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La caduta di Varema

(Literal Translation: The Fall of Varema) A year after  L’urlo debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, Camillo Bazzoni released his third and final science fiction short film. While L’urlo is still highly regarded, La caduta di Varema — and the first film in the trilogy, L’Invasione — are more or less forgotten. As I pointed […]

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Kafka (1991)

The basic idea sounds quite promising. Steven Soderbergh made a strange thriller movie revolving around the legendary writer Franz Kafka, which stars Jeremy Irons, with Ian Holm as the sinister Dr. Murnau, Armin Mueller-Stahl as a policeman, and Alec Guinness in one of his final roles. Add to this plenty of dreamy black and white cinematography, some […]

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