“Schindler’s List was never a cure for antisemitism. It was a reminder of the symptoms of it.”Steven Spielberg In The Fabelmans – Spielberg’s stunning autobiography – is revealed how the director’s Jewish origins impacted his life. His relatives in Europe died in Poland and Ukraine during the Nazi regime. Even in America, wherever he went, he …
The breathtaking locations are only one of the many ingredients that helped make the second part of Denis Villeneuve’s work one of the best films of the last two decades, in my opinion. The location of Dune in Italy is also unusual and beautiful, one of those places that I discovered just because of the …
“Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.” Keith Richards Memphis and Elvis are an indissoluble duo; one cannot mention the city without thinking of the King and his voice. Here he grew up, was born a singer and lived until the end in his Graceland.To visit Elvis’ places in Memphis is to pay …
Directed and produced by the legendary Clint Eastwood, a film whose co-star – in a sense – is a historic Ford automobile, could only be set in the Motor City (with also the benefit of all the facilities that Michigan offers for those who choose to shoot there). Discovering Gran Torino’s locations in Detroit also …
In the common imagination, Detroit appears as a grey and decayed industrial city with a turbulent past, an unsafe city that can only intrigue car enthusiasts. I won’t deny that I had this impression too, until I became curious about what it had to offer and what to see in Detroit, and I immediately changed …
From June 23 to July 1, 2023, the 69th Taormina Film Festival takes place in the homonym city, the movie festival was born in 1955 from the idea of some friends to enhance the Sicilian territory through cinema. This year I had the opportunity to participate as a press officer and it was exciting and …
We really love unusual itineraries, those that combine the classic with the lesser known, the ones that you could easily lose because on roads less traveled. We love to create customized routes, to study every single stop not only where to sleep but also between points. An travel itinerary in the United States to me …
Positioned between the Magnificent Mile and Lake Michigan, the building formerly named John Hancock Tower (now 875 N. Michigan Ave.) is home to 360 Chicago. Situated on the 94th floor, it is an attraction whose name expresses the strength of what, in my opinion, should be the first attraction to visit in Chicago, to fill …
Enjoy a drink in the clouds: the description itself gives a sense of pure relaxation. If you do this while looking at Lake Michigan, in the third tallest skyscraper in Chicago (and the seventh in the United States), you can add wonder to relax and there’s nothing better. But let’s start from the beginning: what …
Itinerari di cinema e d’America (Mesupi’s Travels) was born in 2014. The initial purpose was to complete a bucket list, which mainly concerns travel, and tells people about it to show everyone that everything is possible (the list was started by us and then shared by numerous bloggers, giving life to the hashtag #100cosedafareprimadimorire).A year …
