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Dario Argento Inferno

14 may 07

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@primi: what cure? Silencing him? ;)

Dario Argento Il Gatto A Nove Code

14 may 07

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@kecco: I'll be doing trauma soon too.

Ettore Scola Il Commissario Pepe

11 may 07

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@cpt and francescobus: what do you think of Bassano? Friends have always spoken well of it, but I don’t know it (apart from the bridge and the grappa).

Ettore Scola Il Commissario Pepe

11 may 07

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@cpt: it was a beautiful time in my life, I went to see Snow White, Airplane!, Banana Joe, E.T., The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Boy and the Hunter, and so on at the Araceli... that's where I started to become interested in cinema;

Dario Argento Inferno

11 may 07

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@bubi: I’ll tell you that I’m mainly a reader of mysteries (classics, not modern thrillers). Among the genre directors, Cronenberg, Carpenter, Lynch. In Italy, a bit of Avati.

Ettore Scola Il Commissario Pepe

11 may 07

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@cpt: I lived in Vicenza from 1979 to 1984, and to this day I miss those times...

Federico Fellini Amarcord

11 may 07

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@hal: the Oscars awarded to Fellini and the Italians have always unsettled me, rewarding a caricatured idea of Italians (except for Petri's Oscar in '70); not that they are tin medals, and not that Fellini is to be despised (I wouldn't go that far), but he has always been catered to by certain intellectuals from Via Veneto; his cinema aims for aesthetic affirmation, the dream, the mirage, the voluptuous women calling you to take a dip in the Trevi Fountain, and it says, in my opinion, nothing about our country (look instead at Rosi, Monicelli, Risi, etc.). This explains my judgment, but without absolutes; I respect everyone's ideas.

Ettore Scola Il Commissario Pepe

11 may 07

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Congratulations on the wonderful review. I've never seen the film, but I'm told it’s a masterpiece in its genre. The sociological description of a reality, that of Vicenza and Bassano del Grappa, is also very interesting. Friends living in the area have always told me that, in that part of Veneto, formal deference to the Church goes hand in hand with the worst moral decay [but this also applies to Verona and Treviso; only Padua and Venice are, in my opinion, more secular; Belluno and Rovigo don’t intrigue me]. Once, on a train, I met a retired former prosecutor who spoke of Bassano in the '60s in the terms of the film you are reviewing.

Federico Fellini Amarcord

11 may 07

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Then Poletti barely knows me - I doubt he will ever know me - so I don't see how he could be disgusted by me - as a physical person - provided that under the label "velluto" there aren't more people ;)

Federico Fellini Amarcord

11 may 07

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@mista: I agree, along with the fact that there is not much tolerance for those who try to break away from the usual and established evaluations. For example: when I quietly questioned the talent of the Beatles, I was bombarded with criticism. Oh dear, even in amateur reviews, people fight like professional gladiators [it seems that these folks have no other problems in life].