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Perry Mason 2020: tough guy lawyer of the thirties
Perry Mason 2020, TV series, season 1, 8 episodes, Sky Atlantic on-demand/box set. As soon as we decided to start an English language film review section for our school, cinemas closed down. Not to give up hope, let’s try again with new ... -
Who Killed Giovanni Falcone? ‘Don’t say murder, don’t say kill, it was destiny, it was God’s will’
Twenty-eight years later: Falcone and Borsellino are victims of Totò Riina's 'negotiating by bomb' strategy. Victims and martyrs indeed, and of course heroes. Nevertheless, I always have a bitter taste in my mouth every year at the celeb... -
‘Mediterranean Summer’ series- on the road ‘write as you go’ diary of summer wanderings throughout Italy and Southern Europe
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 kind that makes Italy the cr... -
My movies 2020 – David Copperfield: likable adaptation of Dickens’ evergreen
[English text (653 words) with audio + translation in Italian + video review in Italian / / Traduzione italiana dopo il testo originale e videorecensione] click below to listen to the reading of the text https://soundclo... -
My movies 2020 – Tenet
Tenet di C. Nolan - Supereroe alla 007 in un mondo fantascientifico: un gioco di specchi temporale che si rivela solo fine a se stesso Sono vogliosamente tornato al cinema dopo mesi di astinenza a vedere il primo film post Covid: quale a... -
The Ballad of the Covid-19 Gaol, part one
(DIEM 25 Magazine, April 2020) The Burial of the Dead April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland Part 1: It al... -
The Ballad of the Covid-19 Gaol, part 2
(DIEM 25 Magazine, April 2020) Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, May 4,2020 Outside in my street... Modena, city centre .. there is no one around, of course. A blistering sun is shining on the terrace from where I am writing the weather is ... -
Sorry, we missed you
Non c'è fine agli effetti collaterali del capitalismo post-moderno. Quando andrà in pensione, signor Loach, sicuramente ci mancherà Director Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty have come storming back to Cannes with another tactlessl... -
THE IRISHMAN
Sorry Mr P. Bradshaw, but The Irishman is definitively not Martin Scorsese's finest film for 30 years. It is a kind of Goodfellas part 2, same narrative technique, use of soundtrack, voice-over, multiple timeline narration and flashbacks... -
MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN
Post Chandler classical noir revisited, with a protagonist with an obsessive-compulsive syndrome that makes him look like a Dustin Hoffman character of the 60s. There is indeed a 60s feeling, of ideological revisitation, mixed with the c...
