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Martin Scorsese Quei bravi ragazzi

15 mar 07

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No bullshit, a well-made mafia movie is always a winner. Hyper-testosterone in a tie. Nothing sexier.

Ludovico Einaudi Recital - Teatro Verdi di Firenze

15 mar 07

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Come on, let's play hide and seek!

Verdena Requiem

15 mar 07

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"The new album by Verdena is proof of a stagnation, of a frustration, of a lifestyle, both European and Italian, that is losing the genuineness that has faded in art, music, cinema, and (the true drama) in writing, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and which, in an irreversible manner, has now decreed its own end in this dire start of the millennium. What a apocalyptic and bone-crushing context for this little group! -- As for the rest of the review, it's a déjà vu.... well written though (which is not evident. If you're a fake you've improved, if not, welcome). (...and who would that "little bit of healthy and genuine that remained in our beautiful country" be? Should it be understood in a seppuku sense?)"

Einstürzende Neubauten Kollaps

15 mar 07

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correct!

Einstürzende Neubauten Kollaps

15 mar 07

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Get up! Crash down! Collapse!

CCCP - Fedeli alla linea Epica Etica Etnica Pathos

15 mar 07

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I only see this review today, coming from that one you just published. What can I say? In my opinion, it’s the absolute pinnacle, the zenith of everything produced by the Ferretti & Co. collective. A masterpiece of sound, atmosphere, involvement, dynamics, pain, and autism. This record is a delightful torture; it really makes you enjoy the pain inflicted by the guitars, the breaks, the frenzied bursts of sound. If I had to save one album from the CCCP from a catastrophe, I would choose this one without a second thought.

CCCP - Fedeli Alla Linea Affinità-Divergenze Fra Il Compagno Togliatti E Noi

15 mar 07

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who knows, maybe because when I wrote the comment my Milanese ex-love came to mind, when he used to drive me back to Lugano, he would sing to me "Trafitto sono, trapassato dal futuro/ cerco una persona che mi sia di cuscino/ fragili desideri fragili desideri/ a volte indispensabili/ a volte no." Who knows why, dear Minchiadura. Maybe because at that moment I was at the mercy of my emotions. (What a wonderful forum that was, such beautiful round discussions, how eager we were to ramble on, what great times...)

Danny Boyle Trainspotting

14 mar 07

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Core, okay, looking at it this way I understand now // Bubi, in a sense he has 'green-lighted' the drug problem: it's been since the '50s that films about heroin have been made, have you ever seen Il Braccio D'Oro by Preminger, featuring a masterful Frank Sinatra as a junkie? // Galakordi, to each their own, but I've always thought that in Wir Kinder it was the silences that spoke - for example that scene where Christiane is high for the first time, and she’s in the car with her fellow junkies as they enter a tunnel (!) with Bowie’s Warzsawa playing in the background... a scene without dialogue, and terrifying at the same time. Moreover, in Wir Kinder there’s a subtle collateral operation, that of demystifying a perfect Berlin - the shining and international "capital of culture" of the '80s - highlighting its raw and bleak periphery, where its forgotten and marginalized children-lost, inevitably get lost, in total ignorance and mental silence...

Danny Boyle Trainspotting

14 mar 07

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Core, okay, looking at it this way I understand now // Bubi, in a sense he has 'green-lighted' the drug problem: it's been since the '50s that films about heroin have been made, have you ever seen Il Braccio D'Oro by Preminger, featuring a masterful Frank Sinatra as a junkie? // Galakordi, to each their own, but I've always thought that in Wir Kinder it was the silences that spoke - for example that scene where Christiane is high for the first time, and she’s in the car with her fellow junkies as they enter a tunnel (!) with Bowie’s Warzsawa playing in the background... a scene without dialogue, and terrifying at the same time. Moreover, in Wir Kinder there’s a subtle collateral operation, that of demystifying a perfect Berlin - the shining and international "capital of culture" of the '80s - highlighting its raw and bleak periphery, where its forgotten and marginalized children-lost, inevitably get lost, in total ignorance and mental silence...