Giovanni Vimercati
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Giovanni Vimercati is a freelance journalist, critic and media analyst. Originally from Italy, he graduated in Film Studies in London and worked as a film critic while managing an independent video store, The Film Shop in Stoke Newington. In 2008 he founded the Celluloid Liberation Front, a multi-use(r) name, an "open reputation" informally adopted and shared by a desiring multitude of insurgent spect-actors. Under this pseudonym he continues to write for established film publications. His lifelong passion for politics found an outlet in China.org.cn where he is now a columnist occasionally also writing about Chinese cinema. |
May 20, 2013
- Bloomberg scandal discloses promiscuity
- The recent Bloomberg scandal shows how the global economy is driven by financial institutions who find themselves well above the rule of justice.
May 16, 2013
- Syria: A regional world war
- The ongoing Syrian conflict is a regionalized world war fought between the world powers.
April 26, 2013
- Libya: Divided and ruled, by foreign capital
- In Libya, Western interests reap what they sow.
April 26, 2013
- Giovanni Vimercati
- Giovanni Vimercati is a freelance journalist, critic and media analyst. Originally from Italy, he graduated in Film Studies in London and worked as a film critic while managing an independent video store, The Film Shop in Stoke Newington. In 2008 he founded the Celluloid Liberation Front, a multi-use(r) name, an "open reputation" informally adopted and shared by a desiring multitude of insurgent spect-actors. Under this pseudonym he continues to write for established film publications. His lifelong passion for politics found an outlet in China.org.cn where he is now a columnist occasionally also writing about Chinese cinema.
April 22, 2013
- America must look within to confront violence
- In the wake of recent atrocities, it is time for a serious mainstream debate about the root causes of America's culture of violence.
April 9, 2013
- Thatcher is dead, but Thatcherism is alive and well
- The “Iron Lady” is no longer with us, but her legacy of free market economics influences British domestic and foreign policy to this day.
April 3, 2013
- What Xi’s diplomatic agenda tells us about the emerging world order
- Chinese new president’s first overseas trip points to a growing economic relationship between Southern states.
March 24, 2013
- An armed peaceful rise
- China's military budget increase entirely justified, and is a reaction to growing U.S. interference in regional issues.
January 9, 2013
- Internet censorship beyond China
- Do attackers of Chinese censorship in the Western media see the hypocrisy of Western governments' actions against Julian Assange?
December 6, 2012
- 'Back to 1942' portrays famine with a lavish budget
- "Back to 1942," Feng Xiaogang's portrayal of the wartime Henan famine, grips viewers with its realistic imagery, but fails to win hearts with its actors' performances.
