From the masterpieces of a master like Michelangelo Antonioni to Netflix series. How cinema has changed over the years. FIRST Arte compares the films of the great Italian director and the latest Netflix news.
Mario Mancini, inveterate cinephile as well as founder and number one of the startup of the new goWare publishing, proposes an original and unprecedented way to evaluate the films of Michelangelo Antonioni and, drawing from his impressive database that starts from the 50s, rediscovers what the critics back then he wrote about the great director as his films came out, not always immediately understood. He starts from "The cry" of 1957 with Alida Valli great protagonist. It is curious today to read what the great critics of that time wrote about Antonioni's film, from Guido Aristarco to Paolo Gobetti, from Gian Luigi Rondi to Giuseppe Marotta and Vittorio Spinazzola and many others.
Today, however, cinema enters our homes through TV or streaming. Netflix series are holding bank and film critic Patrizio Rossano X-rays the latest product: Snowpiercer's train of the Apocalypse which begins in two episodes on May 25th. The global threat, the terror of something mysterious, unpredictable and dark has always accompanied humanity and cinema shows it with this new Netflix series. “Snowpiercer's train – writes Rossano in FIRST Arte – is proposed as a great metaphor of these times and it is no coincidence to remember that the images that marked the early years of cinema were precisely the stills of a train launched towards the terrified public ( 1896)".
History repeats itself even in the movies it is never the same and least of all obvious.
