Boccaccio '70

Started by Ravi, June 11, 2005, 07:48:20 PM

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Ravi

June 11, 2005, 07:48:20 PM


Read the DVDfile review of Boccaccio '70 and was intrigued.  I hadn't heard of it before.  Anyone here seen it?

cowboykurtis

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June 12, 2005, 01:31:55 AM
sign me up
...your excuses are your own...

ElPandaRoyal

#2
June 20, 2005, 01:12:47 PM
I once saw a bit of the last episode on cable and didn't know a thing about the movie. It looked cool. The worse came later, when I found out they wouldn't be repeting the movie and then I knew who directed it... and got REALLY pissed of. I mean, REALLY.
Si

Gamblour.

#3
June 20, 2005, 01:52:40 PM
What's Boccacio mean? it sounds like that bread with tomatoes on it.
WWPTAD?

mogwai

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June 20, 2005, 02:44:11 PM
boccacio is what my ballet teacher told me to do last week. i still haven't figured out what it means. sorry.

planet_jake

#5
January 17, 2006, 01:04:31 PM
Boccaccio is a dead, Italian author whose themes were drenched in SEX!

Fellini's segment is without a doubt one of his best films... It needs to be seen to be believed. A giant Anita Eckberg stepping out of a billboard to torture the repressed sexuality of an overtly catholic writer... SO GOOD.

SoNowThen

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January 18, 2006, 07:02:49 AM
The whole of it is very good, and I might even go so far as saying Fellini's episode is the least interesting of the bunch. Monicelli's and De Sica's are cute and fun as hell, but Visconti's is the real stand-out.

Just got the dvd and it's still unwrapped, so don't know about quality. But I can tell you that I saw this in a decent print at the NFT last year, so hopefully if that's the one making the rounds, that's the visual indicator.

Well, well worth it. Get this movie if you're a fan of that era of Italian cinema.
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