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Tag Archives: Italian cinema
QuickPix (33): “Great DRAMA For You to Savor, Vol. 11”
> Welcome to KPK’s “QuickPix”, a new feature here in KPKworld! > Welcome to KPK’s “QuickPix”, brief capsule reviews of very worthy films- not a stinker in the lot. Culled from my monthly compendiums, every title here is a 4 … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Ben Affleck, childhood, cinema, coming of age, criticism, David Fincher, dramas, drugs, Elia Kazan, entertainment, films, French cinema, Gary Cooper, gender identity, Gomorrah, Gone Girl, ideas, Italian cinema, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lili Palmer, love, movies, Natalie Wood, opinion, organized crime, QuickPix, reviews, romance, Rosamund Pike, sex, Splendor in the Grass, the Casalesi clan, thrillers, Tomboy, transgender, violence, Warren Beatty, William Inge
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FLIX PIX (1129): “Fellini’s Wistful I VITELLONI (“The Layabouts”)
I VITELLONI (“The Layabouts”) (directed by Federico Fellini, 1953) ***** (out of 5) . > Ah Fellini, you did it again! . This was only his third feature, but it’s an absolute jewell. I’ve seen 19 of his 23 films, and … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, cinema, classics, comedies, criticism, entertainment, Federico Fellini, films, Flix Pix, friendship, I Vitelloni, ideas, Italian cinema, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, machismo, men, movies, opinion, responsibility, reviews, The Layabouts
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KPK on the CINEMA (128): “The Films of October 2022”
. > I was really not watching many movies in Rocktober of ‘22, as I focused on finishing, fine-tuning and polishing the storytelling project I’ve been working on for 42 years of my life. The 9 monologue opus GROWING UP … Continue reading
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Tagged adventures, Andy Samberg, Anthony Mann, arts, Benedict Cumberbatch, Benedict Wong, Bill Hader, capers, Chiwetel Ejiofor, cinema, classics, comedies, comedy, comic books, con men, criticism, Dan Duryea, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, drama, Elizabeth Olsen, Emma Stone, entertainment, fantasy, fascism, Fernando Rey, films, fishermen, Flix Pix, George Roy Hill, Giancarlo Giannini, grifters, ideas, Italian cinema, James Stewart, Joan Cusack, Judd Apatow, justice, Kevin Keelan, Kevin Nealon, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lina Wertmüller, Louisiana, love, machismo, magic, Marvel Studios, Maya Rudolph, Mike Birbigila, Milena Smit, mockumentaries, motherhood, movies, musicals, musicians, oilmen, opinion, Parallel Mothers, Paul Newman, Pedro Almodovar, Penelope Cruz, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, Rachel McAdams, relationships, revenge, reviews, Robert Redford, Sam Raimi, Sarah Silverman, satire, Seven Beauties, Spanish cinema, stardom, Stephen Strange, success, superheroes, survival, The Sting, Thunder Bay, Tim Meadows, tragedy, violence, Weird Al Yankovic, wildcatting, Will Forte, World War II
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FLIX PIX (976): “Pasolini’s Playfully Scandalous Take on THE CANTERBURY TALES”
THE CANTERBURY TALES (directed by Pier Pasolini, 1972) **** (out of 5) . > I remember when my oldest brother Jeff came home in 1972 and said he had just seen a “sexy movie from Italy”. Scandalous! . It occurred to … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, cinema, comedies, criticism, entertainment, fantasy, films, Geoffrey Chaucer, humor, ideas, Italian cinema, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, opinion, Pier Pasolini, reviews, sex, sin, surrealism, The Canterbury Tales
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FLIX PIX (872): “The Authorities Investigate Themselves in INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION”
INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION (directed by Elio Petri, 1970) ***** (out of 5) . > This stellar Italian film begins with the single best opening line I have ever heard in any movie: A sexy siren coos to her … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, Best Foreign Film, cinema, corruption, criticism, Elio Petri, Ennio Morricone, fascism, films, Gian Maria Volonté, ideas, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Italian cinema, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, murder, opinion, police, policing, power, reviews, satire
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FLIX PIX (851): “8½ is the Perfect Fellini”
. (directed by Federico Fellini, 1963) ***** (out of 5) . > For me, this stylized feast from the early sixties is Federico Fellini’s greatest achievement. . I remember seeing it perhaps 30 years ago, and if anything, 8½ is even … Continue reading
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Tagged 8½, arts, celebrity, cinema, classics, criticism, entertainment, fantasy, Federico Fellini, filmmakers, filmmaking, films, humor, ideas, insecurity, Italian cinema, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Marcello Mastroianni, movies, opinion, reviews, satire, self doubt, surrealism, writer’s block
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FLIX PIX (742): “Oh to Be HAPPY AS LAZZARO”
HAPPY AS LAZZARO (directed by Alice Rohrwacher, 2014) **** (out of 5) . > This warm, magical-realism from Italy via Netflix is a film with a big, big heart. No down-side to that. . Lazzaro is a gentle, trusting, guileless character- … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Rohrwacher, art, cinema, comedies, criticism, films, Happy as Lazzaro, ideas, Italian cinema, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, opinion, reviews
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FLIX PIX (663): “MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD… Whatever That Means”
MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD (directed by Daniele Luchetti, 2007) **** (out of 5) . > This entertaining Italian film makes an interesting companion piece to France’s SOMETHING IN THE AIR. . Both films deal with young people coming … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, brothers, cinema, Communism, criticism, Daniele Luchetti, families, fascism, films, ideas, Italian cinema, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, My Brother is an Only Child, opinion, relationships, reviews
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FLIX PIX (586): “IL GRIDO is Italian for OUTCRY”
IL GRIDO (“Outcry”) (directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, 1957) ***+ (out of 5) . > At first, this very fine Italian neorealist drama looked to be about a working-class woman living in sin with her longterm partner, while awaiting the final disposition … Continue reading
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Tagged art, cinema, criticism, drama, families, films, ideas, Il Grido, Italian cinema, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Michelangelo Antonioni, movies, opinion, relationships, reviews
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