Some gifts have the power of stirring our deepest, most dormant memories by simultaneously conjuring the ghostly legacies of others. In writer/director Giuseppe Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso (1989), Salvatore ‘Toto’ de Vita, a prominent Rome-based filmmaker, returns to his Sicilian hometown
In 2001 he burst onto the big screen as a boorish, uncouth, faux-pas prone gangster rapper from Staines in Ali G Indahouse. In 2006 he toured America as the sexist, homophobic and anti-Semitic Kazakhstani journalist Borat Sagdiyev in Borat: Cultural
When Danish Writer/Director Lars von Trier releases a new film, it is often marred by controversy – both for what transpires on the screen and off it. When Anti-Christ premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, it divided critics and audiences
‘To me, a detective is the most magical type of character, because mysteries are to me the greatest thing. Puzzles and things like this are thrilling, clues, things like finding money. Everything is a mystery and we’re all detectives.
You could be forgiven for thinking that Halloween and Christmas are two diametrically different festivities. Heck, one is a garish, gaudy and perversely delicious celebration of the macabre and the morbid. The other commemorates the star-crossed birth of a virgin