it's a mixed bag!
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
the film that is, not blu-ray
all his films are!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 21:08 (nine years ago) link
no no no no
I have that box, admittedly Voyage and Europa are the ~perfect ones.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
I'd agree with that. But Stromboli's highs are right alongside.
― Eric H., Thursday, 2 October 2014 03:31 (nine years ago) link
Rome, Open City not perfect?
Also love his doc on India. Little seen tho'
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 October 2014 09:19 (nine years ago) link
too many evil gays in ROC
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 October 2014 11:19 (nine years ago) link
Didn't notice any.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 October 2014 11:53 (nine years ago) link
Stromboli was...OK? One of the few times I'll succumb to biographical/extra-diagetic crit: Bergman's star power makes everyone, including her cloddish husband, look wan, therefore her plight is more moving than it should be. Good proto-Antonioni bits of Bergman wandering in a daze through rocks and architecture.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
Out of curiosity, which cut did you watch?
― You and Dad's Army? (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:47 (nine years ago) link
I need to find a German cut of Germany, Year Zero. It looks beautiful but I can't handle the Italian dubbing.
― sorry, no results found for "Sekal Has To Die" (xelab), Tuesday, 28 July 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link
Is there no BFI DVD of it?!
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 21:02 (eight years ago) link
Is the BFI release German? I don't mind occasionally buying stuff, though admittedly that happens infrequently these days. I should have re-phrased my initial question as I need to find a torrent of...!
― sorry, no results found for "Sekal Has To Die" (xelab), Tuesday, 28 July 2015 21:27 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, the very recent BFI DVD is in German w/ English subs:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Germany-Year-Zero-Anna-Magnani/dp/B00P6R2QK4/ref=sr_1_6?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1438158570&sr=1-6&keywords=rossellini+war+trilogy
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 08:31 (eight years ago) link
Yeah the BFI version also includes L'Amore, so £12 is a decent price.
― xelab, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 08:52 (eight years ago) link
Looks great - only seen it on youtube myself. Incredibly powerful, however you get to it.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 09:00 (eight years ago) link
The real ruins of Berlin has got to be one of the greatest ever movie sets.
― xelab, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 09:25 (eight years ago) link
Interesting story behind the financing of Rome, open City on wiki. It isn't quite as powerful as Germany Year Zero, but it is still a great movie. Giovanna Galletti's cold blooded, manipulative gestapo agent is so horribly brilliant.
― xelab, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 22:55 (eight years ago) link
http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/data/13030/8d/ft709nb48d/figures/ft709nb48d_00003.jpg
― xelab, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 22:58 (eight years ago) link
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― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 09:26 (eight years ago) link
I'd no idea my uni library had the Criterion edition of General della Rovere. I'm watching tonight.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 April 2017 17:27 (seven years ago) link
Possibly the funniest thing I've ever read. Anna Magnani, when asked by Franco Zeffirelli if notorious ladykiller Roberto Rossellini was "very well endowed": "No, he's a son of a bitch. That's why we all fall for him. He's a cunt."— ℑ 𝔇𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔅𝔩𝔞𝔪𝔢 𝔜𝔬𝔲 (@NickPinkerton) July 19, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 July 2019 16:08 (four years ago) link
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― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
I watched Paisan today, don’t think I really got it
― Dan S, Sunday, 3 May 2020 23:32 (four years ago) link
interesting to read that Germany Year Zero was mostly shot in a studio and used rear screen projections, it didn’t seem obvious to me watching the film. Also I didn’t know that critics at the time compared it negatively to Rome Open City and Paisan and considered it unrealistic
it was grim but I thought it was beautiful. of the three films in the WWII trilogy though, my favorite is still Rome Open City
― Dan S, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 00:05 (four years ago) link
But a two-month delay in shooting because of financial problems and, according to Lizzani, "an emotional storm with Magnani" who had become Rossellini's mistress, led to unforeseen problems. During the month that they were in Rome, the starving German cast had begun to eat so much pasta that they grew immense: "The pieces didn't go together on the editing table, because the tall and thin gentleman walking the streets in Berlin, and approaching a door, when the door was opened was another person, well fed, and with the face of well-being." Filming was suspended for two weeks while the Germans went on a diet.
I remember reading somewhere that carbolic acid was injected into any fruit that was part of the set, to stop starving Germans from eating it all!
― calzino, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 19:29 (four years ago) link
The Flowers of St. Francis is lovely, a film about kindness and faith, exactly what I needed right now. I was surprised to see that it’s mostly an amateur cast of monks
― Dan S, Saturday, 4 July 2020 23:08 (three years ago) link
I watched Open City around 20 years ago and I liked it. Didn't watch any more of his films until I watched Voyage in Italy 5 months ago, then watched Stromboli yesterday. Why did I take so long to get to these? Great stuff. Now I need to watch the rest of his major movies.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Thursday, 15 July 2021 02:03 (two years ago) link