Lux Aeterna

The lives of an eclectic group of men who live in an affluent American suburb in the '70s are forever changed by their obsession with five doomed sisters.

In a man-made underground society, descendants of a banished generation vie for control of the crumbling city of Lux. Ichise, an orphan turned prize fighter, loses a leg and an arm to satisfy an enraged fight promoter. On the brink of death he is taken in by a young woman doctor and used as a guinea pig for the next evolution of Texhnolyze. With his new limbs, Ichise is taken under the wing of Oonishi, a powerful leader of Organ, an organization with some hold on Lux. As Ichise is drawn deeper into a war for territorial control of the city, he learns of his possible future from the young girl prophet Ran, who guides him from the shadows in his darkest times. With the explosion of the warfare, Ichise must uncover the truth about Lux and fight for his survival as he realizes his destiny.

Francesca e Walter sono una coppia di giovani delinquenti che hanno appena rubato una preziosa collana in un albergo. Per sfuggire alla cattura da parte della polizia, Walter affida la collana a Francesca e i due si uniscono al treno delle mondine, dirette al lavoro stagionale nelle risaie. Fra queste vi è la giovane Silvana, con cui…

Nell'ipotetica città siciliana di Agramonte (Ispica) vive il barone Ferdinando Cefalù, detto Fefè (Marcello Mastroianni). L'uomo è coniugato da dodici anni con l'assillante Rosalia (Daniela Rocca), una donna ormai bruttina ma ardente d'amore per lui. Nel frattempo, è innamorato della propria cugina, la sedicenne Angela (Stefania Sandrelli). La legge –-

July 5, 1950—Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano’s bullet-riddled corpse is found facedown in a courtyard in Castelvetrano, a handgun and rifle by his side. Local and international press descend upon the scene, hoping to crack open the true story behind the death of this young man, who, at the age of twenty-seven, had already become Italy’s…

Ferdinando Cefalù, un barone siciliano, si innamora di Angela, una vezzosa cugina sedicenne, da cui è ricambiato. Ostacolo all'unione è l'esistenza della moglie di Ferdinando, Rosalia, una donna brutta e petulante. Facilita la soluzione del difficile problema l'arrivo di un modesto pittore, Carmelo Patanè, che in passato era stato il grande amore di Rosalia. Ferdinando abilmente favorisce il riavvicinamento del pittore e della moglie.

An entertaining ensemble comedy about the extremes one man goes to circumvent Italian divorce laws, Divorce - Italian Style (Divorzio all'italiana, 1961) was a big hit in Italy as well as on the American art house circuit. Americans were undoubtedly drawn to the scandalous nature and then-steamy sexuality of its script, as well as to its thickly-lacquered Sicilian atmosphere - this is an Italian film full of exaggerated if funny Italian stereotypes. Criterion's supplements work to put the film into sociopolitical context, an important component of the film's and its director's reputation in Italy, but one generally lost on non-Italians.