[dang]

HN is emphatically for more than "tech news", and an essay by Italo Calvino about movies is certainly on-topic here. Indeed, we need more such posts—not just Calvino essays or stories about movies, but articles on everything under the sun.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

[biggestbob]

> movies is certainly on-topic here

What is topic here?

[dang]

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html