⌂ Top 10 Italian Movies


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My favorite foreign country, a country i love and adore and dream of going to one day, the langue sounds magnificant and so are the films, created by faboulos directors like Federico Fellini, Giussepe Tornatorre, Vittorio De Sica and many more.

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Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) 1988,  PG)
Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso)
Magnificant movie, Tornatore his best film and also my favorite foreign movie, wonderfull, absolute perfection.

Directing: Giuseppe Tornatorre did a perfect job on this one, the style, the sicilian village shows joy, inspiration, love and so on.. .
Very great job with showing us how it all begins as a child to a teen to an adult. My favorite scenes must be the one where Alfredo shows the movie on the building and offcourse the last scene which must be one of the best ever.

Acting: Great performances by all the cast members. All the actors who playes Salvatore are each unique in their special way, like the child with his comedy and sadness, the teen with his love and romance and the other one with the rest :p.

Movie about movies: I love that subject, i love almost every movie ive seen where the main subject is movies. And this must be the best one of them all, thanks to Tornatorre his briljant directing. And the inspiaring music by Ennio Morricone who must be my fav. composer.
2
Amarcord 1974,  R)
Amarcord
Amazing, magnificant, Fellini's best movie ever! a true masterpiece. In my top 20 of my list of 50 best movies ever made!!

Directing: Its a diffrent style of directing he uses like in his other movie and it really doesnt dissapoint me. Filming one year in one town, based one Fellini's hometown Rimini, which looks almost like paradise. the atmosphere in this movie is top! with the superb storytelling like always, the comedy, everything... . Every scene in this magnificant movie is perfect.

Acting: I didnt really look at the acting because i was reading the very small subtitles and looking at the wonderfull locations, but from what ive seen from it, it looked pretty good.

Top 5 directors:
1. Martin Scorsese
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Federico Fellini
4. David Lean
5. Francis Ford Coppola.

Top 5 Fellini movies:
1. Amarcord
2. La Dolce Vita
3. Il Bidone
4. Le Notti di Cabiria
5. La Strada
3
Life Is Beautiful (La Vita č bella) 1997,  PG-13)
Life Is Beautiful (La Vita č bella)
A sad movie but yet one of the best feel-good movies ever ! Alltho the story might be very sad but its Benigni his character in the movie who is responiblle for the feel-good part. His allways possitive and happy personality makes him one of my favorite movie characters of all time !!!

It actually is a very wonderfull story of true hapinness, hope, love and enjoying life.

I can hardly understand people who say that this movie is crap and ridiculous cuz its defnitly not. The reallism may be hard to find at some moments but if you really look at the movie then you'll see that Benigni didnt wanted to make it very reallistic but very inspiaring and sending a message that allot is possible if you just look at it in a diffrent and possitive way.
4
Malena 2000,  R)
Malena
I'm in love. In love with Malena and all of her charms, the looks, the walk, the body. Only Tornatore could make you fall in love with a movie character. He directs her with such an excellence that you love, pitty, dream about her and even dispise her at the same time. He shows us Malena thru the eyes of a teenager who also has fallen in love with her, spies on her, curse the ones who speak bad about her. The charme of Malena makes me blind for all the fails and goofs in the movie that might have been. Never before did i look at a female movie character with such a longing, with such a passion and understanding, never before did i escape so much into a world of film.
5
La Dolce Vita 1960,  Unrated)
La Dolce Vita
The best Federico Felllini movie i have seen, its almost perfect in every way.

Directing: This movie is on number 8 of my list of 10 Best Directed movies. And everything about the directing is perfect to, the camera angles, the locations, the style expecially, Fellini is also n°2 on my list of 5 best directing styles, right after Hitchcock.

Acting: Excellent performance by Marcello Mastroianni, it was more then just acting, it feeled like he was a method actor like Al Pacino and Marlon Brando. He is probaly perfect casted for that role in that movie.

Cinematography: The best ever !!!! i never seen better camera work than in this movie, of all positions and angles you can put a camera in a scene this movie got it all perfect. Expecially the car scenes. the black and white comes thru perfectly to, you'll never see better cinematograhpy then in this movie.
6
8 1/2 1963,  Unrated)
8 1/2
Without a doubt one of the most intresting films ever made! Watching this movie once is not enough, its so intresting, so much style init that you automaticly want to see it again and everytime you watch you'll learn something new about it.

Federico Fellini, one of my favorite directors, the director of the most reallistic movies and the ones with the biggest imagination. 8 1/2 was the movie for him that made him change styles, from his neorealism classics like La strada, Il Bidone and Le notti di Cabiria to his more 'magical' movies like the nostalgic Amarcord and the dreamword of City of Woman. Fellini never really dissapointed me with his movie, even his lesser movie was still great (E la nave va).

That the screenplay is one of the best ones ever written is not really a secret our a suprise, like i said before everytime you watch it you'll learn something new our understand something better. You need allot of talent to write a movie like that, with such complex characters and allot of legendary scenes like the 'harem scene'.

Marcello Mastorianni as Guido, the director in the movie was an excellent choice and the most perfect one. It takes allot of acting skill to perform such a complex character like Guido.
7
Ladri di Biciclette (The Bicycle Thief) (Bicycle Thieves) 1948,  Unrated)
Ladri di Biciclette (The Bicycle Thief) (Bicycle Thieves)
The ending scene of this movie sure got me at the end of my seat, this is one of the most emotional movies that i can remember having seen.
8
Le Notti di Cabiria (Nights of Cabiria) 1957,  Unrated)
Le Notti di Cabiria (Nights of Cabiria)
Directing: Nobody can direct this story better then Fellini himself, the story about a woman with almost no luck in life at all, but still you can cheer here up with a mambo, she keeps fighting for a better life which leads to the cruel and fascinating ending. Another Fellini masterpiece if you ask me just like La dolce vita and 8 1/2
Acting: Pretty good acting of Masina but i have seen better, she does manage to get the right looks on here face for the right times and moments, as it is a difficult character to play with what she all is going thru.
9
Il Bidone (The Swindle) (The Swindlers) 1955,  Unrated)
Il Bidone (The Swindle) (The Swindlers)
Federico Fellini did it again, with this superb masterpiece of one of my favorite subjects. Also his second movie of his trilogy of redemption, after La strada
and before Nights of Cabiria.

Directing: A marvelous masterpiece
of Fellini, who made another classic with his great directing style. There's not really
much to say about it because it was all nearly perfect.

Acting: Broderick Crawford had probaly the best performance in this movie as the aging con-man Augusto. But i did expected more of actress Giuletta Masina. The rest of the acting cast where all very good to.
10
Il Postino (The Postman) 1994,  PG)
Il Postino (The Postman)
A very beautifull movie with one of the best scores ever!
Directing: Michael Radford did amazingly good in this romantic and heartwarming movie, the locations are very magnificant on the italian island of Capri. The wonderfull score is one of the things that makes this movie so good.
Acting: Massimo Troisi has the best performance in this movie as the personal postman to a famous poet writer Pablo Neruda played by Phillipe Noiret, who changed Mario his life forever.

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  1. putaindefarce
    putaindefarce posted 3 years ago

    coool list ;)
    il postino for the win