Category Archives: Movies & TV

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

  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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →