Category Archives: Cinema

Is the Cinema still open?

Posted on 2014-05-26 by Andreas Moser

Sometimes, the sign for a place already gives me the feeling that the place might no longer exist. (Photographed at Matera in Italy.)

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The most important moment in the history of cinema

Posted on 2014-05-23 by Andreas Moser
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Video Blog: Giro d’Italia 2014

Posted on 2014-05-13 by Andreas Moser

I just went outside to see why the neighbors are playing opera music and the national anthem and banging wooden sticks on baking trays and pots. The police came by in ever increasing numbers, trying to stop or at least contain the … Continue reading →

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Video: Liberation of Italy

Posted on 2014-04-26 by Andreas Moser

I did not catch the actual liberation of Italy from the Nazis and Fascists in World War II on video, admittedly. But yesterday, on 25 April, the 69th anniversary of that event was commemorated. Of course Italy was not liberated in … Continue reading →

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Film Review: “Argo”

Posted on 2014-04-18 by Andreas Moser

When I was in prison in Iran in 2009, I was hoping for someone like Tony Mendez to burst open the door to my cell and to whisk me to a waiting helicopter. Except that I hadn’t heard of him at the … Continue reading →

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Video Blog: Car Bomb in Bari

Posted on 2014-04-11 by Andreas Moser

It always happens, wherever I move. As soon as I settle in, somebody tries to get rid of me already. A few minutes ago, a car bomb exploded outside of my house in Bari, Italy. Luckily, it happened during lunchtime … Continue reading →

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Easily Confused (32) Manuel Valls

Posted on 2014-04-09 by Andreas Moser

Whenever I see Manuel Valls, the new French Prime Minister, I am reminded of Jamie McDonald (actor Paul Higgins), the “crossest man in Scotland” from the film In the Loop:

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Sometimes, I can’t blame people for thinking that I am a spy.

Posted on 2014-01-10 by Andreas Moser

But I swear, the reason why I was standing under that lamppost in the middle of the night and smoking a cigar, was that I was watching a cat playing with some fruits on a tree. (The photo was taken … Continue reading →

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Video Blog: Civil War in Palermo

Posted on 2014-01-03 by Andreas Moser

I spent New Year’s Eve and the first couple of days of January 2014 in Palermo, the capital city of Sicily. I only made one New Year’s resolution (although I had previously dismissed those kind of resolutions as bunk) and … Continue reading →

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Video Blog: Vulcano

Posted on 2013-11-25 by Andreas Moser

Travelling is fun. Hiking around islands in the Mediterranean is especially fun. Putting these adventures on the record for my esteemed readership sometimes feels like work. Work is no fun at all. That’s why, during the ascent of the highest … Continue reading →

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