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AFTER THE FOX
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An interesting stab at slapstick farce from Vittorio De Sica. Peter Sellers stars as Italy's most wanted criminal, the Fox, alongside then-wife Britt Ekland
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ARTHUR COHN PRESENTS
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An exclusive collection of 10 films from famed, Oscar-winning producer Arthur Cohn. Includes Central Station, Behind the Sun, and Black and White in Color.
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BICYCLE THIEF, THE
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Plain and simple, a desperate man loses his bicycle in this landmark film of Italian neo-realism.
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BRIEF VACATION
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The words of French poet Guillaume Apollinaire - "sickness is the vacation of the poor" - formed the premise of this film from the director of the neorealist classics The Bicycle Thief and Umberto D. Florinda Bolkan stars a working woman who must support herself, her children, her incapacitated husband and his family on her meager wages from a local factory. After collapsing at work with a lung disease, she is sent to recover at a sanatorium in the snowy mountains where she finds a new world, new friends and, possibly, new love. In Italian with English subtitles. Vittorio De Sica---Italy---1973---112 mins.
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CHILDREN ARE WATCHING US
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With his fifth film, Vittorio De Sica surprised everyone by turning into a vicious critic of society. The film, set among the bourgeoisie, focuses on a marital triangle. The mother of a four-year-old boy leaves her husband for another man; the husband, unable to stand the humiliation, commits suicide. The boy, lonely and unwanted, is sent to an orphanage. The script was written by six scenarists, including Cesare Zavattini, who, through the film, emerged as a driving force in Italian cinema for many years to come. In Italian with Vittorio De Sica---Italy---1944---84 mins.
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DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES
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Director Terence Davies reconstructs the lives of a working class family in postwar Liverpool through the use of popular songs. Over 40 hits from the Forties and Fifties illustrate the private history of this family of five. A truly impressive motion picture, impeccably shot and staged, that offers a touch of grandeur to everyday lives. With Freda Dowie, Peter Postlethwait, Angela Walsh, Dean Williams and Lorraine Ashbouren. Terence Davies---Great Britain---1988---80 mins.
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HOUSE OF MIRTH
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Terence Davies' exceptional adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel stars Gillian Anderson as a turn-of-the-century New York socialite trapped between her own need for independence and the economic and social pressures for her to find a husband. "...passionate, scrupulous, and personal" (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader). The exceptional supporting cast includes Eric Stoltz, Laura Linney, Anthony LaPaglia, Dan Aykroyd, Terry Kinney and Elizabeth Terence Davies---Great Britain---2000---140 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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INDISCRETION OF AMERICAN WIFE/TERMINAL STATION
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Italian neo-realist master Vittorio De Sica lost out to David O. Selznick for control of his drama, Terminal Station, about the ill-fated romance between an American woman (Jennifer Jones) and her Italian lover (Montgomery Clift). Selznick (Jones' husband at the time) cut footage, brought in Truman Capote to juice up Cesare Zavattini's story, and later renamed the film, Indiscretion of an American Wife, for its American release. What remains is a compromised, yet compelling, work that retains much of De Sica's distinctive touch, resulting in a film halfway between Italian neo-realism and Hollywood melodrama. This Criterion Collection edition presents Indiscretion of an American Wife (72 mins.) together with De Sica's original cut of Terminal Station (89 mins.) for the first time. Vittorio De Sica---Italy/USA---1954---161 mins.
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LONG DAY CLOSES
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Condensed childhood memories of 1940s England are related through elegiac and anecdotal episodes. Like the earlier Distant Voices/Still Lives, this film employs similar techniques but focuses on the mother instead of the father, resulting in a view infiltrated by gentle humor. "Beautifully poetic" (Time Out). Terence Davies---Great Britain---1992---85 mins.
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MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE
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Vittorio De Sica's slick sex romp based on Eduardo De Filippo's 1946 play Filumena. Sophia Loren schemes to seduce Marcello Mastroianni and sustain his romantic interest. With Aldo Puglisi, Pia Lindstrom and Vito Moriconi. An Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actress. In Italian with English subtitles. Vittorio De Sica---Italy---1964---102 mins.
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OF TIME AND THE CITY
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British filmmaker Terence Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives) directs this clever personal documentary about the Liverpool of his youth. "Narrating a choice assemblage of archival, amateur, and newsreel footage, the filmmaker adopts a mock plummy tone...an angrier form of sentimentality" (J. Hoberman, The Village Voice). Nominated for a British Independent Film Award. Terence Davies---Great Britain---2008---74 mins.
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SHOESHINE
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Vittorio De Sica's first major work is set in the rubble of postwar Rome, where two shoeshine boys get involved in a black market deal in order to buy a horse.
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SOPHIA LOREN AWARD COLLECTION
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The Italian starlet Sophia Loren costars with Marcello Mastroianni in three Academy Award-nominated films from the great Vittorio De Sica. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963, 118 mins.), the winner of the 1964 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, contains three different comic stories. Loren is great as the skilled temptress who uses sex to get what she wants from Mastroianni, and her striptease remains a steamy, unforgettable film achievement. This was followed by Marriage Italian-Style (1964, 101 mins.), a slick sex romp based on Eduardo De Filippo's 1946 play Filumena. In an Oscar-nominated role, Loren schemes to seduce Mastroianni and sustain his romantic interest. In Sunflower (1970, 107mins.), Loren costars with Mastroianni in the story of an Italian wife searching for a husband who went missing in Russia during WWII. In Italian with English subtitles.
Vittorio De Sica---Italy---1963-1970---326 mins.
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TERENCE DAVIES TRILOGY, THE
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These magical films by Terence Davies, director of The Long Day Closes and The Neon Bible, are set against the background of industrial Liverpool and follow the main character, Robert Tucker, from his Catholic childhood to being bullied at school, dealing with a violent and sick father at home, and struggling with his view of his own sexuality. The three films include Children (1976, 44 mins.), Madonna and Child (1980, 26 mins.) and Death and Transfiguration (1983, 24 mins.).
Terence Davies---Great Britain---1976-1983---94 mins.
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TWO WOMEN (DE SICA)
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Sophia Loren won an Academy Award for her portrayal of a mother ravaged by war as she and her 13-year old daughter become the focus of attack by retreating German soldiers. A heartwrenching film--one of the best known--by Vittorio De Sica. Dubbed in English. Vittorio De Sica---Italy---1961---99 mins.
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UMBERTO D.
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One of the masterpieces of Italian Neo-Realist cinema - the Italian postwar Renaissance. The story centers on a retired civil servant, living only on his pension, whose best friend is his dog. Unable to survive on his meager income, he sacrifices a part of his pension for his dog, and is evicted by his landlady for non-payment of rent. "Infused with so much awareness that the screen seems luminous" (Pauline Kael, The New Yorker). In Italian with English subtitles. Vittorio De Sica---Italy---1952---89 mins.
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WITCHES, THE (1967)
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"One of the most obscure films we've featured, which is ironic since the film has one of the most influential movie icons in its cast and boasts the talents of three world-renowned directors. The film in question is The Witches, an Italian hodgepodge designed to rejuvenate the career of a waning star. That star was Silvana Mangano...Luchino Visconti directed the first segment, "The Witch Burnt Alive." Mangano plays a famous actress who arrives at a swank mountain resort, followed by a ravenous pack of paparazzi..."Community Spirit" finds Mangano as a motorist who offers to take a man injured in a car accident to the hospital...Next comes "Earth Seen From the Moon," directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. A lonely widower (the sublime Italian comic actor Toto) searches the countryside to find a woman who will become his wife...The whimsy of the Pasolini segment is abruptly followed by the fury of "The Sicilian" directed by Franco Rossi...The final segment comes from Vittorio De Sica. "A Night like Any Other" finds Mangano as the easily bored wife of a workaholic banker. She escapes into elaborate daydreams fashioned on the pop art style that was the vogue in the mid-1960s...The banker is played by, of all people, Clint Eastwood" (Phil Hall, Film Threat). In Italian with English subtitles.
Mauro Bolognini/Vittorio De Sica/Pier Paolo Pasolini/Franco Rossi/Luchino Visconti---Italy---1967---100 mins.
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YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW
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Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni star in this Oscar-winning film that contains three different comic stories. Loren is great as the skilled temptress who uses sex to get what she wants, and her striptease remains a steamy, unforgettable film achievement.
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YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW / TWO WOMEN
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Two of Sophia Loren's finest performances, both directed by neorealist progenitor Vittorio De Sica. Loren won an Academy Award for her portrayal of a mother ravaged by war in Two Women (1961, 99 mins.). In this heart-wrenching film, she and her 13-year old daughter become the focus of attack by retreating German soldiers. In the Oscar-winning Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (1964, 119 mins.), Loren stars alongside Marcello Mastroianni in three different comic stories. She is great as the skilled temptress who uses sex to get what she wants, and her striptease remains a steamy, unforgettable film achievement. Dubbed in English.
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