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Cornetti alla crema (1981)
end of my comments
past month i've sent some comments (3, i seem) about italian films and they were not published. i perfectly agree about your right to publish or not my opinions in your pages but i think that you are obliged to reply. i shall never send any other comment.
Ormai è fatta! (1999)
I've not seen Silvio Orlando
It's near impossible to see an italian film - after 1990 - not acted by Silvio Orlando: this is one of this rare bird. That's true, I know it, Alessandro Haber is present and acts the usual photocopy of himself but we can't have all we desire. Stefano Accorsi is a very good young actor and here is helped by a lot of excellent character actors (Emilio Solfrizzi is great speaking a mixed north-south italian dialect). The story - true - is about a gentleman thief running away from jail and is very well telled by the young director Enzo Monteleone.
Writing credits are by Horst Fantazzini and this is the story of his life, of a thief and a gentleman that today is still imprisoned in Alessandria (Italy).
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
What I want when I see a new film
Seeing something new I wish for something able to amaze me. Why this? Because I've seen a lot of films (3,000?) and so, after many years of cinema I have often the sensation to have seen everything is possible. One evening, some months ago, my wife went to theatre and I was alone at home. The remote control was finally only mine and I spent 2 or 3 hours looking for something interesting: nothing, as usual. I was hardly thinking to my bed when the face of George Clooney fill up my TV.....interesting......there is another man on the car.....QUENTIN!!! what happens? I'm alert like a cricket, now. Now the film begins and I want to look at it. Only an advice: prepare your drinks before the beginning, if you wake up during the film it's possible that you return on your sofa and you think: "Oh God, MY film is finished and THIS is another one".
Susan's Plan (1998)
very perplexed
I've seen this film this evening with my wife and I'm very perplexed about it. I think John Landis is near a genius - The Blues Brothers are there to show it - but this is a tired film with some great gags. The cast of characters is very good and Dan (Aykroyd, obviously) play a splendid cameo but I'm not satisfied at all. I understand that directors are not always thinking about a masterpiece but some more diligence would be appreciated. However - Landis is Landis - your money and your time will be well spent.
Il deserto dei tartari (1976)
An Italian masterpiece
From the great Italian book "il Deserto dei Tartari" by Dino Buzzati - one of the masters of European 20th century - Valerio Zurlini managed this strange film with a great cast of characters. In a lost fort named Bastiano in the heart of an unknown dessert some soldiers are waiting for an attack to give a sense to their life.
This is the story of a great part of us and this is what Buzzati thought. The life of Giovanni Drogo (Giuliano Gemma) - young lieutenant - is inside the fort like our life is inside something perhaps more immaterial but very similar.
Deep Rising (1998)
stay at home
This probably is one of the worst films in the cinema's history.
The cast is iper-poor but this is a common lack for a lot of films: here all 3 principal actors are double of famous one. So we have a Sandra Bullock double, a Nick Nolte double and a Mel Gibson one. This is heavy to swallow. Listen to an italian advice: let your money into your pocket. Bye.