TORONTO – Perhaps more than any other sporting event, the Winter Olympics highlights the human story above athletics – which is nowhere more evident than with the bobsled competition. Take the 1988 four-man Jamaican bobsled team in Calgary, for instance. Though they were disqualified, the team was immortalized on screen largely because they were a tropical nation competing in a niche winter sport. And now, an Italian bobsled success story is finally getting its own movie…
TORONTO – Forse più di qualsiasi altro evento sportivo, le Olimpiadi invernali mettono in evidenza la storia umana al di sopra del fatto agonistico – cosa che è particolarmente evidente nella competizione di bob…
TORONTO – Specifically speaking, the classic “whodunnit” story refers to the golden age of mystery fiction of the 1920s and 30s, led by British authors like Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie. But there have been variations on the sleuth narrative for virtually millennia, which might also account for some of Italy’s obsession with crime drama…
TORONTO – Per essere precisi, la classica storia del “chi è il colpevole” si riferisce all’età d’oro della narrativa gialla degli anni ’20 e ’30, guidata da autori britannici come Dorothy L. Sayers e Agatha Christie. Ma ci sono state variazioni della narrazione del detective per quasi millenni, il che potrebbe anche spiegare parte dell’ossessione italiana per i drammi criminali…
TORONTO – In this climate of intense political polarization, the art of storytelling has all but died. Yes, writers like Dante, Shakespeare and Hemingway imbued their work with views so political that it led to exile, heavy government scrutiny and surveillance. But while these scribes wrote about the suffering of the working class, the dangers of authoritarianism and the corruptibility of the powerful, their works were layered masterpieces…
