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Amy Adams in Arrival

Movies

Arrival | A close encounter of the fifth kind

Giorgio Reclama

Painting of the raising of Lazarus by Caravaggio

Art

The Raising of Lazarus shows Caravaggio’s innovations

Valentina Manganaro

Photo of the Milky Way

Books

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a tonic for low spirits

Alessia Sciannamblo

Love in the Time of Cholera- A bench

Books

Love in the Time of Cholera marks the peak of the author’s ascendancy

Carmen De Nisi

My Brilliant Friend illustration

Books

My Brilliant Friend has a unifying power

Alessia Sciannamblo

Image of the protagonists of House of Cards saluting the flag

TV Shows

House of Cards offers a dark portrait of America

Valeria Usala

The image represents a broken city, it can be seen as an allegory for the amin theme of the record

Music

West of Eden | Threnos for the western world’s end

Jacopo Soru

The Wilds, the first Amazon Prime teenage drama.

TV Shows

The Wilds | A matriarchal utopia inspired by teenage girls

Margherita Pescarin

The Song of Songs - Rambler Rose (Rosa multiflora)

Poems

The Song of Songs | The erotic way to God

Sofia Fiorini

British artist Banksy released his BLM Painting in June 2020 in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and the protests following George Floyd's death.

Contemporary Art

The BLM Banksy Painting exposes a white problem

Christine Bax

Growth in three stages, from child to girl to woman.

Books

Girl, Woman, Other | Intersectional feminism in modern Britain

Margherita Pescarin

The film Tightrope, by Russian artist Taus Makhacheva, shows Rasul Abakarov crossing a canyon carrying 61 works from the Dagestani Museum of Fine Art.

Contemporary Art

Tightrope is a balancing act between art and history

Christine Bax

Ambient 1: Music for Airports. In close relation with space - An Interior view of Yeşilköy airport

Music

Ambient 1: Music for Airports | A sonic field to explore

Flavia Di Mauro

Danse macabre of the Holy Trinity Church, Hrastovlje, Slovenia

Movies

The Rules of the Game | A war movie without a war

Giorgio Reclama

Dr. Meredith Grey is the protagonist of Grey's Anatomy, a pillar in the modern TV era

TV Shows

Grey’s Anatomy | A pillar in the modern TV era

Hypercritic Editorial Staff

Sandman Stories

Comics

The importance of stories in The Sandman

Gabriele Siciliano

Movies

Minimalism and poetry in Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad

Skye Kuppig

Love & Ashes - a photo of Messanges, France

Music

Love & Ashes | Blood and Sun’s American neofolk

Jacopo Soru

Doré and the horror vacui in Dante's Divine Comedy - An illustration

Art

Doré and the horror vacui in Dante’s Divine Comedy

Valentina Manganaro

Stephen King It - A Big red balloon has become the symbol of the malevolent creature that the group of protagonists fight

Books

It | Stephen King’s consecration to fame

Alessia Sciannamblo

Books

The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov’s troubled novel

Alessia Sciannamblo

"A Success Unexpected in Common Hours" | Walden, or Life in the Woods - A view of the woods surrounding Walden Pond. Autumn.

Books

“A success unexpected in common hours” | Walden; or, Life in the Woods

Flavia Di Mauro

Artwork by Ceesepe

Movies

The Law of Desire | Entertainment mixes with auteur cinema

Skye Kuppig

A shuriken depicting the symbol of the superhero Batman, also known as "The Dark Knight"

Movies

The Dark Knight | An allegory of 9/11 and The War on Terror

Andrea Donini

The Majesty - Enthroned Madonna with the child Jesus, whether or not accompanied with angels and saints.

Art

The Majesty of Simone Martini in Siena

Valentina Manganaro

Selma - An old photo of the front line of the Selma to Montgomery march 1965 w/ Martin Luther King Jr.

Movies

Selma | Drawing out the essence of Martin Luther King Jr.

Skye Kuppig

A melted ice-cream in a street.

Books

Tiffany McDaniel’s The summer that melted everything

Alessia Sciannamblo

Camille Henrot Grosse Fatigue

Contemporary Art

Grosse fatigue | The Inexhaustible nature of knowledge

Veronica Schirru

Jennifer Aniston and Steve Carell in “The Morning Show,”

TV Shows

The Morning Show | A story about power

Valeria Usala

The Waste Land | A influences constellation in an ode to desolation

Poems

The Waste Land | A influences constellation in an ode to desolation

Agnese Mosconi

Rayuela, playing with the novel. A girl playing hopscotch

Books

Rayuela | Playing with the novel

Alessia Sciannamblo

A part of the vault frescos of Correggio's Camera della Badessa.

Art

The Chamber of the Abbess | The impossible art reproduction

Valentina Manganaro

Berserk Black Swordsman

Comics

Berserk | The path of the Black Swordsman

Giovanni Di Rienzo

The Tête à Tête - The William Hogarth's artwork

Art

The Tête à Tête time in a Marriage A-la-Mode

Valentina Manganaro

UK flag waiving in the sky

Music

(What’s The Story) Morning Glory? | Britpop’s finest

Maria Chiara Pacifici

Jojo Rabbit | The best Nazi in the world - Victory!

Movies

Jojo Rabbit | The best Nazi in the world

Cristina Danini

The Leftovers - Sheriff Car during a parade

TV Shows

The Leftovers | A symphony of grief

Federica Gandolfo

Art

The Triumph of Death and its strong symbolism

Valentina Manganaro

The Walking Dead

TV Shows

The Walking Dead explores human nature

Jordi Ferrer Torres

The BLM Banksy statue contributes to the discussion about tearing down the many other colonialist statues and statues of slave traders around the world.

Contemporary Art

The BLM Banksy Statue honors a time of change

Christine Bax

Joanna Piotrowska Self-defence How to translate through gesture

Contemporary Art

Self-defence | How to translate through gesture

Veronica Schirru

La voce del Padrone | Franco Battiato’s Pop Miracle

Music

La voce del Padrone | Franco Battiato’s Pop Miracle

Flavia Di Mauro

An image from 9eyes' archive. Jon Rafman's 9eyes is a collection of images taken from Google Street View, addressing human vulnerability and the issue of privacy.

Contemporary Art

Jon Rafman’s 9eyes addresses the issue of privacy

Christine Bax

Free Solo | The first man who climbed El Cap without ropes

Sports

Free Solo | The first man who climbed El Cap without ropes

Marco Massera

Photo of Angela Davis in an abandoned railway station

Movies

13th |A lineage of racial oppression across 150 years

Skye Kuppig

Life of Pi makes you suspend you disbelief - lonely boat in the ocean at sunset

Books

Life of Pi | A story that makes you suspend your disbelief

Giulia Viganò

Stefaneschi Triptych - The Retro Side

Art

The Stefaneschi Triptych gathers two different stories

Valentina Manganaro

Isle of the Dead | Floating inside the inner world - Arnold Böcklin - Die Toteninsel III

Art

Isle of the Dead | Floating inside the inner world

Valentina Manganaro

Great Expectations - Dickens's Dream

Books

Great Expectations | The path to becoming a gentleman

Alessia Sciannamblo

Contemporary Art

Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail to the Dark Lioness

Christine Bax

Offred and the Handmaids, in a white bonnet and a red cloak, are gathered in the open under a stage, where the Aunts complete the training

TV Shows

The Handmaid’s Tale | It’s all much more than fiction

Valeria Usala

A row of desks in a classroom.

Books

The Topeka School describes a polarized society

Alessia Sciannamblo

Invisible Cities, a love poem to the city - black and white photo of Venice

Books

Invisible Cities | A love poem to the city

Giulia Viganò

Hachette cover of a Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan

Books

A Visit From the Goon Squad is a symphony of voices

Alessia Sciannamblo

The main characters in Amazon Prime Video's The Boys Boys

TV Shows

The Boys | The dark side of superheroes

Giulia Orati

A village

TV Shows

The Good Place could be a better place

Leonardo Vitali

The Chapel of the Holy Shroud - Internal dome view

Art

The Chapel of the Holy Shroud is a journey towards the light

Valentina Manganaro

Songs for the Deaf | Our darkest emotions - Desert at night

Music

Songs for the Deaf | Our darkest emotions

Edoardo Chen

Westworld charachters: Dolores and Maeve, Season 3 - human-like androids

TV Shows

Westworld | Free will is not free

Jordi Ferrer Torres

The Man Standing Next Still from the Movie by Woo Min HO

Movies

The Man Standing Next | Shakespearean Tragedy in 70s Korea

Skye Kuppig

Music

Beyondless | Deconstructing punk music

Jacopo Soru

1960 European Nations' Cup | When politics defeated football

Sports

1960 European Nations’ Cup | When politics defeated football

Matilde Castagnone

Sebastian Diaz Morales' Suspension creates a fantastic allegory for contemporary society. The film shows a figure floating in an undefined emptiness.

Contemporary Art

Suspension is an allegory for contemporary society

Christine Bax

Francis Alÿs Color Matching. The artist as a witness

Contemporary Art

Color Matching | The artist as a witness

Veronica Schirru

Ride the Lightning. Lightning during a thunderstorm.

Music

How Ride the Lightning helped establish the metal genre

Jacopo Soru

The boundary between reality and fiction is broken.

Movies

In the Mouth of Madness | A Storyteller’s Testament

Davide Tiberga

Photo of the installation "Can't Help Myself" at the Venice Biennale

Contemporary Art

Watching Can’t Help Myself is like looking at a caged animal

Christine Bax

In The Deposition From the Cross, Jacopo Pontormo gives an unconventional take on the deposition of Christ.

Art

Pontormo’s unconventional Deposition From the Cross

Valentina Manganaro

A production still from The Trial of the Chicago 7 featuring the defendants in the courtroom

Movies

The Trial of the Chicago 7 | A movie about today

Skye Kuppig

Underworld - New York picture in black and white

Books

Underworld | A dual conception of history

Alessia Sciannamblo

Wag the Dog - A photo of the front of the White House

Movies

Wag the Dog | When comedy looks like reality

Skye Kuppig

The Bad Girl - hands

Books

The Bad Girl | A modern Madame Bovary

Carmen De Nisi

A portrait of colorful parrot on a black backgroung.

Books

The Broom of the System is like the pendulum of a clock

Hypercritic Editorial Staff

Romulus | A coming-of-age story in the ancient Lazio

TV Shows

Romulus | A coming-of-age story in the ancient Lazio

Luisa Zhou

Hades | A game where you make progress by dying

Video Games

Hades | A game where you make progress by dying

Jordi Ferrer Torres

Game of Throne: Cersei with Jamie Lannister

TV Shows

Game of Thrones | When TV goes big

Valeria Usala

An Image of Kwade's work Weltenlinie

Contemporary Art

Alicja Kwade’s WeltenLinie interacts with the surroundings

Christine Bax

tennis racket

Books

Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace’s maximalist novel

Andrea Migliorini

A dynamic and frenetic representation of a new city and its citizens.

Art

The City Rises is Umberto Boccioni’s first Futurist work

Valentina Manganaro

Gary Oldman as Herman Mankiewicz in Mank

Movies

Mank | The Impression of a Man’s Life

Skye Kuppig

The Portrait of Mrs. Isabel Styler-Tas, painted in 1945, exemplifies Salvador Dalì's unique take on the the so-called paranoiac-critical method.

Art

The Portrait of Madame Isabel Styler-Tas shows Dalì’s method

Valentina Manganaro

Cyberpunk 2077

Video Games

Cyberpunk 2077 | The next-generation narrative universe

Federica Gandolfo

An empty office full of desk.

TV Shows

What feed journalists in The Newsroom

Hypercritic Editorial Staff

Theatrical Poster for Kubrick's 1962 Lolita

Books

Lolita | A character taking on a life of its own

Alessia Sciannamblo

American Psycho the darkest side of society

Books

American Psycho | The darkest side of society

Giulia Viganò

One of the huge exhaust nozzles of the rocket’s engines

Music

The Downward Spiral tells about the fall of a man

Jacopo Soru

Nonagon Infinity

Music

Nonagon Infinity | Redefining the musical narrative

Edoardo Chen

The Caravaggio's Nativity | Art comes alive with new technologies

Art

The Nativity | Art comes alive with new technologies

Annamaria Russo

The House of the Spirits | From a letter to the magical feminism

Books

The House of the Spirits | From a letter to Magical feminism

Carmen De Nisi

The image shows a house in a forest- like terrain shrouded by a mysterious fog. It suits the mood of the record

Music

Visions of Bodies Being Burned | Beyond the greatest horrors

Jacopo Soru

Society Within | The Life and Strange Adventure of Robinson Crusoe - Illustration by Walter Paget

Books

Society Within | The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Flavia Di Mauro

Rick appreciating the little things in season 4 of Rick and Morty.

TV Shows

Rick and Morty | The absurd balance between tragedy and miracle of life

Federica Gandolfo

Hollywood is a Netflix miniseries created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan. The TV show reimagines and rewrites the history of the Golden Age of Hollywood through a progressive and inclusive lens.

TV Shows

Hollywood | Rewriting the Golden Age of cinema

Andrea Donini

The Watchmen cast - A woman all dressed in black, a man all dressed in red and three police officers are standing inside a park

TV Shows

Watchmen | A subversion of the superhero

Valeria Usala

The Big Brother watching

Books

1984 | Big Brother is watching you

Simone Pietro Alteri

The Official Poster for the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019 was unveiled in Paris on Friday to coincide with International Women’s Day.

Sports

2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup | Dare to shine

Matilde Castagnone

Sitting cows in the grass.

Music

Atom Heart Mother is Pink Floyd’s weirdest experiment

Jacopo Soru

Still from a dance sequence in Dark City Beneath the Beat

Movies

Dark City Beneath the Beat is Baltimore’s audiovisual symphony

Skye Kuppig

Garden of the Arcane Delights - The image shows a cemetery in the woods, thus some tree are visible together along with many tombs. At the center of the image, between two trees there is a headless statue

Music

Garden of the Arcane Delights | A tribe of darkness

Jacopo Soru

Sixty Stories | Dino Buzzati's fantastic reality - dark spiral staircase

Books

Sessanta racconti | Dino Buzzati’s fantastic reality

Giulia Viganò

The Seven Most Exciting Hours of Mr. Trier’s Life in Twenty-Four Chapters is an adventure novel based on a true story told in a TV interview by Lars von Trier.

Contemporary Art

The 7 Most Exciting Hours of Mr. Trier’s Life in 24 Chapters

Christine Bax

«If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you»

Movies

The Thing | To Gaze Long into an Abyss

Davide Tiberga

In space no one can hear you scream

Movies

Alien | In space no one can hear you scream

Davide Tiberga

A great wood comes against Macbet Castle to vanquish him.

Movies

Throne of Blood | Translating Shakespeare into Film

Davide Tiberga

Hawaiian view from the top of the island

TV Shows

Lost | The first mainstream phenomenon on TV

Valeria Usala

Stand by Me is a cult movie about the journey from childhood to adulthood. The image depicts old train tracks near a green forest. Train tracks are an essential point in the characters' journey.

Movies

Stand by Me | A cult journey into adulthood

Andrea Donini

In the project Coloring Tirana, facades of the former state-residential complexes were painted to improve well-being and social security.

Contemporary Art

Coloring Tirana | Art for social change

Christine Bax

There Existed An Addiction To Blood -A red flow, as blood in the veins.

Music

There Existed An Addiction To Blood | Between cinema and human nature

Jacopo Soru

Books

Fahrenheit 451 transcends the boundaries of science fiction

Alessia Sciannamblo

The Feast in the House of Levi - The colorful and crowded scene

Art

The Feast in the House of Levi | The power of being disruptive

Valentina Manganaro

In the Mood for Love shapes solitude and expectation. It does so through locations as well. This image shows two tree trunks inside the ancient temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Angkor Wat is an important location in the movie.

Movies

In the Mood for Love | Loneliness and expectation

Andrea Donini

Flights | Olga Tokarczuck's theory of knowledge - Life is traveling

Books

Flights | Olga Tokarczuck’s theory of knowledge

Andrea Migliorini

Golden Lion winner Faust, by the German artist Anne Imhof, was the main event of the 57th Venice Biennale, in 2017. It was a 5-hours-long performance.

Contemporary Art

The spontaneous discipline of Anne Imhof’s Faust

Christine Bax

The work Balloons on the Sea, by Turkish artist Hale Tenger, consists of one main video, projected on the wall, and six videos spread throughout the room.

Contemporary Art

Balloons on the Sea brings to mind synesthesia

Christine Bax

Flatland | A world limited to two dimensions - geometric pattern

Books

Flatland | A world limited to two dimensions

Giulia Viganò

Agata Trzebuchowska in Ida by Paweł Pawlikowski

Movies

Ida | A journey to discover one’s own identity

Giorgio Reclama

Nothing - The meaning of life - trees from below

Books

Teller’s Nothing | A brutal quest for the meaning of life

Giulia Viganò

Engraving from William Still's history UNDERGROUND RAILROAD 1872

Books

The Underground Railroad tells more than Black history

Alessia Sciannamblo

Attack on Titan manga

Comics

Attack on Titan is a manga about power and freedom

Giovanni Di Rienzo

Joker

Movies

Joker | A portrayal of contemporary man

Andrea Donini

Pride and Prejudice -

Books

Pride and Prejudice | Where femininity builds masculinity

Matilde Castagnone

Achtung Baby - A Warning old sticker.

Music

Achtung Baby | When U2 dreamt it all up again

Maria Chiara Pacifici

Ernest Hemingway writing at his campsite in Kenya in 1953

Books

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

Alessia Sciannamblo

Center of a star cluster - topic covered in Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Books

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Beauty unfold

Nadia Corvino

Copy of a Lithograph of Surrender of Hessian Troops during the American Civil War

Contemporary Art

The Possibility of An Army |The digital space as a battlefield

Christine Bax

A maze is a house built purposely to confuse men

Movies

Pan’s Labyrinth | An Antifascist Fantasy

Davide Tiberga

Emmanuelle Riva in Amour by Michael Haneke

Movies

Amour | An experience

Giorgio Reclama

One Hundred Years of Solitude - A palm

Books

One Hundred Years of Solitude | History in a family saga

Carmen De Nisi

Film and projectors in an archive

TV Shows

The Man in the High Castle | “What have might been”

Sara Erriu

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