Gianfranco Mingozzi

Michelangelo Antonioni storia di un autore / Antonioni: Documents and Testimonial - by Gianfranco Mingozzi (1966) Movies

Posted by alexov85 at July 7, 2011

Michelangelo Antonioni storia di un autore / Antonioni: Documents and Testimonial - by Gianfranco Mingozzi (1966)

This documentary was made for Canadian television and was named "Antonioni: Documents and Testimonial". It is a fitting name, since Antonioni is not enough to say, though, and often appears on the screen. Here he was, as a person and his writings give a characterization of colleagues to form their utterances of the film. Here there is an interview with Monica Vitti, including a candid moment with Vitti, where she recalls the accident at the show "Adventures" in 1960 at the Cannes Film Festival. Also a composer Giovanni Fusco, director Federico Fellini (with whom he collaborated on the screenplay for Antonioni's "The White Sheik") and many others. We can also see the rare moments of shooting with Antonioni and footage of scenes cut from "The Adventures".

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La vela incantata / The Magic Screen (1982) Movies

Posted by yorkiez at June 11, 2014

Gianfranco Mingozzi's La vela incantata is set in the late twenties in the region of milia-Romagna, and concerns two brothers (played by Massimo Ranieri and Paolo Ricci), who travel the countryside in an old truck, setting up their portable cinema in hamlets and villages. The fascist regime is busy taking care of its enemies, and the sense of this tightening noose is almost imperceptible at the film's beginning, but becomes stronger and stronger, as our two protagonists become more and more conscious of the divisions in society between those who support the regime, and those who do not.

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Flavia the Heretic Movies

Posted by at Aug. 4, 2022

Flavia the Heretic (1974)
After a cult besieges her convent, a young nun goes with an army of Muslims to destroy the convent and kill who wronged her.

Drama Horror

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L'Avventura (1960) - (The Criterion Collection - #98) [DVD9 + DVD5] [2001] Movies

Posted by evaristegalois at June 15, 2011

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L’AVVENTURA (Italy 1960) - (The Criterion Collection - #098) [DVD9 & DVD5] Movies

Posted by arthouse at Feb. 7, 2010

A girl mysteriously disappears on a yachting trip. While her lover and her best friend search for her across Italy, they begin an affair. Antonioni’s penetrating study of the idle upper class offers stinging observations on spiritual isolation and the many meanings of love.
Many films are called “classic,” but few qualify as turning points in the evolution of cinematic language, films that opened the way to a more mature art form. Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura (The Adventure) is such a work. It divided film history into that which came before and that which was possible after its epochal appearance. It expanded our knowledge of what a film could be and do. It is more than a classic, it’s an historical milestone.

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Il frullo del passero (1988) Movies

Posted by pgf000 at Jan. 28, 2010

A woman, who has been the mistress of a man who has just died, thinks about leaving the little Italian village where they lived and moving to another place. An old and rich man offers her a place in his house, however, she will have to listen to him telling his past love stories.
All'indomani dei funerali dell'amico Guido, un ricco e maturo vedovo propone alla giovane amante del defunto di prendere il suo posto, platonicamente, purché lei ascolti i racconti dei suoi passati amori.

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