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August 32nd on Earth (1998)

January 20, 2021January 21, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Genus Pan (2020)

January 19, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Caught in the Net (2020)

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My Sister’s Good Fortune (1995)

January 16, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Drunken Angel (1948)

January 14, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Small Town, The (1997)

January 13, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Ebola Syndrome (1996)

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Basilisks, The (1963)

January 11, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Seventh Horse of the Sun, The (1992)

January 10, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Chess Game of the Wind, The (1976)

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Tag / Italy

January 11, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Basilisks, The (1963)

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  • 1963, Italy, Lina Wertmuller
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Three young men waste their time away in a lazy provincial town at the South of Italy in this assured first feature by the trailblazing Lina Wertmuller, with a lovely score by Ennio Morricone.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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December 24, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Macaluso Sisters, The (2020)

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  • 2020, Emma Dante, Italy
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From theatre to screen, this Italian tale of five sisters is emotionally vacant in its treatment of grief over time.

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

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December 14, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Germany Year Zero (1948)

  • Criterion Collection, Rossellini, Roberto
  • 1948, Germany, Italy, Roberto Rossellini
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The third film of Rossellini’s heartbreaking neorealist ‘War’ trilogy tackles postwar Germany through the eyes of a boy suffering from material and moral poverty.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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December 8, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Flowers of St. Francis, The (1950)

  • Criterion Collection, Rossellini, Roberto
  • 1950, Italy, Roberto Rossellini
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Rossellini’s work here is masterful, shot in a neorealist if also painterly style, that captures the purity and spirituality of ascetic Roman Catholicism in the early 13th century.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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December 7, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Rome Open City (1945)

  • Criterion Collection, Rossellini, Roberto
  • 1945, Italy, Roberto Rossellini
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Rossellini’s breakthrough film is not just a defining work of Italian neorealism, but a powerful anti-war statement.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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November 30, 2020November 30, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Contempt (1963)

  • Criterion Collection, Godard, Jean-Luc
  • 1963, France, Italy, Jean-Luc Godard
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Emotions run deep in Godard’s masterwork as it charts the deterioration of a couple’s marriage whilst set against the chronic uncertainties of a movie production.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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October 26, 2020October 27, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Notturno (2020)

  • Rosi, Gianfranco
  • 2020, Documentary, Gianfranco Rosi, Italy
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Shot over three years in the Middle East, Rosi’s beautiful and graceful documentary pits the human desire for normalcy against the unending cycles of death and destruction. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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October 17, 2020October 17, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Fire at Sea (2016)

  • Rosi, Gianfranco
  • 2016, Documentary, Gianfranco Rosi, Italy
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A deserving Golden Berlin Bear winner that powerfully documents the troubling migrant crisis from the vantage point of an Italian island and her life-goes-on inhabitants.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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October 15, 2020October 17, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Sacro GRA (2013)

  • Rosi, Gianfranco
  • 2013, Documentary, Gianfranco Rosi, Italy
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Interesting and dull at the same time, this ‘documentary movie’ operates as a series of vignettes of people who live next to an enormous ring road around Rome.

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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September 8, 2020September 8, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Sicily! (1999)

  • Straub-Huillet, Jean-Marie & Daniele
  • 1999, Daniele Huillet, France, Italy, Jean-Marie Straub
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A more accessible Straub-Huillet work than usual, focusing on a man who returns to Sicily and the artfully-staged conversations he has with various people in his journey.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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