Author: Luciano Ragusa

Rare and the new millennium of the LGBT+ Spanish cinema

Luciano Ragusa's card with which the film “Rara was presented at the Guado in Milan. A strange family "by Pepa San Martín on November 14, 2021 ends with this card the path, certainly not exhaustive, within the Spanish LGBT cinema, with particular reference to the films produced and distributed in the last decade. Before proceeding with the itinerary it must be emphasized that on July 3 ...

The Lord of the ants. What the trial of Braibanti does not tell

. Reflections by Luciano Ragusa, curator of the Guado Cinema, a handful of months have passed since the participation in the Venice Film Festival (September 2022, 79th edition) of the film The Lord of the Formics, directed by Gianni Amelio. Since a card relating to it, published on this space, has already been proposed, why return above? What is missing in the previous article for ...

The Lord of the ants. A journey along a life

. Luciano Ragusa's card with which the film "The Lord of the Ants" by Gianni Amelio was presented at the Guado di Milano on January 14, 2023, it is possible that the figure of Aldo Braibanti, in the mind of Gianni Amelio, had been filed for decades. Ever since - the director moved to Rome in the mid -1960s to satisfy ...

Reinas. Spanish LGBT cinema in the new millennium

. Card of Ragusa Luciano with which the film "Reinas" by Manuel Gómez Pereira was presented at the Guado di Milano on 10 October 2021. As highlighted for the German LGBT cinema, Italian, English (compare www.gionata.org), the approach of the new millennium, coincides with a robust development of films whose subjects are attributable to the issues. The beginning of the 21st century ...

"Belli and damned" by Gus Van Sant. Journey to the cinema independent American LGBT

Luciano Ragusa card with which the film "Belli and damned" by Gus Van Sant on February 13, 2022 as quickly underlined in the previous card, the debate on independent productions (cinematographic) was presented at the Guado in Milan, and the questions that orbit around them assume facets difficult to be entitled with simplicity are anything but concluded. Beyond ...

From New Queer Cinema to Mysterious Skin

Luciano Ragusa's card with which the film "Mysterious Skin" by Gregg Araki on 19 June 2022 The philosopher Hegel, in the text, the science of logic (published between 1812-1816) presented at the Guado di Milano), he claims, not without reason, that: "... when a phenomenon grows from a quantitative point of view there is not only an increase in ...