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Post by Simone on Feb 20, 2013 16:39:33 GMT
Milano Calibro 9 (Caliber 9) Badass. Yesterday I watched La mala ordina for the first time, really liked it. Mario Adorf is great in it, that scene where he chases the bloke who runs over his wife & child is insane. I am getting more & more into the Poliziottesco/euro-crime type films from that era. Any others you'd recommend? Are those films in Italy still highly regarded or mostly forgotten about? I watch a lot of Italian Gialli, horror, exploitation type stuff & of course Spaghetti Westerns. When I was in Rome most places that sold DVD's barely had any of that good shit from the late 60s & 70s which I found surprising. I even enjoy the obvious Italian ripoffs too. Makes Arnie look like a bitch. Indagine su un Cittadino al di Sopra di Ogni Sospetto (Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion) - not exactly poliziottesco, more political/poliziesco but brilliant Milano Trema: La Polizia Vuole Giustizia (The Violent Professionals) Milano Odia: La Polizia non puo' sparare (The Excutioner) Il Grande Racket (The Big Racket) Banditi a Milano (Bandits in Milan) La Banda del Gobbo (Brothers 'til We Die) La Polizia Incrimina, la Legge Assolve (High Crime) Roma a Mano Armata (Rome Armed to the Teeth) Cani Arrabbiati / Semaforo Rosso (Rabid Dogs) Il Cittadino si Ribella (The Citizen Rebels) I remember meeting Dardano Sacchetti (the writer of a lot of these films) for a three days lecture in 2007 and he told us a lot of crazy shit about these movies, like Roma a Mano Armata he wrote in 27 non-stop hours on two bottles of vodka and 11 packets of fags ehe, or that Tomas Milian used to take drugs before shooting so to be more aggressive and believable. My mother tells me those films were highly popular with the audience in the 70s and they used to pump them out like crazy - you could go to the cinema every week and there would always be a new poliziottesco (pretty much like in the late 60s you had Spaghetti Western). Then the industry stopped producing them, and people forgot about them for 25 years - the only way you could watch them during the 80s/90s was on telly, where they were often used to fill the late night summer schedule. They do have a cult following now, but it's only in the last, say 6 or 7 years that they have been rediscovered and they started releasing them on DVD. btw if you want to see some weird italian shit, check out Amore Tossico (Toxic Love), a film about junkies where all the people in it were proper junkies. It was shot near Rome where I used to spend the summer holidays. You can see my grandma's window in a couple of shots I have no idea if these films have been dubbed or even subtitled, but if you find subs that make no sense or have any problem related to the translation, gimme a shout, I'd love to get involved with this kind of stuff!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2013 17:16:16 GMT
Thanks! I've actually got a few of those films downloaded so I will be watching asap. Yeah it has only been in recent years that many of these have gotten DVD releases. I've been following some guy who's spent years making a documentary about the Italian crime films from the era, he has got himself into financial trouble as he can't find a proper distributor. I re-watched Milano Calibro 9 this morning after seeing your post, it'd been a few years since I saw it and loved it even more second time around. There is also an Italian band called Calibro 35 that tour doing their own versions of many of the soundtracks to these films. They had a record out last year which was pretty good. It is also hard to find some of those films as some of them had different titles in every country they was released in, or some countries had one title for the cinema then somebody would change it for VHS & so on. The Gialli & horror stuff has been getting good DVD releases for years but only recently more of the obscure spaghetti western stuff has gotten releases. Most the Italian crime films seem to of been released in places like Germany rather than over here. Italians sure liked to slap women about in the 70s
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Post by Columbia_rocks_man on Feb 20, 2013 20:06:00 GMT
1) Get Carter (1971) 2) Vanishing Point (1971) 3) Taxi Driver (1976) 4) Dont Look Back (1967) 5) Man on Wire (2008) 6) DIG! (2004) 7) Genevieve (1953) 8) Apocalypse Now (1979) 9) Goldfinger (1964) 10) Amélie (2001)
others I definitely would have included would have been Trainspotting, The Wicker Man and at least juan of the Godfathers
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Post by barny on Feb 21, 2013 8:07:15 GMT
Man On Wire ;D
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Post by danscouse on Feb 21, 2013 19:14:23 GMT
Rocky 1 Rocky 2 Rocky 3 Rocky 4 Rocky 5 Rocky balboa First blood First blood part 2 Rambo 3 John Rambo
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Post by Columbia_rocks_man on Feb 21, 2013 19:21:09 GMT
Great list dan. Rocky IV is my fave.
HEARTS ON FIRE
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2013 20:24:24 GMT
THERE AIN'T NO EASY WAY OUT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2013 20:24:40 GMT
Cast Away Truman Show Fight Club Before Sunset Down By Law Good Will Hunting
Lost In Translation
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
The Royal Tenenbaums
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Longer title robbing bastards!
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Post by Columbia_rocks_man on Feb 21, 2013 20:28:25 GMT
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Post by Simone on Feb 21, 2013 22:32:40 GMT
Thanks! I've actually got a few of those films downloaded so I will be watching asap. Yeah it has only been in recent years that many of these have gotten DVD releases. I've been following some guy who's spent years making a documentary about the Italian crime films from the era, he has got himself into financial trouble as he can't find a proper distributor. I re-watched Milano Calibro 9 this morning after seeing your post, it'd been a few years since I saw it and loved it even more second time around. There is also an Italian band called Calibro 35 that tour doing their own versions of many of the soundtracks to these films. They had a record out last year which was pretty good. It is also hard to find some of those films as some of them had different titles in every country they was released in, or some countries had one title for the cinema then somebody would change it for VHS & so on. The Gialli & horror stuff has been getting good DVD releases for years but only recently more of the obscure spaghetti western stuff has gotten releases. Most the Italian crime films seem to of been released in places like Germany rather than over here. yeah Karl, about the reissues, I guess we ended up with a Shaw Brothers like situation, with films having the proper title and 10 alternative foreign titles. If you liked Milano Calibro 9 and La Mala Ordina, then there's a third film that ends the trilogy called Il Boss. I have no idea if it's been dubbed in english, but I have an italian .avi in nice video quality and with english subtitles. I can UL it if you want. Check out the filmography of Fernando Di Leo (the director of Calibro 9 etc) as he's done some controversial stuff and he's considered a master of noir in Italy. I think he's also one of the few who had material censored in the 70s, which means his stuff was veeeery controversial. Also keep an eye on Enzo Girolami Castellari (the director of the original Inglorious Bastards) because his stuff was very good as well. He did a number of highly appreciated poliziotteschi, then he started doing films inspired by big american movies like Escape From New York and Jaws. His "american" stuff was very successful in America and got official releases, but here in Italy hasn't been released yet, which is absurd. I discovered Calibro 35 through your RYM page months ago, got curious and checked them out - pretty good stuff Italians sure liked to slap women about in the 70s ehe yeah, I love italian films but I can't say we are very good at writing female characters
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Post by anananana on Feb 22, 2013 1:58:17 GMT
Not many are!
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Post by 8track on Feb 22, 2013 10:11:38 GMT
just think of a man, then take away reason and accountability.
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Post by monkeytennis on Feb 22, 2013 11:51:15 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2013 13:47:30 GMT
Thanks! I've actually got a few of those films downloaded so I will be watching asap. Yeah it has only been in recent years that many of these have gotten DVD releases. I've been following some guy who's spent years making a documentary about the Italian crime films from the era, he has got himself into financial trouble as he can't find a proper distributor. I re-watched Milano Calibro 9 this morning after seeing your post, it'd been a few years since I saw it and loved it even more second time around. There is also an Italian band called Calibro 35 that tour doing their own versions of many of the soundtracks to these films. They had a record out last year which was pretty good. It is also hard to find some of those films as some of them had different titles in every country they was released in, or some countries had one title for the cinema then somebody would change it for VHS & so on. The Gialli & horror stuff has been getting good DVD releases for years but only recently more of the obscure spaghetti western stuff has gotten releases. Most the Italian crime films seem to of been released in places like Germany rather than over here. yeah Karl, about the reissues, I guess we ended up with a Shaw Brothers like situation, with films having the proper title and 10 alternative foreign titles. If you liked Milano Calibro 9 and La Mala Ordina, then there's a third film that ends the trilogy called Il Boss. I have no idea if it's been dubbed in english, but I have an italian .avi in nice video quality and with english subtitles. I can UL it if you want. Check out the filmography of Fernando Di Leo (the director of Calibro 9 etc) as he's done some controversial stuff and he's considered a master of noir in Italy. I think he's also one of the few who had material censored in the 70s, which means his stuff was veeeery controversial. Also keep an eye on Enzo Girolami Castellari (the director of the original Inglorious Bastards) because his stuff was very good as well. He did a number of highly appreciated poliziotteschi, then he started doing films inspired by big american movies like Escape From New York and Jaws. His "american" stuff was very successful in America and got official releases, but here in Italy hasn't been released yet, which is absurd. I discovered Calibro 35 through your RYM page months ago, got curious and checked them out - pretty good stuff Italians sure liked to slap women about in the 70s ehe yeah, I love italian films but I can't say we are very good at writing female characters Yeah I've heard about Il Boss, it has Henry Silva in it who is the bollocks so I'll be checking that out. I use a good blog with tons of that shit on so I'll have no problem finding it. I watched Milano odia: la polizia non può sparare [death dealer/almost human aka another 3000 titles] last night and enjoyed it. Tomas Milian just being a bastard as usual I've got Castellari's Bronx trilogy on DVD, they are fucking shit The Italian films I've seen which are best are the ones where they take an idea from somewhere else and make them their own with their own style. The escape from new york/mad max ripoffs just come across as ridiculous though are quite entertaining. Seen a few of his other films, Keoma which is a great western, a jaws ripoff & inglorious bastards is good fun. Not seen any of his crime films, will look into them.
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Post by Columbia_rocks_man on Feb 22, 2013 16:02:06 GMT
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Post by welshylad on Feb 22, 2013 17:20:46 GMT
No order:
Scream Back To The Future II Flatliners Young Guns Tremors Full Metal Jacket The Shining Underworld Me, Myself And Irene Hot Rod
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Post by bakester on Feb 22, 2013 17:40:53 GMT
THERE AIN'T NO EASY WAY OUTTHERE'S NO EASY WAY OUT WHAT YOU REFERENCED WAS A TOM PETTY LYRIC
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2013 18:09:37 GMT
the Shame But remember, you can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish.
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Post by lino on Feb 23, 2013 10:35:44 GMT
Goodfellas Casino Heat Eternal Sunshine Boogie Nights Serpico SeSEVENen Godfather Godfather 2 Die Hard
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Post by leanne on Feb 23, 2013 14:48:56 GMT
Goodfellas Casino Heat Eternal Sunshine Boogie Nights Serpico SeSEVENen Godfather Godfather 2 Die Hard you're an idiot
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