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DAVID BORDWELL AND KRISTIN THOMPSON: TWO LECTURES ON CINEMA

Article by: Alessandro Pomati
Translated by: Giorgia Bellini

“For further information, see D. Bordwell and K. Thompson”, “see D. Bordwell, K. Thompson”: every film student has found these specific footnotes – or they have heard those two names, or maybe they have studied from their books at least once in their lives. Nevertheless, those distinguished names could still be perceived as far away from reality, they could be considered just as simple names, labels, quotes. That happens to Bazin, Kracauer, Morin, Zavattini, etc. But, on Tuesday, November 26th, David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson gave two lectures to a large group of students at the auditorium “Guido Quazza” of Palazzo Nuovo. Finally, bodies have been associated to their names, the content of a textbook became matter of a dialogue.

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OPENING PRESS CONFERENCE – 37TH TURIN FILM FESTIVAL

Article by: Marco De Bartolomeo
Translated by: Alice De Vicariis

Anxious, prophetic, mysterious. It’s the raven face of Barbara Steele – queen of Italian and international horror – that introduces the press conference of the Turin Film Festival. Already at its 37th edition, the festival set-up by Emanuela Martini reveals itself to the public, proving once again to be one the most important cultural events of Turin.

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