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Giuseppe Tornatore’s ode to the Italian love of movies was a major hit here in 1990, despite being severely cut by Miramax. In 2002 the director reworked his long version into an almost three-hour sentimental epic that enlarges the film’s scope and deepens its sentiments.

Cinema Paradiso

Region B Blu-ray

Arrow Academy

1988 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / Special Edition / 174, 155, 124 min. /

Nuovo cinema Paradiso / Street Date March 21, 2017 / 39.95

Starring: Philippe Noiret, Antonella Attili, Salvatore Cascio, Marco Leonardi, Jacques Perrin, Agnese Nano, Brigitte Fossey, Pupella Maggio, Leopoldo Trieste

Cinematography: Blasco Giurato

Production Designer: Andrea Crisanti

Film Editor: Mario Morra

Original Music: Ennio and Andrea Morricone

Produced by Mino Barbera, Franco Cristaldi, Giovanna Romagnoli

Written and Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore

Your average foreign import movie, it seems, makes a brief splash around Oscar time and then disappears as if down a rabbit hole. A few years back I saw a fantastic Argentine movie called The Secret in Their Eyes.

Rebecca Clough Jan 20, 2017

As America gets its new President, we look at some excellent political drama films that may have slipped under your radar...

Political dramas can be entertaining, informative and even educational, opening up debates and offering new points of view. (When experiencing a year of tumultuous change like the one we’ve just had, they can also be a comforting reminder that, no matter what your situation, it could always be worse...) With the full whack of corruption, war, and conspiracy, here are 25 political dramas which deserve to be better known.

See related 25 underrated political thrillers 17 new TV shows to watch in 2017 Taboo episode 3 review The Girl On The Train review 25. The Marchers/La Marche (2013)

When teenager Mohamed (Tewfik Jallab) is shot by police, his friends want revenge, but he has a better idea: peaceful protest. Marching from Marseille to Paris, they band together with quite an assortment of characters along the way.

The modern movie landscape can make some people feel like the best days of film are behind us. With remakes, reboots and adaptations very abundant, and original movies seemingly not raking it in at the box office, that is an understandable sentiment. But the BBC felt like there are a lot of recent movies worth celebrating, and that is why they set out to make a list of the 100 greatest movies of the 21st century. The list they came up with is nothing if not interesting, and it is definitely a reminder that there are a lot of great movies that have been made in the last 16 years.

BBC published the list on Tuesday morning, after taking months to put it all together. In order to come up with this list, they used nearly 200 critics from both print and online publications, as well as academics and curators. The contributors that were used spanned the globe,...

Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.NEWSThe deaths seem to just keep coming these days, and we've had two more big losses over the last week: actor Alan Rickman, 1946 - 2016, beloved for his villain in Die Hard and his work in the Harry Potter films, but this hardly describes his full career; and Italian director Ettore Scola, 1931 - 2016, who made We All Love Each Other So Much (1974) and A Special Day (1977), which was nominated for an Oscar.Speaking of Oscars, the nominations have been announced for the 88th Academy Awards, with Alejandro González Iñárritu's The Revenant and George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road sweeping up, and with many notable absences, particularly actors, crew and films of color, as well as Todd Haynes' Carol.Huge news for U.S. publications: the satiric periodical The Onion,...

It’s that time of year again when we reflect on the past year at the movies and make arbitrary lists to accommodate readers with a snapshot of what movies to see or skip. It’s just for entertainment value; my opinions are subjective and not to be taken too seriously, but I’m not your keeper, do as you wish.

Having said that, below you will find the best movies I saw this year; with the exception of The Best Movie of the Year, the rest are in no particular.

Let me know what some of your favorite movies of this past year on Twitter or Facebook.

Mad Max: Fury Road

The best movie of the year was Mad Max: Fury Road. I went in with high expectations and they were quickly set on fire by a flamethrower guitar. Every single moment on screen is a mind-blowing revelation in filmmaking.

Danièle Delorme and Jean Gabin in 'Deadlier Than the Male.' Danièle Delorme movies (See previous post: “Danièle Delorme: 'Gigi' 1949 Actress Became Rare Woman Director's Muse.”) “Every actor would like to make a movie with Charles Chaplin or René Clair,” Danièle Delorme explains in the filmed interview (ca. 1960) embedded further below, adding that oftentimes it wasn't up to them to decide with whom they would get to work. Yet, although frequently beyond her control, Delorme managed to collaborate with a number of major (mostly French) filmmakers throughout her six-decade movie career. Aside from her Jacqueline Audry films discussed in the previous Danièle Delorme article, below are a few of her most notable efforts – usually playing naive-looking young women of modest means and deceptively inconspicuous sexuality, whose inner character may or may not match their external appearance. Ouvert pour cause d'inventaire (“Open for Inventory Causes,” 1946), an unreleased, no-budget comedy notable...

The 51st New York Film Festival, running from September 27 - October 13, announced their main slate of films today. And true to their form, it is full of hot shot titles and festival favorites from the year thus far. While you've got your Gala screenings (Captain Philips, The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, and Her) the real meat of the fest comes with the main slate, which includes Miyazaki's The Wind Rises, Kore-eda's Like Father, Like Son, Claire Denis' Bastards, and Tsai Ming-liang's Stray Dogs. Also on tap, the Palme D'pr winning Blue Is The Warmest Color, and the big screen take on Alan Partridge, sadly sans the Alpha Papa subtitle. Get a whiff of the whole slate below.  About Time (2013) 123min Director:...

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Holy Motors might have left Cannes empty-handed but Leos Carax free-form shape-shifter of a film was far from overlooked by the critics who voted for this year’s International Cinephile Society awards. The celebrated pic was favored to Miguel Gomes’ Tabu and Haneke’s Amour (runners-up in several categories) in the Best Picture, Director, Actor and Film Not in the English category. Moonrise Kingdom and The Master found some love (and runner up mentions) but the winner’s list biggest surprise is the Best Adapted Screenplay which went to Oslo, August 31st. Here’s the complete list:

Picture

01. Holy Motors

02. Tabu

03. Amour

04. Zero Dark Thirty

05. The Master

06. Moonrise Kingdom

07. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

08. Django Unchained

09. Lincoln

10. Cloud Atlas

Director

Leos Carax – Holy Motors

runner-up: Miguel Gomes – Tabu

Film Not In The English Language

01. Holy Motors

02. Tabu

03. Amour

04. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

05. Oslo, August 31st

06. The Turin...

Chicago – In the early ’70s, Pier Paolo Pasolini made three adaptations of medieval literature that reflected the truly adult filmmaking language gaining popularity at the time. So many European filmmakers would try to copy the nudity, sexual humor, and scatological slapstick of Pasolini’s “Trilogy of Life” that the films that inspired a wave of bad movies were somtimes lumped in with them. Criterion goes a long way to correct the historical record with their glorious box set for “Trilogy of Life.”

Rating: 4.5/5.0

1971’s “The Decameron,” 1972’s “The Canterbury Tales,” and 1974’s “Arabian Nights” make up “Trilogy of Life” and that third word in the title is exactly what they contain — energetic life. Pasolini was late in his too-brief career at this point (he would only make “Salo” after these three before his murder) and he was throwing caution and taste to the wind, asking audiences to readdress well-known stories from a new perspective.

Valentine's Day, Nationwide

It's the date date-movies were made for – but your choice could be the difference between heart-make or heartbreak. The safest option, therefore, is an old classic in a new setting, and luckily, there are plenty of those around this year. Like Brief Encounter, as unimpeachably swooning yet hilariously stiff a romance as you could desire. The Secret Cinema team are mounting simultaneous showings of the film in various cities around the country on Tuesday to launch their pop-up Other Cinema initiative, spearheaded by four 1940s-themed nights at London's Troxy, with usherettes and a live organist (dress code: black tie, with a flower). In a similar vein, dead certainties such as Casablanca and Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet play in Hackney's Round Chapel (Tue to Fri). Or for a cheap date, there's a free outdoor screening of It Happened One Night, outside the National Theatre; snuggle under a...

DVD Playhouse—July 2011

By Allen Gardner

The Music Room (Criterion) Satyajit Ray’s 1958 masterpiece looks at the life of a fallen aristocrat as a metaphor for an India that is not only becoming Westernized, but modernized technologically and culturally beyond recognition. When the beloved music room, where he has hosted lavish concerts in the past, starts falling into disrepair as attendance drops steadily, the man realizes his way of life is vanishing. Stunningly shot in black & white, one of Ray’s finest works. Bonuses: Documentary on Ray from 1984 by Shyam Benegal; Interviews with Ray biographer Andrew Robinson and filmmaker Mira Nair; Excerpt from 1981 roundtable discussion between Ray, critic Michael Ciment, director Claude Sautet. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Full screen. Dolby 1.0 mono.

Beauty And The Beast (Criterion) Jean Cocteau’s sublime adaptation of the classic fairy tale become a beloved classic upon its 1946 release, and hasn’t faded since.

A look at what's new on DVD this week:

"A Summer in Genoa"

Directed by Michael Winterbottom

Released by Entertainment One

Of the many films Michael Winterbottom ("A Mighty Heart," "9 Songs") has directed in recent years, you wouldn't guess the one starring recent Oscar winner Colin Firth as a father who must take care of his two daughters in the wake of a car accident involving their mother (Hope Davis) would be the one to have trouble making it to the U.S. But here we are three years after "Genova," as it's known in much of the rest of the world, was shot and it's finally arrived on DVD, a mix of supernatural thriller and human drama that's actually getting reasonably good reviews upon its delayed release. Catherine Keener co-stars.

"Belladonna"

Directed by Annika Glac

Released by Osiris

Glac's debut as a writer/director centers on a man whose...

Olivier Assayas' Carlos (the 5 1/2 long verison) and Xavier Beauvois' Cannes winner Of Gods and Men would appear to be the frontrunners in this year's 8 nominated films for the Louis-Delluc prize. The annual Best French Film award that commenced operations back in 1937, when Jean Renoir's Les Bas-fonds claimed the inaugural prize will announce the winners for Best Film and Best First Film on December 17th. Best Feature Noms: Carlos - Olivier Assayas The Ghost Writer - Roman Polanski Mysteries of Lisbon - Raoul Ruiz Of Gods and Men - Xavier Beauvois On Tour - Mathieu Amalric The Princess of Montpensier - Bertrand Tavernier White Material - Claire Denis Young Girls in Black - Jean-Paul Civeyrac Delluc prize for first-time director: A Violent Poison - Katell Quillevere An Ordinary Execution - Marc Dugain Belle Epine - Rebecca Zlotowski Domaine - Patric Chiha Gainsbourg - Joann Sfar La Vie au Ranch...

Splice (15)

(Vincenzo Natali, 2009, Us) Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chanéac. 104 mins

In case anyone thought mucking around with animal genes then raising the resultant mutant as your own child was a good idea, here's a strong warning. Scientists Brody and Polley initially enthuse over their secret breakthrough/lovechild, but several "do you really think we should be doing this?" moments later, they're living out every parent's worst nightmare: that your child grows wings and a venomous tail and turns on you. It's not up to Cronenberg standards, but it's smarter, less predictable and much funnier than it sounds.

Toy Story 3 (U)

(Lee Unkrich, 2010, Us) Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack. 109 mins

Plaything perils at the daycare centre become a lesson in mortality, comradeship, prison-breaking and waste management in this near-perfect sequel. As usual, it's packed with thrills and gags, but as with Pixar's Up, there are moments when grown-ups...