Wednesday, January 17, 2024

The Red Tent (1969)

The commander of a failed 1928 Arctic airship expedition is remembering the events of the "Italia" airship flight, crash, and subsequent rescue efforts. The "ghosts" of people involved in the events appear in his memories to assist him in determining his guilt in the affair. The reminiscences are mixed with the real action: the flight of the "Italia", the air rescue operation from Kings Bay airfield, the expedition of the "Krassin" ice-breaker. A sort of human touch is added by the ever beautiful C.C. playing Malmgren's girlfriend.

For those interested in more details about the adventure, I suggest this book: The Polar adventure : the "Italia" tragedy seen at close quarters, by Odd Arnesen.

https://archive.org/details/polaradventureit00arne/page/n7/mode/2up


For Brazilian audience: 

Este filme já existe na plataforma YouTube. Há uma ou algumas sem legendas e uma dublada (Herbert Richers), mas o áudio da dublagem está muito baixo e temos que aumentar muito o nível do som para ouvir razoavelmente e em algumas partes do filme a dublagem desaparece.

Assim, essa versão do meu blog é uma versão legendada, com legendas em Inglês e Português. O protagonista, Peter Finch, está muito bem no papel de Umberto Nobile, mas acho que o ator Maximilian Schell poderia ter sido melhor para o papel , por ele ter o rosto quase idêntico ao de Nobile. Tanto Peter Finch como Hardy Kruger, que faz o piloto que salva Nobile, já haviam feito um filme um tanto parecido, O Vôo do Fênix, 4 anos antes.


Director

Mikhail Kalatozov


Stars

Sean Connery, Peter Finch, Claudia Cardinale.


Subs: English, Portuguese


VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/KScG9DWdcT8


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Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Illustrious Corpses (Cadaveri eccellenti) - 1976


Gifted director Francesco Rosi masterfully helms this elegant, compelling and wonderfully stylish paranoid thriller that concerns the valiant investigations of Inspector Rogas(Lino Ventura) as he unearths some dark, unsettling truths in this particularly confounding case. Various high profile judges are being assassinated by a mysterious sniper, are these the crazed retributions of a lone, vengeance-seeking individual with a murderous grudge against these ageing magistrates, or, is this a vile political conspiracy of far-reaching consequence?

Director
Francesco Rosi

Stars
Lino Ventura, Tina Aumont, Max von Sidow, Fernando Rey

Music by Piero Piccione

Subs: English, Spanish.


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Sunday, January 14, 2024

The Chase (1946)

Returning a lost wallet gains unemployed veteran Chuck Scott a job as chauffeur to Eddie Roman, a seeming gangster whose enemies have a way of meeting violent ends. The job proves nerve-wracking, and soon Chuck finds himself pledged to help Eddie's lovely, fearful, prisoner-wife Lorna to escape. The result leaves Chuck caught like a rat in a trap, vainly seeking a way out through dark streets. But the real chase begins when the strange plot virtually starts all over again.


Director

Arthur Ripley


Stars

Robert Cummings, Michèle Morgan, Steve Cochran and Peter Lorre as Gino.


Subs: English, Spanish.

VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/EdkILE4pHWY

Saturday, January 13, 2024

Skin (2008)

The true story of Sandra Laing (Okonedo), a black child born in the 1950s to white Afrikaners, unaware of their black ancestry. Her parents are rural shopkeepers serving the local black community, who lovingly bring her up as their 'white' little girl. But at the age of ten, Sandra is driven out of white society. The film follows her thirty-year journey from rejection to acceptance, betrayal to reconciliation, as she struggles to define her place in a changing world.


Director

Anthony Fabian


Stars

Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill, Alice Krige


Subs: English, Portuguese

VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/ehWuYGbCrtw


Copyright owner is blocking in these territories

Canada, Poland, United States

Friday, January 12, 2024

Fernando Di Leo was a well-respected director who near-perfected the poliziotteschi genre during the 1970's, taking a genre spear-headed by the likes of Italian film-makers Umberto Lenzi and Carlo


Lizzani and delivering tough-as-nails stories about brutish men in a brutish world. Milano Calibro 9, or simply Caliber 9, is one of Di Leo's most highly-regarded works, kicking off his Milieu trilogy (followed by Manhunt and concluded by The Boss) for which he is now best remembered for. And the film is terrific - inspiring future directors such as John Woo and Quentin Tarantino, Milano Calibro 9 begins with an explosion of violence that serves as a warning of what is to come.


Director

Fernando Di Leo


Stars

Gastone Moschin, Barbara Bouchet, Mario Adorf, Lionel Stander.


Music by Luis Bacalov.


Subs: English, Spanish.


VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/61Tb84NRuHY


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Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Everybody's Fine - Stanno tutti bene - (1990)

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat (responsible mainly for the writing of birth certificates) and a father of five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit to know how they live. The film is a veritable travelogue across contemporary Italy, as Matteo journeys to Naples, Rome, Florence, Milan, and Turin to search for each of his sons.

Director

Giuseppe Tornatore

Writers

Massimo De RitaTonino GuerraGiuseppe Tornatore

Stars

Marcello Mastroianni, Michèle Morgan , Valeria Cavalli


Music by Ennio Morricone


Subs: English

VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/2u0UxbqpU_A

Copyright blocked only in Italy

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure.

Director

Raúl Ruiz

Writers

Camilo Castelo Branco, Carlos Saboga


Stars

Adriano Luz, Maria João Bastos, Ricardo Pereira

Subs: English and Portuguese.

Video Link: https://youtu.be/0EHpGXDXf8c

Crashout (1955)


Convict Van Duff engineers a large-scale prison break; the six survivors hide out in a forgotten mine working near the prison, then set out on a long, dangerous journey by foot, car, train and truck to retrieve Duff's bank loot. En route, as they touch the lives of "regular folks," each has his own rendezvous with destiny.


Direção

Lewis R. Foster


Artistas

William Bendix, Arthur Kennedy, Luther Adler, Marshall Thompson


Subtitles: English, Portuguese, Spanish.


VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/tYBs6_Maegg


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Sunday, January 7, 2024

Wild Palms - 1993 Miniseries - Complete 5 Episodes.

LA in the near future, Harry Wykoff accepts a job as presidents of a gigantic TV company. Het is confronted with a total new technology called "The New Reality" where three-dimensional TV animated pictures are projected in living rooms all around the world. Harry launches to the top of the company with his career but once there he is caught in a web of intrigues, betrayal and murder. A game of life and death begins...

Creator

Bruce Wagner

Stars

Jim Belushi, Dana Delany, Robert Loggia, Kim Cattrall, Angie Dickinson, Ernie Hudson, David Warner, Robert Morse, Brad Dourif.

Music Score by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Subtitles: English.

Episode  Links:

Episode 1: https://youtu.be/0bS41MJjH9E

Episode 2: https://youtu.be/Me5Hlo0VfG4

Episode 3: https://youtu.be/65c5Fq2rpeI

Epsiode 4: https://youtu.be/qnsnViSwNIE

Epsiode 5: https://youtu.be/4MPmuNeGxDk

Copyright blocked only in  Russia.

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Some Came Running (1958)

In the post-war, the alcoholic and bitter veteran military and former writer Dave Hirsch returns from Chicago to his hometown Parkman, Indiana. He is followed by Ginnie Moorehead, a vulgar and easy woman with whom he spent his last night in Chicago that has fallen in love with him. The resentful Dave meets his older brother Frank Hirsh, who owns a jewelry store and is a prominent citizen of Parkman that invites him to have dinner with his family.


Director

Vincente Minnelli


Based on novel by James Jones


Stars

Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Arthur Kennedy, Martha Hyer.


Music Score by Elmer Bernstein.


Nominated for 5 Oscars.


Subs: English and Portuguese 


Link:  https://youtu.be/3J2ErcUCkzA

Salome's Last Dance (1988)

Oscar Wilde goes to a performance of his controversial, banned play 'Salome,' on Guy Fawkes Day 1892. A bordello's the theatre and the performers are prostitutes; Wilde's lover Lord Alfred (Bosie)


Douglas is John the Baptist. Wilde's interactions with some of the cast soon ignite Bosie's jealousy.


Director

Ken Russell

Writers

Oscar Wilde, Vivian Russell, Ken Russell

Stars

Glenda Jackson, Stratford Johns, Nickolas Grace, Douglas Hodge as John, the Baptist and Ken Russell as Cappadocian.


Subs: English.

Link: https://youtu.be/8tJPwa8v7ls


Copyright owner is blocking in these territories

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gibraltar, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Italy, Jersey, United Kingdom

Tuesday, January 2, 2024

House of Bamboo (1955)

In Tokyo, a ruthless gang starts holding up U.S. ammunition trains, prepared to kill any of their own members wounded during a robbery. Down-at-heel ex-serviceman Eddie Spannier arrives from the States, apparently at the invitation of one such unfortunate. But Eddie isn't quite what he seems as he manages to make contact with Sandy Dawson, who is obviously running some sort of big operation, and his plan is helped by acquaintance with Mariko, the secret Japanese wife of the dead American.


Direção

Samuel Fuller


Artistas

Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi, Sessue Hayakawa, Cameron Mitchell.


Subs: English, Portuguese

Link: https://youtu.be/mXmG7fGlOrY

The Mattei Affair - Il Caso Mattei (Francesco Rosi, 1972)

Portrait of Italian tycoon, Enrico Mattei, who headed a state-combined industrial concern for natural resources from the early post-war year...