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Tag Archives: Italian Film
Recent Viewing 2
Continuing my partial round-up of recently watched movies … The Innkeepers (2011) Ti West is a filmmaker whose work I really want to like, but each film comes as a letdown – except for his second feature, Trigger Man (2007), … Continue reading
Recent Viewing part 2
I’ve been falling behind on my notes about what I’ve been watching, so I won’t be going into a lot of detail here, just making a few observations about some of the movies I saw in the past month. The … Continue reading
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Tagged British Film, Directors, DVD, Horror, Italian Film, Thrillers
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Recent Viewing part 1
The completist impulse is a key element of the collector’s mentality. For instance, I have forty-nine of Hitchcock’s features on DVD, plus his two Second World War propaganda shorts and season one of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. It’s not that I … Continue reading
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Tagged British Film, Directors, DVD, Franco Prosperi, Horror, Italian Film, Review, Roy Ward Baker
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DVD of the Week:
The Moment of Truth (1965) by Francesco Rosi
“The confrontation between intelligence and animal instinct, between reasoning and brute force … without artistry and style, it becomes vulgar butchery, and it’s merely disgusting and cruel.” – Francesco Rosi Sometimes the subject matter of a film can present an obstacle … Continue reading
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Tagged Budd Boetticher, Directors, Francesco Rosi, Italian Film, Neo-realism
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Year End 2011: video
Not surprisingly, given the amount of time I spend watching movies at home, I came across quite a few worthwhile titles during the year. I’ve already written about many of these in this blog, so will just offer capsule comments … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure Films, Directors, Documentary, DVD, Found-footage, French Film, Italian Film, Japanese Film, Silent Film, Western
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Recent viewing, part 2
You could make an interesting double bill out of Daniel Barber’s Harry Brown (2009) and Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block (2011). Both are set in crime-ridden British housing estates where residents are terrorized by youth gangs, both have a gritty … Continue reading
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Tagged Actors, Aliens, British Film, Directors, DVD, Italian Film, Melodrama
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Gualtiero Jacopetti (1919-2011)
Italian journalist and filmmaker Gualtiero Jacopetti died August 17, at age 91. Together with co-director Franco Prosperi, Jacopetti invented what became known as the “mondo” movie – after the title of their first collaboration, Mondo Cane (Dog’s World, 1962). The … Continue reading
Background detail
If I’m in a room talking to someone and there happens to be a bookcase nearby, or a shelf of DVDs, I become easily distracted from the conversation as I try to read titles to get some idea of the … Continue reading
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Tagged British Film, French Film, Italian Film, Michelangelo Antonioni, Review
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DVD diary: another eclectic week – part one
If anything, my viewing seems to be becoming more random these days. I mean to apply some order to what I watch – to view the new Silent Naruse set from Criterion Eclipse, or the Columbia Sam Fuller Collection from … Continue reading
Two worthwhile websites
While looking for information about a couple of movies, I recently came across two websites I hadn’t previously been aware of, both of which are packed with interesting material. Midnight Eye, co-edited by Tom Mes, ubiquitous expert on all things … Continue reading
