tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44517611236963364932024-03-19T05:19:59.265+01:00Journeys to ItalyItalian Cinema & English-friendly DVDsSimone Staracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14227636567229832405noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451761123696336493.post-34436566574186698882015-11-10T13:40:00.002+01:002016-01-07T16:37:05.764+01:00La vita provvisoria (Provisional Life, 1963)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Director: Vincenzo Gamna (with Enzo Battaglia and Christopher Broadbent)<br />
Starring: Paolo Graziosi, Kristina Stipulkowska, Gigi Zerbinati, Enzo Cerusico<br />
Label: Ripley's Home Video (2015)<br />
Format: DVD / PAL / Region 0<br />
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 b/w<br />
Audio: Italian (Dolby Digital 1.0 mono)<br />
Subtitles: English<br />
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* Short <i>Giovedì: passeggiata</i> (13 minutes)<br />
* Alternative credit sequence<br />
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<i><b>What's the film about?</b></i><br />
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An omnibus film, where the common theme is the conflict between modern lifestyle and traditional values. The film is made up of eight segments, each one with a different mood, so you have both Nouvelle Vague and comedy Italia style, an intimate love story and the chronicle of a massacre, a Fellini-esque sketch and even a science-fiction finale. Hit-and-miss but interesting.</div>
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...if you are looking for oddities from the golden era of Italian cinema.</div>
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Simone Staracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14227636567229832405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451761123696336493.post-9078119131641606942015-10-22T17:55:00.001+02:002015-10-22T18:09:56.835+02:00Assunta Spina (1915)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Director: Gustavo Serena<br />
Starring: Francesca Bertini, Gustavo Serena, Carlo Benetti<br />
Label: Cineteca di Bologna (2015)<br />
Format: DVD / PAL / Region 2<br />
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1<br />
Subtitles: Italian, English<br />
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* Interview with film historian Vittorio Martinelli (6 minutes, with English subtitles)<br />
* 1912 short, <i>Tempestuous Love</i> (21 minutes, with English subtitles)<br />
* 1912 short, <i>The Fascination of Violence</i> (13 minutes, with English subtitles)<br />
* Photogallery<br />
* 32 page bilingual booklet<br />
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Available on <a href="http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/8899196044/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=3370&creative=24114&creativeASIN=8899196044&linkCode=as2&tag=penvid-21">Amazon.it</a>.<br />
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The tragic story of a beatiful girl of the people, torn between the love of two men. Adapted by a popular drama by Salvatore Di Giacomo, Assunta Spina is widely recognized as one of the most important Italian silents, both for its appeal as a major example of the Diva-film genre as well as for its early realistic features. This DVD presents the film in the Bologna 1993 restoration, alongside with two more Neapolitan melodramas from the 1910s. <br />
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Simone Staracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14227636567229832405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451761123696336493.post-15891093372292880762015-01-07T12:28:00.001+01:002015-08-11T18:19:36.344+02:00Le bambole (Bambole, 1965)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Directors: Mauro Bolognini, Luigi Comencini, Dino Risi, Franco Rossi<br />
Starring: Gina Lollobrigida, Elke Sommer, Virna Lisi, Monica Vitti<br />
Label: Sony Pictures (2006)<br />
Format: DVD / PAL / Region 2<br />
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 b/w<br />
Audio: Italian, English (Dolby Digital 1.0 mono)<br />
Subtitles: English, Italian<br />
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Available on <a href="http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B000WMEIA4/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=3370&creative=24114&creativeASIN=B000WMEIA4&linkCode=as2&tag=penvid-21" target="_blank">Amazon.it</a><br />
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In the mid '60s, Italian cinema faced a change in audience attitudes, reflecting the evolution of Italian society (especially the shift toward urbanization). As a response, Italian filmmakers created new genres (sexy comedy, spaghetti western, spy story) and adopted new technical process (zoom, color, Techniscope), also exploring modernity-oriented themes (pop culture, youth protest, sexual revolution). The omnibus film, consisting of various segments by various directors, thus became a very popular genre, also because it allowed filmmakers to experiment different styles. <i>Bambole</i> is a typical example of this trend, showcasing four popular female stars, each one directed by a talented director. While Risi and Comencini's sketches are quite lame, episodes by Rossi and Bolognini are still enjoyable in their own way: <i>The Soup</i> (starring Monica Vitti) is a black comedy set in a low-class district of Rome; <i>Monsigor Cupid</i> (starring Gina Lollobrigida and inspired by Boccaccio) features a rare portrait of female lust, very unusual in comedy Italian style. The DVD also provides an English dubbing, but subtitles are to be preferred.</div>
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...if you don't want to miss a rare Italian comedy centered on female charachters.</div>
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Simone Staracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14227636567229832405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451761123696336493.post-69839697761983431592014-12-11T17:12:00.000+01:002015-08-11T18:19:58.039+02:00Titanus. Family Diary of Italian Cinema<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am glad to report that the Titanus Retrospective for the Locarno Film Festival has been <a href="http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/festivals-locarnos-titanus-retrospective">a real hit</a>, and our bilingual book, <em>Titanus. Family Diary of Italian cinema</em>, has been warmly greeted both by <a href="http://www.pardolive.ch/en/Pardo-Live/today-at-the-festival/2014/day01/Titanus.html?sl=en">press</a> and <a href="http://www.criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=13008#p495081">public</a>. Anyone interested can buy his own copy on <a href="http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/8898623135/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=3370&creative=24114&creativeASIN=8898623135&linkCode=as2&tag=penvid-21">Amazon.it</a>.</div>
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The book covers Italian cinema evolution from 1904 to 2014, ranging from early silent cinema to post-modern television, featuring original essays, interviews and production papers. Despite being focused on Italian most important major company, we have chosen an auterist perspective, investigating how directors' and producers' contributions melt together during the 1945-1964 golden age of Italian cinema.
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Carlo Chatrian talks about our book on <a href="http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/locarno-2014-the-world-of-titanus">MUBI</a>.<br />
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Some highlights from the book:<br />
* Neapolitan silents<br />
* Matarazzo's melodramas<br />
* Mastro5's revue films and musical extravaganzas <br />
* Risi and Comencini's early comedies
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* Tourneur and Corbucci's peplums<br />
* Ava Gardner's Italian films<br />
* nouvelle vague Italian style (Olmi, Zurlini, Petri)<br />
* confessions of Visconti's editor<br />
* Aldrich's <em>Sodom and Gomorrah</em> backstory
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* De Santis on <em>The Wolves</em> director's cut<br />
* memo from producer Goffredo Lombardo
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* unfilmed projects
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* 150+ photos
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Director: Emidio Greco<br />
Starring: Giulio Brogi, Anna Karina, John Steiner<br />
Label: Ripley's Home Video (2012)<br />
Format: DVD / PAL / Region 0<br />
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1<br />
Audio: Italian (Dolby Digital 1.0 mono)<br />
Subtitles: English, French<br />
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Available on <a href="http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B009TKKBL0/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=3370&creative=24114&creativeASIN=B009TKKBL0&linkCode=as2&tag=penvid-21">Amazon.it</a><br />
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A fugitive lands on an apparently deserted island, but soon some strange tourists arrive... Based on Adolfo Bioy Casares' science fiction novel, the film reduces the plot to its bare essentials, focusing on the metaphorical level. The style is both minimalist (no word is spoken in the first 30 minutes) and surrealist, with a dreamlike quality of mise-en-scène. Very demanding but also very inspiring.</div>
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...if you enjoy arthouse cinema, here you have a sci-fi fantasy in form of Borgesian paradox.</div>
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Simone Staracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14227636567229832405noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451761123696336493.post-59443801266077356962014-07-09T13:31:00.001+02:002015-08-11T18:20:37.882+02:00Sangue bleu (The Princess of Monte Bello, 1914)<br />
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Director: Nino Oxilia<br />
Starring: Francesca Bertini, Angelo Gallina, André Habay<br />
Label: Cineteca di Bologna (2014)<br />
Format: DVD / PAL / Region 2<br />
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1<br />
Subtitles: Italian, English, Dutch<br />
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* Featurette on Nino Oxilia (11 minutes, with English subtitles)<br />
* 1913 short, <i>Kri Kri e il tango</i> (5 minutes, with English subtitles)<br />
* Photogalleries<br />
* 28 page bilingual booklet<br />
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Available from <a href="http://cinestore.cinetecadibologna.it/bookshop/dettaglio/74">Cineteca di Bologna</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/8895862848/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=3370&creative=24114&creativeASIN=8895862848&linkCode=as2&tag=penvid-21">Amazon.it</a>.<br />
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A noble lady divorces from her husband and gets blackmailed, losing her child's custody. Among the greatest divas of Italian cinema, Francesca Bertini stars as a fallen woman in this maternal melodrama. Perhaps not on the same level with <i>Assunta Spin</i>a or <i>Mariute</i>, but Nino Oxilia's tableaux are alway enriched by his mastery in blocking and lighting. The 1913 comedy short, starring Raymond Frau, is also quite enjoyable.</div>
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...if you are interested in Diva-films, this is an indispensable release.</div>
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Simone Staracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14227636567229832405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451761123696336493.post-77921694821006742942014-06-08T19:00:00.001+02:002015-08-11T18:20:47.712+02:00L'imperatore di Capri (Emperor of Capri, 1949)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Director: Luigi Comencini<br />
Starring: Totò, Yvonne Sanson, Marisa Merlini, Mario Castellani<br />
Label: Dolmen Home Video (2008)<br />
Format: DVD / PAL / Region 2<br />
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 b/w<br />
Audio: Italian (Dolby Digital 1.0 mono/5.1 remix)<br />
Subtitles: English, Italian<br />
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Bonus:<br />
* Photo gallery (20 stills)<br />
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The adventures of a humble waiter who is mistaken for an Arabian Prince. Totò debuted as film actor in 1937, and he remained the most popular Italian comedian until his death in 1967. Comedy doesn't travel well, especially when based on verbal humour, so his films are generally little known outside Italy, but some of his best works should be discovered by international audiences. Directed by Luigi Comenini, <i>Emperor of Capri</i> offers one of Totò's most enjoyable performances, a twisted farce enriched with some black comedy moments and a surrealistic touch.</div>
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...if you want a sample of Totò's talent in one of his best vehicles.</div>
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Simone Staracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14227636567229832405noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451761123696336493.post-33940122806512547062014-01-28T13:33:00.000+01:002014-01-28T13:33:01.676+01:00Titanus (1904-2014)<br />
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The Retrospective for the 67th edition of the <b>Festival del film Locarno</b> (6–16 August 2014) will be dedicated to the Italian production studio Titanus.
Numerous European and American institutions will repeat the program: the Cineteca di Bologna, the Cineteca Nazionale (National Film Archive) in Rome, the National Cinema Museum in Turin, the Cinémathèque suisse, the Cinémas du Grütli in Geneva, the Filmpodium in Zurich, the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York, the American Cinematheque and the USC School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles.
The retrospective will be accompanied by <b>an English-friendly book</b>, on which I am currently working.<br /> </div>
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Official press release:<br />http://www.pardolive.ch/it/Pardo-Live/today-at-the-festival/2014/retrospettiva-titanus?sl=en</div>
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Directors: Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe De Liguoro<br />
Starring: Salvatore Papa, Arturo Pirovano, Giuseppe De Liguoro<br />
Label: Cineteca di Bologna (2011)<br />
Format: DVD / PAL / Region 2<br />
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1<br />
Subtitles: English, Italian<br />
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Bonus:<br />
* 1909 short, <i>Il diavolo zoppo</i> (15 minutes, with English subtitles)<br />
* 1910 short, <i>Come fu che l'ingordigia rovinò il Natale a Cretinetti</i> (13 minutes, with English subtitles)<br />
* Excerpt from 1926 <i>Maciste all'inferno</i> (8 minutes, with English subtitles)<br />
* Comparison between the film and Gustave Doré's engravings<br />
* Photogallery<br />
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Available on <a href="http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/8895862392/">Amazon.it</a><br />
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Often cited as the first feature-lenght film ever, this version of Dante's <i>Inferno </i>also marked a milestone in Italian early cinema. Entirely framed in Full or Long Shot, the film is pre-Griffithian in pacing and editing, with storytelling heavily relying on titles. Still, composition and lighting are often quite enchanting, clearly indebted to Gustave Doré's works, but also to the visionary cinema of Georges Méliès. The DVD features two different soundtrack: I couldn't stand the modernist "dubbing" by Edison Studio, but the piano score by Marco Dalpane was fine. </div>
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Essential for anyone interested in early development of film style.</div>
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Director: Alessandro Blasetti<br />
Starring: Giuseppe Gulino, Aida Bellia, Gianfranco Giachetti, Mario Ferrari<br />
Label: Ripley's Home Video (2007)<br />
Format: DVD / PAL / Region 0<br />
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1<br />
Audio: Italian (Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo)<br />
Subtitles: English, Italian<br />
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Bonus:<br />
* Contains both the 1998 restoration (74 minutes) and the 1951 reissue by Blasetti (69 minutes)<br />
* 1934 alternate epilogue (1 minute)<br />
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A chronicle of the unification of Italy as seen through the eyes of a young partisan. While the film is sometimes (unhappily) labelled as "propaganda", Blasetti's approach can easily be considered as proto-Neorealist because of its attention on popular participation and historical process. Influenced by Eisenstein and Pabst, the style is in fact anti-rhetorical and even anti-spectacular, but also unexpectedly lyrical and touching. Perhaps, non-Italian viewers may prefer to start with the 1951 version, which has a more declared didactic aim.</div>
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Simone Staracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14227636567229832405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451761123696336493.post-1693501205594354572013-10-23T13:45:00.001+02:002014-07-10T16:08:34.642+02:00Borelli Lives!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Ma l'amor mio non muore!</i> is now also available from <a href="http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/8895862732/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=3370&creative=23322&creativeASIN=8895862732&linkCode=as2&tag=penvid-21">Amazon.it</a>.<br />
Here you can find <a href="http://journeys-italy.blogspot.com/2013/07/ma-lamor-mio-non-muore-love-everlasting.html">my review</a>, written when the disc was still only available from <a href="http://cinestore.cinetecadibologna.it/bookshop/dettaglio/63">Cineteca di Bologna</a>.</div>
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Director: Franco Brocani<br />
Starring: Viva, Carmelo Bene, Tina Aumont, Pierre Clementi<br />
Label: Ripley's Home Video (2013)<br />
Format: DVD / PAL / Region 0<br />
Aspect ratio: 1.66:1<br />
Audio: multilingual (Dolby Digital 2.0 mono)<br />
Subtitles: English<br />
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Underground film from the 1968 era, clearly influenced by pop art (the color scheme is very Mario Schifano-like) and Warhol's works. The film lacks any kind of storyline, being made up of monologues by such popular characters as Frankenstein's monster, King Kong, Mona Lisa and Bloody Countess Bathory, and these fragments convey an apocalyptic view of our culture, where ideology, religion and love are definitely dead. Great casting, especially for the unforgettable Viva/Bene duet. </div>
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...if you want to discover one of our most important underground filmmakers.</div>
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Director: Luciano Emmer (often with Enrico Gras and Tatiana Grauding as co-directors)<br />
Label: Cineteca di Bologna (2010)<br />
Format: DVD / PAL / Region 2<br />
Audio: Italian (Dolby Digital 2.0 mono)<br />
Subtitles: Italian, English, French<br />
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* <i>Racconto da un affresco </i>(1940-1946)<br />
* <i>Paradiso terrestre</i> (1941-1946)<br />
* <i>Cantico delle creature</i> (1943)<br />
* <i>Guerrieri</i> (1943)<br />
* <i>Destino d'amore, ovvero, Piccolo mondo al platino</i> (1942)<br />
* <i>I fratelli miracolosi</i> (1949)<br />
* <i>L'invenzione della croce</i> (1948)<br />
* <i>L'allegoria della primavera</i> (1948)<br />
* <i>La leggenda di Sant'Orsola</i> (1948, French version also included)<br />
* <i>Isole nella laguna</i> (1948)<br />
* <i>Romantici a Venezia</i> (1948, French version also included)<br />
* <i>Goya. La festa di Sant'Isidoro / I disastri della guerra</i> (1950)<br />
* <i>Leonardo Da Vinci</i> (1952)<br />
* <i>La sublime fatica</i> (1966)<br />
* <i>Il dramma di Cristo narrato da Giotto</i> (1966, French version also included)<br />
* <i>Incontrare Picasso</i> (1954-2000)<br />
* <i>Nostalgie</i> (2001, French version only)<br />
* <i>I magici colori di Napoli</i> (2004)<br />
* <i>La paz y la guerra</i> (2009)<br />
* <i>Le carceri di invenzione</i> (2009)<br />
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* Interview with composer Roman Vlad (16 minutes, with English and French subtitles)<br />
* <i>Scherzo su Giotto</i> by enrico ghezzi and Luciano Emmer (5 minutes, with English and French subtitles)<br />
* <i>Passeggiate con Luciano</i> (12 minutes, with English and French subtitles)<br />
* 52 page Italian/French booklet<br />
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Available on <a href="http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/8895862309/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=3370&creative=24114&creativeASIN=8895862309&linkCode=as2&tag=penvid-21">Amazon.it</a><br />
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<i><b>What are these films about?</b></i><br />
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Perhaps today Luciano Emmer is best known for a fistful of comedies shot in the '50s, but in his career he actually worked mainly in non-fictional cinema (educational shorts, spots, TV). His documentaries on art, in particular, represent his most accomplished works and are known to have inspired Alain Resnais' early films. In this wonderful 6-hour boxset Cineteca di Bologna has collected 20 shorts, ranging from Emmer's first attempts to his most recent videos. Notable appearances by Jean Cocteau (<i>La leggenda di Sant'Orsola </i>and <i>Romantici a Venezia</i>) and Picasso (<i>Incontrare Picasso</i>).</div>
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...if you want to get in touch with one of Italian greatest documentary filmmakers.</div>
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<i>Racconto da un affresco</i>, 1940-1946<br />
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<i>Romantici a Venezia</i>, 1948<br />
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Director: Mario Caserini<br />
Starring: Lyda Borelli, Mario Bonnard, Giampaolo Rosmino<br />
Label: Cineteca di Bologna (2013)<br />
Format: DVD / PAL / Region 2<br />
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 b/w<br />
Subtitles: Italian, English<br />
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Bonus:</div>
* Tinted fragment (9 minutes)<br />
* Photogalleries<br />
* 24 page bilingual booklet<br />
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Available from <a href="http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/8895862732/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=3370&creative=23322&creativeASIN=8895862732&linkCode=as2&tag=penvid-21">Amazon.it</a> and <a href="http://cinestore.cinetecadibologna.it/bookshop/dettaglio/63">Cineteca di Bologna</a>. <br />
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Beautifully shot and acted, this melodrama is one of the most outstanding examples of the so-called "Diva film", a hugely popular genre in Italian early cinema. These films were meant as vehicle for their leading female star (in this case, the measured, stylized Lyda Borelli), but here you also have an added value consisting in Mario Caserini's fine mise-en-scène, where each shot becomes an art déco piece. The DVD features a superior restoration, and you also have two differents soundtracks: a new 2013 orchestral score and a compilation from 1913-1961 opera recordings.</div>
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...if you want to discover Italian cinema from one hundred years ago.</div>
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I just got home from Bologna, where I attended "Il Cinema Ritrovato" 2013. Here you can have a look at the DVD Awards ceremony.</div>
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<em>Gli ultimi</em> (<a href="http://journeys-italy.blogspot.it/2013/02/gli-ultimi-1963.html">already reviewed here</a>) won as the <a href="http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=33954">Best DVD of the year</a>.<br />
Also, <a href="http://www.filmalert.net/">Geoff Gardner</a> wrote a nice appreciation of the film:</div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">The Award for Best DVD of the year at the Bologna Cinema Ritrovato to <em>Gli Ultimi</em>. It was made in the Friuli region in 1963 and not long after fell into obscurity. Friuli, a northern province which was Pasolini’s birthplace, has its own Cineteca and it supervised the restoration work and commissioned the 150 page publication, only in Italian, that accompanies the DVD. The film itself is a sensitive story of a young peasant boy growing up in the depression years of the 30s. The son of a farm labourer he tends several sheep, is mercilessly bullied at school and lives with his family in dirt poor surroundings. The family diet is polenta (il cibo della miseria) and vegetables. The village is hollowing out as most of the able bodied men have headed for Belgium to work in the coal mines. Fascism gets only a brief nod via a ranter in the local pub. The black and white photography by Armando Nannuzzi is beautiful to behold. Singling the film out for this attention had one immediate positive effect. Nobody having heard of it there was a run on the available copies being offered at the Cineteca’s book and DVD stall and it sold out quickly.</span></blockquote>
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Director: Maurizio Ponzi<br />
Starring: Giulio Scarpati, Giuliana De Sio, Toni Bertorelli, Damiano Andriano<br />
Label: Ripley's Home Video (2007)<br />
Format: DVD / PAL / Region 0<br />
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1<br />
Audio: Italian (Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo)<br />
Subtitles: English, French, German<br />
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Loosely inspired by Vittorio De Sica's <i>La porta del cielo</i> backstory. In 1943 an antifascist director is shooting a film with financial support from the Vatican, trying to avoid the regime propaganda in the name of realism. Maurizio Ponzi had been one of Italian most interesting new wave critics (also writing for "Cahiers du Cinéma"), and when he later became a director he especially worked in comedies and TV series. This film combines both his activities, offering a nice insight into Italian fascist cinema. Lightly likeable.</div>
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...if you want a portrait of Italian cinema before Neorealism.</div>
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Director: Marco Ferreri<br />
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli<br />
Label: Minerva (2005)<br />
Format: DVD / PAL / Region 2<br />
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1<br />
Audio: Italian (Dolby Digital 2.0 mono)<br />
Subtitles: English<br />
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Based on a novel by Ennio Flaiano, <i>Melampus</i>, loosely inspired on a character from <i>Pinocchio</i>. An artist has withdrawn to a desert island, where he lives alone with his dog. One day, a woman arrives and tries to replace the dog. Kind of continuation of <i>Dilliger Is Dead</i>, this surrealistic fable explores the sexual revolution's effects, but also "the false myth of the intellectual's return to nature" (Ferreri). The disc contains the Italian track only, because the French cut (entitled <i>Liza</i>) features some minor variants.</div>
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...if you wonder about the journey Michel Piccoli embarked on in <i>Dillinger Is Dead</i>.</div>
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Simone Staracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14227636567229832405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451761123696336493.post-66327249776707958972013-05-08T14:53:00.000+02:002015-08-11T18:22:22.874+02:00Gelosia (Jealousy, 1953)<br />
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Director: Pietro Germi<br />
Starring: Erno Crisa, Marisa Belli, Liliana Gerace, Paola Borboni<br />
Label: Ripley's Home Video (2004)<br />
Format: DVD / PAL / Region 0<br />
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 b/w<br />
Audio: Italian (Dolby Digital 1.0 mono)<br />
Subtitles: English, Italian<br />
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The descent into madness of a Marquis who has killed his mistress' husband. Nowadays Pietro Germi is best known for his groundbreaking comedies (<i>Divorce Italian Style</i>, <i>Seduced and Abandoned</i>), but in the '40s and '50s he worked mainly in noirs and melodramas, achieving great box office success with highly stylized films like <i>In nome della Legge</i> and <i>Il ferroviere</i>. <i>Gelosia</i> is definitely a lesser work, but despite its flawed structure it still displays strong evidence of Germi's vigorous visual style.</div>
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...if you are curious about a straight face version of <i>Divorce Italian Style</i>.</div>
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Director: Emilio Miraglia (aka Hal Brady)<br />
Starring: Henry Silva, Fred Beir, Evelyn Stewart, Peter Dane<br />
Label: Ripley's Home Video (2006)<br />
Format: DVD / PAL / Region 2<br />
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1<br />
Audio: English, Italian (Dolby Digital 1.0 mono)<br />
Subtitles: None<br />
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Sentenced to death, a CIA agent takes over his brother's identity in order to go undercover in Europe and enter a hitman gang. As usual in Italian thrillers, the plot is somehow a bit fuzzy, but the film is redeemed by its striking visual style, deeply indebted to modern art. Just add that main charachters are named Chandler (after Raymond?) and Lang (after Fritz?), and you have mannerism in its purest form.</div>
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...if you want to find out where Robert Rodriguez's <i>Machete</i> comes from.</div>
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Director: Giuliano Montaldo<br />
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Janet Leigh, Klaus Kinski, Adolfo Celi<br />
Label: Ripley's Home Video (2005)<br />
Format: DVD / PAL / Region 2<br />
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1<br />
Audio: Italian, English, French (Dolby Digital 1.0 mono)<br />
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Retired school teacher assembles a team of professional thieves and attempts to carry out the perfect crime, stealing 10,000,000 $ in diamonds. A nice entry in the classic heist trend, enhanced by an international cast and shot in Rome, New York and Rio de Janeiro. Giuliano Montaldo is better-known for his historical films (<i>Sacco and Vanzetti</i>), but his genre flicks still have plenty of energy, colour and humour. Well suited soundtrack by Ennio Morricone. "One of the best heist movies" (Roger Ebert).</div>
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...if you love the <i>Rififi</i>/<i>Topkapi</i> kind of film, just get your popcorn ready.</div>
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Director: Gennaro Righelli<br />
Starring: Anna Magnani, Vittorio De Sica, Virgilio Riento, John Garson<br />
Label: Dolmen Home Video (2007)<br />
Format: DVD / PAL / Region 2<br />
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 b/w<br />
Audio: Italian (Dolby Digital 1.0 mono/5.1 remix)<br />
Subtitles: English, Italian<br />
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Due to housing crisis, a newly rich black market dealer (Anna Magnani) and an impoverished count (Vittorio De Sica) have to share the same manor. Neorealism's influece also extended into genre films, as we can see in this entertaining lightweight comedy. Magnani was post-war Italian biggest star, and De Sica had been Italian biggest star in the '30s, so the film also has an additional interest, for you can compare two different acting style and two very different screen personas.<br />
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...if you want to see an acting contest between two legends.</div>
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Director: Luciano Salce<br />
Starring: Ugo Tognazzi, George Wilson, Elza Vazzoler, Stefania Sandrelli<br />
Label: Medusa Video (2007)<br />
Format: DVD / PAL / Region 2<br />
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 b/w<br />
Audio: Italian (Dolby Digital 1.0 mono/5.1 remix)<br />
Subtitles: English, Spanish, Italian<br />
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A fascist fanatic is entrusted with the task of bringing an anti-Fascist professor to Rome in the last days of Fascism. Starting with Monicelli's <i>The Great War</i> (1959), Italian comedies acquired a new social dimension, often dealing with low class situation. After Monicelli's hit, however, the most immediate result was a bunch of "historical" comedies, most of them set during Fascist era. Luciano Salce's road movie, starring Tognazzi at his best, represents one the most popular and most successful entry in this sub-genre. "A modest anecdote that blossoms beautifully into stature and significance" (Andrew Sarris).<br />
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...if you enjoyed Comencini's <i>Everybody Go Home</i>, here you have a pleasing follow-up.</div>
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Simone Staracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14227636567229832405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451761123696336493.post-72160928607345425502013-04-06T10:07:00.000+02:002015-08-11T18:23:10.400+02:00La tarantola dal ventre nero (The Black Belly of the Tarantula, 1971)<div style="text-align: center;">
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Director: Paolo Cavara<br />
Starring: Giancarlo Giannini, Stefania Sandrelli, Claudine Auger, Barbara Bouchet<br />
Label: Ripley's Home Video (2005)<br />
Format: DVD / PAL / Region 2<br />
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Young inspector investigates on a serial killer who paralyzes his victims with a needle in their neck. A follow up to Dario Argento's <i>The Bird with the Crystal Plumage</i>, the film has the usual strengths and shortcomings of most '70s Italian thrillers: clumsy narrative, aggressive visual style, atmospheric music score, effective location photography and many zoom shots. On the plus side we have a decent cast, featuring Giancarlo Giannini (<i>Swept Away</i>) and a whole bunch of sexy starlets (Sandrelli, Bouchet, Auger).</div>
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...if you are a fan of Argento's early works, you should check out this too.</div>
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Simone Staracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14227636567229832405noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451761123696336493.post-59254544502464668752013-04-03T15:14:00.000+02:002015-08-11T18:23:42.234+02:00La calda vita (The Warm Life, 1964)<div align="center">
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Director: Florestano Vancini<br />
Starring: Catherine Spaak, Jacques Perrin, Fabrizio Capucci, Gabriele Ferzetti<br />
Label: Ripley's Home Video (2005)<br />
Format: DVD / PAL / Region 2<br />
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1 letterbox<br />
Audio: Italian, English, French (Dolby Digital 2.0 mono)<br />
Subtitles: None<br />
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* Photogallery (25 stills)<br />
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<i><b>What's the film about?</b></i><br />
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Based on a P.A. Quarantotti Gambini novel, this is an "end of the innocence" story, where a 18 year old girl spends a brief vacation with two male friends, who are both in love with her. While the title echoes Fellini's <i>La dolce vita</i>, the main location clearly recalls Antonioni's <i>L'avventura</i>. However, director Florestano Vancini looks for an individual style, and he often succeeds, also because of a lively, delicate performance by his actor quartet. Despite the letterboxed transfer, the DVD still highlights a remarkable use of colour.</div>
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<i><b>Recommendations</b></i><br />
...if you want to see an Italian response to Preminger's <i>Bonjour tristesse</i>.</div>
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Simone Staracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14227636567229832405noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4451761123696336493.post-40115440909890156622013-03-31T16:07:00.002+02:002015-08-11T18:24:02.359+02:00Come Dio comanda (As God Commands, 2008)<div align="center">
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Director: Gabriele Salvatores<br />
Starring: Filippo Timi, Alvaro Caleca, Elio Germano, Fabio De Luigi<br />
Label: 01 Distribution (2009)<br />
Format: DVD / PAL / Region 2<br />
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1<br />
Audio: Italian (Dolby Digital 5.1)<br />
Subtitles: English, Italian<br />
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An intense relationship between a violent, immature father and his misfit, lonely son. A post-modernist noir? A dark rewriting of Red Riding Hood? A father/son love story? All these definitions apply to this disturbing, moving picture, whose key strength ultimately resides in its deeply humanist core. Outstanding performances, especially by Filippo Timi (<i>Vincere</i>), and impressive camerawork help creating an unsettling, nightmarish atmosphere.<br />
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...if you loved Salvatores' <i>I'm Not Scared</i>, you definitely need to watch this.</div>
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