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Let’s Watch A Giallo: ‘Don’t Torture A Duckling’ (1972) aka Non Si Sevizia Un Paperino

4 October 2012 8:42 PM, PDT | MoreHorror | See recent MoreHorror news »

What is a ‘giallo’? – Giallo is Italian for yellow; a term which came from crime/mystery paperbacks with the yellow toned covers. In turn, highly stylized films of the same genre with elements of eroticism became known as ‘giallo’ films themselves.

Why did you pick this film? – This was on my 31 Days Of Horror list for 2011 and due to illness I wasn’t able to watch it. So I figured for 2012’s 31 Days I would put this to watch early on so I could finally watch this one, plus who wouldn’t want to watch a film with such a cool title?

Who is behind this one? – The film was written and directed by Italian horror legend Lucio Fulci. He is best known for films such as The Beyond, Zombi 2 and City Of The Living Dead. The man was really great at his craft, and I really wanted to explore his giallo films. »

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Blu-ray Review: Django, Kill (...If You Live Shoot!) Is One Hell Of A Bloody Good Time!

27 June 2012 8:06 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

The Spaghetti Western craze of the 1960's produced hundreds of films, the vast majority of which I haven't seen. However, even among those in the know, Giulio Questi's Django Kill (...If You Live Shoot!, ...Se Sei Vivo Spara!) is among the craziest, most violent, and balls out insane of the bunch. This film shares nothing with Sergio Corbucci's Django, apart from a distributor applied moniker, and manages to out crazy that film at every turn. If you've never seen Django, Kill, you owe yourself the pleasure, and Blue Underground's Blu-ray (out July 3rd), is the best way to do it!The Stranger (Tomas Milian) is killed after having been double crossed for stolen gold, but he won't be gone for long. Where there's gold, there »

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DVD Playhouse--June 2012

5 June 2012 11:09 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

By Allen Gardner

Harold And Maude (Criterion) Hal Ashby’s masterpiece of black humor centers on a wealthy young man (Bud Cort) who’s obsessed with death and the septuagenarian (Ruth Gordon) with whom he finds true love. As unabashedly romantic as it is quirky, with Cat Stevens supplying one of the great film scores of all-time. Fine support from Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner, and Ellen Geer. Fine screenplay by Colin Higgins. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Commentary by Hal Ashby biographer Nick Dawson, producer Charles Mulvehill; Illustrated audio excerpts from seminars by Ashby and Higgins; Interview with Cat Stevens. Widescreen. Dolby 2.0 stereo.

In Darkness (Sony) Agnieszka Holland’s Ww II epic tells the true story of a sewer worker and petty thief in Nazi-occupied Poland who single-handedly helped hide a group of Jews in the city’s labyrinthine sewer system for the duration of the war. »

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The Good, the Great and the Grungy

30 May 2012 2:00 PM, PDT | GreenCine Daily | See recent GreenCine Daily news »

by Vadim Rizov

Overviews of the spaghetti western inevitably begin with Sergio Leone, whose presentation of Clint Eastwood as the ultimate laconic Westerner grows more iconic throughout the genre-codifying trilogy of A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. Time progressively slows to a mythic crawl, as mundane quick-draw showdowns and bounty hunter pursuits become epic set pieces through sheer duration.

Westerns had been made in Italy and Spain before Leone (largely by non-Italians), but his worldwide success was unavoidably influential. Segments of Sergio Sollima's 1966 The Big Gundown anticipate 1968's Once Upon a Time in the West, with another swoony Ennio Morricone score emphasizing similar slow visual coups. A showy tracking shot through an obscure Mexican village starts with two women at market and stops at a criminal's face being lathered in an open-air barber's chair. The man in pursuit »

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Rockefeller's Melancholy

2 April 2012 8:00 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »

 

In conjunction with La Furia Umana, Notebook is very happy to present Ted Fendt's original English translation of Luc Moullet's "Rockefeller's Melancholy," on Michelangelo Antonioni. Moullet's original French version can be found at La Furia Umana. Our special thanks to Mr. Moullet, La Furia Umana and Ted Fendt for making this possible.

 Above: "John D. Rockefeller" (1917) by John Singer Sargent.

Drifting is the fundamental subject of Antonioni’s films.  They are about beings who don’t know where they are going, who constantly contradict themselves, and are guided by their momentary impulses.  We don’t understand what they feel or why they act as they do.

Psychological cinema could be defined in this way: it is psychological when you don’t understand the motivation of emotions and behaviors.  If you understand, it means it’s easy, immediately, at a very superficial level...  The filmmaker must therefore let it be »

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David DeCoteau on Django Kill!

6 March 2012 10:43 PM, PST | Trailers from Hell | See recent Trailers from Hell news »

Giulio Questi’s Euro western If You Live, Shoot was retitled Django Kill to cash in on the overseas popularity of the numerous Django “sequels”, only one of which was actually connected with Sergio Corbucci’s original entry. Under any title, this is one weird movie.  Half-breed Tomas Milian is out for revenge on the bandits who double-crossed him after a train robbery, but the treatment is more experimental than conventional. Surreal, gender-bending, psychedelic, gothic, political, S&M, you name it, this is one of the odder movies of the genre.

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