Bergamo Film Festival 2026 offers a journey through the cinema of the 1950s, with a selection of eight films made by well-known and lesser-known filmmakers, all united by their ability...

Just ahead of the 44th edition of Bergamo Film Meeting which kicks off on the 7th March, we trawled the internet to gather some light-hearted gen on Louis de Funès,...

Dir: Denis Sanders | US Doc 1971. 93' Soul to Soul is best described as an ethnological concert movie that aims to place soul music in the context of its origins....

Dir/scr: Stephen Wallis | Cast: John Cleese, Derek Jacobi, Stuart Townsend, Fiona Glasgott, Morgana Robinson | Ireland, Canada. 2023. 85’ What a great cast - but then what an odd comedy:...

Dir: Mascha Schilinski. Germany. 2025. 148, “Suffering, sighing, bleeding, dying; sealed in a stone cold tomb”. The trauma of four generations of German women is captured in this macabre patchwork portrait of...

Dir: David Miller | Susan Hayward, John Gavin, Vera Miles | US Drama 1961 Reviewed by Richard Chatten Quentin Tarantino has gone on record as being an admirer of this, the first...

Dir: Silvio Soldini | Drama 119' It sounds exciting and The Tasters is certainly a beautifully filmed but curiously un-involving drama that follows seven German women tasked with trying out...

Dir: Alex Cox. 2026 . 88' | USA Reviewed by Peter Herbert Nikolai Gogol’s 'Dead Souls' has been described as “an epic poem of hallucinatory reality pushed into the surreal “. Admired...

Dir/scr: Ruth Beckermann. Austria|Italy. 2026. 97mins “Spirituality brings us together whereas religion divides us”. A lion lounging in the sun soon perks up when he sees a man standing by his cage...