Il Postino: La Metafora
I have this scene in my head all day… This scene from the film Il Postino, where Massimo Troisi (the Postman) having discovered the ‘metaphor’ in language tries to capture all those things that move...
View ArticleLeonard Cohen: The Poet
”A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.” Leonard Cohen I started this day by watching a 1965 film...
View ArticleWonder(full) Rodriguez
This blog became two years old the other day. If it could take a voice, I imagine it would take the voice of Sixto Rodriguez and say, “Thank you for keeping me alive!”, in the same simple, clear and...
View ArticleWhat is soft and what is strong? IL CAPO, by Yuri Ancanari
IL CAPO by the Italian artist Yuri Ancarani. This excerpt of the short film Il Capo (The Chief) makes part of the Trilogy La malattia del ferro (The disease of iron; 2010–12), where Ancarani portrays...
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