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Ettore Scola is widely regarded as one of the most significant figures in Italian cinema. He began his career in the post-neorealist period of the 1960s with the rather uneven film Let’s Talk About Women (1964), an episodic work composed of…

Liliana Cavani (b. 1933) is one of the few contemporary Italian filmmakers who, like Pier Paolo Pasolini, Marco Ferreri, and to a lesser extent Bernardo Bertolucci, pushes her cinema to the outermost limits of audience endurance in order…

In the extremely difficult circumstances currently facing our country—including a dire economic situation, widespread corruption, internal divisions among officials, the absence of a clear governance strategy, pressing social issues,…

Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral election in early November 2025, just one year after the shocking return of the gangster-like figure Trump to the U.S. presidency, once again drew global attention and marked an even…

In these difficult days for all of Iranians, as Trump’s America, hand in hand with Netanyahu’s Israel, exerts maximum pressure on global media to present the ugliest and most terrifying image of Iran and to organize a new attack against the…

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In these half-ruined mountains and plains, where here and there the oak trees still stretch their “hands in supplication” toward the sky; among a people bewildered by what is befalling them; amid the clamor of engineers, experts, and…

Behind the worn-out, faded, and crumbling walls, a young girl gazes into a future that does not exist. The men have occupied every space and blend into one another. Life is lost somewhere amid these ambiguous men, hidden behind their…

What makes The Lives of Others both powerful and deeply moving—above all else—is its form: a minimalist form that, within a minimalist content, conveys the terrifying brutality of totalitarianism in East Germany with exceptional subtlety.…

This film, which was originally intended to be directed by Fritz Lang, was eventually made by Robert Wiene due to various factors—chief among them, the specific historical moment and sociopolitical atmosphere in which it was produced and…