Herself
Alternating archive footage of Anita Ekberg with the story of a quintessential diva as Monica Bellucci who is offered the chance to play Anita in a movie, digging through this woman’s story, she retraces her exceptional life, frailties and chooses, reflecting on what it feels like to be an icon. What key decisions a contemporary diva faces in order not to fall into oblivion?
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Herself
BECOMING ANITA EKBERG is an exploration of how the construct of "Anita Ekberg" became an internationally famous sex goddess as a result of the careful cultivation of her image in various movies, both in Hollywood, by Frank Tashlin, and in Europe, by Federico Fellini. It's an exploration of the texts and subtexts of commercial films and the subterranean and complicated ways that they affect us and can be read.
Sylvia Rank (archive movie footage)
여기저기 참견하기 좋아하는 엘사는 옆집으로 이사 온 연상남 프레드에게 호기심을 갖기 시작한다. 집에만 있기 좋아하는 '프레드'는 집 밖으로 절대 나올 생각을 안 하지만, 엘사는 그와 만나기 위해 온갖 핑계를 대며 그의 집에 방문한다. 결국 마음을 열기 시작한 그는 엘사와 함께 춤 배우기, 고급 레스토랑 먹튀 등 엉뚱한 해프닝을 겪으며 난생처음으로 느껴지는 묘한 감정에 눈 뜨게 된다. 하지만 엘사는 피카소의 모델이라는 둥 영화 속 주인공보다 예뻤다는 둥 말도 안 되는 이야기들로 프레드의 의심을 사기 시작하는데... 올가을을 사로잡을 고품격 로맨틱 코미디가 온다!
Sylvia
As digital multiples and shuffles of Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni wade through the Trevi Fountain from LA DOLCE VITA, THE SWEET ALGORITHM continues Gregg Biermann's series of films dissecting and repurposing classic film scenes into pulsating, almost hypnotic collage works.
Herself (archive footage)
By presenting archive footage along with his own life story, filmmaker Gabriele Salvatores mediates an illustration of the economic boom in Italy during the 1960s.
Self
Documentary with interviews and clips of Fellini's movies.
Self (archive footage)
Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most of his films upon his own reflections, dreams, life events and fantasies, who did not convey any special message for humanity but regarded cinema simply as entertainment. Is there an answer to everything? Can it possibly be? If yes, then life can no longer be so curious, so dynamic, so creative...
Paola Bendoni
Lucien is a dwarf, who works hard in a large legal office. His only friend is trapeze circus artist Isis. One day he gets the attention of singer Paola Bendoni and falls in love with her.
Young woman falsely suspected of murder, flees, adopts an alternate identity and tries to find the real killer.
Mamma Greta
Her name is Mina, but she is called Bambola (doll). Upon the death of her mother, she and her homosexual brother, Flavio, open a pizzeria. A man named Ugo loans Bambola the money, but is then killed in a fight with another one of her boyfriends, Settimio. While visiting Settimio in jail, she meets a sadistic man named Furio, and they begin a relationship.
Clarice
A woman wants to graduate to the Italian Naval Academy in the 60s. She has to fight her family, her friends and a world not ready to accept her.
The Italian erotic thriller Cattive ragazze (Bad Girls) was directed by gossip columnist Marina Ripa Di Meana, and stars Eva Grimaldi as a recently divorced woman falling in love with a male stripper, alongside a cast of big names such as Anita Ekberg and Burt Young.
Marika
Alfredo è un rozzo riparatore di motociclette romano amico del Conte Max, uno spianato gentiluomo ed ex-gaudente. Quest'ultimo invita Alfredo nella sua residenza a Campo dei Fiori e gli insegna il galateo, il francese e come si gioca a poker. Le risate cominceranno quando Alfredo conosce ed insegue a Parigi la bellissima fotomodella Isabella Matignon.
Anita Ekberg
이탈리아의 거대한 영화 스튜디오 치네치타에서 펠리니가 수년간 만들어 온 작품들에 대한 인터뷰가 진행된다. 마르첼로 마스트로얀니는 창문 옆을 떠다니는 마술사로 분장하고 펠리니는 그를 아니타 에크버그의 빌라로 데려간다.
Signora Rocchi
Naive, orphaned maiden Angela leaves her small town for 19th- century London, where she quickly learns the ways of the world. She begins work at a brothel, where she gets a quick education in life. On her first "job," she is rescued by Rocco, a traveling thief who happens to be going from room to room, robbing the patrons. Rocco and Angela fall in love, but Rocco must flee the inn at which they have taken residence, when the police arrive at the door...
Sé stesso
baronessa Judith von Kemp
An overweight high school student is relentlessly bullied due to weight. Out of the blue, she wins a trip to New York, where she sheds 80+ pounds and then returns home to take revenge on her tormentors.
Dr. Else Biebling
Lavinia Kean, a brilliant American espionage agent, combats the wiles of international criminal and blackmailer Cesare Magnasco.
Sister Gertrude
A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, while presiding over a regime of lesbianism, torture and death. Sister Gertrude is the head nurse/nun in a general hospital, whose increasingly psychotic behavior endangers the staff and patients around her.
Queen Na-Eela
An adventurer searches for the fabled Golden Cities of El Dorado and allies himself with a tribe of Amazon women against a murderous villain who is also after the treasure.
Jane
Jeff sets out to murder each one of the five outlaws who robbed, raped and killed his poor sister. He lays a fragment of her poncho on each of his victims' dead bodies as a mark of his revenge in a gripping, exciting tale.
Madame Colette
After a French prostitute is found dead, one of her regular clients is tried and convicted for her murder. He is eventually sentenced to death but dies in a high speed pursuit after attempting to escape custody. Soon, the witnesses that testified against him end up being systematically murdered by a mysterious killer wearing black gloves.
Katherine
Three adventurers--at times competing with each other, at other times allied with each other--search South Korea for a magical sword that is supposed to imbue its owner with wealth and power.
Ines
Romolo, a man lazy and devoid of any interest, has been married for ten years with Ines, the owner of a small service station. Tired of supporting his despotic and demanding wife, Romolo searches for a way out and finds it when Orazio, a former fellow soldier, who lives by his wits, invites him to roam freely with him around the world.
Flavia
Middle-aged man leaves his wife to devote himself to a carefree life.
Anita Ekberg
소년은 집 앞 광장에서 갑자기 모습을 드러낸 거대한 천막에 놀란다. 서커스가 시작된 것이다. 소년은 흥분된 마음으로 다른 차원의 세계인 서커스의 천막으로 들어간다. 괴력을 가진 남자, 마술사, 난쟁이 등 가지각색의 사람들 가운데 등장한 광대가 멋진 자기의 재주를 과시한다.
Sophia Ferretti
When private detective Bob Martin looking for a stolen diamond necklace, he also has a clever serial killer on the trail ...
Jacqueline Monnard
A traveler becomes a target for various crime syndicates when it turns out he's a dead ringer for a wanted mercenary.
Malenka / Sylvia Morel
A beautiful virgin inherits a castle, but when she arrives at it, she finds that the inhabitants include a strange nobleman and a bevy of beautiful women she suspects may be vampires.
Performer
A group of travelers from the United States race through seven countries in 18 days.
Bessie
Fulgencio and Scott fled the place where they have just committed a robbery. As Fulgencio scapes, Scott is captured by the police. After serving years in prison, Scott looks for his former partner who fled to Mexico and, with the money, bought a bar. Scott's plan is to force Fulgencio, under threat of denouncing him, to work with him in another robbery.
Claudie
Seven mini-stories of adultery: "Funeral Possession," a wayward widow at her husband's funeral; "Amateur Night," angry wife becomes streetwalker out of revenge; "Two Against One," seemingly prudish girl turns out otherwise; "Super Simone," wife vainly attempts to divert her over-engrossed writer husband; "At the Opera," a battle over a supposedly exclusive dress; "Suicides," a death pact; "Snow," would-be suitor is actually a private detective hired by jealous husband.
Paulette
An archaeologist is in danger because of his discoveries.
Lou
A disgraced treasury agent Mike Rand, who teams with his boss to halt a Red Chinese plot to destroy the free world by flooding the market with opium and turning everyone into addicts. Along the way he manages to bed junkie Lou, get into various fights and destroy the refinery that is ending out the drugs.
Olga, la baronessa
A successful fifty-year-old entrepreneur, Tullio Conforti, opposed to divorce for religious reasons, is in fact separated from his wife and leads a frenetic life divided between numerous lovers.
Anna Soblova
A platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple.
Margaret Joyce
An erotic comedy about the many affairs of a young man with different women.
Amanda Beatrice Cross
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.
Lolita Young
An episodic film, telling four erotic tales: Angela isn't sexually satisfied by her husband, so she simulates sleep-walking to visit her neighbor across the street every night; when his bathtub runs over, shy Peter gets to meet his sensuous neighbor Lolita; at a high-school reunion his former students pull a prank on Prof. Hellberg and make him believe he cheated on his wife while being drunk; Sybill has a good time during a break at the opera with the famous conductor Cramer.
(archive footage)
This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses' portrayal of sex from the silent movie era to the present. Classic scenes are shown from the silent movie 'True Heart Susie,' starring Lillian Gish, to 'Love Me Tonight' (1932), blending sex and sophistication, starring Jeanette MacDonald (pre-Nelson Eddy), and to Elizabeth Taylor in 'A Place in the Sun' (1951), plus much , much more.
A whimsical commedia all'italiana divided into four episodes.
Elya Carlson
In the 1870s, two rival businessmen, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, on a stagecoach heading to Galveston, Texas, must pull together to protect $100,000 from an outlaw named Matson. Once in Galveston, however, their rivalry continues, as Thomas joins up with Elya Carlson and Jarret with Maxine Richter. But Matson is still on the loose, and a scheming banker threatens both Thomas and Jarrett.
Luba
A returning moon capsule goes off course and lands in Africa where a little-known tribe finds it. Washington sends Matthew Merriwether to recover it—thinking he's an expert on the region—when in fact he's no such thing. However, a foreign power sends Secret Agent Luba to try and acquire the capsule for itself and, when Matthew and Luba reach their destination, they find that the tribe believes the capsule to be sacred and won't give it up.
Anita ("Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio")
An anthology of four adult tales: a young couple tries to hide their marriage and the wife’s supposed pregnancy from their place of employment; a billboard photo of a scantily clad woman comes to life to torment the local censor; an aristocratic couple comes to terms with life and marriage after the domineering husband is caught visiting sex workers by the press; a lottery is held in which the prize is to spend the night with a beautiful woman.
Hulina
During the Mongol invasion of Poland, a conflict between Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan and his oldest son Ogotai ensues when the former aims for peace and the latter itches for war and conquest.
Olga Duvovich
The movie is about the celebrated trial of Olga Duvovich, very beautiful woman accused of killing her husband, a wealthy financier.
A low level official and a prostitute both try to commit suicide and fail, afterwards he becomes a pimp and the prostitutes take over the country.
Georgina
In Spain, during the Napoleonic rule, the French Governor of Andalusia is besieged by the locals who have countless demands and wishes.
Dorothy Simmons
Sylvia
삼류 신문의 사교계 담당 신문기자인 마르첼로는 사치스럽고 방탕한 생활을 하던 중 우연히 한결같이 반복되는 일상사에 진력을 내는 마달레나라는 여인을 만나 사귀게 된다. 마달레나는 마르첼로에게 고혹적인 분위기를 지닌 매춘부, 아르디아나를 소개시켜준다. 스스로도 주체할 수 없는 자신의 방탕한 생활에 회의를 느끼던 그는 어느 날 절친한 친구 스타이너가 자살했다는 소식을 듣고 더욱 실의에 빠지면서 삶의 가치와 의미에 대해 회의를 품게된다.
Zenobia, Queen of Palmira
Zenobia, Queen of Palmira, revolts against Rome and defeats the Roman troops, but she makes a big mistake when she falls in love with enemy officer Marco Valerio.
Trudie Hall
A detective tracking a stolen gem begins to suspect there's more to the case than just theft.
Virginia Wilson / Yolanda Lange
A blonde night club dancer is being stalked. Will anyone believe her?
Zara
Comedian Bob Hunter is aided by his French counterpart Fernydel and two beautiful blondes when he is targeted for death by a powerful European counterfeiting ring.
Valerie Horvat
After the American Civil War, former Union Major John Garth marries pretty settler Valerie but tragedy strikes and the two spouses end up in court where they give two different conflicting accounts of their marriage.
Gina Broger
Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.
Flo Randall
A locksmith is pressured into crime when the mob makes him perform an elaborate bank robbery.
Actress Anita
광적인 영화팬인 말콤(제리 루이스)은 극장에서 벌어진 자동차 경품 추첨에서 당선된다. 도박꾼인 스티브(딘 마틴)는 도박빚을 갚기위해 말콤을 따돌리고 자신이 자동차를 차지하려 하지만 그의 뜻대로 되지않는다. 할수없이 두 사람은 상품인 자동차를 타고 할리우드로의 여행을 떠난다.
Salma
A notorious bandit develops a grudging respect for the English military man assigned to capture him.
Rena
A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm. The passengers then discover they are in an area inhabited by vicious cannibals and must escape before they are found. A remake of Five Came Back (1939).
Helene Kuragina
19세기초 프랑스의 맹공을 받게 된 제정 러시아의 피에르는 나폴레옹을 숭배한다. 청순한 나타샤를 사랑하는 피에르. 그의 재산을 탐낸 쿠라긴 공작은 자신의 딸과 결혼시키는데 성공한다. 나타샤의 오빠 니콜라스는 전쟁 중 도망쳐오고, 안드레이는 전쟁의 현실을 목격하고 돌아온 후, 지금껏 괴롭혔던 아내 리제의 죽음으로 환멸에 빠진다. 결혼 생활에 실패한 피에르는 전쟁의 참상을 보고 나폴레옹을 숭배했던 자신을 저주한다. 포로로 감옥에서 실신한 플라톤을 만나 생의 진실을 깨달은 피에르는 마침내 쿠투조프의 초토 퇴각 작전이 성공, 프랑스군이 깨끗이 소탕되는 것으로 종말되는 전쟁의 와중에서 기적적으로 살아 남는다. 부흥의 싹이 트기 시작한 초토화된 거리에서 성숙한 나타샤는 피에르를 기다리고 있었다.
Anita
릭(딘 마틴)은 만화가 지망이고 유진(제리 루이스)은 동화작가 지망으로 뉴욕의 한 아파트에 살면서 성공을 꿈꾸고 있다. 항상 만화속의 세계에 갇혀 사는 유진은 만화의 내용을 그대로 악몽을 꾼다. 릭은 유진의 악몽이 자신의 만화의 소재가 될 수있다는 걸 깨닫고 작품을 만들기로 한다. 제리 루이스/ 딘 마틴 콤비가 출연한 작품중 최고의 걸작으로 꼽힌다.
Wei Ling
A merchant marine captain, rescued from the Chinese Communists by local visitors, is "shanghaied" into transporting the whole village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer.
Handmaid
아버지를 살해한 자에게 복수하기 위해 바그다드에 와서 평민으로 위장한 하룸(록 허드슨)은 공주 크라이루잔(파이퍼 로리)을 만나, 사악한 사기꾼들의 음모에 맞서 싸운다. 공주는 하룸에게 황금 검을 주고, 황금 검은 그를 무적으로 만든다.
Venusian Guard
Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced by bank robber Mugsy and his pal Harry to fly to Venus where they find a civilization made up entirely of women, men having been banished.
