bored to death
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Or Instead of Manhattan, first we take Brooklyn.
New HBO series is about a writer, not able to write his second novel and left by his girlfriend, so desperate that he posts an ad on Cragislist, advertising himself as a private detective. “I read so many Raymond Chandler novels, that I think I could do this” [...]
Tags: books, bored to death, Brooklyn, films, TV series
gomorrah, or things you can do before 30
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Encouraged by a few classes of Italian and previous knowledge of Spanish, I thought to myself “let’s watch a film in a movie theatre”. Italian, of course. I hate dubbed films. So, this spring, while I was in Florence, the first film I ever saw in Italian without subtitles was Gomorrah, directed by Mateo Garrone, [...]
Tags: films, gomorrah, italy, roberto saviano
remnants of the black wave
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Many people whom I meet this year were aware that I come from a post-Communist country, but were surprised to find out that the country in which I was born (with which most are familiar, not the results of the post-war division) had a socialistic organization of society, but was never a part of an [...]
Tags: films, london, yugoslav black wave cinema
