Kiss

 The Graduate (1967)

Django Unchained poster, possibly official

Plus, I've read the script and can barely wait for the injection of awesomeness and western brute-comic violence.

Aaron Sorkin's "Network" (1976) ?

Taking a hindsight at Aaron Sorkin's career we may conjure up a set of precise concerns and thematic preferences that enwrap his character's worlds and bake the extent of his overall works. Politics, institutions and media. A Few Good Men (1992) is a military court drama that deals with the ethics of subordination and corruption in the light of law and the greater good; The American President (1995) and TV series West Wing (99-06) go on board of the White House; Charlie Wilson's War (2007) revolves around a Congressman and Afghanistan.

Sorkin has also created Sports Night (98-00) for ABC, Studio 60 on the Sunset Trip (06-07) for NBC and recently wrote The Social Network (2010) for David Fincher. He loves to write about what's behind the scenes, about the human dilemmas among social and institutional pressure and hypocrisy, underneath whatever that crosses screens every day and every night. Hierarchies, ethics, rates, information, emissions, make it stockholders, likes, friends - how much is too much when people depend part of their lives on fabricated platforms of indirect interaction with the world and between each other?

Isn't anything crossing your minds? Sorkin has stated many times that one of his favorite writers is the great Paddy Chayefsky and that one of his favorite films is the masterpiece Network (1976), directed by Sidney Lumet. He reveries about what could have been made of Mark Zuckerberg's life if penned by the visionary who created such a black-comic tragic treaty on the implications of media in the modern society.

Well, the Oscar and Emmy-winner screenwriter is back to TV and on TV. The trailer of new HBO series The Newsroom is out and stars Jeff Daniels, Sam Waterston and Emily Mortimer. And it's all there: politics, institutions and media. An amazing trailer that has me hooked at the 24th of June.

Trailer for Woody Allen new film "To Rome with love"

After having been titled Bop Decameron (referencing Boccacio's "The Decameron") and priorly been changed to Nero Fiddled (referencing the Roman Emperor, Nero, and the Great Fire of Rome), Woody Allen lands on the much more conventional and much less enthusiastic headline To Rome with Love. One can argue that the twist is in the fact that the object (Rome; could be Russia) is now not the origin but the destination of the feeling.  Woody is getting back in front of the cameras (after Scoop (2006)), together with the great cast - Penélope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg, Roberto Begnini, Ellen Page, Alec Baldwin, Greta Gerwig and Judy Davis.

The official synopsis reads as “The film is comprised of four separate vignettes and tells the story of a number of people in Italy—some American, some Italian, some residents, some visitors—and the romances and adventures and predicaments they get into.”. I think I'll like the vignettes. I can only think of the great Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (1974) by Vittorio de Sicca, with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.

This will certainly be much different from the out-of-the-box Midnight in Paris, playing in a more straighforward fashion that finds its funniness in exploring particular gags of each individual character and their (hopefully) original yields of neurotic relationships. But its all great actors, beautiful cinematography, swinging music and Italy.