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Non è per nulla dolce naufragare in questo mare
https://youtu.be/UOWLLGzB06E Mi è giunta voce che nei licei di qualche lontano paese culturalmente sottosviluppato può anche succedere questo durante l'orario scolastico. Mi dicono che laggiù pochi giorni orsono si pensava di aver già to... -
Loro, the movie. Money for nothing and chicks for free. The immoral majority’s and Berlusconi’s philosophy
Loro 1, Loro 2, regia Paolo Sorrentino, 2018 “What did you expect: to be the richest man in the country, become prime minister and be madly loved by everyone too?” “Yes, that’s exactly what I expected.” I approached this two instalment m... -
Il prof. Bingo e la fabbrica dei cretini – Booktrailer: video con testo
Caro lettore, caro libero pensatore, caro collega, caro genitore, caro studente, Se pensi che il mondo dell’istruzione goda oggi di buona salute, se pensi che la cosiddetta Buona Scuola sia un fiore all’occhiello della nostra società, se... -
Mediterranean Summer, chapter 3 – West Sicily, Monument Valley by the sea. In the name of the law?
You’ll see no Rome, Florence, Venice or Taormina in this diary. Instead, I’ll take you to small unknown places of rare beauty often harbouring next to territorial or industrial diseases, ‘ugliness’ of various kinds that makes Italy the c... -
Hostiles: if you like Westerns, don’t miss it
If you like classic Westerns, love and hate John Wayne in The Searchers, consider The last of the Mohicans a milestone of mythic American literature, don't miss Hostiles. It is a quintessential Western movie, full of violence and hate, o... -
World Cup 2018 – out of the cup, into the mud: corruption,violence, beauty in Italian football
All the World is a Football Stage 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 ... -
‘Trattativa stato-mafia’ verdict: The Berlusconi government’s deal with the devil confirmed, good omen for his recent official ‘rehabilitation’
In 2013 I wrote a whole chapter dedicated to the trattativa stato-mafia in my book about Berlusconi when just a few believed it had happened. Proud of it. Thank you Di Matteo is my first tweet after the sentence (trattativa stato-mafia m... -
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)- adaptation for the Italian stage: not a play about the past, but about us, now
Emilia Romagna Teatro has produced this stage adaptation of George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four). The play is directed by Matthew Lenton, Artistic Director of Vanishing Point, a multi-award-winning the... -
Film reviews in English 2018-1
Il cinema sotto le stelle: SACCO E VANZETTI - GILDA - LA RICOTTA Location and programme: the best open-air cinema in Italy - for free The best classical movie screening in Italy from the Cineteca di Bologna's restored films SACCO E VANZE... -
Film reviews in English 2018 -2
GOING NOIR: Il testimone invisibile; Wind River; Blade Runner 2049; The Nile Hilton Incident - HISTORY: Darkest Hour; Dunkirk; The Post Il Testimone invisibile Mi ha ricordato Delitto Perfetto e Corda Tesa di hitchcockiana memoria, un se...
