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Adriano Ercolani

Adriano Ercolani
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Adriano Ercolani Profile Italian Film Critic and TV Author living in New York since 2011. Critics Choice Association member. Graduated in History of Cinema in Rome, he works as a freelance correspondent for some of the most important Italian outlets like Hollywood Reporter Italy, Comingsoon.it, Cinefilos.it and Ciak Magazine. He started working as a film critic almost thirty years ago: in his career he attended the most important Film Festivals (Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Toronto, New York Film Festival, Tribeca) and conventions (San Diego Comic-Con, New York Comic-Con, Disney D23). All over the years he has interviewed some of the most important contemporary authors like Michael Mann, Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, Peter Jackson, Alexander Payne, Joel and Ethan Coen, Kathryn Bigelow, Christopher Nolan, Greta Gerwig, Jane Campion). In 2009 he interviewed Christiane Kubrick and Ian Harlan inside Stanley Kubrick’s private office. Other than movies he is fond of American literature and basketball. Los Angeles Lakers fanatic. He lives in New York with his wife and his bossy 3-year -old daughter.
Adriano Ercolani Profile Italian Film Critic and TV Author living in New York since 2011. Critics Choice Association member. Graduated in History of Cinema in Rome, he works as a freelance correspondent for some of the most important Italian outlets like Hollywood Reporter Italy, Comingsoon.it, Cinefilos.it and Ciak Magazine. He started working as a film critic almost thirty years ago: in his career he attended the most important Film Festivals (Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Toronto, New York Film Festival, Tribeca) and conventions (San Diego Comic-Con, New York Comic-Con, Disney D23). All over the years he has interviewed some of the most important contemporary authors like Michael Mann, Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, Peter Jackson, Alexander Payne, Joel and Ethan Coen, Kathryn Bigelow, Christopher Nolan, Greta Gerwig, Jane Campion). In 2009 he interviewed Christiane Kubrick and Ian Harlan inside Stanley Kubrick’s private office. Other than movies he is fond of American literature and basketball. Los Angeles Lakers fanatic. He lives in New York with his wife and his bossy 3-year -old daughter.

Daddio : Q & A with Director Christy Hall and Actor Dakota Johnson

@Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classic Daddio : New York City. JFK airport. A young woman jumps into the backseat of a yellow taxi, the cabbie throws the vehicle into drive as the two head out into the night toward Manhattan, striking up the most unexpected conversation resulting in a single, epic, remarkable journey. Director :…

Tribeca: ‘Firebrand’ Delivers a Dark Vision About Power and Decay

@Courtesy of Roadshow Attractions/Larry Horricks Adapting the 2013 novel Queen’s Gambit by Elizabeth Freemantle, Firebrand brings back to the big screen one of the most controversial figures in Great Britain’s History, King Henry VIII (1491-1547). In the past magnificent actors like Charles Laughton (The Private Life of Henry VIII, 1933), Robert Shaw (A Man For…

Inside Out 2 : Exclusive Video Interview with Director Kelsey Mann and Producer Mark Nielsen

Kelsey Mann started his career at Cartoon Network, where he worked as a storyboard artist on Duck Dodgers, Megas XLR, My Gym Partner’s a Monkey, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars, before joining Pixar in 2013, where he started as a story supervisor for Monsters University, The Good Dinosaur (also…

Open Roads: Exclusive Interview with Director Piero Messina on “Another End”

@Courtesy of Cinecittà Another End : A melancholic, philosophical take on science fiction, Piero Messina’s ensemble drama contemplates a futuristic twist on the afterlife and its implications for those whom the deceased have left behind. Gael García Bernal stars as Sal, who has recently lost his partner Zoe in a car accident. When Sal’s sister…

House of the Dragon Season 2: Press Conference with Actors Olivia Cooke, Tom Glynn-Carney, Phia Saban, Fabien Frankel, Ewan Mitchell, Matthew Needham and Creator Ryan J. Condal

Olivia Cooke, @Courtesy of by Ollie Upton/HBO House of the Dragon: Based on George R.R. Martin’s “Fire & Blood,” the series, set 200 years before the events of “Game of Thrones,” tells the story of House Targaryen. Season two returning cast: Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Emma D’Arcy, Eve Best, Steve Toussaint, Fabien Frankel, Ewan Mitchell,…

‘The Acolyte’ Review: Another Star Wars Show just for the Young

@Photo by Lucasfilm Ltd./Lucasfilm Ltd. – © 2024 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved. Since Lucasfilm was sold to Disney in October 2012, the target audience for the Star Wars movies and future TV series changed quite drastically, especially in how the new titles would address the viewers’ tastes. Except for a few productions like…

Hit Man : Press Conference with Actors Glen Powell, Adria Arjona and Director Richard Linklater

@Courtesy of Netflix Hit Man : Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater’s sunlit neo-noir stars Glen Powell as strait-laced professor Gary Johnson, who moonlights as a fake hit man for the New Orleans Police Department. Preternaturally gifted at inhabiting different guises and personalities to catch hapless people hoping to bump off their enemies, Gary descends into morally…

Open Roads: Interview with Director Edoardo De Angelis on “The War Machine”

©Courtesy of Cinecittà Studios Edoardo De Angelis (The Vice of Hope, Open Roads 2019; Indivisible, Open Roads 2017) returns to Film at Lincoln Center with his latest, a gripping maritime thriller driven by a powerhouse performance from Pierfrancesco Favino. Favino stars as Salvatore Todaro, the Italian Royal Navy officer in charge of the submarine Cappellini in…

“Robot Dreams’ Review: A Moving Ballad About What Life Is

@Courtesy of NEON After receiving a prestigious (and unexpected) nomination as Best Animated Feature Film at the 2023 Academy Awards, Robot Dreams by the Spanish director Pablo Berger arrives in American theaters demonstrating once again a basic lesson: less is more. Achieving such complexity, depth, and emotional precision through a story developed with extreme simplicity…

‘Super Size Me’ Director Morgan Spurlock Died at 53

@Courtesy of film, “Super Size Me” The documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock died yesterday in upstate New York at the age of 53 of cancer complications. His brother Craig announced it with this statement: “It was a sad day, as we said goodbye to my brother Morgan. Morgan gave so much through his art, ideas and…