Re: Best Actor Shouldabeens
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2024 12:22 pm
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If you have Hulu Plus, you have access to many, many of the Criterion films.Precious Doll wrote:It's not in any of their current Rossellini box sets. Is this coming soon from Criterion?ksrymy wrote:It's in the Criterion Collection, for the record.Big Magilla wrote:It was a flop on its original release and not shown outside of Italy. It has only recently been shown in the U.S. at the 2012 BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) Film Festival. TCM then showed it. It has, as far as I can tell, never been released on home video. IMDb. has only four reviews, albeit all positive.
There was The Messiah ... although its distribution was extremely limited and was never totally finished, if I recall.ITALIANO wrote:Yes, it was a flop in Italy when it first came out, and I've never had a chance to see it on tv. (Rossellini's later movies, of course, were made directly for tv and have been shown often on that medium since).
Still, The Machine That Kills Bad People (love the English title!) is at least famous - if little seen. I'd say that the most obscure Rossellini movies (though I have seen them) - and definitely not his best, even if the first is interesting - are Fear, his last movie with Bergman, made in Germany, and Anima Nera, based on a popular (and back then "shocking") play, with two big stars (Vittorio Gassman and Eleonora Rossi Drago), and a complete failure, in every way. Rossellini never made another film for the big screen after this one.
It's not in any of their current Rossellini box sets. Is this coming soon from Criterion?ksrymy wrote:It's in the Criterion Collection, for the record.Big Magilla wrote:It was a flop on its original release and not shown outside of Italy. It has only recently been shown in the U.S. at the 2012 BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) Film Festival. TCM then showed it. It has, as far as I can tell, never been released on home video. IMDb. has only four reviews, albeit all positive.
It's in the Criterion Collection, for the record.Big Magilla wrote:It was a flop on its original release and not shown outside of Italy. It has only recently been shown in the U.S. at the 2012 BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) Film Festival. TCM then showed it. It has, as far as I can tell, never been released on home video. IMDb. has only four reviews, albeit all positive.
If it'll heal any contempt you have towards me, I think Gennaro Pisano should have won in 1952 for Rossellini's The Machine That Kills Bad People.ITALIANO wrote:Reza wrote:Marco now I'm very curious to see all the foreign actors on your list.ITALIANO wrote:I was shocked, too. But I guess this board is mostly for lovers of American cinema (and in some ways of America itself).
I've never done these lists. But if I did, I guess that maybe only almost 1/4 of MY winners would be from English-language movies (which is alot, considering that it's only TWO countries).
Ditto Uri.
Ah but some wouldn't be foreign - Italian actors would be on the list, too.
I'm not patient enough, I'm afraid - these things just aren't for me. But I guess that any serious Best Actor list should include, in no particular order, Marcello Mastroianni, Max Von Sydow, Toshiro Mifune, Toto', Jean Gabin, Gerard Philipe, Jean Louis Trintignant, Fernando Rey, Gian Maria Volonte', Jean Louis Trintignant, Giancarlo Giannini, Ugo Tognazzi, Philippe Noiret, Javier Bardem, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Michel Serrault, Erland Josephson, Klaus Maria Brandauer, so many others.