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Sofia Coppola Lost In Translation

8 jun 11

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Wonderful movie and truly wonderful review.

Alberto Burri Plastica 1962

6 jun 11

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But it doesn't seem to me that I denied the artistic greatness of Piero; in fact, I didn't write anywhere that it's all soulless academicism. Let's not read between the lines ideas that have nothing to do with what is written in the lines, please, nor let's try to contradict ourselves: comment 13 “How can you say that [Piero] is virtuous?”, comment 19 “Piero was certainly a virtuoso.” Come on. ;)

Alberto Burri Plastica 1962

6 jun 11

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@dashell: excuse me, are you really telling me that the almost identity-centered perspective is not the very symbol of academic rigor? Are you implying that Piero wasn't a virtuoso with the brush? It’s clear that you’ve never seen the "Flagellation" in person, or if you have, you were focused on observing the perverse yet fascinating gap on the face of the boy in red, ignoring the rest of the piece. A small note: the word "academic" came after Piero because the academies emerged after Piero, and they are based on Piero and his (certainly revolutionary) art; "virtuoso" means achieving peaks of sublime perfection in a certain art, not that it's just a self-serving exercise in style.

Alberto Burri Plastica 1962

5 jun 11

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The review is very good, but I am a bit puzzled by the comparison with the brilliant Piero della Francesca: not so much for the comparison itself, since any comparison is legitimate and a rich source of engagement/confrontation, but rather for your assertion that both artists aim to eliminate “any idea of rhetoric, ornamentation, embellishment, academy, virtuosity”: how can I agree with the last two words when Piero himself is the very emblem of academia and virtuosity? In reality, the fact that Piero is academic and virtuosic nonetheless brings him closer to Burri: his works are not random splashes of material, but studied compositions; just think of the cretti, which will produce cracks that are more or less deep, wide, and uneven based on the composition of the base paste: everything is well thought out.

Francesco Mandelli - Fabrizio Biggio I Soliti Idioti

2 jun 11

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I quote every single letter of the first two paragraphs from the review: MTV Italia was the best MTV in the world with great shows hosted by good VJs (except for Enrico Silvestrin and Andrea Pezzi, burnt out) and original formats of infinite quality like "brand:new" by the great Massimo Coppola. Then came the downfall: first the music videos of Paris Hilton, then the reality shows with Paris Hilton, soon we will have "The Paris Hilton Show" and I don't want to be there to see it. As for the part of the review dedicated to "I soliti idioti," I'm a bit more lukewarm: at first, I liked it a lot, then maybe it's because they air it at every hour of the day and night, maybe it's because over time it has proven to be really repetitive, or maybe because for me music should come first... well, I got tired of it. It's still a very well-crafted product, made with a cent of the money spent on any Rai 1 show and a hundred times more successful, well acted, well written, well everything, but after a while, it suffers from repetitiveness. Now: either Biggio and Nongio will manage to innovate it, or it will be yet another pain in the neck. To posterity.

Lady Gaga Born This Way

31 may 11

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@Fairy Feller: "Have you considered the fact that she is one of the few women who writes her pieces alone?" So what? Just because she knows how to write, does that add to her musical quality? Knowing how to read and write music indicates knowledge of musical technique, but I could also be technically skilled at painting and still produce garbage my whole life: theoretical competence in a subject is one thing, technical competence another, talent yet another, and it doesn't mean that if one has one of these three qualities, they automatically possess the other two as well. We need to stop with this "Well, she can play!" nonsense: thank you, she's a musician! That's her job; it seems the least they could expect since they pay her for it! If the other girls can't play, it's not her that is superior; it's them that are inferior: it's Ke$ha who is awful, not her who is good. Another point to refute: "How dare you say you don't like it, could you do better?" Ridiculous: as we mentioned before, I could be a deep connoisseur of Renaissance architecture and not know how to build even a 50 cm wall; conversely, I could be a bricklayer and still critique Le Corbusier. Personal taste is one thing, talent is another.

Pete Docter Up

30 may 11

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@Bartleboom: some time ago, "Benkyo!" was released in newsstands, a magazine exclusively dedicated to Japanese animation that, on one single occasion, also talked about something non-Japanese: "The Iron Giant." They wrote that, although it wasn't the magazine's main focus, it was such a beautiful film that it was impossible not to mention it... and they were absolutely right. When I saw it for the first time, I thought it truly was the work of a great director.

Pete Docter Up

30 may 11

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@gemini: sorry, the sentence is indeed ambiguous. I meant to say: "The Incredibles" didn't capture my heart like its first film "The Iron Giant" or the third film "Ratatouille," which are emotionally powerful. ;)

Lady Gaga Born This Way

30 may 11

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@barats92: a minimum of musical quality.

Adele 21

30 may 11

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Oh, finally a good product, what a wonder: very very good review and a most worthy album, maybe not 4 stars (surely Adele will do even better in her upcoming albums and these first two will seem like immature experiments in comparison), but today I feel generous. P.S.: but if you recognize that Lady Gaga is discount orange, why give her 4 stars too? For the sake of the grotesque?