Bava, Argento, Carpenter: my maestros of fear. In conversation with Tommaso Ottomano.
1/11/2024 Cinema, Soundtracks
A house of rites and rituals. How the villa of Le Mépris became a catwalk.

Casa Malaparte, the villa that belonged to writer, socialite and director Curzio Malaparte and that appeared in the film by Jean-Luc Godard has been chosen by Jacquemus for its 15th anniversary show.

10/06/2024 Cinema, Culture
Heretical night dancers

Beautiful and damned, ruthless and whimsical, witches have long exerted their spell on popular culture. Discover their influence on cinema and its music.

2/06/2024 Cinema, Culture
Parthenope: the Naples that undresses itself naked, according to Paolo Sorrentino

The Italian director returns to Cannes with another ode to his city, where the portrait of its upper-class meets its most visceral folklore.

23/05/2024 Cinema
So pretty, so vacant. Punk in Italian cinema

Whether stereotyped or self-celebrated, the subculture has left a trace in the history of Italian cinema. We look back to its legacy, from costumes to music.

21/05/2024 Cinema, Culture
The Milanese Psychogeography of I Fichissimi

The first ever release of the film’s complete soundtrack by Detto Mariano, is the opportunity to look back to the deeper social meanings of the cult opus by Carlo Vanzina.

8/05/2024 Cinema, Soundtracks
Metti una bossa a cena

The recently rediscovered vocal version by Florinda Bolkan of the Ennio Morricone’s classic is a sensual invitation to share the dinner table and perhaps more . 

6/05/2024 Cinema, Soundtracks
5 soundtracks to discover the cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini 

From Ennio Morricone and Piero Piccioni to Bach and Vivaldi, soundtracks are a tool to better decipher the approach of the author and director to cinema and the meanings assigned to the seventh art.

26/04/2024 Cinema, Soundtracks
The day Cannes turned psychedelic

The 1973 Cannes Film Festival came at a peculiar time for France. Whereas on the other side of the Alps, neighbouring Italy was fine tuning its Molotov cocktails and getting ready for a crescendo of social tension and political violence, France seemed to have slipped back into calm.

17/04/2024 Cinema
Fellini, the American

On a February evening, a glass of wine in my hand, I found myself in good company. The conversation shifted to a very amiable, courteous, inimitable gentleman who has left us from quite some time now: Federico Fellini.

17/04/2024 Cinema
Sinners and saints: the legacy of Nunsploitation in popular culture

Rihanna’s nun cover for Interview magazine is only the latest chapter in the culture industry’s
fascination with Nunsploitation, the cult film genre that since the 1970s has been playing with our religious taboos.

17/04/2024 Cinema, Culture