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Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When two orphans, Bianca and Tomas meet up with Tomas' gym rat friends, they concoct an elaborate scheme to rob an aging movie star and one-time Mr. Universe, Maciste. The boys enlist Bianca to seduce the now blind star so they can get access to his hidden fortune. At once a sly psychological thriller with erotic overtones, it finds a young woman faced with amoral dilemma as a unique friendship develops between her and her actor in his crumbling mansion....
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (107 min.) : sd, col. ; 12 cm.
Description
The film is set during the late 1930s: the occasion is the first meeting between Mussolini and Hitler. Left alone in her tenement home when her fascist husband runs off to attend the historic event, Antonietta (Sophia Loren) strikes up a friendship with her homosexual neighbor Gabriele (Marcello Mastroianni). As the day segues into night, Antonietta and Gabriele develop a very special relationship that will radically alter both of their outlooks on...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Description
The film serves as Garrone's English-language debut and interweaves three separate story strands bookended by brief bits in which Italians Alba Rohrwacher and Massimo Ceccherini play a street circus family. In one tale Salma Hayek plays a jealous queen who forfeits her husband's life. In another, Vincent Cassel plays a king whose passion is stoked by two mysterious sisters.
Series
Criterion collection volume 500
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (39 pages ; illustrations ; 19 cm).
Description
When the Nazis occupied Rome, a brave few fought against it. An underground agent who is cornered by the Germans in a certain quarter of Rome, flees the Germans. In the course of his flight he imperils his resistance friends.
Series
Criterion collection volume 801
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged : photos ; 18 cm.)
Description
The prismatic portrait of the days and nights of a party girl in sixties Rome is a revelation. It follows the gorgeous, seemingly liberated Adriana as she dallies with a wide variety of men, attends parties, goes to modeling gigs, and circulates among the rich and famous. Despite its often light tone, though, the film is a stealth portrait of a suffocating culture that regularly dehumanizes people, especially women.
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