Article by: Cristian Viteritti
Translated by: Giulia Maiorana
Impetus by Jennifer Alleyn is a hybrid film which combines typical expressive forms of documentary films, such as interviews, with fictional ways of narrating. The final product is a film full of storylines and timeframes that lead to a reflection on action and movement’s relevance and strength.
Article by: Tommaso Dufour
Translation by: Priscilla Valente
“A film written by a journalist and a political activist with the Ghostbusters director’s son”. With these words Jason Reitman opens the TFF36 press conference, of which The Front Runner is the opening film. He refers to Matt Bai – author of All the Truth Is Out, the novel the film is inspired by – and to Jay Carson – House of Cards producer and consultant. Reitman reveals then that the first frames, the Columbia’s vintage logo from Stripes (Ivan Reitman, USA, 1981), are a tribute to his father and to the film which accompanied the director’s childhood.
Article by: Elio Sacchi
Translation by: Maria Elisa Catalano
Brillante Mendoza, one of the most successful Filipino directors, known all over the world thanks to numerous international awards, returns to the Torino Film Festival this year with Alpha, the Right to Kill, a claustrophobic film with a strong and immediately explicit social commentary. Shot in low resolution and with a style inherited from cinéma vérité, this Filipino film immediately immerses the viewer into the streets, the markets and the houses of a labyrinthine city, where even moral values seem to have lost their point of reference: in fact, despite the police being an ubiquitous presence, crime and immorality indirectly pervade the whole society.
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Article by: Marco De Bartolomeo
Translation by: Luca Bassani
Turin, 13th November 2018. In theatre 3 of Cinema Massimo, Sergio Toffetti and Emanuela Martini inaugurate the 36th Torino Film Festival press conference. Beautiful Rita Hayworth’s dancing body, portrayed in the 1942 film You Were Never Lovelier by William A. Seiter, stands out in the background.
The picture we chose as the official logo for this edition – explains artistic director Martini – adequately represents the spirit of this festival, which has been involved in the research, support and promotion of the most innovative filmmakers in the global cinema industry since 1982. Therefore, freshness, energy and vitality are the keywords that led the curators’ selection.
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