Another historical film from Roberto Rossellini. Socrete (1971), which I first viewed at Columbia University in April 1975 or 1976. I didn’t watch it again until six months ago, on YouTube. mais 726 palavras
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The Taking of Power by Louis XIV
Roberto Rossellini’s historical films can wear you down if you expect theatrical, melodramatic representations of History. The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (1966) is not your Queen Elizabeth movie, or Mary Queen of Scots, or Marie Antoinette. mais 664 palavras
XL Popcorn - Rome, Open City
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Progress: 677/1007Title: Roma città aperta (Rome, Open City)
Director: Roberto Rossellini… mais 339 palavras
A Displaced Person: Stromboli (1950)
To many people, life on an island in the Mediterranean probably sounds like paradise; to Karin (Ingrid Bergman), the protagonist of Roberto Rossellini’s 1950 film mais 1.147 palavras
Paisan (1946, Roberto Rossellini)
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Paisan is comprised of war stories, but not the kind peepaw Matt Damon told his grandkids. Like Rossellini’s other films of this period, this anthology of brief, semi-true and semi-fictionalized tragedies from the Allies’ campaign in Italy during the penultimate year of WWII brilliantly communicates the life-loathing destruction and dehumanization of war (any war), while serving as a welcome antidote to the empty rah-rah heroics of the usual cinematic narrative about this specific war. mais 1.128 palavras
Moving pictures 2018, #33
Some long sought-after films here, and some random stuff that happened to catch my eye at the time. So to speak.
2 June 2018
I have an immense treasure: my ignorance. For me it is a great joy to overcome it. If I can get others to profit from what I acquire, mais 42 palavras
