by Joanna Orland The annual BFI London Film Festival returned for its 58th year with a host of stars descending upon the city to celebrate cinema. A large selection of diverse films were on offer at this year’s festival, with many prevalent themes running through the programme October 8th-19th, 2014 . Festival director Clare Stewart […]

by Joanna Orland As I write this article, it has just been announced that Adam Driver and Alba Rohrwacher who co-star in Saverio Costanzo thriller Hungry Hearts have just jointly won the Coppa Volpi, the best actor and actress accolades at this year’s 71st Venice Film Festival.  This news does little to surprise me. Hungry […]

The 71st Venice Film Festival awards results are in – Venezia 71 The Venezia 71 jury has chosen its winners for 2014.  Chaired by Alexandre Desplat and featuring Joan Chen, Philip Gröning, Jessica Hausner, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandy Powell, Tim Roth, Elia Suleiman and Carlo Verdone, the jury have viewed all 20 films in competition to […]

by Joanna Orland Italian director Saverio Costanzo read the novel The Indigo Child by Marco Franzoso.  A year and a half later he started adapting the novel into what would eventually become the feature film Hungry Hearts starring Adam Driver (Girls, Tracks) and Costanzo’s actress girlfriend Alba Rohrwacher.  He wrote this script from his memories […]

La Biennale di Venezia August 27th – September 6th, 2014 Venice, Italy by Joanna Orland & Ruth Thomson The Venice Film Festival once again took place on the city’s Lido with an array of films and talent on display.  With programming director Alberto Barbera returning for his second consecutive year, the festival which is organized […]

Hungry Hearts Directed by Saverio Costanzo Starring Adam Driver and Alba Rohrwacher Screening at BFI London Film Festival October 14th, 2014 by Ruth Thomson (reviewed at the 71st Venice Film Festival) Hungry Hearts, based on the novel The Indigo Child by Marco Franzoso and directed by Saverio Costanzo is an intriguing and original genre crunching […]