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Country: Italy
Genre: Drama/ Art/ Comedy/ Romance
Director: Michael Radford
Year: 1994
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Fleeing his native Chile to avoid arrest, poet Pablo Neruda (Philippe Noiret) winds up on a remote Italian island. In the area in which he is staying, Neruda is the only person who isn’t illiterate. The local post office hires Mario Ruoppolo (Massimo […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Drama/ Art
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Year: 1988
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
I can count on my fingers the number of films that make me sob uncontrollably — that’s a good thing, by the way. A great film can engender empathy to an extraordinary degree, and Cinema Paradiso fits the bill.
Toto (played by three of the most […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Drama/ Art
Director: Matteo Garrone
Year: 2008
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I knew going in that Gomorra wasn’t going to be a laugh riot, but as a critic, I felt obliged to see this universally lauded film about the Camorra crime family. And guess what? It’s pretty much as good as the critics say.
Gomorra is filmed in […]
