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- Added on: Jan 14th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: jaggedarrow
- Listed in: Cinema Film
- Tags: monica belluci neorealism fellini mastroianni italian cinema de sica
Recent Posts
Rocco e i suoi fratelli – Rocco and his Brothers (Luchino Visconti – 1960)
It’s a story told many times of a family that leaves home to find a better life elsewhere. In this masterpiece Visconti overlays this basic premise in Italy of the Economic Boom of early 60’s, the cultural dissonant emerging from a Southern fa...
The Orange Thief (Vinnie Angel, Boogie Dean, Arthur Wilinski – 2007)
Have you ever been impressed by someone’s accomplishment and rationalized it by instinctively pulling out the usual excuses such as oh that most likely takes lots of experience, money, contacts and anything else that you can come up with to soo...
Independence
In-line with Independence Day here in the US, I figured it’s a good opportunity to deconstruct the concept of independence and throw it against Italian cinema backdrop. You can never know what you’ll find. When we speak of independence yo...
The slow match - La partita lenta (Paolo Sorrentino – 2009)
It’s part of the trio short movies proposed by Per Fiducia, the project described by Shlomi in its review of Il Premio. This is an intense shot on reality. When we say the eloquence of silence. He makes the silence speak. Slowly, sweetly, deeply. B...
The award - Il premio (Ermanno Olmi - 2009)
This short film is part of “Per Fiducia” (”Through Trust”), an ambitious project that unites three award-winning directors Ermanno Olmi, Gabriele Salvatores, and Paolo Sorrentino in cooperation with Intessa Sanpaolo – to ans...
Days and Clouds - Giorni e nuvole (Silvio Soldini - 2007)
In tune with the tough economic times these days, the film explores the impact of a job loss on a middle class family in Genoa. I found this film very interesting, especially when viewed through the prism of The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica - 1...
