TagVittorio De Seta

Short Film

Pasqua in Sicilia (Easter in Sicily, 1955)

One of the best ethnographic Italian documentaries directed by Vittorio De Seta.

REVIEWS

Stachka (Strike, 1925)

The debut feature film by Sergei Eisenstein and the first archetypical example of pure communist propaganda.

Force of Evil (1948)

Abrahams Polonsky suggests that entrepreneurship is not so far away from criminality and that something is corrupted in the immaculate postwar American society.

Ikarie XB-1 (Voyage to the End of the Universe, 1963)

The pioneering Czechoslovak science fiction film by Jindrich Polák, based on Stanislaw Lem's The Magellanic Cloud.

El Sicario, Room 164 (2010)

Τhe controversial documentary by Gianfranco Rosi. A retired sicario is narrating his experiences working for the Mexican drug cartels.

Monanieba (Repentance, 1984)

Tengiz Abuladze by presenting a grotesque realism with a touch of subcutaneous self-sarcasm managed to bury all the fears that had survived for so many years in the USSR.

TagVittorio De Seta

Pasqua in Sicilia (Easter in Sicily, 1955)

Stachka (Strike, 1925)

Force of Evil (1948)

Ikarie XB-1 (Voyage to the End of the Universe, 1963)

El Sicario, Room 164 (2010)

Monanieba (Repentance, 1984)

André Bazin: The Ontology of the Photographic Image

Introduction to Faces by John Cassavetes

Jafar Panahi: I don’t like political movies.

Solitudine (1966)

Roberto Rossellini: Camera’s a ballpoint pen