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ODEON Cinema piazza Strozzi 2, tel. 055/295051 www.odeonfirenze.com November 23, 9pm FIRE A highlight of the River to River Indian Film Festival and banned in India, Fire is the first film to confront lesbianism in a culture adamantly denying such a love could ever exist. Shabana
ODEON Cinema piazza Strozzi 2, tel. 055/295051 www.odeonfirenze.com The 50 Days of Cinema festival is currently on in Florence. For full cinema listings and information, visit www.50giornidicinema2013.it The Florence Queer Festival November 6-12 www.florencequeerfestival.it THE LEGEND OF LEIGH
October 24, 9pm WANDA ‘She doesn’t know what she wants—but she knows what she doesn’t want. And she’s trying to get out of this very ugly type of existence. But she doesn’t have the equipment.’ Director, writer and
October 10, 15 and 16 DIANA The last two years of the Princess of Wales’ life apparently featured an affair with a heart surgeon. Anyone remotely interested in this tiresome and unnecessary premise will likely warm to Naomi Watts’ insipid impersonation of Diana (yet balk at Naveen Andrews&
September 27–October 2 THE BLING RING If you can’t be famous, be infamous. From a true story, a posse of celebrity-culture-addicted teenagers track their idols to able to rob them and thus own a piece of their ‘bling.’ A commentary on the
Sept 12–16 THE SPIRIT OF ’45 Ken Loach’s documentary shows how the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, was carried through to the post-war period in ...
July 11–14, 23–26 THE LONE RANGER Disney, Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp are reunited post-Pirates in this reshaping of the stories of the legendary masked hero. Sidekick Tonto tells ...
Odeon: June 21, 22, 23, 24 STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS In our darkest hour, when our leaders have fallen, a hero will rise. After the crew of the Enterprise finds an unstoppable force of terror from within its own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world
Odeon: Until June 8 THE GREAT GATSBY Baz Luhrmann’s much anticipated (and possibly much dreaded) adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald ‘unfilmable’ Jazz Age classic tale of impossible romance and the delusions of the American Dream has had mixed reviews. Luhrmann’s MTV aesthetic
THE GREAT GATSBY Odeon: June 2-7 Opening this year’s Cannes Festival Baz Luhrmann’s much anticipated (and possibly much dreaded) adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald ‘unfilmable’ Jazz Age classic tale of impossible romance and the delusions of the American Dream has had mixed
IRON MAN 3 Odeon: May 10–12 Prepare for a heavy metal! Tony Stark is up against an enemy, the Mandarin, whose reach knows no bounds. With his back to the wall Stark embarks on a harrowing quest for retribution. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the
NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON Odeon: April 29–May 5 You can change your life in an instant. Raimund Gregorius, a stuck-in-a rut Latin teacher in Berne changes his life when an ...
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK Odeon: April 9-11 David O. Russell’s wonderfully unconventional ‘bipolar’ romantic comedy has a lot of interesting things to say about this disorder, cleverly wrapping its traumas in a frothy off-beat comedy that is pitch perfect, compassionate and sharp. Jennifer Lawrence&
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD Odeon: March 14 An extraordinary and affecting movie that will stay in the memory for a long time. Faced with both her hot-tempered father’s fading ...
SIBERIAN EDUCATION Odeon: March 1–6 A drama based on the bestselling memoir by the Moldovan Nicolai Lilin, now living in Italy, about growing up as a member of the ...
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER Odeon: February 14, 15, 16, 17, 20 An adaptation of the modern classic that explores rather more quirkily than usual the trauma of adolescence and the transition to adulthood. Fifteen-year-old Charlie is a cute, naïve outsider coping with first
LES MISÉRABLES Odeon: February 1 to 3 and 6 to 10 A stirring, ambitious but cinematically uneven adaptation of the world's favourite stage musical from the director of The King's Speech. Set in early nineteenth-century France, Victor Hugo's Les Misérables is
THE MASTER ODEON: January 17 P. T. Anderson's masterly movie may or may not be about Scientology, but its vision of a charismatic new post-World War II religion and the allure and then disillusion in the interplay between ambitious leader and vulnerable follower is profound and gripping. ‘
ARGO Astra 2: November 26, 27 Based on real events, the dramatic thriller Argo chronicles the life-or-death covert operation to rescue six Americans that unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis, focusing on the little-known role that the CIA and Hollywood played-information that was
SKYFALL Astra 2: November 12, 13 Daniel Craig is back for the third time as Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 in Skyfall, the 23rd adventure in the longest-running film franchise of all time. In Skyfall, Bond's loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to
SAVAGES Fulgor: Oct 25 to 31 Oliver Stone, indulging his dark side, takes a look at the horrors of the Mexican drug trade: Cartels versus individual producers with a shared girlfriend in the middle, not to mention the FBI. ‘Savages is Oliver Stone doing what he should have
TED Odeon: Oct 11 Seth MacFarlanes' teddy bear comedy is not as cute and cuddly as it may seem. Ted comes to life for his owner John Bennett and a certain amount of outrageous chaos ensues. ‘A fabulous first live-action effort, combining R-rated hilarity with skilled
TF EVENT/ TuttoTondo October 23, 7:30 to 9:30pm, via il Prato 63 (Conti Ingrosso Ortofrutta), Florence TF has teamed up with Yelp (famous in the States but new in town) to offer a fully rounded event: Panino Tondo will be providing tasters of vegan sandwiches, hamburgers and
