Rocco e i suoi fratelli / The Daytrippers / Copie conforme

Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960) ★★★★★

The word "operatic" is often overused, but no other would apply to Rocco and His Brothers. It is a combination that should not work, but does, between operatic melodrama and seamy social realism, which at no point in its 177-minute running time seem to clash, although they should. We buy the whole overwrought package, the quiet truth, the flamboyant excess, even the undercurrent of homoeroticism that Visconti never quite reconciles. The excitement of the film is that so much is happening, in so many different ways, all struggling to find a fusion. Rocco and His Brothers can be seen quite clearly, at this point, as an enormous influence on great American gangster films. Aspects of "The Godfather" immediately come into mind.
-Robert Egbert



The narrator on the trailer is referring to the events that took place while shooting the film. The film was seized and Visconti asked to delete the scenes showing Nadia's rape and murder.

The Daytrippers (1996) ★★★

This deliberately claustrophobic film could easily be described as an anti-road movie. Mottola squeezes his five main characters into one car, sets them on the Long Island expressway and then charts the emotional disintegration of this particular nuclear family.
-TotalFilm



Copie conforme (2010) ★★

In its very strangeness, and unworldliness, and utter unreality, Certified Copy has a species of charm. It is an intensely composed and choreographed film in its way, unmistakably an example of Kiarostami's compositional technique, though not a successful example. It may go down as the strangest "meet-cute" in the history of cinema.
-Peter Bradshaw

L'eclisse / The Fighter

L'eclisse (1962) ★★★

"Alain Delon" (dubbed):
“E chi ha tempo di andare con una squillo? La squillo sono io!”
(“Who has time to go out with a call girl? The call girl, that’s me!”)



The Fighter (2010) ★★

Christian Bale is pretty fucking good as the crack addict brother of white trash boxer played by one-face Wahlberg. Amy Adams does a good job too which seems to have landed her the part of Jane in Kerouac's On the Road (2011).

Toby Dammit

Toby Dammit (1968) ★★★ [Histoires extraordinaires]

Histoires extraordinaires, a horror anthology film, features three stories by Edgar Allan Poe directed by European directors Roger Vadim, Louis Malle and Federico Fellini.

"Cut out the first two segments and you've got a great Fellini film. -David Ross, imdb"

The film received a mixed critical reception, with the Fellini segment widely regarded as the best of the three. Reviewing the picture under its English language title Spirits of the Dead, Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote that "Toby Dammit, the first new Fellini to be seen here since Juliet of the Spirits in 1965, is marvelous: a short movie but a major one. --- The Fellini segment, which shares so little with its source in Poe that it could almost be considered an original piece, is notable for its visual and thematic similarities to three earlier Fellini masterworks. The disintegrating protagonist and the hellish celebrity demimonde he inhabits are reminiscent of both La Dolce Vita and 8 1/2, while the interweaving of dreams and hallucinations into the plotline and the use of highly artificial art direction to reflect inner states resemble similar techniques used in 8 1/2 and Juliet of the Spirits." -Wikipedia

Available on Youtube in five parts. Or you can use the Fellini filmography torrent.