With a mysteriously enchanting soundtrack by Nicola Piovani and a black raven donned with a chiming bell flying over the timeless medieval villages perched defiantly on the mountains of Girgenti on the southern coast of Sicily – the brothers Taviani weave together five tales based on novels by 1934 Nobel prize in Literature laureate, Luigi [...]
Posted by Shlomi Ron on 12.31.2009 at 12:09 pm// Tagged: Classic Italian Cinema, Comedy, Drama , Franco and Ciccio, Luigi Pirandello, Nicola Piovani, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, sicily
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 family from Lucania trying to assimilate in big city Milan, and above all [...]
Posted by Shlomi Ron on 11.15.2009 at 11:07 am// Tagged: Classic Italian Cinema, Drama , Economic Boom, Luchino Visconti, Milan
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 sooth your ego and inaction?
The reality is that we’re all doing it all the time [...]
Posted by Shlomi Ron on 09.23.2009 at 8:48 pm// Tagged: Drama, Italian Cinema, Modern Italian Cinema
It’s part of the trio short movies proposed by Per Fiducia, the project already described in the 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. Black and white, and we are already into a poem. Every single shot [...]
Posted by Laura Bianconcini on 04.27.2009 at 12:50 am// Tagged: Documentary, Drama, Italian Cinema, Modern Italian Cinema, Political, Romance, Short
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 answer a simple, yet timely question:
Can movies, as mirrors to reality, change it and give hope, especially in dark moments?
The answer is resounding [...]
Posted by Shlomi Ron on 04.26.2009 at 3:13 pm// Tagged: Drama, Modern Italian Cinema, Political, Romance, Short , ermanno olmi, Per Fiducia, train