Movies
I've been said that I have the movie taste of a teen-ager. I only go to the theater to see blockbuster movies, and the quality for me is directly proportional to the magnitude of explosions and the number of victims.
I prize sci-fi and action above anything, though I do not dislike costume movies (The Queen Margot and The Lover are among my favorite), historical like The Gladiator and Schindler's List and some esoteric movies such as The Others, The Sixt Sense and Picnic at Hanging Rock.
I absolutely try to avoid Italian, French or Polish movies, they bore me to death, that is why last night my friends quite literally had to dragged me to see "Nuovomondo" (Newworld) a newly released Italian movie.
Well, it was not bad at all. It's a cruel and desperate view on the Italian emigration in the beginning of this century, and it has more than one parallels with the modern, sad, stories of migrations.
It has been selected to represent Italy to the Oscars in the category "Best Foreign Movie", for this year I will keep my fingers crossed :-)
Emanuele Crialese’s “Nuovomondo” will be Italy’s entrant for this year’s Oscars. The film, a saga of Italian emigration in the early twentieth century, was given an advance showing at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Silver Lion Revelation award. “I’m happy, stunned. I can’t take in what’s going on”, was the director’s immediate comment. “I do one thing at a time, artisanally, with the people I love. I didn’t even have an ending”. Crialese said about the other films in the running to represent Italy, “I haven’t been to the cinema for a very long time, so I can’t make any judgements on other competing films like ‘Romanzo criminale’. Actually, it’s not always the best film that is selected: it’s the one that best represents Italy. I think I made a good film, but above all it’s a story that bridges the gap between the old world and the new”.
I prize sci-fi and action above anything, though I do not dislike costume movies (The Queen Margot and The Lover are among my favorite), historical like The Gladiator and Schindler's List and some esoteric movies such as The Others, The Sixt Sense and Picnic at Hanging Rock.
I absolutely try to avoid Italian, French or Polish movies, they bore me to death, that is why last night my friends quite literally had to dragged me to see "Nuovomondo" (Newworld) a newly released Italian movie.
Well, it was not bad at all. It's a cruel and desperate view on the Italian emigration in the beginning of this century, and it has more than one parallels with the modern, sad, stories of migrations.
It has been selected to represent Italy to the Oscars in the category "Best Foreign Movie", for this year I will keep my fingers crossed :-)
Emanuele Crialese’s “Nuovomondo” will be Italy’s entrant for this year’s Oscars. The film, a saga of Italian emigration in the early twentieth century, was given an advance showing at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Silver Lion Revelation award. “I’m happy, stunned. I can’t take in what’s going on”, was the director’s immediate comment. “I do one thing at a time, artisanally, with the people I love. I didn’t even have an ending”. Crialese said about the other films in the running to represent Italy, “I haven’t been to the cinema for a very long time, so I can’t make any judgements on other competing films like ‘Romanzo criminale’. Actually, it’s not always the best film that is selected: it’s the one that best represents Italy. I think I made a good film, but above all it’s a story that bridges the gap between the old world and the new”.