John Wayne: Playboy Interview
01/07/2017
A candid conversation with the straight-shooting superstar/superpatriot
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Tom Segura: Completely Normal (2014) – Transcript
30/06/2017
Levelheaded stand-up Tom Segura shares offhand appraisals on hotels and opens up about his hobbies and digestive ailments in this comedy special
Planet of the Apes (1968) | Review by Pauline Kael
30/06/2017
Pauline Kael reviews “Planet of the Apes”, a 1968 science fiction film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. Published in ‘The New Yorker’, February 17, 1968
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) | Review by Pauline Kael
30/06/2017
Pauline Kael reviews Sergio Leone’s “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”. Published in ‘The New Yorker’, March 2, 1968
GEORGE CARLIN: CARLIN ON CAMPUS (1984) – Full Transcript
29/06/2017
Full transcript of ‘Carlin on Campus’, 10th album and fourth HBO special by American comedian George Carlin recorded April 18–19, 1984
Louis C.K.: Live at the Beacon Theatre (2011) – Transcript
28/06/2017
Louis jokes about fatherhood, success, and flying first class at the Beacon Theatre in New York
GEORGE ORWELL’S ‘1984’ – Introduction by Robert Harris
27/06/2017
Introduction to the official 60th anniversary edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four
Vaccines: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver – Transcript
26/06/2017
The benefits of vaccines far outweigh the minuscule risks, but some parents still question their safety. John Oliver discusses why some people may still feel uncertainty about childhood vaccinations.
Superman (1978) | Review by Pauline Kael
23/06/2017
Pauline Kael’s review of ‘Superman’ (1978). Published in ‘The New Yorker’, January 1, 1979
PAULINE KAEL ON ‘STAR WARS’
23/06/2017
Pauline Kael reviews George Lucas’ Star Wars. Published in ‘The New Yorker’, September 26, 1977
RICKY GERVAIS: OUT OF ENGLAND 2 (2010) – Full Transcript
23/06/2017
Full transcript of HBO stand-up special ‘Ricky Gervais: Out of England 2’. Recorded before a live audience at the Chicago Theatre in Chicago
Debate: Freedom of Expression Must Include the License to Offend (2006) – Full Transcript
21/06/2017
Heralding the First Amendment, proponents of free speech champion the right to expression unencumbered by government intervention. But is freedom of expression absolute and limitless? Should we be free to use words with the intention to harm? Should some words remain unspoken, or does this mind-set lead us to the path of censorship?
AMY SCHUMER: THE LEATHER SPECIAL (2017) – Full Transcript
20/06/2017
Comic sensation Amy Schumer riffs on sex, dating and the absurdities of fame in a bold and uncensored stand-up set at Denver’s Bellco Theater
CELEBRATING ‘INDEPENDENCE DAY’ (1996)
19/06/2017
‘Starlog’ magazine correspondents report on the Independence Day War
JIM GAFFIGAN: CINCO (2017) – Full Transcript
12/06/2017
Full transcript of Jim Gaffigan’s fifth Netflix original stand up special Cinco. Recorded at the Palace Theater in Columbus, Ohio
DEMOCRACY SLAUGHTERED IN TIANANMEN SQUARE – by Jon Swain
11/06/2017
June 11, 1989: with up to 7,000 already dead, the killing goes on, Jon Swain finds in Beijing
PAUL SCHRADER ON ‘TAXI DRIVER’ – Interview by Richard Thompson
06/06/2017
TAXI DRIVER’S SCREENWRITER Paul Schrader interviewed by Richard Thompson Richard Thompson is grateful to Jack Shafer for his help with this interview, which took place
JIM JEFFERIES: I SWEAR TO GOD (2009) – FULL TRANSCRIPT
06/06/2017
In this HBO special, ‘I Swear to God’, Jim Jefferies discusses religion and racism, his own family and childhood, the idiocy of no-smoking signs, sluts vs. studs, drugs and alcohol, and tells a very embarrassing story about what happened to him after purchasing some adult entertainment material
«LA VERGOGNA DI BERGMAN»: DAL SILENZIO DI DIO AL MARE DEI MORTI
05/06/2017
Ingmar Bergman ha definito il suo ultimo film, che ha per titolo Skammen (La vergogna) una storia di gente che non ha nessuna fede, nessuna convinzione politica, che non agisce secondo canoni e regole politiche
28 DAYS LATER: AN INTERVIEW WITH DANNY BOYLE (2003)
05/06/2017
Director Danny Boyle’s latest feature, 28 Days Later, spins contemporary paranoia regarding disease and viral infection into a frightening tale of post-apocalyptic horror, survival, and rampaging zombies.
Robert Bresson, Possibly – Interview by Paul Schrader (1976)
03/06/2017
Paul Schrader interviewed renowned French director Robert Bresson in 1976 at Bresson’s apartment in Paris overlooking the Seine, while on the way to Cannes where Taxi Driver was to be shown.
2001: FUORI NELLO SPAZIO MA DENTRO LA VITA
02/06/2017
2001: IL FILM DI STANLEY KUBRICK Il viaggio interplanetario è un viaggio biologico di Lino Curci Sono giorni di scienza, non di fantascienza. Per la
LOUIS C.K.: HILARIOUS (2010) – Full Transcript
01/06/2017
In this unique and dynamic live concert experience, Louis C.K.’s exploration of life after 40 destroys politically correct images of modern life with thoughts we have all had…but would rarely admit to
PORCILE O NO tiriamo le somme su PASOLINI
31/05/2017
Piero Sanavìo intervista Pier Paolo Pasolini per la rivista ‘Il Dramma’, Settembre 1969
IN MARGINE AL FILM DI PASOLINI ‘MEDEA’
30/05/2017
Che cosa è la Medea? È la rievocazione mitica, nostalgicamente ricomposta, del tempo della religione, cioè di «un rapporto di tipo religioso con la realtà, cioè considerare la realtà non naturale»
Il bel volo di PAPILLON da Mauriac a Polanski
30/05/2017
Papillon: una farfalla che vola alto, come un’aquila. Il lungo romanzo autobiografico dell’ex-ergastolano Henri Charrière sta battendo il record assoluto dei best-sellers
LOUIS C.K.: SHAMELESS (2007) – Full Transcript
30/05/2017
Please welcome Louis C.K.! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, thanks, that’s very nice. Hello, everybody. How are ya? Woo! Good, thanks for-
Douglas Murray and Sara Khan on ‘The Sunday Politics’ – Full Transcript
30/05/2017
The revelation that the Manchester suicide bomber, 22-year-old Salman Abedi, was born in UK has raised fresh concerns about the effectiveness of the UK’s counter-extremism policy. Douglas Murray and Sarah Khan talk about their views on Islam post Manchester bombing.
George Orwell: 1984 – Introduzione, antologia critica e bibliografia
29/05/2017
George Orwell: 1984 – Introduzione, antologia critica e bibliografia a cura di Aldo Chiaruttini. Oscar Mondatori, Dicembre 1983
FUTURISTIC ‘BLADE RUNNER’ – Review by Janet Maslin
28/05/2017
The view of the future offered by Ridley Scott’s muddled yet mesmerizing ‘Blade Runner’ is as intricately detailed as anything a science-fiction film has yet envisioned