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2 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Lee Marshall |Anne Hanley
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Lee Marshall
Nightlife in Sicily means, by and large, nightlife in Sicilian cities, or their beachside satellites. Catania arguably boasts the island's most vibrant music scene, closely followed by Palermo. In Castelbuono, south of Cefalù, the annual summer Ypsigrock festival is Sicily’s answer to Glastonbury.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Lee Marshall
Through the ages Sicily has been a crossroads and crucible of Mediterranean culture.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Lee Marshall
In Sicily, sightseeing is always more than 'just' sightseeing. The combination of history, a balmy climate and a vibrant contemporary eating and drinking scene gives this ancient island all-year-round appeal. Don't underestimate driving distances, summer temperatures, or the extent of sprawling archaeological sites such as the Valle dei Templi in Agrigento.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Lee Marshall
Sicily used to produce chefs for export. These days more and more of its culinary talents are staying at home, exploring new ways of using the island’s extraordinary foodie raw materials and changing the tone of eating in Sicily. The days when a visitor's choice consisted of fancy (usually hotel) restaurants, tourist-oriented 'folkloristic' trattorias and strip-lit local dives is very much over.
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yahoo.com | Lee Marshall
Sicily is blessed with endless, glorious beaches both sandy and rocky, and with the clearest of water in unimaginable shades of blue. Maintenance, however, isn't always as perfect as the venue might merit. So be prepared to take the rough with the smooth: it won't always be pristine. Beaches in Sicily – as in the whole of Italy – are divided into spiagge libere (free beaches) and spiagge attrezzate (equipped beaches).
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1 month ago | 
screendaily.com | Lee Marshall
Dramatisation of removal of French citizens from Afghanistan in August 2021
Source: Cannes International Film Festival
Dir: Martin Bourboulon. 2025. France. 111mins.
French director Martin Bourboulon follows up his pair of 2023 Three Musketeers films with 13 Days 13 Nights, a tense thriller based on the true story of France’s successful attempt to get its own nationals, plus hundreds of Afghan citizens, out of Kabul in August 2021.
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1 month ago | 
screendaily.com | Lee Marshall
Period-hopping Competition title also stars Shu Qi and Li Gengxi
Source: Cannes International Film Festival
Dir: Bi Gan. China/France. 2025. 155mins
Bi Gan’s Resurrection reframes the history of cinema as a kind of twentieth-century monster story that pans out over six time-distanced episodes with no clear connection.
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1 month ago | 
screendaily.com | Lee Marshall
Oliver Hermanus’s intense, restrained film is set on the East Coast during the 1920s
Source: Cannes International Film Festival
Dir: Oliver Hermanus. USA, UK. 2025.127mins
Invented by Thomas Edison, the wax cylinder was the dominant recording technology in the first two decades of the twentieth century.
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1 month ago | 
screendaily.com | Lee Marshall
Mario Martone’s Competition entry focuses on the author’s brief imprisonment and subsequent self-discovery
Source: Cannes International Film Festival
Dir: Mario Martone. Italy/France. 2025. 115mins
Fuori is a sometimes engaging, sometimes self-indulgent story of an Italian female writer’s unorthodox journey towards personal and creative freedom in early 1980s Rome.
