Tag: Italy
Fashion’s New Fascist: Fendi, & Everything That’s Wrong With Their Kiernan Shipka-Starring Commercial
For most of the tourists that flock to Rome to throw a coin into the Trevi Fountain (Fendi now being, incidentally, the “owner” of it [Read More…]
A Siciliano Vero Who Betrayed Cosa Nostra: Il Traditore
For a story like notorious traitor Tommaso Buscetta’s, a director as seasoned as Marco Bellocchio makes sense for Il Traditore. Even if he is a [Read More…]
Ford v. Ferrari: An Illumination of Assembly Line Corporations Exploiting Unique Talent For Their Own Stifling Gain
In a film whose entire premise is essentially built around the same generational divide being held up for the world to see in the form [Read More…]
Lina Wertmüller At Last Given Some Overdue Credit With Honorary Oscar at Governors Awards
While an Oscar appears to become increasingly meaningless with each passing year, the sentiment behind it was not lost on veteran Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmüller [Read More…]
Baby: Gossip Girl Italiano
Just as the rich and therefore troubled teens of the Upper East Side on Gossip Girl, the second Netflix original series set in Rome (the [Read More…]
J. Lo in Capri & the Myth of Italy
People have such staunch and unshakeable ideas about Italy, especially when it comes to idealizing it. Who knows if this was always the case or [Read More…]
Class Envy: The Man Who Would Be Vogue vs. The Man Who Would Be FBI’s Most Wanted
With “The Man Who Would Be Vogue,” the first electrifying episode to kick off the second season of American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni [Read More…]
Panic on the Streets of Rome: Morrissey & Italy Now Share Some Beef Together
Morrissey, already a man easily scandalized and sensitive to the comportment of others, may have just added another item to his list of things to [Read More…]
The Young Pope: Presenting Pope Pius XIII as the Donald Trump of the Vatican
“Fanaticism is love. Anything else is just a surrogate.” So asserts Lenny Belardo a.k.a. Pope Pius XIII (Jude Law) to his constituency of cardinals as he [Read More…]
With the Death of Franca Sozzani Comes the Death of Vogue Italia As We Knew It
Vogue Italia has long been known for its avant-garde, forward-thinking aesthetic and editorial slant. And this has, in large part, been thanks to its former [Read More…]
