Tyrannosaur - Focus UK -Tyrannosaur - Focus UK - Elisa Enrica Marinoni

We're back in the UK, with a new movie premiere, a memorable debut that made ​​the audience to speak for days. 
Given the title and the poster could expect a documentary about dinosaurs hatched out of the Extra section, or a movie Jurassic Park-style action instead we are faced with a story infinitely better than raw.From the first scene shows the hardness of the film express Peddy Considine , for the first time behind the camera after a career as an actor: the alcoholic Joseph, in the throes of a tantrum, hitting her beloved dog to death Bluey and the next moment he kneels to ask forgiveness while the animal is lying on the ground in agony. We are located on the outskirts of London, where our protagonist lives and spends his days getting drunk in pubs, without working and always ready to burst into uncontrolled violence. It devastated the soul of Joseph, after every violent act that takes refuge in sorrow and solitude. A self-destructive instinct which has deep roots in a life that is reserved only disappointments and sorrows, marked by the loss of a loved and hated his wife, nicknamed the " Tyrannosaur ", because, being a woman of flesh, when he climbed the stairs caused a tremor that shakes the cup was the same as if coming directly from the tyrannosaurus rex jurassic park. Of this life, Joseph tries to unravel physically memories, and then take refuge in his inner silence perched on an old armchair in the garden among the ruins of the destroyed objects. The meeting, seemingly random, with the good Samaritan and a believer Hannah seems to be a good time to change his life. In fact, the strong faith of Hannah is just an escape for a woman married to an abusive husband, jealous, sexually perverse. The two souls torn apart, although with the initial distrust of Joseph against the woman too good and perfect, will come together, perhaps even able to redeem himself.

THE DEEP BLUE SEA - UK Focus - Elisa Enrica Marinoni

The Deep Blue Sea is the focus of the first film screened at the Auditorium in Rome on October 28.
Before the screening began the director Terence Davies, visibly moved, he greeted the crowd and introduced the film with some touching words:  "This is a film about nature, a love that somehow can not be given back. There are three people who love each other but it is a kind of love that destroys, but true love is to say, if you're happy without me I let you go. Only in this way has the courage to continue. Love is very human. "
In the film we find ourselves faced with a love triangle: Hester, William and Freddie. Hester, charming young wife of Supreme Court Justice Sir William Collyer, lives all the privileges that life offers lucky in London in the '50s. But when he meets the young ex-RAF pilot Freddie Page decides to change his life completely. The film, from an entirely female perspective, what drives a woman to leave a husband who is good and that makes us live in a state economically prosperous, a former pilot with the vices of alcohol. Freddie Hester test a strong feeling, inexplicable to human reason and ineffable, because it is difficult to understand how a woman is willing to suffer not only the opinion of the people, but also a life devoid of ease and without being romantically reciprocated in full. Hester For this love is an overwhelming force, an addiction so strong that vital push to have attempted suicide in the first scene, just because its Freddie had forgotten his birthday. The young driver is completely different from her husband, that makes them feel the emotions are extremely physical and carnal. Exchanged their first kiss passionately in a bar, the two lovers become increasingly complicit up to give themselves physically to one another. Hester evidence on his skin shivers of love, the elderly husband who had never given her during their marriage based on a very conventional routines. Meanwhile, the couple go to visit William's mother, a lady very bigoted and exteriority that gives importance only to the social and with whom will be confronted about the opposite idea of passion, considered as an error, in any field, to replace an enthusiasm to content. When her husband discovers that his wife has a lover's begs the question "how can you throw away something so big for such a small thing?" , but his marriage to Hester is pure exteriority and her lover is not just a fling . We are thus faced with a woman who, despite his young age, he is fully aware of the risks they run, but decided to gamble everything to Freddie, the man he calls " he is my life , "his life. But things between the two lovers do not go as she wants because Freddie does not invest in their relationship to the amount of time and passion that she would like. Hester comes to suicide groped, what offense punishable at the time, only for a small lack of Freddie. When the lover discovers things happened between the two young men rush, he does not want to give her what she wants: a perfect and pure love. The husband, hearing of the attempted suicide of his wife, visited her to try to help her and also hopes to convince her to go home to him, trying to investigate the reasons for the relationship with another man and the response "He gives me sometimes only his body " , is shocked, confused, unable to understand how a woman can love only sex.

Sunday Bloody Sunday - Focus UK - Chiara Ferrante

Joe Schlesinger signed a cinematic masterpiece became a landmark for its time, Sunday Bloody Sunday,  1971 . The film tells the story of a complicated love triangle between three Londoners, Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch and Murray Head, which shows not only the gay world with ease but above illustrates and tries to understand the complexity of human behavior. A daring film, perhaps too much so for the time.
Bob is a young designer who lives two bisexual love affairs simultaneously with a lawyer in London, Alex (played by Glenda Jackson) and a doctor jew, Daniel (played by a talented Peter Finch). The two lovers are aware of the existence of others, but prefer to endure the situation for fear of losing Bob. Alex and Daniel are forced to be what they are not really in their work and with their families, but they can really show themselves only in contact with Bob. For Alex, their relationship is a lifeline than its general failure in life, from childhood distress that characterized his early years of marriage gone wrong, but Bob Daniel is an escape from his strict Jewish education and a point of call to free her repressed nature. The situation, however, when Bob rushes suddenly announced his departure for the United States, providing for her two lovers, older than he is in search of existential and emotional stability, great suffering and an incredible emptiness.
In addition to a formidable cast in which stand the three protagonists, there are several minor roles filled by those who are now major players such as Daniel Day-Lewis, Peggy Ashcroft and Maurice Denham.
Of great importance in the film are the places where the events take place. The house of each of the protagonists and the environment in which they live tell us much about them: Alex lives in a flat, large, home to a professional young man without roots, but the home of Daniel is very elegant and perfectly mirrors the His sensitive soul and his generosity in helping others, and finally the home of Bob perfectly reflects his profession and his social class, being a small apartment which is also the artist's studio.

THE DARK SIDE OF THE SUN - Documentary - Silvia De Marco and Giulia Piazza

Garlanded a trail of spirits, fluorescent lights that playing down the trails of the forest night: here it is, the picture of "THE DARK SIDE OF THE SUN", a documentary directed by  Carlo Hintermann Shalom, competing in the L'Altro Cinema / Extra Documentary Film Festival of Rome 2011.
The film sheds light on the condition of  Xeoderma Pigmentosum , known as XP, "a rare autosomal recessive disorder of pigmentation that occurs in all races and occurs with an extreme photosensitivity to light, due to the lack of the enzyme that allows the repair of damage DNA caused by ultraviolet rays. " The disease is highly visible, manifested by pigmented spots on the face and hands, which is Presot estenfono to the whole body. Among the spots appear reddish with the lessons, the skin becomes dry, tough. The spontaneous healing narrows the mouth and gradually tends to overthrow the eyelids. Continue exacerbations mark the course of the disease usually affects children and rarely more than thirty years.
Engraved on the screen, with a childish handwriting white on black, appears the motto Hebrew:  "We were taught that we must overcome their own limits, but this does not mean that we should blow up not knowing where to land " . An invitation, this quotation, to understand the creation of  Camp Sundown , a camp where all young people with dall'XP gather during the summer and finally begin to live, to build relationships and socialize in their apparent shyness. The camp was created by Caren and Dan Mahar, parents of  Katie , a child with XP, so that he spent a life of solitude created this mini-night companies, who will be able to grasp the positive side of this situation.

DECAMERON ITALIAN -Italy Happy birthday! - Chiara Ferrante

The National Film Archive in collaboration with the Rome Film Festival has brought to the screen ten films of the Auditorium dedicated to our country. Five days to tell the identity view of Italian cinema: the ratio of the Italians with the church, family, history, their character and the fictional division between Po and southerners.
The retrospective devoted to 150 anniversary of the D ' Italy has opened Oct. 31 with two films that tell and reveal the character of the Italians: ITALIAN Italioti and this is the section that opens the retrospective contains two masterpieces of Italian cinema: The Monsters of Dino Risi and The Great War of Mario Monicelli. In the first film in 20 short sketches Dino Risi form a mosaic of Italy cynical and ironic that in the mid 60s out of the economic miracle and is faced with the industrialization and especially the change of the reference values. The film gives an overview of the vices of a country in rapid transformation, in which the Italian is a monster represented in its civil and social difficulties, which accentuate these problems there are sinister and deformed characters represented in the film as caricatures, interpreted a formidable pair of actors: Ugo Tognazzi and Vittorio Gassman. Another masterpiece is The Great War with a fresco depicting choral, and dramatic irony of Italian life in the trenches during the First World War. Through a language of neo-realist and romantic at the same time Monicelli combines traditional Italian comedy scenes with remarkable attention to historical details.

Simona Ventura thunder against general: Francesca and finalists for Xfactor snubbed by TV

You can not live a single satellite, is well aware of Simona Ventura. If the hit television show X Factor has now been consecrated, is not automatic that the same success as the singers and then embrace their new songs. Beyond the talent and skill of the competitors, once the lights went out in the final, the mechanism is ready to hit showbiz, for better or for worse. To this was anxiously awaited the response of the radio and TV "products" Made inSky edition of X Factor, which has focused heavily on music (and the quality has been affected positively unpublished).
Radios have been interested in the songs of the finalists, especially to "Distracted" winnerof the Francesca Michielin. Interest demonstrated by large networks, usually in front of theposh singers from the talent show. We found good steps by radio RTL 102.5, RadioDeejay, RDS, Radio 105, Radio Rmc1 and Italy. According Earone, the last day of observations, "Distracted", written by Elisa Roberto Casalino, stationed at the fifth position of the Italian songs passed over the radio. A good result that has not gone unnoticed by hismentor, Simona Ventura, who took the opportunity to highlight the complete lack of intereston Twitter by generalist TV.