Two Women
Two Women is a great film and based on the intense and intriguing novel by Alberto Moravia. The book is written in first person...
And Agnes Chose to Die
Agnes, despite her age and her physical condition, is a tireless worker. Her husband, Palita, is forced to stay at home because of his...
Johnny the partisan
From Langhe's snowy hills to the movie screen, the ardous journey of Johnny the partisan covers more than half a century of literature and...
Dangerous Liaisons
There is a deplorable opinion, rooted so deeply in modern readers’ tastes to become an untouchable myth. It states that epistolary novels – whose...
A Farewell to Arms
From the very beginning we can guess how much faithfull Frank Borzage's film will be according to the famous novel by Ernest Hemingway. The...
Blue is the Warmest Color
Blue is the Warmest Color is Julie Maroh's first novel. A graphic novel showing a first work's tipical flaws, but that finds its strengths...
The Tenant
I knew of Roland Topor from his work in graphics. I had been always interested in his dark, surreal, cynically satirical, noir, but brilliant...
The Remains of Nothing
In one of the last issues of Inkroci I referred to the book/movie Harold and Maude as to a ‘little miracle’, since the movie...
Fahrenheit 451
Despite quite old-fashioned, with sets and costumes that now look rather vintage, the film Fahrenheit 451, filmed in 1966, still does justice to the...
Harold and Maude
This section has been created to debate the connection (not always happy) between literature and cinema, by discussing films based on some literature’s masterpieces. ...
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Robert Crais – Taken
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Mitko Gogov – [just a little prayer] *
when you’re silent, you say the most,
when you dream, you see the most.
elephants wake to the orchestra inside you
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