Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act (imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers) on a TV variety show. It’s both a touchingly nostalgic journey into the past, and a viciously satirical attack on television in general and Italian TV in particular, portraying it as a mindless freakshow aimed at morons.Read More »
Jonathan Harker is a successful real estate agent now living with Mina Murray in Budapest…Read More »
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Kidnapped by some fake policemen, young Richard Werner is taken to the headquarters of Fantabulous Inc. on the outskirts of Geneva and transformed into a Superman, F. 17. Professor Beethoven, owner of Fantabulous, initiates negotiations to sell his superman to the great powers, but as F. 17 accidentally sees Deborah, his girlfriend, again, something scrambles in his brain, blowing up the electronic devices embedded in it so that he regains all his normal faculties. As military troops converge on Fantabulous to seize him, F 17, back to being Richard again, succeeds in destroying the electronic brain that guided his movements so as to prevent Professor Beethoven’s scientists from creating any more monstrous dehumanized beings.Read More »
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Weird as hell but strangely compelling, Davide Manuli’s The Legend of Kaspar Hauser reenvisions the German youth’s story as a fable existing outside any recognizable reality and revolving around magic, dope, and thumping dance music. With Vincent Gallo hamming his way through not one but two roles, the cult-courting film will be catnip for Gallomaniacs. But the real star is Silvia Calderoni, a stage actress making her apparent film debut in the title role.Read More »
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In La prova generale, Carlo (Carlo Cecchi) interviews with a tape machine and a microphone his young lover while the two wander in the beautiful splendour of a wood on the edge of the city.Read More »
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Francesca, a seventeen-year-old Roman, is finally sure she has found love. Almost sure. She spends the day observing other lovers’ behaviors and considering whether she is ready to jump. Her age notwithstanding, this movie is more about coming of age than about improper or illegal romantic relationships.Read More »
Based on Azar Nafisi’s best-selling memoir, Reading Lolita in Tehran stars Golshifteh Farahani (About Elly, Paterson) as a former professor at Tehran University who secretly gathers seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden classics of Western literature. As fundamentalists cement their grip on Iranian cultural and political life, the women remove their veils and speak about their intimate hopes, loves, disappointments, femininity, and search for a place in an increasingly oppressive society. By reading Lolita in Tehran, they celebrate the liberating power of literature in revolutionary Iran and forge their own futures.Read More »
The knight Guerrando is forced to leave for the Crusades before he’s had time to consummate his marriage with the beautiful Boccadoro. According to the custom of the period, Guerrando applies the chastity belt to the bride.Read More »
