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LISTEN TO THE ARTICLE There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for...

Looking forward to the American elections, part 1. The subtitle of my book about Berlusconi’s Italy reads The all-Italian story of the man who gave us Trump. In the book I write that “Trump may be more powerful, and more dangerous, than ...

Italian football: mirror of a society where no one pays 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,...

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 p...

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 batt...

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...

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, billboa...

Martin Scorsese’s western true-crime thriller is about the US’s Osage murders of the early 1920s … Scorsese crafts an epic of creeping, existential horror about the birth of the American century, a macabre tale of quasi-genocidal serial ...

Review Legendary moustachioed Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot, played by Branagh, is back for the third time. This time Branagh adapts Christie’s late novel Hallowe’en Party, moving the setting to a crepuscular Venice. The timeline follows...

a documentary essay on faking history through cinema: the grisly founding myth of fascism  Watching a work by British film critic and historian Mark Cousins is actually like going to a university class: his movies are called ‘docume...