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@Melissa: I was mainly referring to American Tabloid and Six Pieces of a Thousand, which are set during the Kennedy era. Anyway, the L.A. tetralogy, of which L.A. Confidential is a part, even though it takes place in the preceding decades, also revolves around the so-called "Loss of the Never-Existing Innocence" of the U.S.A.

Sorry, the last post was for Bjork. Hi Bubi.

Maybe it's because I'm a die-hard fan of Ellroy, the writer, but that movie tells that historical moment in too banal and linear a way. Then it’s way too long, and you already know where it’s going to end up after ten minutes. Very similar themes have been handled much better by Spielberg in Sugarland Express and the legendary Kowalski-Vanishing Point. P.S. I also really like Videotape, with that drum that rolls out and rolls back in. Let's just say that over the last 15 days, I've been listening to that album once and then picking another random album.

So, out of those you mentioned, so far I have the Liars' album, which is beautiful, but after your review I expected more; Arcade Fire, which I don't understand why people like so much — I listen to them on repeat and they always disgust me; Pj, whose judgment hasn't changed a bit since it was released. So among these, the best remains In Rainbows. I don't want to piss off Alessio, but aside from him, not much is being said about the latest Dinosaur.

Professor Poletti, you always have this tendency to digress; you seem like one of those professors nearing retirement who lose the thread of their discourse. There's not enough material, or rather "Bird," no, you always have to stray from the subject and make inappropriate judgments. Just think, before the second-to-last sentence, I was about to give you a 5, aside from the definition of masterpiece given to "Un mondo perfetto," a film not only full of frightening boredom and tedium but also rife with unbearable rhetoric and moralism, with a simplistic thesis that even the bad guys have a heart, it's the system that doesn't understand them, which is disarmingly banal. Moving on to the second-to-last sentence: Eastwood maintained Parker's original solos, overdubbing everything else with contemporary musicians, which drove many scholarly jazz aficionados crazy. As for the Spike Lee issue, what on earth does the fact that Spike Lee has never made a film on par with Bird have to do with him making a moral judgment? The problem is different: the statement that Eastwood couldn't make a film about a black icon because he is white is simply nonsense. That's all there is to it. Some of Lee's somewhat racist statements are known. This is one of them. Beyond that, "Mo' Better Blues" is a beautiful film about jazz and everything surrounding it.

The quote from Tricky about Caetano Veloso closes every question. It’s the epitaph. There’s no going beyond that. Any bullshit about Nirvana is outdated. Sanjuro, Russolo stick it up your ass, Gnoato, put Jagger's barber in there, Muffin a baguette. And I Don't have a gun!

You forgot Totò, Vittorio, and the doctor. Come on! If only Tarantino had washed my brain. The truth is that I'm so old (just ask Black) that I saw and lived through all the '80s and horror cinema. During the Reagan era, horror cinema was the only political and countercultural cinema. Obviously, I didn't come up with this idea myself. You can ask any critic, Italian, French, or American, with a bit of open-mindedness. So not Rondi. This film, along with Romero's first, is the father of all that cinema. So, I'm sorry, but within the history of cinema, it holds fundamental importance. Don't like it? That's your problem. As for Totò, we’ve gone from underestimation to overestimation. Many of the films you mentioned are not only forgotten by anyone, but no filmmaker has ever used them as models or been influenced by them. If you say Totò a colori, that's not up for debate. But many of the films you cited are just little nonsense, just like the ones Romero made. But not this one.

This time you got me, Super, I've never heard that version of Chris Farlowe.

I adore her. And I have to compensate for the Captain's rating.

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