cineletteraria

Protest and Bergman, Latin America and social unrest. It seems like May 1968; but the year is 2008. Yesterday’s employee (protagonist of the De André-Piovani concept in Storia di un impiegato, 1973) doesn’t exist any more. Or if he exists, he’s not part of the staff. He wouldn’t even have time to dream of becoming [...]

Yesterday I was fascinated listening to Giorgio Tinazzi’s conference about the phenomenon of quoting in cinema. He spoke for the Phd School in Padua. He started from Woody Allen’s “mockumentary” Zelig, which can be considered as a text made by the interaction of many quotes and fakes, then he explored other styles in quoting through [...]