Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in November 2016, the Republican President, aided by a Republican majority in the Senate, would … Continue reading

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Elvira Notari, Pioneer of Italian Cinema

By Elisa Leonelli Elvira Coda Notari, the first woman director of Italian cinema, was born in Salerno, Campania, on February 10, 1875. She benefited from an education, which was unusual for women of that time, earning a high school degree … Continue reading

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Elvira Notari, pioniera del cinema italiano

Di Elisa Leonelli Elvira Coda Notari, la prima regista donna del cinema italiano, nacque a Salerno in Campania il 10 febbraio 1875. Ebbe il vantaggio dell’istruzione, cosa insolita per le donne di quei tempi, diplomandosi dalla Scuola Normale come maestra … Continue reading

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La dea fortuna

The Goddess of Fortune (La Dea Fortuna) Italy by Elisa Leonelli La Dea Fortuna, by Turkish-Italian director Ferzan Ozpetek, is the story of a gay couple in crisis, whose daily routine is upended when their best friend Annamaria (Jasmine Trinca) … Continue reading

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PRISCILLA

Priscilla, written and directed by Sofia Coppola, from the 1985 memoir Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley, premiered at the 80th Venice film festival, where the film’s star Cailee Speany won the Volpi Cup as best actress. Elvis is played … Continue reading

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The Creator

Gareth Edwards answered questions from journalists via zoom about The Creator, the science fiction thriller that he directed and co-wrote (with Chris Weisz), starring John David Washington, Gemma Chan, Ken Watanabe, Allison Janney. Watch him say in this featurette: “My … Continue reading

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Asteroid City

If you read Italian, please see the article I wrote for the Italian monthly Best Movie about Asteroid City by Wes Anderson, released in Italy Friday September 28. Asteroid City Wes Anderson e il cast svelano le ispirazioni dietro al … Continue reading

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Italians in Hollywood

In 1978 I conceived and executed a photo journalistic series about Italians who succeeded in Hollywood. Included were actors Raf Vallone and Cesare Da Nova, cinematographer Mario Tosi, creature maker Carlo Rambaldi, producer Dino De Laurentiis, costume designer Nino Novarese, … Continue reading

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DALILAND

Dalíland is the fantastical world where Salvador Dalí lives, as seen through the eyes of his newly hired young assistant James, when he steps into the Spanish painter’s lavish suite at the St Regis Hotel in New York City to … Continue reading

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Little Mermaid

The animated Disney movie Little Mermaid had enchanted children in 1989, now the classic fairy tale by Hans Christian Anderson returns in a reimagined live-action version with new songs. Director Rob Marshall said: “It’s a very modern story about a … Continue reading

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L’immensità

L’immensità by Italian director Emanuele Crialese premiered in September 2022 at the Venice film festival and was released in US theaters on May 12. Penélope Cruz plays Clara, the Spanish mother of three children living in Rome in the 1970s, … Continue reading

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PERSIS KHAMBATTA

Not many people remember her today, but I have a special affection for Persis Khambatta, the Indian actress and model who passed away of a heart attack 25 years ago, in 1998, at the young age of 49, in Mumbai, … Continue reading

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CinemaCon 2023

As in previous years, I attended CinemaCon this year (April 24-27), the annual convention of theater owners at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas where Hollywood studios present trailers of their upcoming movies, parading stars and directors on stage. Everyone celebrated … Continue reading

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Extrapolations-Oltre il limite

Extrapolations-Oltre il limite, una serie televisiva di otto episodi interconnessi, esplora gli effetti dei cambiamenti climatici che già oggi minacciano la vita sulla Terra e probabilmente peggioreranno nel prossimo futuro con conseguenze catastrofiche, a meno che non vengano prese misure … Continue reading

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EXTRAPOLATIONS

EXTRAPOLATIONS By Elisa Leonelli. April 10, 2022 Extrapolations, a limited series of eight interconnected episodes streaming on Apple TV, explores the effects of the climate crisis that already threaten life on Earth today and will likely worsen in the near … Continue reading

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Lidia Poët

The Law According to Lidia Poët is an Italian television series streaming on Netflix inspired by the true story of the first female lawyer in Italy. Set in the 1880s in the regal city of Turin in the Piedmont region, … Continue reading

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Santa Barbara Film Festival

The 38th edition of the Santa Barbara Film Festival took place from February 8 to 18 offering movie screenings and celebrity tributes. Receiving variously named awards for their performances and participating in conversations were Angela Bassett for Black Panther: Wakanda … Continue reading

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Il Boemo

Il Boemo tells the life story of an 18th century composer who traveled from Prague to Venice, Italy in 1763 at the age of 25 to pursue his dream of creating music and succeeded. His name being Josef Mysliveček, which … Continue reading

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Martin Scorsese

In my long career as a journalist I interviewed masterful Italian-American director Martin Scorsese multiple times. In 1986 I interviewed and photographed him and Tom Cruise about The Color of Money. In 1990 an interview I wrote about Goodfellas was … Continue reading

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Bette Midler

Bette Midler is back as one of the three witches in the sequel to Halloween’s cult classic Hocus Pocus (1993) co-starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy, streaming on Disney+ Read at this link my article of archival quotes from … Continue reading

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Tilda Swinton

  Tilda Swinton is the striking Scottish actress who worked with filmmakers like Derek Jarman (Caravaggio 1986, etc), Sally Potter (Orlando 1992), Jim Jarmusch (Broken Flowers 2005, Only Lovers Left Alive 2013), the Coen Bros (Burn After Reading 2008, Hail, … Continue reading

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Roberta Colindrez and baseball

It will be a pleasure to watch Roberta Colindrez play Latina pitcher Lupe García in the TV series A League of Their Own based on the 1992 movie by the same title directed by Penny Marshall. Her casting, as well … Continue reading

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Gentleman Jack

The most interesting aspect of the fashion in the BBC series Gentleman Jack, that just aired its second season on HBO, are the style choices made by costume designer Tom Pye for actress Suranne Jones, playing 19th century lesbian landowner … Continue reading

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WILLEM DAFOE

In my long career as entertainment journalist, I interviewed Willem Dafoe numerous times during the past 40 years, and I always liked him. This year I noticed his engaging performances in four movies. He was directed for the sixth time … Continue reading

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Tom Hanks on 2021

As a Foreign Press Correspondent, I spoke with Tom Hanks many times through the years, and twice in 2020, about Greyhound and about News of the World directed by Paul Greengrass. I wrote an interview for the Italian magazine Best … Continue reading

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L’amica geniale su HBO

I romanzi del Quartetto Napoletano scritti da Elena Ferrante dal 2011 al 2014 erano statti tradotti in inglese e diventati dei bestseller in America. La prima stagione della serie televisiva co-prodotta dalla RAI e dalla HBO, L’amica geniale (My Brilliant … Continue reading

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Trial of the Chicago 7

Aaron Sorkin wrote and directed The Trial of the Chicago 7, with Sacha Baron Cohen playing Abbie Hoffman, Jeremy Strong as Jerry Rubin, Eddie Redmayne as Tom Hayden, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Bobby Seal. On Netflix September 16, watch trailer. … Continue reading

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VIDA and Boyle Heights

When I first watched the TV series VIDA in 2018, I was excited to learn about the East LA neighborhood of Boyle Heights, and to see all kinds of sexual preferences and gender expressions represented, in what used to be … Continue reading

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Bernardo Bertolucci-In Memoriam

by Elisa Leonelli November 26, 2018 Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci (born in Parma, Italy, March 16, 1941, died November 26, 2018 at age 77) was inspired by the experimental cinema of Jean-Luc Godard and Pier Paolo Pasolini, who served … Continue reading

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Luca Guadagnino

Intervista di Elisa Leonelli 21 novembre 2017 Luca  Guadagnino, nato a Palermo il 10 agosto 1971, da padre siciliano e madre algerina, si è laureato all’università Sapienza di Roma con una tesi sul regista americano Jonathan Demme, ha iniziato la … Continue reading

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TCM Classic Film Festival

by Elisa Leonelli April 10, 2017 The TCM Classic Film Festival, launched in 2010, was held for the eighth year in Hollywood from Thursday to Sunday April 6 to 9, 2017. Crowds of movie lovers of all ages lined up … Continue reading

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Laverne Cox

by Elisa Leonelli October 16, 2016 Laverne Cox stars in the Fox TV remake The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again. She plays the role of mad scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter made famous by Tim Curry in … Continue reading

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Ugo Tognazzi-in memoriam

di Elisa Leonelli 27 ottobre, 2015 Nel 25esimo anniversario della sua scomparsa (il 27 ottobre 1990, a 68 anni, di ictus cerebrale), ricordiamo il grande attore italiano Ugo Tognazzi. Nato a Cremona, Tognazzi aveva iniziato la carriera nell’avanspettacolo, era diventato … Continue reading

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