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Did you enjoy being violent?

Posted on September 5, 2010 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Yes, answers Noomi Rapace, Swedish star of the filmed trilogy Millennium. Here’s a nice interview with her, by UK’s Absolute Radio. Noomi interpreted Millennium’s noir hero Lisbeth Salander, a violent hacker with unusual computing experience and a woman with a … Continue reading →

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Basterds

Posted on August 28, 2010 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Image via Wikipedia A few days ago I watched again Inglourious Basterds. What a masterpiece of mashup cinema! Only Tarantino is so able of mixing pieces of film history and rearranging them to form a unique tale. That’s it: unique … Continue reading →

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Crystal Plumage

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Antonio Vantaggiato

The bird with the Crystal Plumage is a complicated title in English, Image via Wikipedia but wonderfully cryptic in Italian. It happens to be Dario Argento’s first title. A classic thriller, one of the first to develop many of the … Continue reading →

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Dear Vincent (Price)

Posted on June 19, 2010 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Image via Wikipedia I will never forget The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971!) and its Vincent Price performance. I love Vincent Price, period. And this movie is probably precursor to lots of horror cliches, along with the baroque theme of what … Continue reading →

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Breathless

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Philip French, film critic of The Guardian, reminds that it is now 50 year since Godard’s masterpiece of A bout de souffle (Breathless) opened (Breathless continues to shock and surprise 50 years on). What French writes is fascinating history of … Continue reading →

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