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We like all sorts of films at Three Monkeys, and our film section reflects this - giving ample space to documentaries and foreign films, alongside the more mainstream. If you're passionate about film, and are itching to write, get in touch - we're on the lookout for someone to bolster our Film section. Submission guidelines are here
Viva Zapatero received a twelve minute standing ovation at the 2005 Venice film festival. It's been labelled Italy's Fahrenheit 9/11, as it is an explosive documentary. Satirist Sabina Guzzanti reacted to being forced into exile from the State Broadcaster RAI, by making a documentary investigating what satire means around Europe, and why Italian politicians are so frightened by it.
By Arianna Borelli
Viva Zapatero! opens a door on a new shameful anomaly (or anomalous shame) typical, and exclusive to Italy, with regard to European norms in relation to satire. It is staggering, during the course of the film, to notice and to reflect on the different modes of organisation and development of satire in the Countries neighbouring Italy: A satirist in France, Germany, Holland, and England is considered an artist, the bearer of information integrated with and ‘parallel’ to the classical or standard sources of information, the t...
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Shane Barry takes a look at the enduring appeal of 2001 a Space Odyssey
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A film on an economic and legal topic, that mixes interviews with Milton Friedman and Michael Moore, and has taken over $3 million at the box office. Sound improbable? Think again. The Corporation is one of the most talked about films around at the moment. One of the film's directors, Jennifer Abbott, talks to Three Monkeys Online.
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The World Trade Organisation may not be the funniest transnational administrative body, but as a target for satire, in the hands of the Yes Men, it's tragically comic. Challenging unthinking assumptions about free trade and corporate responsibility, while making you laugh is their modus operandi, and it works! The film The Yes Men documents their adventures as they impersonate the WTO at conferences worldwide. Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men spoke to Three Monkeys Online to explain some of the method behind the madness.
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One of cinema's most iconic moments has to be Fay Wray struggling in King Kong's fist. Stepping into her role, in Peter Jackson's upcoming remake of the classic is English actress Naomi Watts. It's a role quite unlike any of her other films, such as 21 Gramms or The Ring, as she tells John Millar in interview.
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The 2004 winner of the Pardo d'Oro(Golden Leopard) award at the Locarno International Film Festival was Private, and Italian produced and directed film set in the occupied territories. A psychodrama examining the dynamics of Occupation, with a cast of Palestinian and Israeli actors, filmed in Calabria, Italy, by the son of one of Italy's most famous TV presenters. Director Saverio Costanzo explains the genesis and realisation of this extraordinary film.
No other director in the history of Hollywood has had such a sudden trajectory between fame and infamy. Three Monkeys Online encountered the legendary film-maker, Michael Cimino, director of The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate recently in Bologna.
Robert Quinn grew up in a cinema. Really. The son of a film-maker, Bob Quinn, who embarked on a mission to bring film-making to rural, gaelic speaking Ireland, Robert did in fact grow up in a Cinema which doubled as a family home. In the metaphoric sense, though, he has also grown up in the cinema, working his way up through the ranks of Irish film making. He is now an award winning director in his own right, and about to film the life story of Irish rock star Philip Lynott.
Atypical heroines, parochialism, noir as a genre? All up for discussion with Oscar winning Italian director Gabriele Salvatores, on the release of his new film Quo Vadis, Baby?, a noir set in Three Monkeys Online's very own Bologna.
Adrien Brody, Oscar winning star of The Piano was one of the stars Peter Jackson specifically wanted for his remake of King Kong. Speaking from the set in New Zealand, Brodey talks about the timeless appeal of the film, and the inspiration he found in Eugene O'Neill's work.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, is the eagerly awaited film adaptation of Thornton Wilder's 1927 Pulitzer prize winning novel. ...
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Ken Loach's film The Navigators recently got an open air screening as part of the Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bolog...
Indymedia film-maker, Eamonn Crudden, along with a multitude of others, shot footage at the Genoa G8 meeting in 2001. In the wake...
Australian Director Peter Weir recently opened the Cinema Ritrovato film festival, and took some time out to talk about the...
Sean Walsh has attempted, what for many remains impossible, to film Joyce's novel Ulysses. Mark Harkin spoke to the directo...
A film about Jesus, in Aramaic? Directed by Mad Max Mel Gibson? Many were sceptical of his sanity, but box office returns h...
Holy Cross is a BBC docudrama, directed by Mark Brozel, focussing on events that occured outside Holy Cross school in Northern Ire...
Shane Barry takes a look at the enduring appeal of 2001 a Space Odyssey...
The Lord of the Rings continues to endure, as shown by the massive success of The Return of the King. Brendan McManu...
