Tag: Viola Prestieri

Interview: Andrea Pallaoro – The Echo Chamber

With his fourth feature film, Andrea Pallaoro turns his fascination with isolation, fractured identity and the difficult mechanics of human connection toward a story...

The Echo Chamber | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

An Affair to Disremember: Pallaoro Explores the Unbearable Bleakness of Being Love is hardly a many-splendored thing in The Echo Chamber, the fourth feature directed...

Another End | Review

The Power of Goodbye: Messina Gets Maudlin with Future Grief The devil’s unfortunately absent in the details of Another End, a conceptual science fiction melodrama...

Fuori | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Hoosegow Girls: Martone Pays Delicate Tribute to Goliarda Sapienza “Never refuse to see the unpleasant aspects of life,” wrote Goliarda Sapienza in her widely...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Piero Messina’s Another End

It's been a long eight years between projects - but it might be worth the "wait" for this ambitious and stacked sophomore feature. Piero...

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Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.

Club Kid | Review

Sex, Drugs & Unexpected Parenting: Firstman’s Debut Creates an...

Interview: Jordan Firstman – Club Kid

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Interview: Sandra Wollner – Everytime

One of the discoveries of this year's Cannes Film...