Ostia is more than a backdrop in HBO’s series I May Destroy You
15 Feb, 2021
Did Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini inspire the story of the most talked about series of the moment?
In the British series from the BBC One and HBO, the audience never sees the eternal Rome with its monuments, but instead its
peripheral appendix Ostia, the extension of small buildings on the Tyrrhenian coast, the beach stands, trashy nightclubs, like those found everywhere in Italy.
Not Rome but Ostia
I May Destroy You, the new series written, directed and interpreted by the talented Michaela Coel,
begins in the streets of Ostia, a southern suburb of Rome. A curious choice of set. The sand dotted with colorful umbrellas, the bars, and the nameless park where a pick- up game of basketball is always being played are more reminiscent of teen summer scenarios of some Netflix productions.
Nomadland wins big at 2021 Gotham Awards
BANG Showbiz 1/12/2021 Bang Showbiz Nomadland was the big winner at the 2021 Gotham Awards.
Chloé Zhao s 2020 independent contemporary western drama - which stars Frances McDormand - scooped Best Feature and the Audience Award at Monday night s (11.01.21) live-streamed ceremony from Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.
It s the first time in the three-decade history of the prestigious awards show that all the Best Feature nominees were motion pictures helmed by women, with ‘Nomandland’ beating off stiff competition from Kitty Green’s ‘The Assistant’ and Eliza Hittman s ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’.
The late Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis were honoured with the Actor and Actress Tribute prize, while Steve McQueen won Director Tribute, Ryan Murphy took home the Industry Tribute and the first-ever Ensemble Tribute was handed to Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 cast.
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