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Pontormo – un amore eretico (2004)
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Giovanni Fago
actor:
Joe Mantegna
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Galatea Ranzi
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other title:
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
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Pontormo
2003 film by Giovanni Fago
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Le beau monde (1981)
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Michel Polac
actor:
Fabrice Luchini
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Judith Magre
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other title:
Le Beau Monde
1981 television film
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Rumpole of the Bailey (1975)
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John Gorrie
actor:
Leo McKern
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Herbert Norville
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An irreverent barrister chooses to defend a young Jamaican boy accused of stabbing on the same day his only son leaves for college in America.
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The Debussy Film (1965)
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Ken Russell
actor:
Oliver Reed
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Vladek Sheybal
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An actor is playing Claude Debussy in a film about the composer's life, and finds himself identifying with his subject very closely.
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Impossible Object (1973)
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other title:
Story of a Love Story
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浪漫爱情
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Harry is a married writer who has an affair with a woman whose husband knows that she is unfaithful. As a result of his work, Harry has trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality leaving us to wonder whether the affair is real or just a figment of Harry's imagination.
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Natalia (1989)
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Bernard Cohn
actor:
Pierre Arditi
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Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu
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other title:
娜塔莉亞
1988 film by Bernard Cohn
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Thank You, Doctor Rey (2003)
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Andrew Litvack
actor:
Dianne Wiest
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Jane Birkin
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other title:
マルタ…、マルタ
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Merci Docteur Rey
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A gay young man is recruited into an illicit love triangle to watch a much older man’s sexual liaison, but ends up witnessing what turns out to be his murder. The next day the young man's opera diva mother informs him that his estranged father has been in Paris... until the previous night when he was murdered. Seeking help with a psychiatrist, the young man comes across an eccentric actress who has come totally unhinged by the death of that psychiatrist, the infamous Docteur Rey. At first mistaking her for the doctor, the young man embarks on a madcap mystery, reminiscent of an Agatha Christie novel, with Paris as the backdrop.
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The Sweet House of Horrors (1989)
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卢西奥·弗尔兹
actor:
Jean-Christophe Brétignière
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Cinzia Monreale
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other title:
Das Haus des Bösen
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恐怖甜蜜家
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A murdered couple return from the beyond to care for their two young children, as well as seek revenge against their killer, accept their children's step parents, and try to prevent their house from being sold.
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Condorman (1981)
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Charles Jarrott
actor:
Michael Crawford
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奥利弗·里德
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other title:
Cóndorman
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禿鷹人
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Comic artist and writer Woody performs a simple courier operation for his friend Harry who works for the CIA. But when he successfully fends off hostile agents, he earns the respect of the beautiful Natalia, who requests his assistance for her defection. Woody uses this request as leverage to use the CIA's resources to bring his comic book creation, Condorman, to life to battle the evil Krokov.
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Flight from Paradise (1990)
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Ettore Pasculli
actor:
Fabrice Josso
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Inés Sastre
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other title:
Ausbruch aus dem Paradies
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La Fuite au paradis
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In a futuristic society, an old man tells the legend of a strange medal to two children. In flashback, we learn that after a nuclear catastrophe, two teenagers were living in an artificial paradise, maintained by electronic means, and once decide to leave that shelter and escape using that same medal - a mini video-disc - in search of outer-space freedom.
TV
Mussolini: The Untold Story (1985)
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actor:
乔治·坎贝尔·斯科特
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维吉妮娅·马德森
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other title:
무솔리니의 여인들
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墨索里尼传之法西斯暴君
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The rise and fall of Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Recounting his life with his wife, children and mistress, this biography (based on the recollections of Mussolini's eldest son, Vittorio) chronicles Il Duce's tyranny as he plunges Italy into the dark days of World War II.
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Accordez-moi (2008)
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Mikaël Buch
actor:
洛丽塔·夏马
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弗农·多布切夫
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other title:
First Chords
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心弦
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Jérôme是个技艺超群的小提琴手。Jeanne是个刚刚上路的大提琴手。当乐队指挥Joseph Von Stieglitz让他们俩一起演奏奏鸣曲时,他们还没有意识到彼此将会永远地结合在一起。
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Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999)
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Eric Styles
actor:
鲁珀特·格雷夫斯
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萨曼莎·莫顿
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other title:
当你微笑时
在可怕复杂的心理纠缠下,一部叙述激情、禁忌与背叛之爱情片。伊娃(萨曼莎·莫顿饰)非常爱慕大胆又世俗的约瑟(鲁伯特·格雷夫斯饰)。当伊娃与亨利交往时,她对约瑟的幻想有增无减。终于约瑟再次进入她的世界,他们就像干柴遇到烈火般地展开热恋,同时,伊娃对亨利的忠贞面临极大考验……
TV
The Borgias (2011)
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Neil Jordan
actor:
Jeremy Irons
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François Arnaud
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other title:
波吉亚家族
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黑道教皇
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television series
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The Beast in the Cellar (1971)
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James Kelley
actor:
贝里尔·瑞德
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弗劳拉·罗博森
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other title:
Are You Dying, Young Man?
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Young Man, I Think You're Dying
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The Beast in the Cellar is set in Lancashire in England during the early 70's where two elderly sisters name Ellie (Beryl Reid) & Joyce Ballantyne (Flora Robson) live together in their large house just outside the small rural town of Littlemead, one day Ellie rushes home to tell her sister that a soldier from a nearby Army camp has been brutally murdered. At first they both wonder who the killer could be until Ellie goes down into their cellar where they have kept their brother Steven (Dafydd Havard) bricked up for the past 30 odd years & discovers that he has dug a tunnel & escaped, obviously putting two & two together they feel Steven was responsible or the murder. The fact they find another dead soldier in their shed also has something to do with their thinking. Anyway, the beast is loose, on a murderous rampage & no-one is safe...
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红皇后假说 (2018)
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Florian Thomas
actor:
弗农·多布切夫
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Charles Clement
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other title:
L’Hypothèse de la Reine Rouge
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge est une hypothèse de la biologie évolutive proposée par Leigh Van Valen, qui peut se résumer ainsi : « l'évolution permanente d'une espèce est nécessaire pour maintenir son aptitude face aux évolutions des espèces avec lesquelles elle coévolue ». Selon cette théorie, la majeure partie de la biodiversité actuelle serait produite graduellement, par des processus coévolutifs résultant d'interactions entre organismes qui entraînent des courses évolutives incessantes. Cette hypothèse du rôle majeur des facteurs biotiques n'est cependant pas incompatible avec l'intervention de facteurs abiotiques à une échelle plus grande.
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The Messiah (1976)
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罗伯托·罗西里尼
actor:
Pier Maria Rossi
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Mita Ungaro
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other title:
弥赛亚
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Il Messia
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Dubbed "the most Catholic of all film directors" by one critic, I guess it was only a matter of time before Roberto Rossellini tackled the life of Christ on celluloid. Ironically, this he did in what proved to be his last feature film which was, in itself, a follow-up to his TV mini-series ACTS OF THE APOSTLES (1969). That earlier work was interesting for treating little-known passages from the New Testament but, with an unhurried pace and a generally unassuming tone, the end result was decidedly meandering. Conversely, THE MESSIAH presents all-too-familiar events – with the overall effect feeling lengthy still, yet distinctly more cinematic. That said, it starts off with the arrival of the Jews in the Promised Land and the appointment of their first king (Saul) before moving on to the life of Christ; actually, this is also one of the few films to show the famous incident in which Jesus is lost in the temple as a boy. Unsurprisingly, it doesn't stray much from the spirit – or word – of the Gospels: even so, in the throes of an agonizing death, Herod The Great (played by Vittorio Caprioli – though his trademark flustered demeanor is downplayed by having his voice dubbed) is seen planning the annihilation of his own subjects akin to the practice of ancient Egyptian rulers!
Incidentally, the rich and commanding voice of Christ himself is supplied by Enrico Maria Salerno – a superb actor in his own right who had actually already handled the very same task in THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW (1964) – which is effectively contrasted with the inconspicuous appearance of the young man who appears in the role (perhaps best approximating the Lothaire Bluteau of Jesus OF MONTREAL [1989]). This Messiah, then, is far removed from the striking good-looks of Jeffrey Hunter (KING OF KINGS [1961]) and Robert Powell (the Jesus OF NAZARETH [1977] TV mini-series) or the brooding power of Max von Sydow (THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD [1965]) and Willem Dafoe (THE LAST TEMPTATION OF Christ [1988])! Naturally, the bulk of the narrative is devoted to Christ's public life – though no overdue emphasis is placed on the miracles he performed (these are mentioned but rarely seen) – which also provides the film with its essential core…since the latter section, revolving around the more commonly-depicted events of Jesus' trial (where Jean Martin, the French Colonel in THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS [1966], nonetheless makes for a fine Pontius Pilate), crucifixion and eventual resurrection are curiously skimped here!
The subplot involving John The Baptist, however, is quite nicely handled; by the way, the only other recognizable face in the cast is that of Tina Aumont (even if her contribution amounts to no more than a few minutes of screen-time!) as the adulteress Christ famously pardons by denouncing her pursuers instead. The score is, once again, by Mario Nascimbene – though it's not as prominent as his work on ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. On the visual side, the film seems closest to the contemporaneous Jesus OF NAZARETH – yet the lyrical style and quiet dignity on display makes of THE MESSIAH a more than worthy companion piece to Pier Paolo Pasolini's aforementioned (and more renowned) THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW. With this in mind, while perhaps not the definitive film on the subject, it certainly emerges as an underrated achievement – both among the myriad treatments (including those by such great directors as D. W. Griffith, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Cecil B. DeMille and Abel Gance) of Christ's life over the years and in Rossellini's own highly respected canon.