Wop Film Watch Alert!

[dave jenkins]

This one has been taken down already. From a Roman Balcony is still up, though.

No longer! Ya snooze, ya lose. Maybe next time, dipshits!

[dave jenkins]

Here's one that titoli and I basically agree on, a film we have both enjoyed: http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=la+visita+youtube&view=detail&mid=BA98E1B5B2BFB5F91867BA98E1B5B2BFB5F91867&FORM=VIRE

[titoli]

Here's one that titoli and I basically agree on, a film we have both enjoyed: http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=la+visita+youtube&view=detail&mid=BA98E1B5B2BFB5F91867BA98E1B5B2BFB5F91867&FORM=VIRE

Don't you think Perrier's character is basically the same, grown older, as the one he played for Fellini? Actually that the movie was probably inspired by that episode?

[dave jenkins]

Don't you think Perrier's character is basically the same, grown older, as the one he played for Fellini? Actually that the movie was probably inspired by that episode?

Are you talking about his part in Nights of Cabiria? Very plausibly. By saying he's grown older, you mean "toothless" (i.e. less dangerous)? He's rather frightening in Cabiria; here, he is venal but amusing.

[dave jenkins]

This one with Sordi almost works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPecZpIm6uA

[titoli]

Not yet eendahaus?

[dave jenkins]

Had it for years, why? It's good.

[titoli]

I had forgotten you had reviewed it. Maybe because you got it all wrong:


Mafioso (1962). Alberto Lattuada. An efficient Milanese manager returns to Sicily with his family and is recruited by the local mafia don to take care of some family business. At turns funny and chilling, not only is it amazing this was made 10 years before The Godfather, its amazing it came 23 years before Prizzi's Honor. The central character, however, has such little backbone that he just goes with the flow rather than taking any initiative. This causes an eventual slackening of the plot (in fact, the film is missing a third act). Beautifully shot in black and white. 3.5/5

He has "little backbone"? "just goes with the flow"? What else could he do? I pointed out that the main flaw is that he, rather incredibly but for plot's reasons, doesn't get hip to what it's happening sooner. But he can't do a thing about it anyway.

[dave jenkins]

Tree of the Wooden Clogs gets Criterion Blu'd in October:

SPECIAL FEATURES

• New 4K restoration, created in collaboration with The Film Foundation at L'Immagine Ritrovata and supervised by director Ermanno Olmi, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Alternate Italian-language soundtrack
• Ermanno Olmi: The Roots of the Tree, an hour-long episode of The South Bank Show from 1981, featuring an interview with Olmi on the film and a visit to the farm where it was shot
• New program featuring cast and crew discussing the film at the Cinema Ritrovato film festival in Bologna, Italy, in 2016
• Archival interviews with Olmi
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by film critic Deborah Young

[titoli]

Tree of the Wooden Clogs: terrible .

[cigar joe]

Tree of the Wooden Clogs: terrible .

agree 

[dave jenkins]

You guys are both wrong, and not for the first time.

[dave jenkins]

Dino Risi retro at MoMA, 14 Dec. to 6 Jan. https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3628?locale=en

titoli! Git yo ass over here!

[titoli]

titoli! Git yo ass over here!

Me In Trumpland? Never.

P.S. Don't miss "The Thursday", Risi himself thought it was his best movie. A pity they didn't include "Weekend, Italian Style", his second best. Not to be missed: Il gaucho, I mostri, In nome del popolo italiano, Una vita difficile, La marcia su Roma  and, of course, Il vedovo, one of Sordi's - and Valeri's -  most quoted performances.   The Easy Life I assume everybody has watched it.

[dave jenkins]

Thanks, I was hoping you would make recommendations. Drink, ya wanna go to any of these? CJ, you comin' to town sometime over Christmas? I can get cheap tickets.