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Marco Bellocchio – Sorelle Mai (2010)
Almost exclusively featuring his family, Bellocchio filmed over a ten year period with segments shot from 1999 to 2008. It…
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Michelangelo Frammartino – Le quattro volte aka The four times (2010)
Quote:An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at…
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Mario Camerini – Gli Uomini, che mascalzoni! AKA What Scoundrels Men Are! (1932)
This delightful romantic comedy, had it been made in America during this same period might have featured Jimmy Stewart and…
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Roberto Rossellini – Fantasia Sottomarina aka Undersea Fantasy (1940)
Funny cinematic exercise made by Rossellini before his first feature. Something between a Discovery Channel animal documentary and a fable…
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Jacqueline Reich & Piero Garofalo – Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1943 (2002)
* Publisher: Indiana University Press * Number Of Pages: 400 * Publication Date: 2002-04-14 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0253215188 *…
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Vittorio De Sica – Un Garibaldino al convento AKA A Garibaldian in the Convent (1942)
Summary: An old woman’s poignant reminiscence of her youth in a convent school, the happy moments and the sad, and…
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Roberto Rossellini – L’Amore (1948)
Two related vignettes which deliberate on the nature of human love and emotional attachment, both starring Magnani in the key…
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Franco Zeffirelli – The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
Quote: Franco Zeffirelli’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew is a zesty version of the classic comedy,…
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