Elisa Leonelli, a photo-journalist and film critic, member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, interviews directors and movie stars, as well as artists, musicians and writers, for international and domestic publications. Formerly Film Editor of VENICE, Los Angeles Arts and Entertainment magazine, currently Los Angeles Correspondent for the Italian film monthly BEST MOVIE, author of the critical essay, "Robert Redford and the American West."
Of the dozens of movies directed by women in 2020, many are being released in January-February 2021, due to new eligibility rules for Golden Globes... Read more →
The number of movies directed by women in 2020 has dramatically increased, and it was a real pleasure for me to watch them all and speak with the... Read more →
When I finally watched Wonder Woman 1984, the much delayed sequel to the 2017 Wonder Woman origin story, also directed by Patty Jenkins, I was... Read more →
Among the many movie actors and directors I interviewed in my long career as a film journalist, a personal favorite is Jeff Bridges, a talented... Read more →
As a lifelong cinephile, with a master in Critical Studies from USC School of Cinematic Arts, I knew about the making of Citizen Kane (1941),... Read more →
The first time I “met” Sean Connery was on the big screen, when I saw him play James Bond in From Russia with Love as a teenager in Italy. It was... Read more →
Last week I interviewed Stanley Tucci via Zoom about The Witches (HBO Max) directed by Robert Zemeckis from the 1983 children’s novel by Roald... Read more →
Earlier this year I had been impressed by Anya Taylor-Joy’s spirited characterization of Jane Austin’s heroine Emma Woodhouse in the movie Emma,... Read more →
Luca Guadagnino, the Italian director of Call me By Your Name, created a television series titled We Are Who We Are, 8 episodes airing weekly on HBO... Read more →
The Glorias, directed by Julie Taymor, is based on Gloria Steinem’s 2015 autobiography My Life on the Road. The plural indicates the four periods... Read more →
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