Film reviews in English
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Best line of the year 2023 (from the classic noir ‘The Big Steal’)
R. Mitchum, to the femme fatale while framing the villain: When your teeth stop chattering, you get Ortega on the phone … R. Mitchum, alla protagonista femminile mentre tiene sotto tiro il cattivo: Quando i denti finiranno di batterti, chiama l’ispettore Ortega al telefono … https://youtu.be/0SY2PPnIZg4 -
Autumn 2023 movie survey: Oppenheimer; Anatomy of a Fall; Napoleon; La Syndacaliste; Coup De Chance
Notes on this Fall’s picks Very interesting biopic of a lesser-known character, more famous for his ‘deadly toy’ than his biography, which is instead full of strange facts. Who would say that the father of the atomic bomb was a communist sympathizer who would fall from governmental grace after helping his country wi… -
Michael Mann’s Ferrari doesn’t pick up much speed – review
Walking into Largo Garibaldi, where Enzo Ferrari lived, piazza Grande and piazza Roma in the summer of 2022 had been pure de ja vu for me. I had found myself in the Modena of my childhood, the old-fashioned traffic lights, buses, billboards and period memorabilia flashing from my inner eye. That summer Hollywood had…
Articoli, saggi, post
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EURO 2024 Azzurri’s Fiasco
【】 Italian football is the mirror of our society: it means organized crime connections, both at top management level or at mafia and camorra rank; it means corruption, in match fixing, slush funds creation and drug use; it means another weapon of mass consent in the hand of the demagogical political candidate. But… -
GO WEST, YOUNG MAN! Il mito della wilderness e dell’American Sublime (Corriere UTE, Ott. 2022)
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Pedagogia Integrata: Born analogic / digitally remastered (uso dei media nella didattica delle lingue e della letteratura) – MUSICA E CULTURA AMERICANA
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Libri, musica: recensioni
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Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy, #1)by Jean-Claude Izzo
Listen to the review: A shocking wonderful surprise. A pitch-black noir, darker than the classic ones, in the Mediterranean sunshine Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo My rating: 5 of 5 stars A shocking wonderful surprise. This novel is a pitch-black noir, darker than the classic ones, in the Mediterranean sunshine. Th… -
Dylan 80
Homage to Bob Dylan – the man in me. Omaggio a Bob Dylan – l’uomo in me. I don’t know how it happened, we were just kids, late teenagers attending high school, running wild in the early seventies still roaring with the rebelliousness and the political fights of the previous decade. As for the Folk Revival in the US,… -
La Pantomima di Stato: un racconto
Un piccolo regalo a chi ha appena finito gli esami di Stato: un racconto ambientato durante la ‘maturità’, tratto dalla mia collection di short-stories Questa scuola non è una azienda! – i racconti del prof. Bingo (ed. Pendragon, Bologna, 2006) la-pantomima-di-statoDownload