Radio screenWEEK

Radio screenWEEK covers cinema and television with the energy of people who would rather argue their way toward a point than present one already laminated. The show’s recent run shows two strong modes. In the Andiamo al cinema episodes, it hosts conversations around current Italian films, with guests discussing La Festa della Rivoluzione, ...che Dio perdona a tutti, and Il Dio dell'amore. Those interviews often start from craft. Writing, character invention, historical distance, theatre training, and the relationship between actor and audience all become live subjects. The questions are direct. The answers can turn reflective, especially when guests talk about how much information a role needs or how cinema differs from the wood of a theatre stage. Then the rhythm loosens. A memory of the World Cup can enter a conversation about belief and comedy; a note on Ovid can lead into Mastroianni, performance, and the difficulty of describing a film loved too much. The other mode is La Telefonata, a more unruly strand built around casual calls and comic escalation. Saving Christmas becomes a study in holiday certainty, Kirk Cameron, and the weird authority of festive mythmaking. Pulgasari leads into North Korean cinema, propaganda, Kim Jong-il, and the grim comedy of forced artistic ambition. 365 giorni and its sequel become a reason to pick apart fantasy, wealth, danger, and the way a movie can polish ugly implications until they look like lifestyle. Radio screenWEEK’s appeal lies in that instability. It can be affectionate about cinema without sounding reverent. It can mock a movie while still paying attention to production history, genre mechanics, and the small choices that reveal a worldview. The show is fast, crowded, and tangential, with jokes that repeat until they turn into structure. It is not sleek. That is part of the texture. For listeners comfortable with Italian film talk that runs on banter, interviews, half-serious detours, and sudden clear observations, it offers a lively route through what is playing, what is streaming, and what has become too strange not to discuss.