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La Belle at the Movies: the extinct cinemas of Kinshasa

-by Tommaso Tronconi- Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: 10 million inhabitants and not a single cinema or a film
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Mister Giacomo Puccini, this stranger

-by Gianmarco Caselli- The young Giacomo Puccini talks. Gianmarco Caselli, among the project’s partners , tells us what we know about
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“About Bobby Sands”. Interview with Seanna Walsh, the cellmate

– by Giulia Caruso- “I met him for the first time in prison in 1973. I was 16 and I had just got arrested in a Royal Ulster
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In Bhopal 30 years after. Photo feature by Majlend Bramo

– by Majlend Bramo – Eyes lost in emptiness. Some children playing in the backyard of the Chingari Trust. All of them
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La Belle at the Movies: the extinct cinemas of...
Mister Giacomo Puccini, this stranger
“About Bobby Sands”. Interview with Seanna Walsh, the cellmate
In Bhopal 30 years after. Photo feature by Majlend...

March 20, 2017 • Views: 5620

David Lynch’s creative secret: an exclusive interview.

-by Gianmarco Caselli– An exclusive interview with David Lynch. An unconventional interview,

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March 1, 2017 • Views: 2750

Florence, world: the Nuovo Museo dell’Opera del Duomo

-photo shoot by Majlend Brano, words by Valeria Ronzani- It is not parochialism, it is the

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November 30, 2016 • Views: 2366

Short end or long end? Here’s the game of the...

– by Sante Galante – Appropriately seating an honorary guest, hosts and the others at a

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TOP, FILM AND MORE, CULTURE,

March 23, 2017 • Views: 4593

La Belle at the Movies: the extinct cinemas of Kinshasa

-by Tommaso Tronconi- Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: 10 million inhabitants and not a single cinema or a film industry. This is the shocking situation reported by young

FEATURES, TOP, PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO, FOTOGALLERY,

March 12, 2017 • Views: 4181

In Bhopal 30 years after. Photo feature by Majlend Bramo

– by Majlend Bramo – Eyes lost in emptiness. Some children playing in the backyard of the Chingari Trust. All of them have a disease related to that night; a night when 3000

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Reader’s Corner

ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY MARCO MILANESI Dear readers, this space is designed for you. We welcome your contributions, your testimony, your requests and suggestions.We want a dialogue and an exchange, we want all together to find the right direction for this adventure. Thank you for your consideration. Please write to...

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La Belle at the Movies: the extinct cinemas of Kinshasa

-by Tommaso Tronconi- Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: 10 million inhabitants and not a single cinema or a film industry. This is the shocking situation reported by young director Cecilia Zoppelletto in her debut docu-film La Belle at the Movies. Kinshasa is, today, a city deprived of films...

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CLASSICAL MUSIC AND OPERA, TOP,

Mister Giacomo Puccini, this stranger

-by Gianmarco Caselli- The young Giacomo Puccini talks. Gianmarco Caselli, among the project’s partners , tells us what we know about him thanks to the letters published in the first volume of his letters. READ THE INTERVIEW WITH GABRIELLA BIAGI RAVENNI ABOUT THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE OPERA TO BE PUBLISHED...

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TOP, PRIMO PIANO,

“About Bobby Sands”. Interview with Seanna Walsh, the cellmate

– by Giulia Caruso- “I met him for the first time in prison in 1973. I was 16 and I had just got arrested in a Royal Ulster Constabulary operation against Ira. I remember him approaching me to greet me. He was older than me, he had Rod Stewart-like hair and an open and friendly smile. I liked …...

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SOCIAL LIFE, WORLD, FILM AND MORE,

David Lynch’s creative secret: an exclusive interview.

-by Gianmarco Caselli– An exclusive interview with David Lynch. An unconventional interview, which is a result of questions from students and teachers of a Lucca institute that Lynch hadvisited in 2014 whenhe was in town for the Lucca Film Festival. The connecting link between them is transcendental...

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In Bhopal 30 years after. Photo feature by Majlend Bramo

– by Majlend Bramo – Eyes lost in emptiness. Some children playing in the backyard of the Chingari Trust. All of them have a disease related to that night; a night when 3000 people died (other sources says 20000) and more then 500000 were wounded until now. 30 years has passed but a real justice...

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VISUAL ARTS, PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO, CULTURAL HERITAGE, FOTOGALLERY,

Florence, world: the Nuovo Museo dell’Opera del Duomo

-photo shoot by Majlend Brano, words by Valeria Ronzani- It is not parochialism, it is the portrait of a unique age of the human history, a cornerstone for the Western culture. That now shows itself, with the strength of evidence, in a nodal passage when the Middle Age curls in its flows, smells of …...

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Short end or long end? Here’s the game of the “head of the table”

– by Sante Galante – Appropriately seating an honorary guest, hosts and the others at a table is one of the key points to create a proper protocol and not to cause hierarchies any trouble. When I was little, my relatives used to make fun of me – “they joked me”, in Elio e le …...

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The Fight, Leonard Bundu in the pictures by Lorenzo Masi

-by Lorenzo Masi- Born in Sierra Leone in 1974, Leonard Bundu moved to Florence, Italy, in the early ’90 to reach his mother and to flee from the civil war that was inflaming the country. After starting practice boxing he soon became a good amateur boxer under the guide of the master Alessandro Boncinelli, chief...

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THE VIGNETTE,

“Words in Freedom” is born

Words in Freedom is born!...

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CLASSICAL MUSIC AND OPERA, TOP,

March 23, 2017 • Views: 3351

Mister Giacomo Puccini, this stranger

-by Gianmarco Caselli- The young Giacomo Puccini talks. Gianmarco Caselli, among the project’s partners , tells us what we know about him thanks to the letters published in the first volume of

Vivaldi Thriller for Federico Maria Sardelli

January 20, 2016 • Views: 4888

United Kingdom. God Save the Punk

January 15, 2016 • Views: 6253

TOP, FILM AND MORE, CULTURE,

March 23, 2017 • Views: 4593

La Belle at the Movies: the extinct cinemas of Kinshasa

-by Tommaso Tronconi- Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: 10 million inhabitants and not a single cinema or a film industry. This is the shocking situation reported by young

David Lynch’s creative secret: an exclusive interview.

March 20, 2017 • Views: 5620

In Bhopal 30 years after. Photo feature by Majlend Bramo

March 12, 2017 • Views: 4181

March 12, 2017 • Views: 4181

In Bhopal 30 years after. Photo feature by Majlend Bramo

– by Majlend Bramo – Eyes lost in emptiness. Some children playing in the backyard of the Chingari Trust. All of them

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March 1, 2017 • Views: 2750

Florence, world: the Nuovo Museo dell’Opera del Duomo

-photo shoot by Majlend Brano, words by Valeria Ronzani- It is not parochialism, it is the portrait of a unique age of the human

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February 14, 2016 • Views: 2416

The Fight, Leonard Bundu in the pictures by Lorenzo Masi

-by Lorenzo Masi- Born in Sierra Leone in 1974, Leonard Bundu moved to Florence, Italy, in the early ’90 to reach his mother and to

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January 24, 2016 • Views: 4678

Leonte: peace in Lebanon speaks Italian. Photo-reportage by Giuseppe Cabras.

What is a peacekeeping mission? What does life look like during those six months away from home? In March 2015, Giuseppe Cabras went to

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August 31, 2015 • Views: 3882

Florence, the new Museum of the Works of the Cathedral: the...

Waiting for the opening of the new Museo dell’Opera del Duomo in Florence , let’s enjoy the first highlights! – by

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August 10, 2015 • Views: 6456

Alessandra Ferri, in “her own way”

-By Silvia Poletti – Alessandra “Coming back”: the departure for new artistic experiences. New emotions. New opportunities to

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July 29, 2015 • Views: 3517

Women of Gaza – Photo feature by Giuseppe Cabras

– by Valeria Ronzani – Another Intifada? Would you live like this? Precisely a year after the last conflict, here is the

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February 5, 2015 • Views: 217

The Hamburg Ballet, ballet with a human touch – Photos by...

-Photos by Silvano Ballone- The photographs taken by Silvano Ballone, capture subtleties that highlight the beauty of movements capable

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Gaza, Donia Ashraf Odwan, 6 anni, affacciata fra i ruderi della sua abitazione a Beith Hanoun Gaza

SOTTOLINEATURE, FEATURES, PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO, WORLD, FOTOGALLERY,

July 29, 2015 • Views: 3517

Women of Gaza – Photo feature by Giuseppe Cabras

– by Valeria Ronzani – Another Intifada? Would you live like this? Precisely a year after the last conflict, here is the powerful photographic account of someone who experienced

WHO CARES!,

August 19, 2015 • Views: 11543

Fare-thee-well Khaled al-Asaad: a hero to us all

-by Valeria Ronzani- Lest we forget. His loss shall not be in vain, and his dreadful end shall not be forgotten. We celebrate and honour the great Khaled al-Asaad: no-ordinary archaeologist but a

THE VIGNETTE,

February 6, 2016 • Views: 2622

“Words in Freedom” is born

Words in Freedom is born!

READERS CORNER, UNCATEGORIZED,

December 7, 2020 • Views: 317

Reader’s Corner

ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY MARCO MILANESI Dear readers, this space is designed for you. We welcome your contributions, your testimony, your requests and suggestions.We want a dialogue and an exchange,

August 19, 2015 • Views: 11543

Fare-thee-well Khaled al-Asaad: a hero to us all

-by Valeria Ronzani- Lest we forget. His loss shall not be in vain, and his dreadful end shall not

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December 2, 2015 • Views: 9110

Pasolini 40 years ago, like a “bag of trash”

-by Riccardo Lestini- THE PASOLINI CRIME: THE CASE IS STILL OPEN Exactly 40 years after the

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January 22, 2016 • Views: 8509

From Britten to Blow Up and even more: about David...

-by Elisabetta Torselli- The 40th anniversary of Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) is the perfect

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VIDEOGALLERY,

December 2, 2015 • Views: 4075

Bill Viola: Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water)

One of the most impressive installations by Bill Viola, perhaps the most accomplished artist in the world, is hosted in a long term storage in London, in St. Paul’s

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