Massimo Vigliar

This brisk, engaging documentary surveys the life, work, and legacy of Vittorio Gassman, the Italian screen icon who began his illustrious career as a serious dramatic stage actor before going on to subvert that image in classic works of commedia all’italiana by Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street), Dino Risi (Il Sorpasso), and Ettore Scola (We All Loved Each Other So Much). Through a wealth of interviews, film clips, and archival footage, Sono Gassman! reveals how Gassman’s comedic screen persona cannily reflected and critiqued mid-20th-century Italian society, while shedding light on the complex inner life of the man himself.

Speaking of serious things by making you laugh has always been the characteristic of Ettore Scola’s cinematic style. With the same intent, his daughters Paola and Silvia, using Pif’s verve as an interviewer, retrace their father’s career.

Tarantino reveres them, and for good reason. Welcome to the world of the kings of the Italian B-Movie.

A labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks back on the life work of her father.

Marino Pacileo has a soft spot for gambling. When he discovers that Lila's father, the young Chinese girl that he is in love with cannot pay a debt, the gambler steals money from the jail he is in to help the love of his life.

A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family.

A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family.

The documentary focuses on Marco Ferreri and shows an unconventional man, extreme, provocative in ways, always a step ahead in its work, and often considered a visionary and experimental. The documentary honors the memory of a filmmaker too soon forgot that left an indelible mark in the seventh art.

A documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers.

1960년대의 부에노스 아이레스. 8살의 발렌틴은 3년 전 자신을 떠난 엄마가 다시 돌아와 가족 모두가 행복하게 사는것만이 절실한 꿈이다. 일과 여자밖에 모르는 아빠는 발렌틴에게 통 관심을 쏟지 않는다. 발렌틴은 유일한 친구인 피아노 선생님 루포에게만 자신의 고민을 털어놓는다. 아무도 왜 엄마가 자신을 버리고 떠났는지 말해주지 않자 결국 발렌틴은 스스로 이유를 알기 위해 나선다.

Set in Italy in 1946 just after World War 2, the film explores the lives and emotions of a group of patients who are terminally ill and confined to an isolated sanatorium.