Writings– category –
-
Film reviews in English
Review collection 2024-2025
Here is a determinedly old-fashioned drama, verbose and elaborate but also forthright and watchable in its way. It is a Stoppardian what-if meeting, imagining a bruising encounter between two celebrated historical figures who could, theo... -
Articles, essays, posts
Berlusconi’s/Trump’s crimes and misdemeanours: who is the boss? 11 overwhelming questions
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 ... -
Articles, essays, posts
EURO 2024 Azzurri’s Fiasco
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,... -
Libri, musica: recensioni
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 p... -
Film reviews in English
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... -
Film reviews in English
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... -
Film reviews in English
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, billboa... -
Articles, essays, posts
GO WEST, YOUNG MAN! Il mito della wilderness e dell’American Sublime (Corriere UTE, Ott. 2022)
IL-CORRIERE-NR-7-OTTOBRE-22-Ambiente-USADownload -
Articles, essays, posts
Pedagogia Integrata: Born analogic / digitally remastered (uso dei media nella didattica delle lingue e della letteratura) – MUSICA E CULTURA AMERICANA
citta-educativa-relazioneDownload -
Articles, essays, posts
Pedagogia Integrata: Born analogic / digitally remastered (uso dei media nella didattica delle lingue e della letteratura) –
2.1-bacca-64-born-analogicDownload