CJBS

Spaghetti western, right? I prefer "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." This one gets a 5, the other even more!

I agree on (almost) everything. They are still called Banco del Mutuo Soccorso... (it's not visible on the cover here because it's cut off). For me, it's a transition album between prog and pop. It doesn't leave a mark like the first three. However, it doesn't seem to me that "quando la buona gente dice" is a mixture of "R.I.P." and "In Volo".....

How? Did you miss this? It's one of the first ones I read. Hold on, let me check... it’s the one "I want prog! prog! only prog?" yes, that’s the one...

Yes, yes... ugh. For the first time I could satisfy my egocentrism and have one of those long back-and-forth exchanges (with the bar slowly scrolling down to the bottom), the other person bails... Anyway, I get you. And you're definitely right. A review is certainly more stimulating for a contemporary film, which at that time is certainly more "stimulating." Or am I misunderstanding?

"These are movies that everyone has seen at least once....." "Movies that obviously a poor layman like me hasn't seen" What a coincidence, right? But look at the things being written at the same time. :D

Now that I think about it, I should vote on your review of Metheny/Mehldau (I believe).... A film that, of course, I haven't seen as a poor layperson like me.

Maybe the person reading this review has already seen this film. In that case, they want to hear another opinion about it, whether it agrees with theirs or, if it does, from a different perspective, and discuss it with friends, study the context in which it was released, the director's thoughts, etc. If they haven't seen the film yet, they can decide whether to go see it or not, whether to rent it, buy it on VHS or DVD, check if it's being shown on national television, satellite, or pay-per-view, talk about it with friends without having seen it, or even delve into wild downloading... however they want... But aren’t real (and not virtual) cineforums a thing of the past?

Where would I have written that I deprive myself of films (today's)? If you are referring to the fact that I’ve mentioned I usually love watching old movies, it's to fill my cinematic ignorance; I don’t outright reject new films. The truth is that often the movies I would like to see are located in theaters on the opposite side of the city or completely unreachable. And ABOVE ALL: the movie times! In Italy, we generally eat around 8 PM. Why do I have to have an early lunch or skip it altogether for a film that starts at 7:30 PM?
Finally, do movies truly tell the story of our times? Unfortunately, the films currently showing often do not depict our times, even symbolically. Take "Il Sorpasso" by Risi. I liked it mainly because I identified with the characters, and the characters "seem" real (then again, cinema is fiction). In that film, Italy is portrayed during the years of economic boom. So, why isn’t there a film that shows us, even marginally, how mp3 players (like the iPod) have changed our lives? In this age of communication, a product comes out that allows us to consume music in large quantities, yet still isolates us from the surrounding world, or how about a critique of the university system and exams with multiple-choice answers that, while ensuring procedural fairness, certainly do not help students to organize their knowledge. I’ve taken random examples, but are you really sure that today’s films reflect our times (what does Spiderman tell us)? In a sense, they mirror them. Anyway, some worthy films have come out lately (even if I haven’t seen them, based on the titles, the director, and the users' comments online, I have the audacity to say so).

I'll answer! After...nothing is the same anymore is definitely a masterpiece, one of the first songs by Banco that I listened to. If I had listened to others, maybe I wouldn't have followed it more closely.

Paradoxically, lately I've been going to the cinema more often than usual. My parents always complained that we never went to the movies. Now we go more often. Only light movies though. And I'm someone who doesn't go out of the house much. The caimano, for example, when it was released, I watched it in the cinema.