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June 20, 2018

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Pier Paolo Pasolini – Accattone (1961)

Quote: The poet as scrounger-pimp-saint, his life and death. “Long live us thieves… we always know where to go.” Accattone…

June 19, 2018

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Stupid title aside, this is another recent little documentary which brings together a some rare footage and interviews about the…

June 19, 2018

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Anna Magnani is Mamma Roma, a middle-aged prostitute who attempts to extricate herself from her sordid past for the sake…

June 19, 2018

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Synopsis: Apple Annie is an indigent woman who has always written to her daughter in Spain that she is a…

June 19, 2018

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The ‘Casa do Povo’ cultural centre in São Paulo, an icon of the secular Jewish workers’ movement: a crumbling theatre…

June 19, 2018

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Quote: Favraux, an unscrupulous banker, receives a threatening note, signed by “Judex”, demanding that he pay back the people he…

June 19, 2018

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Quote: Somewhere in the distant future … the United Nations have decided on a new system of imprisonment as an…

June 18, 2018

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Description: – ”The 40 Labor [the manufacturer firm] as a faithful conservative reaches back – his generation only – to…

June 18, 2018

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Quote: Polish-born Jean Epstein’s Finis Terrae is momentous. While every film exists on a sliding scale of expression whose opposite…