Category: Arts & Culture

CORRIERE CANADESE / Reckless Adventures, the theme in new Rom-Com

TORONTO – It wasn’t too long ago that the Romantic Comedy genre or “Rom-Coms” were major studio productions which enjoyed massive marketing pushes and wide releases. From the 1990s to the mid 2000s, the genre drew audiences using classic meet-cute encounters and feel-good romance tropes. But the hopeful optimism of those 90s Rom-Coms reflected a time period still unaffected by the Internet, and its diabolical offspring – “social media”… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>> 

CORRIERE CANADESE / Avventura Spericolata, nuova commedia romantica

TORONTO – Non molto tempo fa il genere delle “Commedie Romantiche”, erano produzioni di grandi studi che hanno goduto di enormi spinte di marketing e di ampie uscite. Dagli anni ’90 alla metà degli anni 2000, il genere attirava il pubblico attraverso incontri classici e sentimentali che avevano una fine positiva. Ma l’ottimismo speranzoso di quelle commedie romantiche degli anni ’90 rifletteva un periodo ancora non influenzato da Internet e dalla sua diabolica prole – i “social media“… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>> 

CORRIERE CANADESE / Tom Ford invests in Italy, Again

TORONTO – Filmmakers are often seduced by what’s happening beyond their borders. At best, it produces artists like Quentin Tarantino, whose work is heavily influenced by Japanese exploitation flicks and Italian Spaghetti Westerns. But mostly, it’s a profit seeking exercise that produces terrible cinema. In the case of Tom Ford’s latest work – an adaptation of Anne Rice’s novel Cry to Heaven – hopes remain high… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>>