Posts Tagged ‘dont-miss’
Drama
Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini – 1962)
Individualism vs. determinism is it truly up to the individual to change his destiny or is it all predetermined? Anna Magnani in an emotion explosion In his second film Mamma Roma, Pier Paolo Pasolini is constantly moving betwe...
Comedy
Il Sorpasso – The Easy Life (Dino Risi – 1962)
Labeled as the first Italian road trip movie and hallmark of the Italian comedy (Commedia all’italiana) genre, director Dino Risi provides an alarming prophecy for the future of Italy during the prosperous early 60’s of what is...
Independent
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 took lots of experience, money, contacts and anything else that you c...
Drama
Mediterraneo (Gabriele Salvatores – 1991)
In tempi come questi, la fuga è l’unico mezzo che rimane per mantenersi vìvi e continuare a sognare. In times like these, escape is the only mean available for keeping alive and continue dreaming. – Henry Laborit Th...
Drama
The Fiancés – I Fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi – 1963)
Do your memories carry a soundtrack? Ermanno Olmi in a genuine masterpiece believes they sure do. And why not? We all tend to associate old songs to places and people we used to know and this way create more vivid and richer “m...
Films Shown at Recent Italian Film Festivals
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Open Roads 2014: Via Castellana Bandiera – A Street in Palermo (Emma Dante – 2013)
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ItalianDocsOnline 2014: i fantasmi di San Berillo – The Ghosts of San Berillo (Edoardo Morabito – 2013)
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Open Roads 2013: Handmade Cinema (Guido Torlonia – 2012)
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Open Roads 2013: Il Riscatto – The Redemption (Giovanna Taviani – 2013)
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Open Roads 2013: E’ stato il figlio – It was the Son (Daniele Cipri – 2012)
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From 2012 Rome’s International Film Festival: L’insolito ignoto – Vita acrobatica di Tiberio Murgia (Sergio Naitza – 2012)
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From 2012 Rome’s International Film Festival: L’Isola Dell’Angello Caduto – The Island of the Fallen Angel (Carlo Lucarelli – 2012)
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Open Roads 2011: Il mio domani – My Tomorrow (Marina Spada – 2011)
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Open Roads 2010: Passione (John Turturro – 2010)
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Open Roads 2011: Fughe e approdi – Return to the Aeolian Islands (Giovanna Taviani – 2010)
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Open Roads 2011: 1860 I Mille di Garibaldi (Alessandro Blasetti – 1934)
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Master Class with Marco Bellocchio – Taormina Film Festival
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Open Roads 2014: Via Castellana Bandiera – A Street in Palermo (Emma Dante – 2013)
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ItalianDocsOnline 2014: i fantasmi di San Berillo – The Ghosts of San Berillo (Edoardo Morabito – 2013)
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Open Roads 2013: Handmade Cinema (Guido Torlonia – 2012)
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Open Roads 2013: Il Riscatto – The Redemption (Giovanna Taviani – 2013)
