Part social critique, part melodrama and entirely thrilling, this is probably one of Pasolini’s most mainstream and “linear” films, much closer in theme and feel to his Italian neo-realist peers. As with many of these […]
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Pier Paolo Pasolini@MoMA: Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (1964)
One of my favorite films in PPP’s oeuvre, this was very moving to watch on the big screen. This wonderfully-restored 35mm version has lost none of its power, its wonder, and its faith. I am […]
MVFF35: Reality dir. Matteo Garrone
Reality is one of the most unusual films I’ve seen this year. I wanted to derive some (bourgeois) pleasure from it, but I couldn’t. And pleasure is definitely not Mr. Garrone’s intention. In Reality, the […]
Bourgeois Ennui Revisted: L’Eclisse (1962)
European cinema in the 1960’s gave us many bourgeois women feeling their way restlessly through modernity: Cleo in Cléo de 5 à 7, Belle du Jour, Lidia in La Notte, the wives of The Discreet […]
Sundance Film Festival 12: Corpo Celeste by Alice Rohrwacher
Rohrwacher’s sympathetic but clear-eyed treatment of Southern Italian Catholicism is one of the most wonderful and truthful films I have seen in a long time. It has the feel of a narrative film and the […]
