It’s a perfect movie for a dark time: Carlo Levi’s famed novel about a political undesirable became a major Italian miniseries by the great Francesco Rosi, starring the now-legendary Gian Maria Volontè. In Mussolini’s most popular years of make-Italy-great-again Fascism, a dissident is given an indefinite ‘time out,’ an exile to a small town in a corner of the country so remote and primitive that not even Christianity could fully change it. He expects nothing but receives revelations about his country, his life and one’s place in society. It’s meditative, it’s illuminating, it’s like a book one can’t put down. It’s also uncut, as opposed to the theatrical version that made a splash here in 1980, as simply Eboli.
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1043
1979 / Color / 1:33 flat / 220 150, 120 min. / Cristo si è fermato a Eboli / available through The Criterion Collection...
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1043
1979 / Color / 1:33 flat / 220 150, 120 min. / Cristo si è fermato a Eboli / available through The Criterion Collection...
- 9/22/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
When Francesco Rosi adapted artist and activist Carlo Levi’s 1945 memoir Christ Stopped at Eboli for Italian television in 1979, contemporary observers of the director probably saw it as a strange choice. Rosi had made his name with searing, forcefully immediate studies of Italian society and politics like Salvatore Giuliano and Hands Over the City; Levi’s book about his banishment to an isolated rural town during the reign of Mussolini was as modest and personal as Rosi’s earlier films were sweeping and elaborate. Yet the memoir had in fact been a dream project of Rosi’s for decades, and the four-part, […]...
- 9/11/2020
- by Jim Hemphill
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
When Francesco Rosi adapted artist and activist Carlo Levi’s 1945 memoir Christ Stopped at Eboli for Italian television in 1979, contemporary observers of the director probably saw it as a strange choice. Rosi had made his name with searing, forcefully immediate studies of Italian society and politics like Salvatore Giuliano and Hands Over the City; Levi’s book about his banishment to an isolated rural town during the reign of Mussolini was as modest and personal as Rosi’s earlier films were sweeping and elaborate. Yet the memoir had in fact been a dream project of Rosi’s for decades, and the four-part, […]...
- 9/11/2020
- by Jim Hemphill
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
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- 4/3/2019
- MUBI
In 1945, doctor, painter and political exile Carlo Levi published his memoir titled “Christ Stopped at Eboli.” The book was very well received, leading many in Italy to fully understand the poor living conditions in some Southern villages. The novel was famously adapted by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Francesco Rosi a film of the same name.
And in honor of Film Forum presenting, courtesy of Rialto Pictures, the never-before-seen, complete, uncut version of “Christ Stopped at Eboli,” we’re proud to give our readers an exclusive look at the new trailer and poster for the film.
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And in honor of Film Forum presenting, courtesy of Rialto Pictures, the never-before-seen, complete, uncut version of “Christ Stopped at Eboli,” we’re proud to give our readers an exclusive look at the new trailer and poster for the film.
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- 3/29/2019
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Basma Alsharif has garnered attention worldwide for her installations and shorts over the last few years. Her work invites the viewer to re-think the depiction of language, time and space, and to re-experience the understanding of creating images and telling stories.I interviewed the filmmaker about her feature debut Ouroboros, which will have its world premiere as part of the Signs of Life competition at the 70th Locarno Film Festival.Notebook: Could you comment on the process of creating this film as a mirror to your own experience and also as a bridge to your filmmaking ideas? Basma Alsharif: As a Palestinian in the Diaspora, I have watched and experienced the perpetual destruction of the Gaza Strip throughout the course of my life—as it has throughout my parents' lives and my grandparents' lives. With the privilege of distance coupled with the privilege of having access to visiting throughout my childhood into adulthood,...
- 8/9/2017
- MUBI
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In the new season of “Jersey Shore,” which starts tonight, we have the cast of the show living in Florence, Italy—the motherland of that great cultural movement known as the Renaissance, the very birthplace of modern culture (though not, of course, the birthplace of reality TV). The possibilities for chaos, train wrecks and cultural absurdities, as the creators of the MTV show know, are endless.
But let’s start with the obvious:...
- 8/4/2011
- by Mark Rotella
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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