At the peak of image dematerialization, Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey chooses the extreme physicality of IMAX film. But it would be a mistake to turn this into nostalgic praise for analog. Nolan isn’t going backward. He […]
Category: Cinema
VENICE 83 AND ITALIAN CINEMA. FIVE FILMS, ZERO PRIZES. THE PROBLEM RUNS DEEPER
Five Italian films in the main competition. Not a single award. That’s not enough to declare Italian cinema in crisis. But it’s enough to ask whether this result reveals something deeper. Italy did win one […]
RICCARDO SCAMARCIO. FROM ITALIAN CINEMA’S HEARTTHROB TO BEST ACTOR AT VENICE
For a long time, Riccardo Scamarcio was mostly the good-looking face of Italian cinema, the one from Tre metri sopra il cielo, who almost overnight became the idol of a generation and one of the […]
ALDO, GIOVANNI AND GIACOMO. THIS TIME, THE NEW FILM HAS SOMETHING DIFFERENT
Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo return to theaters with Magari un’altra volta, directed by Tobia Passigato and hitting screens January 28, 2027. But this time, the trio seems to have chosen less predictable ground than traditional […]
PENÉLOPE CRUZ AND JAVIER BARDEM AT VENICE 83 WITH BUNKER
Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem return to the big screen together at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival with Bunker, Florian Zeller’s film presented in competition. In the film they play husband and wife. Just […]
SUSAN SARANDON IN ANDREA PALLAORO’S THE ECHO CHAMBER: BERTOLUCCI’S FINAL SCREENPLAY
The last project written by Bernardo Bertolucci, alongside Ilaria Bernardini and Ludovica Rampoldi, hits the screen as The Echo Chamber, directed by Andrea Pallaoro. The cast includes Susan Sarandon, Luca Marinelli, and Alicia Vikander. Susan […]
OASIS IN VENICE FOR THE DON’T LOOK BACK IN ANGER DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE. NEVER HAS A TITLE BEEN MORE FITTING.
Oasis arrives at the Venice Film Festival with Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger. The documentary is directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace. It chronicles one of the most anticipated musical comebacks in […]
GEORGE CLOONEY IN VENICE. A GOLDEN LION FOR ALMOST THIRTY YEARS OF CINEMA
George Clooney has returned to Venice to receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. Not to accompany a new film, but to be celebrated for a career that now spans almost thirty years of cinema. […]
David di Donatello 2026: Italian Cinema Returns to Searching for Humanity
The David di Donatello Awards 2026 celebrate an Italian cinema returning to people, places, and silences. A return to identity and the authentic voice of our cinema. Less obsession with effect, more need for identity. […]
THE DEVIL NO LONGER WEARS PRADA. TODAY, THE SYSTEM WEARS THE LOOK OF POWER
When The Devil Wears Prada came out, the title worked because everyone understood the joke. Prada was not just a brand name. It was a signal. It suggested a certain kind of power: cold, intelligent, […]
Battiato and the Art of Protecting Without Possessing
Franco, it’s been 29 years since you wrote it. Many still wonder what it really means. Who it refers to. What it wanted to convey. And most importantly, who it was dedicated to. Maybe a […]
THE NEW STATUS SYMBOL AFTER BIG BRANDS: VINTAGE & BESPOKE
The prestige of time and the mastery of the hand—when fashion stops devouring itself and learns to last. Luxury used to feel like a closed room. Today it’s everywhere—global access, endless drops, infinite storefronts. And […]
FASHION MAGAZINE CLOSES. WHEN FASHION STORIES END, STORYTELLER SILENCES.
With this message, one of the most iconic and prestigious magazines that have covered the world of fashion for fifty years has closed its doors with immediate effect: “Dear readers, we close with sadness, but also with […]
WHEN THE SUPPLIER BRAND BECOMES THE FIRST COMPETITOR OF THE STORE THAT SELLS IT
In recent years, clothing stores in Italy have been facing challenges that go beyond declining consumption or general online competition. There’s a more subtle contradiction, less talked about, but profoundly destabilizing for those working in […]
GOLD AT THE CENTER OF THE NEW GLOBAL DEBATE
Back in 2013, in an article published on Alessandro Sicuro Comunication titled “The gold held by the Bank of Italy: who owns it?”[…]
ITALIAN FASHION STARTS AGAIN: THE RECOVERY IN THE THIRD QUARTER CHANGES THE PACE OF THE INDUSTRY
After months of uncertainty and eight consecutive quarters of decline, the Italian fashion industry is finally seeing a turnaround. The data for the third quarter of 2025 speak clearly: turnover in the core sectors—textiles, clothing, […]
BRUNELLO, THE GENTLE VISIONARY — THE MAN, THE IDEA, THE FILM
– My perspective on an entrepreneur who transformed capitalism into a project of industrial humanism: a self-made man, listed on the stock exchange and faithful to the numbers, but who always put people, the Solomeo […]
PITTI UOMO 109 – FLORENCE LIGHTS UP THE MOTION, THE MOVEMENT THAT DESIGNS THE TREND
Pitti Uomo returns to the Fortezza da Basso from January 13 to 16, 2026, inaugurating its 109th edition with a theme that perfectly captures the current state of affairs: Motion . A broad, almost cinematic concept, it […]
JAY KELLY – THE TRUTH THAT REMAINS WHEN THE MYTH FADES
– After Jay Kelly ‘s Venice premiere , in that strange suspended atmosphere where a film still seems to vibrate before truly belonging to the world, I finally had the chance to rewatch it calmly, at home. […]
