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CANTANDO DIETRO I PARAVENTI
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Ermanno Olmi's astonishing historical drama is set in China around 1800. Ching, the widow of a famous pirate terrorizes the South China seas and decimates the Emperor's fleet. A new fleet is sent and blocks her escape from a harbor. But the Emperor does not attack. Instead, he sends colorful paper kites which rise from the imperial fleet and spell out a message. Extraordinary in its visual impact, shifting to a Brechtian stage-drama which propels the narrative, Singing Behind the Screens is nothing short of a new way of interpreting history through seeking its moral essence. With Bud Spencer, Jun Ichikawa. In Italian with English subtitles. Ermanno Olmi---Italy/France---2003---100 mins.
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CHRISTMAS STORIES: AN EXCLUSIVE FACETS 2-PACK
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Two major figures of the second Italian film renaissance offer a pair of powerful Christmas tales that focus on the spirituality behind the holiday.
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COFFRET OLMI (OLMI BOX SET)
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This French box set includes three films from Italian art cinema director, Ermanno Olmi. The Tree of Wooden Clogs, Il Posto, and Time Stood Still.
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DAZZLING DIRECTORS: AN EXCLUSIVE FACETS 2-PACK
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This double release boasts the talents of Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach, Ermanno Olmi, Lars von Trier, and Carl Theodor Dryer.
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I FIDANZATI
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Ermanno Olmi's (Tree of the Wooden Clogs) brilliant second feature is the simple story of a young man from Milan who takes a welding job in Sicily that takes him away from his fiancee, because he thinks the separation will be good for their relationship. But loneliness and the strange environment make him turn back to her. Olmi's deep humanism is evident in his moving depiction of the lives of simple people, played by non-professionals. One of the truly great Italian films of the 60's. In Italian with English subtitles. Ermanno Olmi---Italy---1963---84 mins.
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IL MESTIERE DELLE ARMI
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Ermanno Olmi (I Fidanzati) tells the true story of a Giovanni de Medici, the first soldier in history to be mortally wounded by modern artillery. A member of the Black Band, a company of Italian troops who painted their armor black to avoid detection at night, De Medici valiantly protected his homeland from German invaders until cannon fire destroyed his legs and eventually his life. In Italian with NO English subtitles. Ermanno Olmi---Italy---2001---100 mins.
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IL POSTO
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This semi-autobiographical film by Italian director, Ermanno Olmi (The Tree of the Wooden Clogs), confronts the perils and depersonalization of the business world. A shy young man gets his first job in a large office in Milan and finds his life slowly drained away by the conformity required of his position. Olmi used real office workers for the cast in this humorous, yet sad, work of Italian neo-realism. In Italian with English subtitles. Ermanno Olmi---Italy---1961---98 mins.
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KEEP WALKING
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A magnificent retelling of the story of the three wise men, directed with devotion and compassion by the great Ermanno Olmi.
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LE LEGGENDA DEL SANTO BEVITORE
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A tramp (played by Rutger Hauer), exiled in Paris and haunted by a criminal past, sees no way out of his predicament until, almost miraculously, he is offered 200 francs by a wealthy stranger whose only request is that, when he can afford it, he return the money to a chapel dedicated to St. Therese. In Italian WITHOUT English subtitles. Ermanno Olmi---Italy---1988---124 mins.
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TREE OF WOODEN CLOGS, THE
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This passionate film, an epic celebration of an Italian family's indomitable spirit, won the Grand Prize at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. The subject is peasant life in northern Italy at the turn of the century, focusing on a year in the life of three families living on a feudal estate. "A quiet masterpiece" (Newsweek). "The movie, which runs slightly more than three hours, is an accumulation of dozens of experiences of children, adults, old people, village idiots, of harvest times and plantings, of moments of boredom and jealousy, celebrations, fatigue, brief pleasures and mysterious ones. It moves so effortlessly, often with great humor and always with compassion, it seems much shorter than most 90-minute films" (Vincent Canby, New York Times). In Italian with English subtitles.
Ermanno Olmi---Italy---1978---186 mins.
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