Paolo Taviani

Mar 12, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Ben Walters |Stephen Morgan |Adam Scovell |Paolo Taviani

The 38th edition of the London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival will platform inspiring and thoughtful stories of trans lives, including Elliot Page’s subtle family drama Close to You 
and Levan Akin’s Istanbul-set Crossing. 12 March 2024By Ben WaltersAt this year’s BFI Flare, two special presentation screenings will explore aspects of the often complex dynamics between trans people and their families of origin. It’s a timely subject.

Mar 11, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Stephen Morgan |Adam Scovell |Paolo Taviani |Kelechi Anucha

Writing in the Guardian about Warwick Thornton’s 2009 debut feature, expatriate Australian pot-stirrer Germaine Greer suggested: “Some people say they don’t get Warwick Thornton’s film, Samson & Delilah. And some people who say they do get it, don’t.” Although criticised at the time, Greer did identify a significant undercurrent that would carry through all of Thornton’s subsequent work, which manages a consistent balance of the universal and the culturally specific.

Mar 7, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Adam Scovell |Paolo Taviani |Kelechi Anucha |Miriam Balanescu

Twenty-five years after Stanley Kubrick’s death, we go in search of the British locations that he made truly Kubrickian. 7 March 2024By Adam ScovellStanley Kubrick was undoubtedly a child of the Bronx, but the great director – who died 25 years ago on 7 March 1999 – spent much of his creative life in Britain, in particular in the outer orbit of London.

Mar 6, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Vittorio Taviani |Paolo Taviani |Kelechi Anucha |Miriam Balanescu

Getting to know cinema turned us into traitors. We betrayed any art form that wasn’t cinema. It projected us beyond humanist culture, which in spite of our love and respect we felt was now downgraded to a trite, pedantic bourgeois legacy. New horizons would now open up. The technical aspect of film art, its instruments – film camera, film stock, lenses, light – represented a revolutionary novelty too. The new generations are still now enthralled by the most advanced technologies.

Mar 1, 2024 | italianinsider.it | Paolo Taviani

ROME – Director Paolo Taviani died aged 92 on Thursday in Rome after a short illness, his family announced.  Taviani was a well-known director who worked with his brother Vittorio, making famous films such as Padre Padrone and La notte di San Lorenzo, known in English as the Night of the Shooting Stars.  Originally from San Miniato, Pisa, the duo initially started their careers as journalists before trying their hand at directing.