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The heatwave has been a disaster for independent music festivals, which were already struggling.

Just last weekend there were half a dozen concert cancellations and festivals that were called off. Some may never return.

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Books of the Month

What we read in June in the editorial office.
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In addition to Nolan’s, this year another Odyssey will be released: a 13-hour audiobook narrated by the voice of Michael Caine cloned with AI.

It was done by the AI company ElevenLabs and yes, Michael Caine has given consent to clone his voice and no, the audiobook has nothing to do with the film.
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Wired Italy from start to finish

On June 20, the latest issue of the print magazine was released, and today the website will no longer be updated. We spoke with the people who have led Wired over these 17 years to tell its story and legacy.
by Gianmaria Tammaro
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The Spanish Film Archive, the Italian National Film Archive, the French Cinémathèque, and the Film Museum in Munich will work together to reconstruct the legendary Don Quixote by Orson Welles.

An "alliance" to accomplish a feat deemed impossible: finally fulfilling the dream that Welles pursued his entire life.
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Dua Lipa has opened a library in Portugal dedicated entirely to censored or banned books.

It is called Manifesto Library and collects one hundred books, divided into four sections: power, control, voice, and memory.
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Influencers will not be able to see The Odyssey in advance because the film distributor fears that their reviews (especially the positive ones) will harm it.

Apparently, influencer reviews have been a problem for Disclosure Day and Universal does not want to repeat the mistake.
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If Glastonbury stops, it’s not a tragedy; what is happening to independent festivals is.

In the same year that the UK's "monstrous" festival is halted as scheduled, another 20 independent venues, small temples of live music, are closing.
by Matteo Suanno
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Serene with a touch of constant turmoil: music and life according to Mac DeMarco

On the eve of the Italian minitour that will take him to Bologna, Rome, and Milan, we met Macbriare Samuel Lanyon DeMarco, known as Mac, to talk about guitars, chainsaws, gardens, and records.
by Teresa Bellemo
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CAM Sugar has unveiled previously unseen photos of Ennio Morricone’s studio

They were presented at the press conference for the International Film Score Festival, organized by CAM Sugar and Triennale Milano.
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The “lost” album by Deftones, Eros, has been released online after 18 years

And the fans are divided, between those who welcomed the news with enthusiasm and those who were outraged recalling the tragic story that led to the cancellation of that record.
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Criterion Collection will release a luxurious box set of 30 DVDs with all the restored films of Stanley Kubrick.

It will include all of his short and feature films in restored versions, plus 25 hours of special content, many of which are unpublished and quite enticing.
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Due to Sam Altman and OpenAI, no one wants to distribute Artificial, the film by Luca Guadagnino about Sam Altman and OpenAI.

Amazon was supposed to distribute it, but changed its mind at the last moment. Warner Bros. and Paramount have already rejected it. And now, nothing is known about the film's fate.
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Why does Michela Murgia continue to anger everyone?

While alive, she took literature and dragged it out of the private sphere – onto TV, social media, and in speeches – contaminating it with everything that tradition considered impure. With the "Strega case," it happened again.
by Marta Clinco
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Sergio Romano after the David, after The Plain Cities, after Carlobianchi

For our new digital cover, we met the star of the Italian film of the year. It was a long chat about cinema, art, politics, the direction of Francesco Sossai, and the poems of Pierpaolo Capovilla. And about Carlobianchi's mustache.
by Francesco Gerardi
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Dimartino wants to make music that talks about everything and is not afraid of anything

The Palermo of childhood, artists taking a stand, De André and De Gregori, Sanremo and "creative crises": we discussed this and much more with Dimartino, on the occasion of the release of his new album, The Unlikely Flood of Oreto.
by Gianmaria Tammaro