Tuesday, July 22, 2008

[1967] - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Joey Drayton brings her fiancé, Dr. John Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the young man is an ideal choice (he's highly and internationally respected in the medical field, and he's impeccably mannered, handsome, well dressed and of a respectable California family), he's black. The film, which covers one busy day in the Drayton home, is essentially a drawing-room comedy, a series of cross-conversations between the young doctor and the girl's parents, and finally between all sets of parents and offspring. A simple dinner is extended to include the doctor's parents, who fly up from Los Angeles for the evening, and the crusty but benevolent old Irish priest, a friend of the family. Thus, the title of the film . . .

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[1962] - L'Eclisse - Michelangelo Antonioni

In the suburb of Rome, the translator Vittoria breaks her engagement with her boyfriend, the writer Ricardo, after a troubled night. Vittoria goes to downtown to meet her mother, who is addicted in Stock Market, and she meets the broker Piero in a day of crash in the Stock Market. The materialist Piero and the absent Vittoria begins a monosyllabic relationship.


Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Monday, July 21, 2008

[1950] - Sunset Boulevard


In Hollywood of the 50's, the obscure screenplay writer Joe Gillis is not able to sell his work to the studios, is full of debts and is thinking in returning to his hometown to work in an office. While trying to escape from his creditors, he has a flat tire and parks his car in a decadent mansion in Sunset Boulevard. He meets the owner and former silent-movie star Norma Desmond, who lives alone wit her butler and driver Max von Mayerling. Norma is demented and believes she will return to the cinema industry, and is protected and isolated from the world by Max, who was his director and husband in the past and still loves her. Norma proposes Joe to move to the mansion and help her in writing a screenplay for her comeback to the cinema, and the small-time writer becomes her lover and gigolo. When Joe falls in love for the young aspirant writer Betty Schaefer, Norma becomes jealous and completely insane and her madness leads to a tragic end. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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[1973] - My Name Is Nobody

My Name is Nobody (also known as Il mio nome è Nessuno and Lonesome Gun) is a 1973 spaghetti Western comedy film. The film was directed by Tonino Valerii and, in some scenes, by Sergio Leone.[1] It was written by Leone, Fulvio Morsella and Ernesto Gastaldi. The cast includes Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, and Jean Martin. While Leone's only official involvement was as producer, his directorial hand is seen in many moving shots and action sequences, and the style of the production is pure Sergio Leone -- but with the twist of being played as comedy. It was released under various names in America, Italy, France, and West Germany. It has a runtime of 111 minutes for the TCM print, and 117 minutes outside of America. The film was Fonda's final western, filmed in New Mexico: Mogollon, Acoma Pueblo, Gallup; Colorado, Louisiana: New Orleans and in Spain. Hill has said it remains his favorite film among those in which he starred. There are many implied puns on the name "Nobody", a resource dating at least from the Polyphemus adventure in the Odyssey. An example would be when the driver of the train runs out of the public urinal and yells: "But who's driving it? Who?", referring to the stolen train. To the audience, the answer is obvious: Nobody is driving it. The film was made by Sergio Leone and his team in response to the spaghetti Western becoming almost a parody of itself. They decided that if anyone was going to make the ultimate "joke" version of the genre, they should be the ones. They cast Terrence Hill specifically because he'd been in so many of the overdone, similarly-named productions, and become a kind of icon of the genre, and had already proven his comedic capabilities in other western movies like They Call Me Trinity and its sequel Trinity Is STILL My Name!. Inside jokes in the film include invocations of director Sam Peckinpah: his name on a tombstone, the villains being known as "the Wild Bunch", and use of the duster coats which (though Leone introduced them in Westerns) Peckinpah vigorously exposed on screen. R.G. Armstrong (erroneously credited with middle initial "K"), Geoffrey Lewis, and Steve Kanaly also appear in the film, which was shot in New Mexico, New Orleans, and Leone's favorite Spanish locales in Almeria. This is the second time Fonda worked with Leone, the former being Fonda's first turn as a villain, in the classic Once Upon a Time in the West. Noted French actor Jean Martin plays the film's main antagonist. Leone directed several scenes of the film, including the opening scene and the final showdown with the Wild Bunch, but Tonino Valerii was the overall director. After the film's release, the film was identified and promoted as a Sergio Leone film, much to Valerii's frustration. The musical score is by longtime Leone collaborator Ennio Morricone, with its whimsical main theme presaging many of his later non-Western scores. His adaptation of Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" for the Wild Bunch's theme is typical of the movie's sense of humor. Nobody's the Greatest was a loose sequel. Plot Jack Beauregard (Henry Fonda) is a tired, aging legend, who just wants to retire in peace in Europe to get away from young gunmen constantly trying to test themselves against the master. 'Nobody' (Terence Hill's character) idolizes Beauregard and wants to see him die in a blaze of glory going against the infamous Wild Bunch singlehanded. These are a gang of bandits who launder their loot of stolen gold via a fake goldmine, and the owner sends them after Beauregard because his now-dead brother was in on the deal. Nobody dogs Beauregard through the west, encountering many who wish him dead, and pesters him to let him stage his grand finale. Eventually, the grand shoot-out does take place by a railway line. Nobody arranges for Beauregard to shoot at the Wild Bunch's mirrored-concho-decorated saddles which, he's discovered, contain sticks of dynamite, thus letting a few good shots eliminate many of the men. To escape, they board a train that Nobody has stolen. Finally, Nobody fakes a very public showdown with Beauregard, "killing" him and allowing him to slip away quietly. A streetsign, marking where the gunfight took place, says "Nobody Was Faster On The Draw". Beauregard boards his boat to Europe and a quiet retirement while Nobody resumes his own life of adventure and dangers.

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[1972] - Last tango in Paris


Crazed with grief after his wife commits suicide, Paul, an American expatriate, roams the streets of Paris until, while apartment hunting, he faces Jeanne, an unknown girl across an empty room. Brutally, without a word, he rapes the soon-compliant stranger. It should have been hit-and-run sex, but Paul stays at the scene of the erotic accident. While arranging his wife's funeral, Paul leases the apartment where he is to meet the puzzled girl for a series of frenzied afternoons. "No names here," he roughly tells her, setting up the rules of the game. They are to shut out the world outside, forfeit their pasts and their identities. Paul degrades Jeanne in every possible way, leveling all her inhibitions with sheer brutality. Paul is soon dissatisfied with mere possession of her body; he must also have her mind. When she rejects his mad love to enter a comfortable marriage with her dull fiancé, Paul finally confesses: "I love you, you dummy."

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