Category Archives: films

The mimics of Mr. Bean {and copyright}

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Truth is, I was not fair to Rowan Atkinson in my post of yesterday. In it I wanted to raise the spirits with Trenet’s La Mer, sung while Mr. Bean ends up his vacation on a hilarious staircase improvised as … Continue reading →

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Happy New 2012 with La Mer and Mr. Bean

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Antonio Vantaggiato

What better way to salute the new year than with a blog post? And what better than celebrating it with the beautiful “La Mer” song by Charles Trenet? A song which has been played all over the world and is … Continue reading →

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The Skin I Live In

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Antonio Vantaggiato

The doctor watches the woman in a wide-screen TV, as it were a movie. The doctor has assembled and directed the woman’s life as a film director would with his actor. We have already seen this many times, also from … Continue reading →

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Freudian lapsus? No title for this post!

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Antonio Vantaggiato

I recently watched Bergman‘s Persona (1966). Here is a segment of the movie, which is entirely available (divided in parts) throught YouTube. In it, the Nurse (Bibi Andersson), reads a letter from the Patient (Liv Ullman) who is waiting at … Continue reading →

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Totò, Miseria, Nobiltà e Malafemmena

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Unified Italy is brought together by few things: No doubt spaghetti are one of such things. Second comes only (at least in baby boomers and the like) the genius comic mime Totò, the illustrious, improvisation and laughter master of the … Continue reading →

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