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FORBIDDEN CHRIST/ IL CRISTO PR
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ACQUASANTA JOE
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WINNETOU 4 (AMONG VULTURES)
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Released as Among Vultures in the States, this is one of many Karl May Western adventure novels to be adapted for the German screen, only this time by director Alfred Vohrer. Lex Barker is replaced by Stewart Granger as Old Shatterhand, alongside Pierre Brice as his trusty Native American blood brother, Winnetou. In the fourth film in this popular series, Elke Sommer plays a beautiful, but fiery cowgirl who joins them on the trail. In German with English subtitles.
Alfred Vohrer---West Germany/Yugoslavia/Italy/France---1964---96 mins.
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WINNETOU 3 (TREASURE OF SILVER LAKE)
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Released as Treasure of Silver Lake in the States, this is one of many Karl May Western adventure novels to be adapted for the German screen by director Harald Reinl. Lex Barker is Old Shatterhand and Pierre Brice his trusty Native American blood brother, Winnetou. This time they're joined by Herbert Lom, who leads a ruthless gang of bandits across the great plains (of Croatia) and must be stopped. In German with English subtitles.
Harald Reinl---West Germany/Yugoslavia/France---1962---106 mins.
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WINNETOU 2 (THE LAST OF THE RENEGADES)
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Released as Last of the Renegades in the States, this is one of many Karl May Western adventure novels to be adapted for the German screen by director Harald Reinl. Lex Barker is Old Shatterhand and Pierre Brice his trusty Native American blood brother, Winnetou. This time they're joined by Klaus Kinski and Anthony Steel, playing an oil man who's trying to start a war between the Indians and settlers in order to drive up his prices. Filmed on location...in Croatia. In German with English subtitles.
Harald Reinl---West Germany/Yugoslavia/Italy---1964---91 mins.
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WINNETOU 1 (APACHE GOLD)
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Released as Apache Gold in the States, this is one of many Karl May Western adventure novels to be adapted for the German screen by director Harald Reinl. Lex Barker is Old Shatterhand and Pierre Brice his trusty Native American blood brother, Winnetou. Their fellowship in the name of justice (and gold) makes for a good-natured, but still gun-fight heavy Western. Filmed on location...in Croatia. In German with English subtitles.
Harald Reinl---West Germany/Yugoslavia/Italy---1963---97 mins.
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ANTONIONI'S CHINA (CHUNG KUO - CINA)
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Following Zabriskie Point, Antonioni was invited by the Chinese government to film a documentary on the country for Italian television. The three-plus-hour color film that resulted, however, was rejected by Chinese officials and the press for supposedly portraying the Cultural Revolution in a negative light. The charge could not be more off base, and it made Chung kuo/Cina nearly impossible to see for years. "...a tender (but very much off-the-record) picture of a society in transformation and shyly opening itself up to a foreigner's curious gaze" (Oxford History of World Cinema). "...among Antonioni's finest documentary achievements..." (A History of Narrative Film). In Italian and Mandarin with French subtitles.
Michelangelo Antonioni---Italy---1972---208 mins.
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INDIA (ROSSELLINI)
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Unlike most of his neorealist contemporaries, Roberto Rossellini's concerns were not just political, but global and spiritual. Invited by the prime minister to come film in India in 1957, Rossellini made this influential semi-documentary and a more scattered ten-part television series. The feature, India, Matri Buhmi, is filled with gorgeous color photography and long takes of life in India--its people, customs, wildlife, natural terrain, and modernization. If that's not spicy enough for you, here's some arthouse gossip: Rossellini's writing partner on this project, Sonali DasGupta, became a romantic partner as well, leading to an unsightly divorce from Ingrid Bergman, and his fourth marriage to DasGupta.
Roberto Rossellini---France/Italy---1958---90 mins.
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BITTER RICE (RISO AMARO)
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In the dreary rice fields of the Po Valley, a thief on the run meets a hard-working, beautiful girl. Silvana Mangano portrays the seductive rice worker who betrays her comrades in order to steal the thief's loot, a role which rocketed her to international stardom. "The sexiest of the neorealist productions" (Ephraim Katz, The Film Encyclopedia). With Vittorio Gassman, Raf Vallone, Doris Dowling and Lia Corelli. In Italian with English subtitles.
Giuseppe De Santis---Italy---1949---109 mins.
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MISTER SCARFACE/ FAMILY ENFORC
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Here's a double feature reminder that organized crime is the only business that always collects on its debts. Jack Palance plays a mafia boss in the Italian crime thriller Mister Scarface in which a hit man joins up with another disgruntled thug to take his boss for his cash. AKA: The Big Boss. The mob business gets downright gritty and dirty in The Family Enforcer, shot in New Jersey and starring a pre-Goodfellas Joe Pesci as a mouthy, hot-headed debt collector. AKA: The Death Collector. Fernando Dileo/Ralph DeVito---Italy/USA---1976---170 mins.
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DOLL THAT TOOK THE TOWN, THE
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In this Italian comedy, a would-be model concocts a story about being accosted by three men in order to get publicity. Though the stunt works, three relatively innocent men get arrested. Starring Virna Lisi. In Italian with English subtitles. Francesco Maselli---Italy---1956---90 mins.
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COMPANEROS
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Jack Palance, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero and Tomas Milian star in this politically-minded "spaghetti western." A mercenary helps a revolutionary to rescue a pacifist professor and his followers. Palance is great as a wooden-handed killer who lost his hand when he was nailed to a cross--his pet hawk ate it off to save him. From the director of Django, with music by the legendary Ennio Morricone. This edition uses English-dubbed scenes, as well as some in Italian with English subtitles, to present the first complete and uncut video release of this film. Sergio Corbucci---Italy/Spain/Germany---1970---120 mins.
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INDISCRETION OF AMERICAN WIFE
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Italian neo-realist master Vittorio De Sica lost out to David O. Selznick for control of this drama about the ill-fated romance between an American woman (Jennifer Jones) and her Italian lover (Montgomery Clift). Much of De Sica's distinctive touch remains, but Selznick (Jones' husband at the time) brought in Truman Capote to juice up Cesare Zavattini's story and later cut the film by more than 24 minutes for its American release. What remains is a compromised but still compelling work, standing halfway between Italian neo-realism and Hollywood melodrama. De Sica's 87-minute cut, titled Terminal Station, was released in other countries and received an Vittorio De Sica---USA/Italy---1954---63 mins.
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PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (ARGENTO
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The favorite tale of a disfigured musician haunting a beautiful singer is retold in the distinctive and disturbing style of director Dario Argento. Julian Sands is the Phantom, living in a secret underworld below the opera house, with blood on his hands and the beautiful Christine (Asia Argento) on his mind. Dubbed in English. Dario Argento---Italy---1998---100 mins.
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CHILDREN OF HANNIBAL
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A foiled bank robbery in Turin sends a bungling burglar on the run with a hostage, a down-on-his-luck businessman. Using the kidnapping to his advantage, the hostage steers his kidnapper to the south, while telling the police that the pair are in Switzerland. The subterfuge allows for secret romantic interludes that are interrupted when the hostage's disgruntled family joins their entourage. In Italian with English subtitles. Davide Ferrario---Italy---1998---93 mins.
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ALINA
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Italian bombshell Gina Lollobrigida stars in this 1950s crime drama as a widow who takes over her dead husband's smuggling ring and finds love with his partner (Amedeo Nazzari). Giorgio Pastina's noirish melodrama of conflicting loyalties in post-WWII Italy was one of Lollobrigida's first starring roles. With Amedeo Nazzari, Doris Dowling, Juan de Landa. Dubbed in English. Giorgio Pastina---Italy---1950---74 mins.
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GIRL WITH A SUITCASE
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A girl with nothing except good looks finds herself at the mercy of one man after another until she is finally jilted by a rich young scoundrel. About to be cast adrift in a sea of corruption, she finds her protector in the person of her betrayer's 16-year-old brother. The film reveals the very sensitive area between purity and vice and launched the international career of Claudia Cardinale. With Jacques Perrin. In Italian with English subtitles. "Extremely well acted [and] worth seeing" (1996 Video Movie Guide). Valerio Zurlini---Italy/France---1961---111 mins.
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FIND A PLACE TO DIE
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In one of his last films, Jeffrey Hunter (The Searchers, King of Kings) plays an outcast gunfighter who comes to the aid of a woman trying to regain her stolen gold and avenge the death of her brother. Credited director "Anthony Ascott" is actually Guiliano Carmineo. Dubbed in English. Giuliano Carmineo---Italy---1968---89 mins.
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ANY GUN CAN PLAY
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Tipping its hat to the obvious debt owed to the films of Sergio Leone, this spaghetti western opens with an in-joke featuring three actors made up to resemble Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Franco Nero. From there, the action follows a bounty hunter on the trail of a master bandit, with plenty of exuberant shoot-outs spread throughout the film. Also known as For a Few Bullets More and Go Kill and Come Back. Dubbed in English. Enzo G. Castellari---Italy---1967---100 mins.
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
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A great Western by the great Sergio Leone, uncut. Henry Fonda is the ruthless psychopath, Jason Robards the half-breed falsely accused of a terrible slaughter, and Charles Bronson "The Man" who remembers how his brother was savagely tortured. Brilliant direction by Leone achieves a film of epic significance, shot in dazzling Monument Valley locations.
Sergio Leone---USA---1968---165 mins.
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