adopted Londoners. Filmed in London’s China-town, where Fiascaris and Polesel are excelling both as directors and producers, “Spaghetti Incident” will accompany the audience of

FEFF 20 in Udine. Like all the previous edi-tions, the twentieth will offer the best Asian film productions of the last season, alongside a host of interesting events (exhibitions, concerts, dance shows, cook-

ery…). FEFF 20 begins on April 20th at the Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine and so Friuli, for 9 days, will once again become the European centre of eastern cinema.

Far East Film: Spaghetti Incident

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Hong Kong style. The discussion would cer-tainly be frivolous and in-nocuous had it not been undertaken by two bosses of the Chinese and Italian underworlds.

And here they are, the two bad guys, carefully watched by their bodyguards, sitting down to eat tasty spaghetti (no, noodles!). One is played by Wai Wong, the other by Luca Zizzari, both

by Lorena Riul

When an old cliché be-comes an amusing crime story! It is called “Spaghetti Inci-dent” and has been chosen by the Far East Film Festival (FEFF) as the official trailer of the twentieth edition of the event. Two young directors, the Friulan Michele Fiascaris and the Venetian Filippo Polesel, play with the question that has al-ways dogged Italian and Chinese people: which came first, spaghetti or noodles? Turning it into a mini-film of only seventy-five seconds, an amusing crime story in perfect

Lots of people have asked me if I’ve seen The Darkest Hour, and Gary Oldman’s Oscar-winning perform-ance as Winston Churchill. Absolutely not. There is no way I am going to see a film like that dubbed into Ital-ian. A great actor, deliver-ing some great lines, with his voice changed into an-other language? It’s com-plete madness! If it’s Fast and Furious 13, or what-ever number we’ve reached, it doesn’t really

matter one way or the other, but it’s frankly crimi-nal to dub a film where the dialogue plays such a central role. I will never forget the emotion of seeing Akira Ku-rosawa’s Kagemusha (1980) in the original Japanese or the first series of La Piovra (1984) on the BBC with Eng-lish subtitles. I am convinced they would have lost half their value if they’d been dubbed. And did you know one of the many reasons why Mediterraneo (1991,

Abatantuono, Bisio) was such a great film and enjoyed such critical acclaim was that it was mostly shot with live sound rather than having the voices dubbed on afterwards, which seems to have been the way of Italian filmmakers. Now Udine’s very own Far East Film Festival has just ended and I hope some of you went along to enjoy a few South Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Hong Kong films with the original sound.

(Now read the article on dubbing on page 6.)

Film

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One of the best films I’ve ever seen is “A Perfect Day”. The main character of the movie is Mumbrù (Benicio Del Toro) the on-site member of an unknown NGO helping people in Yugoslavia dur-ing the Balkan Wars. The plot is about the last job he has to carry out when new colleagues come to replace him. It consists of taking the bloated corpse of a dead man out of a well, in or-der to make the water safe to drink again. In trying to achieve their goal, the small team has to complete some tasks

that seem to be simple but actually turn out to be incredibly challenging. Along the way, they meet many unforeseen set-backs that force them to face the terrible realities of war and every time, without exception, they decide to take risks in a selfless, ironic and often reckless manner. The most touching scene in the film is when they have to cut down the hanged parents of a lonely child in order to use the rope.

SPOILER ALERT!! At the end of the film they succeed in clearing

the well and the main character goes back home to his girlfriend while the war officially ends (but only on paper).

END OF SPOILER After having watched it, I felt speechless and turned upside-down. In my opinion, the film is a real heart-wrenching piece of art. It taught me a lot about the impor-tance of seeing the irony in the small things, par-ticularly when you find yourself in difficulty. And, most importantly, it re-minded me how lucky we are.

the relationship between an elderly widower named Carl Fredricksen and an earnest boy named Russell. By tying thousands of balloons to his house, Carl sets out to fulfil his dream to see a wild place in South America called Paradise Falls and honour a prom-ise made to his late wife, Ellie. Carl experiences his

Up is a computer-animated film, produced in 2009 by Pixar Anima-tion Studios. The film was directed by Pete Docter and the music was composed by Mi-chael Giacchino. In 2010, Up won two Academy Awards, for the Best Original Score and as the Best Ani-mated Feature Film. The story centres on

adventure with Russell, a boy that is suffering be-cause his parents have separated and wants to prove he is a good boy-scout. The film is beauti-ful for both children and adults because it is dra-matic and comic at the same time, and contains many good teachings for the life of each of us, the main of which is that we have to continue to be-lieve in our dreams at any age, because they might come true, even when it seems too late.

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Up reviewed by Simone Marcuzzi

Watching a film—a great gift! by Manuela del Rizzo biographies or historical films but without too much blood or cruelty. I remember with pleasure “The Theory of Every-thing”, the story of Stephen Hawking, who recently died, or “The Butler” who served for

thirty years in the White House. A cinema is the best place to appreciate films with the big screen and surround sound but even the sofa should not be ruled out!

Time, with me, is tyranni-cal! But when I do cut out a little space between work, home and family, a wonderful thing is to watch a film. With age, I’ve changed my preferences: now I prefer lighter topics like

A Perfect Day reviewed by Marzia Pavanin

Q1 She won an Oscar

for the best ___.

a. extra

b. main character

c. supporting actor

Q2 He won an Oscar

for the ___.

a. score

b. soundtrack

c. lyrics

La Vita è Bella (Life is Beautiful) reviewed by Mattia Rigo

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“La Vita è Bella” is an Italian film which won three Oscars, including Best Foreign Lan-guage Film in 1999. Written and directed by

Roberto Benigni, who also plays Guido, the Jewish protagonist of the story. He lives with his son, Giosuè and Dora, his wife in Arezzo (Tuscany), but after several years they are de-ported to a German concentration camp. There, Guido pre-tends to Giosuè that the bad conditions

and horrible situations are part of a complicated and strange game where Giosuè and his father earn points for good behaviour and have to

pass incredible tests. What is the final prize of this compe-tition? A real tank! The whole story revolves around this game that Guido cleverly invents to allow Giosuè to survive. The original aspect of the film is that it manages to speak about something as horrible as the Holocaust in an ironic way. In the film, imagination, innocence and love are in contrast with the main characters’ situation and this gives a sense of real-ism to the story. That’s why I love this film and I vote it the best film I have ever seen.

comes NASA’s first female engineer and the third is able to program the first com-puter installed at the NASA, an IBM 7090 programmed in FORTRAN, a mystery even to IBM engineers. In the end NASA recognized the works of the three women with various hon-ours.

The story concerns three black women who work for NASA at the dawn of space flight. They are discriminated against by their white col-leagues but through their determination they manage to overcome all difficulties. The first manages to correct the shuttle's return route from space; the second be-

standard American car trans-formed into a time machine by Marty’s friend Doc a sort of mad scientist. This car used Libyan uranium as fuel. Owing to this first accidental time travel Marty goes back 30 years, to 1955. After many adventures with the

young Doc, Marty manages to help his young parents fall in love for the first time and finds the way to came back to the future, saving his fam-ily and improving their fu-ture lifestyle

One of the most memorable films of the last 20 years. In the first film of the trilogy the main character, Marty, a smart, young 80’s guy acci-dentally travels in time when he uses the DeLorean to escape from Libyan terror-ists. The DeLorean was a

Back to the Future reviewed by Marco Marega

Hidden Figures reviewed by Ugo Patroncino

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Hot Fuzz reviewed by Massimiliano Cantoni

Cinecittà: A Hollywood on the Tiber by Edoardo Zorzenone

Cinecittà is located about 9km from the centre of Rome and it's the largest film studio in Europe. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini. The 19 studios include all the most technological facili-ties and cover a surface of 400,000 m2. During their glorious history, thousands of people and many renowned filmmak-ers were involved in the

production of many cine-matic masterpieces: im-possible to forget are Federico Fellini, Sergio Leone, Martin Scorzese and Francis Ford Coppola and the movies Ben Hur, Scipio Africanus, Romeo and Juliet, Cleopatra, and so on. Altogether more than 3,000 movies have been produced, including 90 Oscar nominations and 47 Oscar winners. For everyone, the golden age of the studios was during the 50’s when Cinecittà was the loca-tion for a lot of American

movies. An atmosphere of high society exploded in the city with daily par-ties and hundreds of stars. This period was called "La Dolce Vita", and was filmed by Fellini and dreamed of all over the world. Cur-rently, film production is proceeding with new worldwide partnerships, while the owners of the studios are involved in the creation of a large theme park with muse-ums, a nature reserve and a wellness centre.

to make him feel out of place. But things begin to

change when a succes-sion of “incidents” throws a dark shadow over the village and Angel realizes it may be more dangerous than the city and that only his fat col-league can help him to solve the mystery…

Despite the gothic plot, the story is ex-tremely funny and enjoyable. You will appre-ciate the rigid and irrepressible agent Angel confronting the villagers with his ten-der and light-hearted colleague. You will see the transformation of Angel into “Don Quixote” with his loyal “Sancho Panza”. The film is a carousel of very hu-morous situations mixed in a very intriguing plot that will surprise you. A must for a light evening...

Hot Fuzz (2007) is an action comedy starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Nicholas Angel (Pegg) is a Police Officer, extremely diligent in his work. Too diligent… All his colleagues and superi-ors hate him because they are outdone by his efficiency. So he is sent to Sandford, an idyllic village in the countryside which has won the “Village of the Year" award many times. Of course Angel does not like this new “accommodation”: a witch of a landlady, a bor-ing village , some key vil-lage characters interested only in trivia regarding the beauty of the village and a fat colleague (Frost) interested only in firearms and action. All these elements conspire

T H E D E F I N I T E A R T I C L E

Q4 There are some

great actors in the

___.

a. cast

b. crew

c. screenplay

Q3 It’s a ___-to-life

story.

a. true

b. real

c. faithful

Prize Article!

Q5 His new film is ___

in Rome.

a. located

b. situated

c. set

Bridge of Spies reviewed by Maurizio Oballa

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My favourite types of film are spy-stories and legal-thrillers and it’s for this reason that “Bridge of Spies” is my fa-vourite film. It was released in 2015 and directed by Steven Spielberg, with Tom Hanks as the main actor who, in the guise of a famous lawyer in Brooklyn (James Donovan) during the Cold War, finds himself de-fending the KGB agent Ru-dolf Abel (interpreted by an extraordinary Mark Rylance) in an American court, against

the charge of spying. The story, based on true events, becomes even more delicate when at the same time the CIA hires Mr. Donovan to negotiate in a swap for Rudolf Abel, the release of an American pilot prisoner, Francis Gary Pow-ers, shot down in the skies over Russia during a spy mis-sion aboard a U2 plane. The exchange will happen in Berlin over the Glienicke Bridge, known as “Bridge of Spies”.

To conclude, I would like to men-tion what, in my opinion is a key quote pronounced by Rudolf Abel in a dramatic moment during the interro-gation when he answers Donovan’s question: “Aren’t you worried?” “Would it help?”

drama too. Sometimes, if I want to laugh and have fun I watch comedies. For example "Some Like It Hot", with Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lem-mon and Tony Curtis, or Italian comedies. They relax me. A contemporary film director I like is Quentin Tarantino, he's crazy and he makes such absurd films

I'll try to tell you about my favourite movies. I say "movies" because there's not only one and they often change. In first place there are the American movies of the 40s. I love gangsters and blonde stars like Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall and also "French noir". I really enjoy love stories and

that you can only laugh at! Lately I’ve started to watch drama series. I think they're very well done and keep me glued to the screen. Right now I'm following "Breaking Bad" – it’s great!

is about Auggie, a 10-year-old child who, due to a very rare and serious illness, has undergone 27 painful surgical operations to make his face less deformed. He dreams of space and cultivates a love for science, and when he leaves home he hides inside an astronaut’s helmet. But the safe habit of remaining hidden within the walls of his home for fear of other peo-ple’s prejudice will come to

an end when he starts attend-ing middle school, where he soon becomes the object of bullying and teasing. Thanks to friendship, courage and kind-ness he will demonstrate that we are all different and unique. Diversity is a gift and not something to feel ashamed of! Wonder is a magnificent film for all ages, from which every one of us has a lot to learn.

What is diversity? Diversity is the condition of those who are considered by others as strangers to a pre-sumed normality. “Wonder", a beautiful movie for kids, based on the best-selling novel by R.J. Palacio shows how each of us stands out for some exterior and inner features. It invites chil-dren to cultivate a curiosity and an attitude that goes be-yond appearances. The story

Wonder reviewed by Francesca Fumolo

My Favourite Movies by Catia Greatti

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Dubbing or Original Language?

Glued To The Screen! by Sara Moruzzi

Going to the cinema is sup-posed to be a fun, relaxing ex-perience, but that’s not always the case… Have you ever been subjected to that unex-pected sound of

crunchy snacks being munched on during scenes full of suspense, curling your hair from the shock? Or that feeling of being buried in fluffy popcorn, dropped by your neighbour as if it were delicate little snow-flakes? Have you ever come across that wise man,

usually sat in the back rows, who keeps talking loudly to the characters as if they were able to hear him? And that pleas-ant person sat behind you who keeps kicking your seat throughout the whole movie, as if you were on a plane during a storm? What about the person who arrives late and then picks the one seat in the very middle of the thea-tre, maybe getting up every five minutes to go to the toilet or get a snack? Or that selfish person who holds all the best seats hostage for friends that are supposed to be on their way but

eventually won’t come at all? And am I the only person on Earth who has that lovable friend who has already seen the movie and keeps spoiling what's coming next, whispering in your ear about every little plot hole and a se-ries of unnecessary facts about the actors? But I’m sure that at least once in your life you must have had the op-portunity to accidentally sit on chewed-gum – in which case, you cannot say that the movie did not keep you “glued to your seat!”

lutely hilarious. I soon realized that it was probably no less hilarious for a German to hear the Indians speak Italian, nor, in fact, for the Indians to hear themselves speak any other language than their own! Although it is undoubt-edly more relaxing, while watching a foreign movie, to concentrate on the images rather than read-ing subtitles, I find it in-teresting to watch some movies in their original version, especially those set in far away or lesser-known countries. I am fascinated not only by the

way different languages have developed in differ-ent geographical areas, but also by the variety of sounds that are used in different languages. Some languages sound melodic, some sound harsh, some sound very fast, some slow and sweet. Watch-ing a movie in the original language takes you for a while to the place where they speak that language: it’s an easy way to travel to a faraway place for the cheap price of a movie ticket!

by Elena Conti

In Italy most films, both those broad-

cast on TV and those shown at the cin-

ema, are dubbed. I still

remember when, back in my childhood, I realized that dubbing films was sort of unnatu-ral - even ridiculous. I was on vacation in Aus-

tria with my family. Once in our hotel room, I turned on the TV to find a western movie. To my great surprise, I heard the Indians speak Ger-man, which I found abso-

T H E D E F I N I T E A R T I C L E

Q6 Her new film has

got some great ___.

a. previews

b. sequels

c. reviews

Charlie Chaplin by Flavio Lorenzon

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When I think about movies, Charlie Chaplin is the first name which immediately pops up in my mind. He en-compassed all the main pro-fessional roles in the movie business. In fact, Chaplin was not just the actor playing the “Little Tramp”, the famous character in his silent movies who has good manners, wears a coat, a pair of big trousers, shoes, moustache and a black hat. He was also a comedian, movie maker, screenwriter, editor, musi-cian and author all rolled into one. And what’s more, Chap-

lin was such a scrupulous perfectionist that he excelled in each of those jobs! His career stretches for almost 70 years. He started per-forming when he was 5 and worked until he was 80. He passed from extreme pov-erty to great wealth, from being a migrant in the USA to being exiled back to Europe. Chaplin often fell in love and he got married several times. He was such an outstanding character that they made a movie about his amazing life. Chaplin’s movies, often auto-biographical, contain social

a nd po l i t i c a l themes, which are still current nowa-d a y s : t a k e “Modern times” and “The Great Dictator” for example. Charlot, the tramp, is an innocent man, some-times a bit naive. He has passion, love, altruism and solidarity, perhaps some of the best qualities you can find in people. The little tramp makes me laugh out loud and cry at the same time. I always have tears in my eyes at the ending of “Limelight”. Chaplin’s movies are so beautiful that I love watching them again and again.

way to understand words you might miss during dia-logues, which could happen often, especially at first. Moreover, you can practice pronunciation. You can lis-ten to words and repeat them out loud. Also, you can learn common slang expres-sions you won't study in books. More or less (and with a lot of imagination) it's like land-

Do you want a great way to train your English skills with-out studying books all the time? Well, watching films or TV series in British or American English will help you to improve listening comprehension and expand your vocabulary. I often watch series and films in the original language with English subtitles. Turning the subtitles on can be a great

ing in a differ-ent country with very lim-ited vocabulary and conversa-tion skills – you have to listen and learn as fast as you can. This is because you have to be able to un-derstand what people are asking or telling you!

1998. During his last master-piece movie, Interstellar, something incredible hap-pened. Christopher gave Hans only a few indications, ideas and dialogues, without explaining what the movie was about and gave him only one day to create the sound-track. Hans immediately started work on the soundtrack, with the help of a keyboard and his band, in an old church in the centre of Lon-

don. The final result? Something amazing, unbeliev-able! So, if you are curious and you want to let your mind wander for four minutes through the centre of the Universe, just listen to S.T.A.Y. Interstellar OST by Hans Zimmer!

by Daniele Cortufo

Who is the best movie sound-track composer? For those who love masterpieces like Gladiator, Interstellar, Incep-tion, The Dark Knight and The Lion King there is only one answer: Hans Zimmer. Hans Zimmer, from Germany, is the most famous composer in the world. The famous film director and co-writer Chris-topher Nolan has engaged Hans for all his movies since

Hans Zimmer and the Making of the Interstellar Soundtrack

A Fantastic Way to Improve Your English! by Elisa Galliussi

merge together into a totally convincing 18th century upper-class society. Kubrick cleverly and vividly depicts a world

which was at once attractive and charming for Barry, as well as leading hopelessly to his ruin. It’s a must-see film. I was

“It was in the reign of George III that the aforesaid personages lived and quarrelled; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now”. This is the epilogue of one of Kubrick’s best films and one of the most representative films about England during the 18th century. It’s a biography of an Irish opportunist who married a rich widow to climb the so-cial ladder, but finally went back to Ireland with a leg am-putated and full of debt, to resume his former profession as a gambler. The film is incredibly impres-sive. In scene after scene, through perspectives inspired by Hogarth’s engravings, Ku-brick transports us into a cruel and wicked reality. Misery, the struggle for survival, desertion, ambition, lies and opportunism

gripped by the plot and by the chain of misfortunes which follow Barry’s rapid social climb. Fate, destiny and a sad unawareness of his own behav-iour within a social context that he aspired to and suc-ceeded in reaching but wasn’t born in. Watching this film you may feel pain, watching Barry preparing his fall with his own hands. And even though Thackeray’s novel is fiction, and the film is fiction too, everything you see during the film could well have happened and is believably rep-resented. The scenes of war as well scenes of duels are very poignant. Ryan O’Neal acts as the main character and was perfect in this part, and Marisa Berenson – acting as Lady Lyndon – is also absolutely superb.

Barry Lyndon reviewed by Marina Crespi

Q7 I saw the ___ for the

new Spielberg film on

the internet and it

looks great.

a. prequel

b. trailer

c.preview

More film vocabulary Choose the correct word from the box for each definition. genre sequel stunt nominated critic box office part frame audition screenplay 1. Someone whose job it is to review films for a newspaper or TV program 2. A role/character played by an actor/actress 3. A second film made to continue the story started in the first 4. A dangerous piece of action in a film usually carried out by a professional 5. A category or type of film, e.g. action 6. A single picture on a roll of movie film or videotape 7. The script for a movie, including descriptions of scenes and some camera

directions 8. Selected to be on a short list for a prize 9. A trial performance, as by an actor, dancer, or musician, to demonstrate

suitability or skill 10. A booth at the cinema where tickets are sold; used generically to also

mean the cinema

Answers to More Film Vocabulary

1. critic 2. part 3. sequel 4. stunt 5. genre 6. frame 7. screenplay 8. nominated 9. audition 10. box office

Answers to

questions 1-7

1. c

2. b

3. a

4. a

5. c

6. c

7. b