Cinema has often interrogated the power and meaning of truth. What is it? How do we get to it? How do we accept it? A... Read More
Roberto Ruggio
Roberto is a 32-year-old movie buff hailing straight from Venice-ish, Italy. Disdained by the modern world and its ostracism against Ken Russell’s undisputable masterpiece “The Devils”, he finds solace in watching films of debatable quality, sipping beer and being as queer as possible.
The 78th Venice Film Festival has nearly come to an end. It’s been a long, stressful but exciting year for the festival: 21 films in... Read More
Russian art and literature have often gifted the world with antiheroes, characters that find themselves stuck in a limbo that traps them, under the hammer... Read More
How happy are we when get what we seek? We may work for it for an entire life, and when we obtain it, the joy... Read More
“Once upon a time, in Nazi-occupied Rome…” September 1943. Fulvio, Cencio, Mario and Matilde live in suburban Rome, and they work for a man named... Read More
Ukranian director Valentyn Vasyanovych won the hearts of many at the 2019 Venice Film Festival, when his Atlantis won the Orizzonti section. Atlantis was a... Read More
Carnaby Street. Regent Street. Oxford Street. Piccadilly Circus. The West End. These are all areas of London, and they’re all part of or adjacent to... Read More
Michelangelo Frammartino stunned the arthouse world in 2010 with his marvelous Le quattro volte, a beautiful and poignant meditation on the cycle of life. After... Read More
“Thank you to my sources of inspiration: Federico Fellini, Talking Heads, Martin Scorsese and Diego Armando Maradona.” When Paolo Sorrentino went on stage to accept... Read More
“Deliver my soul from the sword. My love from the power of the dog” (Psalms, 22:20, David’s address to God to free him from his... Read More
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