Friday, February 14th, 2014
WHENEVER someone wants to dispel the gender simplification that female directors only make feelgood films, they wheel out Kathryn Bigelow, whose action movies are cited as being tougher than any man’s. It’s a spurious debate, admittedly, but if we were to play that game I’d definitely bring Denis into Bigelow’s corner. The Frenchwoman doesn’t do
Wednesday, February 12th, 2014
CHIARA Mastroianni recalls a childhood visit in the late Seventies to Rome’s famed Cinecittà Studios, and the film set of Fellini’s typically extravagant City of Women, in which her father Marcello Mastroianni was starring. “Imagine when you’re...