A Better Life
The Plot of A Better Life The protagonist of the film A better life is Andrea Casadei, lives in Rome, a city filmed by director Fabio del Greco in a dark black and white full of shadows. Andrea, played by Fabio del Greco himself, accepts commissioned jobs from husbands betrayed by their wives, or from […]
Crazy World
Fabio del Greco‘s independent film Crazy world is set in 2009, in Rome in an Italy that has Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as a winning model. A successful man, surrounded by beautiful women, who has uncommon communication skills, which fascinates most Italians. The Plot of Crazy World The film opens with a large demonstration in […]
Corona Days
Available on the channel streaming Indiecinema the new film by Fabio Del Greco, Corona Days is an independent film poised between fiction and documentary. We had dealt with his self-sufficient and resistant cinema not many weeks ago, after viewing The smartphone woman . A few weeks, but it already seems like a century. Because since […]
Nanook and Other Films of Robert Flaherty
Robert Flaherty, the director of the famous film Nanook of the north, was the undisputed pioneer of documentary and cinema-truth. All his filmography revolves around the great theme of the relationship between man and nature. He was born in Iron Mountain, a very small and cold town in the United States, in Michigan, on the […]
John Cassavetes: Life and Movies
Cassavetes was born in New York City, the son of an actress and a Greek immigrant. His early years were spent with his family in Greece. At the age of 7 he moved back to Long Island, New York. Cassavetes began his acting education at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where he met his […]
About Astrid
About Astrid: the director of the film Among the names to be taken into greater consideration within the indie cinema scene, there is undoubtedly that of Federico Mattioni, a young filmmaker, who – with an important experience in the world of short films behind him – in 2016 made to his first work: About Astrid […]
Carnival of Souls, a Cult Horror to Be Rediscovered
Carnival of Souls is a 1962 American independent horror movie produced and directed by Herk Harvey and written by John Clifford from a story by Clifford and Harvey, and starring Candace Hilligoss. Her story tells of Mary Henry, a girl whose life is turned upside down after an accident with a car falling into a […]
Independent Movies to Watch Absolutely
What Are Independent Films? An independent film , also known as indie film , is a film produced without the intervention of a large production company, produced completely independently by all the great Studios. Independent films are often described as original and unconventional. But there are innumerable ambiguities and nuances in this definition. The world […]
Federico Salsano: The Kempinsky Method
Federico Salsano, thirty years of film photography essentially for commercial works in Italy and the United States of America: advertising, music videos and so on. Flagship is the photograph of a documentary nominated for an Oscar in 2004 entitled “The Wheather Underground”. Then from 2016 he realizes that he is no longer enough to make […]
Fernand Leger and Cubism
Born in 1881 Fernand Leger is one of the most important directors in the history of cinema. He began as a draftsman for an architect’s studio in Paris in 1903. He was a very eclectic artist, creator of tapestry and stained glass cartoons, decorator, ceramist, sculptor, draftsman, illustrator, costume designer, set designer. Son of a […]
Jean Epstein and Impressionist Cinema
Born in Warsaw in 1897, Jean Epstein was one of the most famous directors of French cinema. Lost his father and moved with his mother and sister, also a future director and screenwriter, to Switzerland. Then they moved to France, to Lyon, where Jean Epstein studied medicine and met August Lumière. Jean Epstein was a […]
Franco Piavoli
Who is Franco Piavoli Franco Piavoli is one of the best directors of all time in the independent film and documentary industry. He was born in Pozzolengo in the province of Brescia, in 1933. He attended classical high school and graduated in law in Pavia in 1956. He completed his training dedicating himself to the […]
Kaneto Shindo’s Independent Cinema
Kaneto Shindo’s Beginnings in Films Born in Hiroshima in 1912, Kaneto Shindo is one of the most important directors of Japanese cinema. He grew up in a family of landowners, which then went into disrepair. In 1927 he entered the Shinko kinema studios, where he began working in Japanese cinema, initially as an assistant to […]
Fabio Nicosia
Who is Fabio Nicosia? Fabio Nicosia, born in 1967, was born and lives in Palermo. The first artistic love is music, through which it has been told for 40 years. “I try to see beyond the bush, usually the first idea is the one I reject as it is dictated or suggested by my being […]
Jean Cocteau: Cinema as Poetry
The Childhood of Jean Cocteau The most famous directors of French cinema, born in Maisons-Laffitte, a suburb on the outskirts of Paris, in 1889, childhood Jean Cocteau’s immediately revealed his interest in graphic arts and poetry. In fact, little Jean, being in poor health, spends hours building small puppet theaters in the backyard and drawing. […]
Chantal Akerman, the Cinema of Interiority
Born in Brussels in 1950, Chantal Akerman is one of the best female directors of all time. She was born to Jewish parents who emigrated from Poland. His maternal grandparents and his mother were deported to Auschwitz. She decides to devote herself to cinema after being struck by the film The Bandit at 11 by […]
Silvano Agosti and Independence in Cinema
Born in Brescia in 1938, Silvano Agosti graduated in directing at the Experimental Center of Cinematography in Rome in 1962. He had previously studied film editing at the Moscow film school, where he had met Lev Kuleshov. The Thought of Silvano Agosti Silvano Agosti considers each person as the highest masterpiece of nature. In 2009 […]
American Independent Films
Independent cinema in United States Independent American films were created to escape the mechanism of industrial cinema of uniting creative resources within a decision-making unicum, it means reinventing oneself as managers of oneself and one’s own artistic abilities. It has happened often throughout the history of films, since it all began between the 40s and […]
The Movies of Emiliano Dante
Emiliano Dante was born in L’Aquila in 1974. He is professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of Cassino and at the University of L’Aquila. He also directed the Abruzzo Documentary Festival in Pescara. Before starting to make films, he became interested in other arts such as photography, music, writing and theater. From 2003 […]
Amir Naderi: Life and Movies
Life of Amir Naderi Amir Naderi was born in Abadan, in the Persian Gulf, on August 15, 1946. He never knows his father and loses his mother when he is 5 years old. Orphaned, he survives in Tehran living on the street and doing the most humble jobs. As a teenager he managed to find […]