Cinema: yesterday, today and tomorrow (as De Sica taught)
Like all the arts, cinema too undergoes and participates in the great changes, transformations, social, political and cultural tensions that animate the planet.
ABìCinema: Z like Zavattini, Zeffirelli and Zhang Yimou
For the latest episode of ABìCinema, some of the most beautiful films of the international cinematic tradition are reviewed: from Marriage Italian Style to The Taming of the Shrew, from High Noon to the more modern Forest of Flying Daggers
ABìCinema: W as Western and as John Wayne
This week's cinema column takes us to investigate the Western between the example of John Wayne, the landscapes, guns and horses up to Tarantino's The Hateful Height. Note on the myth of Orson…
ABìCinema, V as videogame but also Visconti, Vitti, Verdone
This week's episode of the ABìCinema column investigates the initially conflicting relationship between cinema and video games, without forgetting the contaminations and how many films have drawn inspiration from video games and vice versa, from the Matrix to Alien to Raiders of the Lost Ark
Troisi and the Taviani brothers, Cubism, auctions and exhibitions on FIRST Arte
ABiCinema, the vademecum of the big screen, dedicated to the letter T, the true story of George Braques and Cubism, the auctions of Sotheby's and the Parisian exhibition "Sex, religion, Politique" are the flagship services of FIRST Arte of this…
ABìCinema: T like the Tavianis, Troisi and Quentin Tarantino
Massimo Troisi: a meteor in Italian cinema. In the vein of the so-called "new comedians" of the early 80s (together with Carlo Verdone) he enters an avalanche with the first highly successful title: Ricomincio da tre. In his first film he sums up all…
ABìCinema: S like the screenplay of cinema
Who is the real author, to whom should the paternity of the film product be attributed?
Renoir, Rossellini, Rosi and the masks of Hazoumè on FIRST Arte
September begins with a rich menu in the FIRSTonline magazine dedicated to the world of art and culture and available for free throughout the month: two exhibitions are coming to New York, the film section is back, dedicated to the letter R., and watch out…
AbíCinema: R like the work of film direction
Direction is the synthesis of cinema: through the work of the director, the film takes shape, is transformed from writing (the screenplay) into a finished work destined for screening.
ABìCinema: P like Pasolini's films
This episode of ABCinema is marked by the letter P: from film to direct peplum shooting to Pier Paolo Pasolini to Sidney Pollack to Roman Polansky
ABìCinema: Or like the shadows of the cinema
The ABCinema column continues among the films and curiosities about the letter O of the cinema alphabet. This time it's the turn of Ombre rosse, Otto e mezzo and a brief history on the origin of the name given to the most famous golden statuette of…
Modigliani and his women, Paul Newman, the Borsino of artists on FIRST Arte
The evocative story of Amedeo Modigliani, the Borsino degli artists dedicated to Alberto Biasi, the ABìCinema focused on the N of neorealism and Paul Newman and the main current exhibitions: this and much more on this week's FIRST Arte,…
ABìCinema: N for neorealism, Newman and Nickolson
It was born in the last years of fascism with some great works: Quattro passi tra le Nuvole by Alessandro Blasetti from 42 or Ossessione by Luchino Visconti from 43.
AbìCinema: M for editing but also Magnani and Morricone
It's hard to imagine cinematic art without editing. Some argue that even a shot of a fixed subject, without any subsequent manipulation after shooting, can constitute a filmic work. Conceptually impeccable, substantially impracticable. Assembly is generally considered the constitutive, characteristic and…
Loren and Lollobrigida, the Artists' Exchange and the restoration of the Sacro Monte on FIRST Arte
L like Sofia Loren or Gina Lollobrigida in the new episode of ABìCinema, the Borsino degli artists dedicated to Maria Lai, Angelo Mistretta of "Ricreare Crea" who illustrates the restoration projects of the Sacro Monte but also the portrait of Augustus…
ABìCinema: L like great films, great directors, great actresses
A lucky letter for the history of cinema: between the Italian films Bicycle Thieves by Vittorio De Sica from 1948, based on a story by Cesare Zavattini and The Legend of the Holy Drinker, by Ermanno Olmi from 1988, based…
ABìCinema: I like cinema shots
I: cinema shots A film is made up of a continuous series of shots, ie units of physical space that fit within a frame in two-dimensional terms. She. they are in the cinema as vowels and consonants in the alphabet. Each…
ABìCinema: H like Hollywood but also Hitchcock
H: Horror cinema Among the various "genres" of cinema, horror deserves a prominent place. First of all because its birth coincides fairly with the advent of cinematography itself between the end of the 800th and the beginning of the 900s and…
ABìCinema: G as a genre
Watching a film necessarily leads us to its immediate classification, to its placement in an easily memorable context. Unlike other arts or sciences, cinema often escapes its easy identification in…
ABìCinema: F for science fiction but also Federico Fellini
From the dawn of his presence on earth, man has wondered about his future, trying to interpret what his development could be. Cinema immediately provided the possibility of making this enormous effort visible on the big screen…
ABìCinema: And like effects on the big screen
What could cinema be without more or less special effects? Probably not much: it would be just a collage of video sequences glued together, so-called "in detachment", devoid of any manipulation within the film and any other necessary intervention...
ABìCinema: D as definition of the image but also De Sica
A hot field of technological competition on the future of the audiovisual industry regards the quality of the images. To make a film, a documentary or even a simple television service pleasant, interesting and enjoyable, the definition of the image, its cleanliness, the…
C for Cinema, the handbook of the big screen
The term derives from the Greek kínēma, which means "movement" to which is then added gráphein, "to write": the two terms linked together mean "to write in movement". The semantic reference areas are: the technique, referring to the whole set of…
ABCinema: B for Great Directors
B as Great Directors For the letter B we have no items of particular interest or relevance, useful for deciphering, better understanding cinema in its infinite extensions. They hardly deserve a mention, for terminological purposes only, box office or intended box office…
ABiCinema: the actor and the actant
As we wrote in the introduction to this small handbook for cinema, the items of the alphabet that we report are necessarily essential, sufficient to provide food for thought, elements of knowledge useful for better understanding cinema in its infinite components. Each of…
ABiCinema: handbook of the big screen
Among fans of the big screen, there is certainly no shortage of a very useful little book: Le mille parole del cinema, by Giovanni Grazzini (Laterza, 1980), former historic president of the National Union of Film Critics, capable of providing a sort…
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