Knocking down the rating of The Canterbury Tales slightly as it is rough around the edges - some stories in Pasolini's adaptation of The Canterbury Tales are anecdotes and others do show rape - y'know, a barrel of laughs for a comedy. Otherwise, The Canterbury Tales still bursts with life, sex, and that amazing ending. Listen to us talk about Pasolini's bawdy black comedy on THE UNCUT NETWORK!
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A Quiet Place in the Country 1968
The Podcast Macabre Challenge: 2025 Edition - Made in Italy (12/54)
The only other Elio Petri film I have seen is The Assassin. It's been forever ago since I saw it, but I remember being indifferent about its handsome look and light plot. The same criticism cannot apply to A Quiet Place in the Country - a surreal psychological horror where Franco Nero has a mental breakdown that lasts the entirety of the film. Petri and Ruggero Mastroianni edits A…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
This has the attention span of a fucking Smosh sketch; with all the fatigue and misery as that implies. I wonder how many followers I will lose for that sentence alone?
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Strange Days 1995
Part of my 52 Films by Women Challenge! (27/52)
My only gripe with Strange Days is that it's such a missed opportunity to not use the song 'Strange Days' by The Doors. Bad luck Bigelow, I give your cult classic an A-. Minus that cruel factor, Strange Days is an utterly spotless piece of science-fiction. From the very first shot, told from the point-of-view of a bank robber where his heist goes badly wrong, the level of skill needed to…
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