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Fellini classic which details the personal decline of a naive prostitute who think she's found true love. The maestro Fellini directs this drama, winner of the Oscar for best foreign language film in 1958. A happy, laughing Cabiria (Giulietta Masina) is standing on a river bank with her current boyfriend and live-in lover, Giorgio (Franco Fabrizi), but then things go wrong. When her best friend and neighbor, Wanda (Franca Marzi) attempts to help her, Cabiria rejects it and remains disgruntled. She continues to ply her trade as a prostitute. One night, she is outside a fancy nightclub and witnesses a fight between famous movie star, Alberto Lazzari (Amedeo Nazzari), as he's dumped by his girlfriend. Soon after, Cabiria meets a suitor (Francois Perier) who, due to her sweetness and attractive ways, wants to marry her. They call her Cabiria...No Matter How Many Men She Was With - She Would Always Be Alone!. They call her Cabiria...No Matter How Many Men She Was With - She Would Always Be Alone!.
The great Italian filmmaker puts Cabiria as the main character, a prostitute who works in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Rome. This hostile reality is what pushes the young to dream that one day she will find true love and that she will leave the streets forever. From the star, producer and director of "La Strada" comes this hit film ¨Nights of cabiria¨ starring Giulietta Massina, Fellini's muse and wife, plays Cabiria, a role for which the actress won the award for best actress in 1957 at the Cannes and San Sebastian festivals. Massina endows the character with sympathy and joy, a role with which she displays immense tenderness and naivety, two characteristics that Cabiria tries to mask at all times to show the world that she is stronger than others believe.
In this film, Federico Fellini creates a narrative line in which reality and fiction converge at the same time, a well-paced movie in which Cabiria's dreams, fears and frustration are immersed in an almost dreamlike staging that is reinforced by the masterful soundtrack by Nino Rota and the evocatively atmosheric black and white photography by Aldo Tonti.
The motion picture was magnificently directed by Federico Fellini and with excellent interpretations all around. Fellini who inspired the word "Felliniesque" was one of the best Italian filmmakers/writers . He frequently cast Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina and Score by Nino Rota. His best works include dreams like imagery and nostalgia. He made Italian classics , such as : ¨8 and 1/2¨, ¨Roma¨, ¨Satyricon¨, ¨I Vitellone¨ , ¨La Dolce Vita¨ , ¨The clowns¨, ¨Casanova¨, ¨And the ship sails on¨, "City of Women" , "Orchestra Rehearsal" and directed his wife Giulietta in various films such as : ¨The white sheik¨ , ¨Il Bidone¨, ¨Juliet of the Spirits¨, "The Nights of Cabiria" ¨Ginger and Fred¨, and ¨La Strada¨(1954) which is considered by many to be his best film winning the first ever Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and N. Y. Critics Award to Foreign Film. Fellini often includes some auto-biographic elements, especially in ¨Amarcord¨ (1973) , though he denied his film to be autobiographical, but agreed that there are similarities with his own adolescence. ¨Nights of Cabiria¨ rating: 7.5/10. Essential and indispensable seeing for cinema classics fans and Federico Fellini enthusiasts.
The great Italian filmmaker puts Cabiria as the main character, a prostitute who works in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Rome. This hostile reality is what pushes the young to dream that one day she will find true love and that she will leave the streets forever. From the star, producer and director of "La Strada" comes this hit film ¨Nights of cabiria¨ starring Giulietta Massina, Fellini's muse and wife, plays Cabiria, a role for which the actress won the award for best actress in 1957 at the Cannes and San Sebastian festivals. Massina endows the character with sympathy and joy, a role with which she displays immense tenderness and naivety, two characteristics that Cabiria tries to mask at all times to show the world that she is stronger than others believe.
In this film, Federico Fellini creates a narrative line in which reality and fiction converge at the same time, a well-paced movie in which Cabiria's dreams, fears and frustration are immersed in an almost dreamlike staging that is reinforced by the masterful soundtrack by Nino Rota and the evocatively atmosheric black and white photography by Aldo Tonti.
The motion picture was magnificently directed by Federico Fellini and with excellent interpretations all around. Fellini who inspired the word "Felliniesque" was one of the best Italian filmmakers/writers . He frequently cast Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina and Score by Nino Rota. His best works include dreams like imagery and nostalgia. He made Italian classics , such as : ¨8 and 1/2¨, ¨Roma¨, ¨Satyricon¨, ¨I Vitellone¨ , ¨La Dolce Vita¨ , ¨The clowns¨, ¨Casanova¨, ¨And the ship sails on¨, "City of Women" , "Orchestra Rehearsal" and directed his wife Giulietta in various films such as : ¨The white sheik¨ , ¨Il Bidone¨, ¨Juliet of the Spirits¨, "The Nights of Cabiria" ¨Ginger and Fred¨, and ¨La Strada¨(1954) which is considered by many to be his best film winning the first ever Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and N. Y. Critics Award to Foreign Film. Fellini often includes some auto-biographic elements, especially in ¨Amarcord¨ (1973) , though he denied his film to be autobiographical, but agreed that there are similarities with his own adolescence. ¨Nights of Cabiria¨ rating: 7.5/10. Essential and indispensable seeing for cinema classics fans and Federico Fellini enthusiasts.
¨Bodas de sangre¨ or ¨Blood Wedding¨ is one of the greatest and most beautiful Lorca dramas about life, love, passion, customs and gypsies. A team of dancers puts Lorca's 'Blood Wedding' on stage, the tragic play about a man (Antonio Gades) who is still in love with his ex-girlfriend (Cristina Hoyos), and tries to reunite with her, despite the planned wedding to her groom (Juan Antonio Jiménez), about to get married.
Lorca's drama is transformed into flamenco dance, a film with almost no dialogues where the entire plot is carried out through dance, choreography and staging. At the end of his long collaboration with the producer Elias Querejeta, which extends over 15 years and 13 films, director Saura shoots a ballet with choreography by Antonio Gades, based on the work of the same name by Garcia Lorca and music by Emilio de Diego for the producer Emilio Piedra. Its not excessive length makes Saura include quasi-documentary footage about the preparation of the dancers in order to achieve a minimum running time that allows its commercial exploitation. In the end, the film is 72 minutes long.
Although ¨Bodas de sangre¨ is shot in a poor and unique set, the film is still interesting due to the magic that the dancers give off while they are dancing the wonderful flamenco pieces, along with the exciting background music. Furthermore , including some songs: ¨La nana¨ performed by Marisol (at the time Gades's wife with whom she played various movies) and ¨Ay, mi sombrero¨ performed by Pepe Blanco .The main interest is that 'Blood Wedding' (1981) based on the homonymous work by Federico Garcia Lorca was the first film in the trilogy that has brought so much success to its director and which is completed by 'Carmen' (1983) and 'El amor Brujo' (1986). The result had a great resonance, even more internationally than nationally; it represents the launch of a first-class dancer, Cristina Hoyos, and confirms that Gades is as good a dancer and choreographer as he is a bad actor.
That's why after the success of the musical rehearsal ¨Bodas de Sangre¨ (Blood Wedding) (1981) and before filming ¨El Amor Brujo¨ (1986) with music by Manuel de Falla, the producer Emiliano Piedra, who accepted the rights to George Bizet's opera were the public domain, convinced director Carlos Saura and the dancers Antonio Gades and Cristina Hoyos to do the best of his three musicals: ¨Carmen¨. Due to the hit of the film, they continued with a successful theatrical version, directed jointly by Gades and Saura, which the dancer's company performed throughout the world with a large and fervent audience that followed the performances.
¨Bodas de sangre¨ was directed with a striking visual sense and very well performed with the wonderful dances. So it's definitely a more cultured affair than most of the Spanish movies. It is fundamentally a tragic melodrama with ballet scenes, that's why it is musically riveting , it is almost, also , perfect and laced with adequate photography by Teo Escamilla , particularly shown on the spectacular and sensitive dancing set pieces. I was able to enjoy many of the visual elements, in fact this one results to be the quintaessential Dance film , featuring brilliant and frenetic choreography and embellished thanks to its chromatic aesthetic and a high-caliber Flamenco dance. Adding sensual re-creations of love , passion , betrayal and jealousy .
The work is distinctively Andalusian in character as well dances and songs. The music contains moments of remarkable beauty and originality ; adding the guitar tones of notorious andalusian artists. The great trio starring is formed by splendid dancers : Antonio Gades , Cristina Hoyos and Juan Antonio Jiménez, they are really fabulous . This splendid motion picture was compellingly directed by Carlos Saura.
Lorca's drama is transformed into flamenco dance, a film with almost no dialogues where the entire plot is carried out through dance, choreography and staging. At the end of his long collaboration with the producer Elias Querejeta, which extends over 15 years and 13 films, director Saura shoots a ballet with choreography by Antonio Gades, based on the work of the same name by Garcia Lorca and music by Emilio de Diego for the producer Emilio Piedra. Its not excessive length makes Saura include quasi-documentary footage about the preparation of the dancers in order to achieve a minimum running time that allows its commercial exploitation. In the end, the film is 72 minutes long.
Although ¨Bodas de sangre¨ is shot in a poor and unique set, the film is still interesting due to the magic that the dancers give off while they are dancing the wonderful flamenco pieces, along with the exciting background music. Furthermore , including some songs: ¨La nana¨ performed by Marisol (at the time Gades's wife with whom she played various movies) and ¨Ay, mi sombrero¨ performed by Pepe Blanco .The main interest is that 'Blood Wedding' (1981) based on the homonymous work by Federico Garcia Lorca was the first film in the trilogy that has brought so much success to its director and which is completed by 'Carmen' (1983) and 'El amor Brujo' (1986). The result had a great resonance, even more internationally than nationally; it represents the launch of a first-class dancer, Cristina Hoyos, and confirms that Gades is as good a dancer and choreographer as he is a bad actor.
That's why after the success of the musical rehearsal ¨Bodas de Sangre¨ (Blood Wedding) (1981) and before filming ¨El Amor Brujo¨ (1986) with music by Manuel de Falla, the producer Emiliano Piedra, who accepted the rights to George Bizet's opera were the public domain, convinced director Carlos Saura and the dancers Antonio Gades and Cristina Hoyos to do the best of his three musicals: ¨Carmen¨. Due to the hit of the film, they continued with a successful theatrical version, directed jointly by Gades and Saura, which the dancer's company performed throughout the world with a large and fervent audience that followed the performances.
¨Bodas de sangre¨ was directed with a striking visual sense and very well performed with the wonderful dances. So it's definitely a more cultured affair than most of the Spanish movies. It is fundamentally a tragic melodrama with ballet scenes, that's why it is musically riveting , it is almost, also , perfect and laced with adequate photography by Teo Escamilla , particularly shown on the spectacular and sensitive dancing set pieces. I was able to enjoy many of the visual elements, in fact this one results to be the quintaessential Dance film , featuring brilliant and frenetic choreography and embellished thanks to its chromatic aesthetic and a high-caliber Flamenco dance. Adding sensual re-creations of love , passion , betrayal and jealousy .
The work is distinctively Andalusian in character as well dances and songs. The music contains moments of remarkable beauty and originality ; adding the guitar tones of notorious andalusian artists. The great trio starring is formed by splendid dancers : Antonio Gades , Cristina Hoyos and Juan Antonio Jiménez, they are really fabulous . This splendid motion picture was compellingly directed by Carlos Saura.
On the last day of vacation in Mexico, a group of young people meet a mysterious boy who leads them to an abandoned church. There they begin what at first seems to be an innocent game of ¨Truth and Dare¨, but thing go wrong. The Truth Will Set Them Free !. They are dying to play!. The game plays you !. Live or Die !. Kill or Be Killed !. Show or be Shown !. This Friday the 13th, Life and Death are the choices to be made !. The Terror is real!. Do The Dare Or Die !.
The troducer of Happy Death Day and Get Out, as well as director Jeff Wadlow dare you to play in this thrilling and horrifying motion picture. Produced by Blumhouse, the successful horror factory responsible for films like: Get Out, Happy Death Day, Halloween, and the Insidous, Paranormal Activity, or Purge sagas, in this supernatural slasher -subgenre in which the young protagonists die one by one- in which a game ends up becoming a lethal massacre, in which he lies or does not fulfill a challenge, then he dies.
The beautiful young Lucy Hale, and Tyler Posey lead the cast of this mixture of horror and supernatural thriller. The cast is completed by other mostly unknown actors, such as: Violett Beane, Hayden Szeto, Sophia Ali, Landon Liboiron, Sam Lerner, Tom Choi and Aurora Perrineau.
This is one of Jason Blum's many successful productions in the horror genre. His formula for making movies as inexpensively as possible does not mean looking for low-budget movies to see if he likes them, but looking for movies he likes, and then see if they can be done on a low budget. According Jason Blum himself his rules for making a cheap movie include: 1) Limit the amount of speaking parts, because actors with lines get an additional fee; 2) Limit the amount of locations (preferably only one); 3) Pay actors the legally minimum, and offer them a percentage of perspective profits; 4) Never break the budget, don't ask for more money. His notorious films include the following: ¨The Exorcist: Believer¨, ¨Get Out¨, ¨Night Swin¨, ¨M3GAN¨, ¨Halloweeen Kills¨, ¨The Gallows Act I and II¨, ¨Insidious saga¨, ¨Firestarter¨, ¨Exposure¨, ¨Nanny¨, ¨A House on the Bayou¨ , ¨The Invisible Man¨, ¨Us¨, ¨Happy Death Day 1 and 2¨, among others.
This ¨Truth or dare¨(Universal Studios)was first collaboration between director Jeff Wadlow and Jason Blum, the original theatrical feature grossed approximately 100 million in theaters from a budget of just 3.5.
The film was mediocrely directed by Jeff Wadlow, not adding anything special to a plot that we have already seen a thousand times and except for the ending it becomes somewhat heavy and boring. Jeff wrote and directed ¨True Memoirs of an International Assassin^, staring Kevin James and Andy Garcia, while his preceding writing/directing effort, Kick Ass 2, was named one of the ten best films of the year by Quentin Tarantino. Jeff helped launch the Emmy-nominated series, ¨Bates Motel¨, and then re-teamed with Cuse as a writer and Co-EP on the final season of ¨The Strain¨, co-created by Guillermo Del Toro. And he also directed Fantasy Island (2020), The Curse of Bridge Hollow (2022), and Imaginary (2024). Truth and Dare (2018) rating: 5/10.
The troducer of Happy Death Day and Get Out, as well as director Jeff Wadlow dare you to play in this thrilling and horrifying motion picture. Produced by Blumhouse, the successful horror factory responsible for films like: Get Out, Happy Death Day, Halloween, and the Insidous, Paranormal Activity, or Purge sagas, in this supernatural slasher -subgenre in which the young protagonists die one by one- in which a game ends up becoming a lethal massacre, in which he lies or does not fulfill a challenge, then he dies.
The beautiful young Lucy Hale, and Tyler Posey lead the cast of this mixture of horror and supernatural thriller. The cast is completed by other mostly unknown actors, such as: Violett Beane, Hayden Szeto, Sophia Ali, Landon Liboiron, Sam Lerner, Tom Choi and Aurora Perrineau.
This is one of Jason Blum's many successful productions in the horror genre. His formula for making movies as inexpensively as possible does not mean looking for low-budget movies to see if he likes them, but looking for movies he likes, and then see if they can be done on a low budget. According Jason Blum himself his rules for making a cheap movie include: 1) Limit the amount of speaking parts, because actors with lines get an additional fee; 2) Limit the amount of locations (preferably only one); 3) Pay actors the legally minimum, and offer them a percentage of perspective profits; 4) Never break the budget, don't ask for more money. His notorious films include the following: ¨The Exorcist: Believer¨, ¨Get Out¨, ¨Night Swin¨, ¨M3GAN¨, ¨Halloweeen Kills¨, ¨The Gallows Act I and II¨, ¨Insidious saga¨, ¨Firestarter¨, ¨Exposure¨, ¨Nanny¨, ¨A House on the Bayou¨ , ¨The Invisible Man¨, ¨Us¨, ¨Happy Death Day 1 and 2¨, among others.
This ¨Truth or dare¨(Universal Studios)was first collaboration between director Jeff Wadlow and Jason Blum, the original theatrical feature grossed approximately 100 million in theaters from a budget of just 3.5.
The film was mediocrely directed by Jeff Wadlow, not adding anything special to a plot that we have already seen a thousand times and except for the ending it becomes somewhat heavy and boring. Jeff wrote and directed ¨True Memoirs of an International Assassin^, staring Kevin James and Andy Garcia, while his preceding writing/directing effort, Kick Ass 2, was named one of the ten best films of the year by Quentin Tarantino. Jeff helped launch the Emmy-nominated series, ¨Bates Motel¨, and then re-teamed with Cuse as a writer and Co-EP on the final season of ¨The Strain¨, co-created by Guillermo Del Toro. And he also directed Fantasy Island (2020), The Curse of Bridge Hollow (2022), and Imaginary (2024). Truth and Dare (2018) rating: 5/10.