TagMario Monicelli

Monicelli: The elements of Italian comedy

Senza questi elementi, fame, morte, malattia e miseria noi non potremmo far ridere in Italia.

Mario Monicelli

REVIEWS

Klip (Clip, 2012)

Maja Miloš in her debut film is trying to visualize, through a perverse adolescent love, a without makeup reality that was created in a plastic and fake world.

La Maldad (Evilness) – Berlinale 65 Forum

Mexico's most troubled political period is blended with traces of poetry and Carlos Reygadas' essence, when betrayal surpasses love in Joshua Gil's debut feature film.

Love, Theft and Other Entanglements – Berlinale 65 Panorama

A simple story of a simple anti-hero who tries to fix his almost destined troubled life in Palestine. Debut feature film by Muayad Alayan.

Marionette (2007)

Minos Nikolakakis creates a dark minimalistic tale that comes closer to reality or a dark reality that touches the edges of chilling fantasy.

Žert (The Joke, 1968)

Possibly the most shattering indictment of totalitarianism to come out of a Communist country - Amos Vogel

QUOTES

André Bazin: The Ontology of the Photographic Image

The Ontology of the Photographic Image by André Bazin's Qu'est-ce que le cinéma? (What is Cinema?)

But the cinephile is…

But the cinephile is… a neurotic!

John Cassavetes on Art

Art, meaning that we will enjoy ourselves and express ourselves freely.

The Meaning of Cinema by Andrei Tarkovsky

Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.

A cinephile’s wish

André Téchiné responds as a true cinephile to the question by Colette Descombes in Brigitte et Brigitte (1966)