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'A success shaped hole called failure' is a collection of my writing from the internet, as well as my blog and some fiction and what not. It isn't very flashy. In fact it's quite inanimate, despite largely (though not exclusively) dealing with moving pictures. 

Film Reviews

More reviews can be found on the film writing page:

Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Blue is the Warmest Colour
Only Lovers Left Alive
Venus in Furs
Michael Kohlhaas
Grigris
Jimmy P.
Only God Forgives
The Past
Behind the Candelabra
The Immigrant 
Nebraska
Shield of Straw
A Touch of Sin
Like Father, Like Son
The Great Beauty
Borgman
Heli
Inside Llewyn Davis
Point Blank
Girlfriend in a Coma
Midnight Son

Dead Europe
Beasts of the Southern Wild
V/H/S
Killing Them Softly
The Master
To The Wonder

Passion
Pieta
The Company you Keep
Me Too
The Fifth Season
Outrage Beyond


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Features

I have been very busy contributing to some forthcoming books: Venice is out. I have also created another site which is taking up a lot of time. It's called the Studio Exec. But don't tell anyone I write for it because it's very hush hush. 
I have a new article on Vomit at Electric Sheep. 
An interview with Alps director, Yorgos Lanthimos here.  
I have a Festival page with links to all my reviews from Venice and Cannes. A quick general report is over at Electric Sheep here. My polemic against the Avengers and comic book movies general is available here. 
I also have an article on Christopher Nolan right here. 

About the author

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I'm a writer based in Italy. I've written for a number of websites, as well as contributing articles and chapters to several books, most recently a study of the cinema of Terrence Malick. 
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News

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The American Hollywood volume of Intellect's Directory of World Cinema has been published and to which I am a contributor. Here's a review. The American Independent volume will be coming out next year, to which I have also contributed. Intellect are also publishing a book on Venice as part of their World Film Location series and I shall be writing some essays for this as well. 


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