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On the Responsibility of Being a Jury Member.  TFF31

11/27/2013

 
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We've been watching two films a day, which is nothing to someone who would watch three in a morning as a film critic back in London. The difference is that here at the Turin Film Festival they are all good.  

Here on FredFilmRadio  Aida Bejic, Jorge Perugorria, and I discuss the responsibilities of choosing a winner.

Greetings from TFF31

11/26/2013

 
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The 31st Torino Film Festival is in full swing, and I am enjoying terrific films, Italian food, and new friends.  Most excitingly, I have finally met Paolo Virzi, the genius Italian film maker who has brought characters I invented in a small room in Western Massachusetts to glorious life on the screen.  I was overwhelmed watching Il Capitale Umano on a computer. I cannot wait to get the full effect on the big screen when it opens in January.   Here's an article from il sole24ore that goes into a bit more detail about all this.  Meanwhile, off to another screening. Ciao!

If you happen to be in Torino on Saturday...

11/21/2013

 
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Lo scrittore e giurato del TFF, cresciuto nella provincia del Maryland e laureatosi in Filosofia nel 1981, ha vissuto dodici anni a Londra facendo il giornalista culturale e il critico cinematografico. Rientrato negli Stati Uniti, ha pubblicato quattro romanzi tra il 1992 e il 2000 (Subdivision, Thirst, The Primitive, e The New City, con cui si è imposto all’attenzione della critica). Vive nel Massachusetts con la moglie fotografa e quattro figli, dedicandosi al suo lavoro di scrittore, sceneggiatore televisivo e critico letterario (collabora stabilmente con l’Atlantic Monthly).
Di Amidon, Mondadori ha pubblicato con successo nel 2005 Il capitale umano e nel 2006 La città nuova. Il Capitale umano è il romanzo da cui Paolo Virzì si è ispirato per il suo nuovo omonimo film, in uscita nel 2014, con la sceneggiatura firmata da Francesco Piccolo, Francesco Bruni e Paolo Virzì.

Con saluti di Paolo Virzì

Evento nella settimana di TFF


Some novels simply do not go away.         The Moviegoer and me.

11/20/2013

 
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61 years ago today, one of my all time favorite books won the National Book Award.  The Moviegoer by Walker Percy faced stiff competition, including from another book that makes my top ten list: Richard Yates’ Revolutionary Road.  

​More recently, I wrote an appreciation of Percy's novel for The New Statesman.  

As I said at the time: 

"Some novels simply do not go away. They lodge in your consciousness, expanding rather than disappearing after the last page is turned. Although there are countless other books waiting to be read, you find yourself returning to this one, hungry and perplexed, and even a bit uneasy about its effect on you. Its mysteries deepen with each reading. Your curiosity about it is never quenched. You cannot dispense with it.

The Moviegoer has proved to be just such a book for me, as it has for countless others."

My words helped get the novel back into print in the UK—although it is shocking that it was out of print in the first place.  

As it happens, tomorrow I am off to the Turin Film Festival for ten days of movie-going of my own.  I think I know what I will read on the plane.  

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