La ragazza in vetrina was supposed to be a turning point in Emmer’s cinema but it went on to become a cursed film. In accordance with the evolution of Italian cinema, the director chose a story by Rodolfo Sonego which combines a tough theme, Italian migrants working in Dutch and Belgian mines (the tragedy in Marcinelle, near Charleroi, which left 262 dead, half of which were Italian, took place only four years earlier), with a raunchy one, about the red light district in Amsterdam. It combines his love of wandering and the sketch with a harsh new gaze, bolstered by the black-and-white cinematography of Otello Martelli, fresh from La dolce vita. The first half-hour of the film depicts the difficult lives of the miners; then it concentrates on two characters, one timid, the other self-confident, but both lonely and unhappy, as they meet two prostitutes. Read More »
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Luciano Emmer – La ragazza in vetrina AKA Woman in the Window (1961) (HD)
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Alessandro Comodin – Gigi la legge aka The Adventures of Gigi the Law (2022)
Alessandro Comodin2021-2030DramaItalyQuote:
Gigi is a police officer in a countryside where nothing ever happens. One day however, a young girl throws herself under a train. This is not the first time. Facing this unexplainable suicide wave, Gigi starts investigating a strange world, between reality and fantasy, where a garden turns into a jungle and where an ever-smiling policeman keeps his heart open to love.Read More » -
Paolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviani – Allonsanfan (1974)
1971-1980ArthouseDramaItalyPaolo TavianiVittorio TavianiAfter the fall of Napoleon, the Restoration begins. Fulvio (Marcello Mastroianni, La dolce vita), an aristocrat who has dedicated his life to the revolution has become disillusioned and his cowardice keeps him from joining his comrades. As he struggles to manage his evasion and lies he gets swept up in a suicidal uprising in Southern Italy. Stunningly photographed with lush period detail and featuring the Taviani brothers’ trademark magic realism and absurdist irony, Allonsanfàn has Mastroianni on top form as the reluctant insurgent and one of Ennio Morricone’s finest scores.Read More »
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Maurizio Ponzi – I visionari AKA The Visionaries (1968)
1961-1970DramaItalyMaurizio PonziQuote:
A film about a love triangle between a theater director, an actress and an actor. Exchanges take place between fiction and reality, the stage and life. The actress one day leaves the theater director for the actor. But after a few days, she begins to doubt her new relationship.Read More » -
Nanni Moretti – Caro diario AKA Dear Diary (1993)
Nanni Moretti1991-2000ComedyDramaItalyDirector Nanni Moretti takes a mordant look at Italian life through three antological vignettes presented as the chapters of an open diary.Read More »
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Mario Bonnard – Campo de’ fiori AKA Peddler and the Lady (1943)
Mario Bonnard1941-1950ComedyDramaItalian Cinema under FascismItalySynopsis:
Peppino, a fishmonger on Campo de’ Fiori, a famous Roman marketplace, works alongside Elide, a greengrocer, who has a soft spot for him, despite the fact they argue all day long… But neither Peppino, nor his friend Aurelio, the barber, are interested in getting married. Until he meets the beautiful Elsa…Read More » -
Krzysztof Zanussi – Paradigma AKA Power of Evil (1985)
Krzysztof Zanussi1981-1990ArthouseDramaItalyAn unsuspecting student thinks that the wife of an arms dealer is unhappy, but in reality she appears as cynical as her capitalist man.Read More »
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Elio Ruffo – Una rete piena di sabbia (1966)
1961-1970CrimeElio RuffoItalyBetween mafia movie and social denunciation, it is the story of a journalist who makes a television report in a small town in Calabria on the election eve.
Instead of illustrating the beauty of the place as the town’s notables would like, he interviews humble fishermen about their miserable living conditions.
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Andrei Tarkovsky – Nostalghia AKA Nostalgia (1983) (HD)
Andrei Tarkovsky1981-1990ArthouseDramaUSSRExiled from the USSR, consummate film poet Tarkovsky poured his stirrings of homesickness into this spectrally beautiful, metaphysical exploration of spiritual isolation and Russian identity. While researching the turbulent life of a 17th-century composer in the perpetually mist-shrouded Tuscan countryside, a soul-sick Russian poet (Yankvosky) forms an unusual kinship with an apocalypse-obsessed local madman (Josephson). Tarkovsky evokes the textures of dreams and memories through ravishing monochrome and sepia-toned reveries and flashbacks, while conjuring the hushed and haunted tone of a trance in this late-career masterwork.Read More »