What starts out as a languid fiction film about the parallel evolution of the careers of Ettore Scola and Federico Fellini starting at the satirical Italian magazine Marc'Aurelio in the late 40s as political and satirical cartoonists, consequently become screenwriters and then film directors. It eventually turns into an emotional celebration of Fellini's rise as a representation of Italy's star film personage. The film goes up to and when he died and the mournful passing of his death for Italians,…
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Shock Corridor 1963
Samuel Fuller isn't going to make a movie called Shock Corridor and not give you your money's worth in the process. This means stereotype psychos behaving that way, an overweight man who sings arias in the middle of the night, a man so shell-shocked by the Korean War that he's obsessed with the American Civil War, another who wanders the corridor announcing that he's pregnant and vulnerable. This is what the reporter who fakes being insane, by pretending he has…
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Houston, We Have a Problem! 2016
It's unfortunate that it takes a mockumentary like Houston, We Have A Problem to remind us all of how easily we can be duped by a well-put-together non-fiction film. Of course, we've come a long way from Hitler's propaganda films about the Jews but even as I noticed all the cuts to Slavoj Zizek, the famous and prolific 'subject' theorist sputtering his quotes about how the cinema can construct "social reality" with devices like "conspiracy theories" for which the mass…
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Young Hunter 2020
There are moments in Young Hunter when the creaky psychological tension threatens to blossom into full horror -- though we know it never will. Quite apart from the secondary plot of blackmailing teenagers into inculcating younger teens to have sex with them while an adult somewhere records the incidents for profit elsewhere -- an adult video Ponzi scheme -- the film goes to great length to show how young boys who are slowly coming to the realization in their mid-teens…
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