Category Archives: films

Love You

Posted on December 29, 2014 by Antonio Vantaggiato

It’s just fitting to finish the year 2014 off with a good-spirited animated GIF. I had a flash of this moment from Raiders of The Lost Ark (1981), when a cute girl blinks on a baffled professor (Harrison Ford), just … Continue reading →

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Bananas –in Old San Juan

Posted on November 29, 2014 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Woody Allen’s Bananas (1971) was, I recently discovered thanks to YouTube, shot in Old San Juan, and some other parts of Puerto Rico, notably the El Yunque Rainforest. The scene in the next video was shot close to where I … Continue reading →

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Pasolini

Posted on August 30, 2014 by Antonio Vantaggiato

When in Rome this summer I had the opportunity to view an excellent exposition on Pasolini. There, among original artifacts, letters, newspaper articles, books, I encountered the film-maker and poet who had violently died 31 years ago. Having watched almost … Continue reading →

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To Rome with Love

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Antonio Vantaggiato

To Rome with Love is a clean, sweet and light movie. Thanks Woody. If perhaps not as well orchestrated as Midnight in Paris, his last work is a little gem  –and not his masterpiece. Says The New York Times’ A. … Continue reading →

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Under Suspicion, Old San Juan and daughter

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Antonio Vantaggiato

I wanted to do this for a long while. You see, while they were shooting Under Suspicion in Old San Juan (it must have been the year 1999) we were living in the old town and enjoyed watching the crew … Continue reading →

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