Critical Notes

Setting Free the Screens

Maya Rebecca Fidelia Gargiulo · 26 October 2026

Mohamed Challouf and “Awakening” Arab-African Cinema at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples.

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Ken Russell’s Incendiary Masterpiece, Just as the Director Intended It

Diego Del Pozzo · 18 October 2026

The Director’s Cut of The Devils arrives in Italian cinemas in a restored version.

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Laughing at the Disaster, After the Disaster

Lorenzo Di Paola · 16 October 2026

An Apology for Digger (or The Unpredictable Vice of Intellectualism).

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Touch of Evil in Italian Cinemas Starting Today

Diego Del Pozzo · 5 October 2026

Orson Welles’s noir masterpiece returns to theaters in a restored and “reconstructed” version.

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What Makes Us Unyielding?

Vittoria Mascellaro · 23 September 2026

The Representational Metamorphosis of the Artificial in Cinema, from Spielberg’s A.I. to Kore-eda’s Sheep in the Box.

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Bruce Springsteen and cinema: a relationship with deep roots

Diego Del Pozzo · 14 September 2026

Critical reflections on the American rocker's love of film, as Nanni Moretti includes him in his new Succederà questa notte.

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Revisiting Palombella Rossa as Moretti returns to Venice

Lorenzo Di Paola · 4 September 2026

When Nanni reflected on "a century now drawing to a close".

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A Brief Critical History of the X-Men Phenomenon 

Diego Del Pozzo · 19 August 2026

As the new Marvel mutants movie takes shape (with the announcement of the first cast members), here is a look at who these beloved comic book characters are and where they come from.

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A "political" re-examination of Moretti's film twenty years later

Lorenzo Di Paola · 3 August 2026

Il Caimano and the Waldusconi saga.

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