Rome Film Festival Articles

Bella, Edward, and a vibrator. No, not all together; after all, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 is rated PG-13. It's just that the eclectic Rome Film Festival, currently being held in the Italian capital, has screened 15 minutes from Breaking Dawn: Part 1, in addition to Tanya Wexler's comedy about the invention of the vibrator, Hysteria, featuring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy (photo). [...]

Keira Knightley, Last Night Last Night, Massy Tadjedin's New York-set marital drama starring Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Eva Mendes, and Guillaume Canet, opened the 2010 edition of the Rome Film Festival this evening. Regarding the subject of marital infidelity — the central topic in Last Night — Knightley told reporters the following: "Sometimes I went into it thinking the mental infidelity was worse, then we're [...]

2009 Rome Film Festival Awards 2009 Rome Film Festival: Oct. 15-23, 2009   Danish-born filmmaker Nicolo Donato's feature-film debut, Brotherhood revolves around a group of Danish neo-Nazis, with particular focus on two members of this group of violent, xenophobic, anti-gay bigots: newbie Lars (Thure Lindhardt), who has been recently discharged from the army, and Jimmy (David Dencik), one of the leaders of the gang. Things [...]

2008 Rome Film Festival Awards 2008 Rome Film Festival: Oct. 22-31, 2008   The best film winner at the 2008 edition of the Rome Film Festival was Siddiq Barmak's drama Opium War. Following a helicopter crash, two American soldiers are stranded in Afghanistan. After some relaxing moments — with the help of that substance found in poppies — they encounter an Afghan family living inside [...]