Huge success for audiences and critics, Notorious is not only one of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpieces, but, as claimed by Franรงois Truffaut, defines the quintessence of his style. The British director returns here to explore (as he did in The Suspicion) the darkest but no less compelling side of Cary Grant. The latter gives life to the figure of a secret agent who, while loving a young woman, cynically makes use of her, inducing her to seduce and then marry aโฆ
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Psycho 1960
Seminal and revolutionary work, Psycho is a frightening ballad of sex, madness and death in which Alfred Hitchcock succeeds in capturing the potential for evil that was lurking undercurrent in American society and that would have filled the news for years to come. The English director places horror in everyday reality, to demonstrate how the balance in which we believe to live is actually ephemeral and illusory. Born as a minor project, shot economically by a television crew, it owesโฆ
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Rebecca 1940
ยซLast night I dreamt I went to Manderley againยป. So begins Rebecca, with a suggestive two minute prologue told by the protagonist's voice-over, followed by a very long flashback that makes up the rest of the film. Alfred Hitchcock immediately introduced the dreamlike atmosphere that pervades the whole film, managing to dilute the melรฒ tones of the novel with the suspense of the thriller and with the gothic of the setting. The narration, the result of the memories of theโฆ
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Rebecca 1940
ยซLa scorsa notte ho sognato di essere tornata a Manderleyยป. Cosรฌ inizia Rebecca, la Prima Moglie, con un suggestivo prologo di due minuti raccontato dalla voce fuori campo della protagonista, a cui fa seguito un lunghissimo flashback che compone il resto del film. Alfred Hitchcock introduce da subito il tema del sogno e stabilisce lโatmosfera onirica che pervade tutto il film, riuscendo a stemperare le tonalitร melรฒ del romanzo con la suspence del giallo ed il gotico dellโambientazione. La narrazione,โฆ
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The Hand of God 2021
ยซI don't like reality anymore. Reality sucks. That's why I want to make moviesยป. Despite this declaration of intent that Paolo Sorrentino puts in the mouth of his adolescent alter-ego, with The Hand Of God the Neapolitan director proves to himself, even before the audience, that he is able to sink his cinema even into the most intimate and disconsolate reality without reticence nor modesty, armed only with a gaze that manages to be both disenchanted and poetic, hilarious andโฆ
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Once Upon a Time in America 1984
In Once Upon a Time in America Sergio Leone traces the rise of Noodles and Max (superbly played by Robert De Niro and James Woods), and their gang of very young Jewish immigrants who, as they grow up, will reach the top of New York's organized crime scene. The film begins and ends in a den above a Chinese shadow puppet theater, where Noodles is used to smoke opium, a drug that increases visionary abilities and alters the perception ofโฆ
