The Usual Suspects: the meaning of Keyser Söze’s role
One day, few years ago, a friend asked me what The Usual Suspects was about. He was sure I already mentioned it to him, and he was not wrong. Two weeks earlier I stumbled in…
Finnegans Wake, James Joyce’s untranslatable dream
“In the name of Annah the Everliving, the Bringer of Allmaziful, the Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run as it is uneven, unhemmed!” This would be enough short/abstract glimpse…
Franco Battiato and the machines: the avant-garde period of the 70s
In the early 1970s, Franco Battiato was a globetrotting young author with a passion for filming and sound experimentation in the round. Today it is known for the ability to give the sacred aura, magical…
London Calling & This is England: two perspectives to understand Brexit
4 May 1979-11 July 2016: two historical dates for the recent history of the United Kingdom. In these two days, respectively, Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May have become Prime Minister, the only two women who…
Bohemian Rhapsody: the true story of Queens’s biggest bet
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? This is six minutes of pure epic-ness, where Queen poured all their geniality and ambition into one song, conquering charts around the world, and writing their…
The trilogy of power: when Litfiba re-invented italian new wave
In Florence the years ’80, there was a kind of Renaissance. The echoes of the new wave and punk wave of the late ’70 arrived in Tuscany and some groups took life through the downtown streets.…