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| 10/9 - | Gillo Pontecorvo's La Battaglia di Algeri (The Battle of Algiers) wins the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly) (Sergio Leone) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Uccellacci e uccellini (Hawks and Sparrows) (Pier Paolo Pasolini) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Luis Bunuel’s Belle de jour wins the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Actor Marcello Mastroianni receives the Italian Republic's Order of Merit. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Italy 1967: Other Films of Note |
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C’era una volta (Francesco Rosi) [MORE] [ADD] |
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La Cina è vicina (Marco Bellocchio) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Edipo re (Oedipus Rex) (Pier Paolo Pasolini) [MORE] [ADD] |
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L’Immorale (Pietro Germi) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Lo Staniero (The Stranger) (Luchino Visconti) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Paolo Pasolini's film, Theorem, is seized by order of the courts. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Six days after being seized by the public prosecutor in Rome, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Theorem receives the Grand Prix of the International Catholic Office of Cinema at the Venice Film Festival. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Romain Gary's French film, Les Oiseaux vont mourir au Péron (The Birds Come to Die in Peru), is banned throughout Italy. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Sergio Leone’s ‘ballet of the dead,’ C’era una volt ail West (Once Upon a Time in the West), is released. Co-written by by Leone with Dario Argento and Bernardo Bertolucci, the film stars Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale and, playing against type, Henry Fonda as a cold-hearted, steely-eyed killer. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Of the 254 films produced in Italy in 1968 (compared to 182 in 1965), approximately 40 are erotic comedies. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Italy 1968: Other Films of Note |
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Diabolik (Mario Bava) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Partner (Bernardo Bertolucci) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Federico Fellini’s Fellini Satyricon, based on ancient fables by Petronius and others, is released. The most expensive film to be made at Cinecittà since Ben-Hur, it stars Englishman Martin Potter and American Hiram Keller as Encolpius and Ascyltus. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Luchino Visconti’s La Caduta degli dei (Gotterdämmerung or The Damned), an examination of the links between the Nazis and the bourgeoisie, is released. A German-Italian co-production, the international cast includes Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Charlotte Rampling, Renaud Verley, Umberto Orsini and Helmut Berger. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Italy 1969: Other Films of Note |
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Amore e rabbia (Carlo Lizzani, Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier-Paolo Pasolini, Jean-Luc Godard, Marco Bellocchio) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Un Certo giorno (Ermanno Olmi) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Medea (Pier Paolo Pasolini) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Porcile (Pier Paolo Pasolini) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Queimada (Gillo Pontecorvo) [MORE] [ADD] |
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I Recuperanti (Ermanno Olmi) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Serafino (Pietro Germi) [MORE] [ADD] |
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- Barbara Loden’s 16mm film Wanda wins the International Critics Prize at the Venice Film Festival. [MORE] [ADD] |
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I Cannibali (Liliana Cavani) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Il Conformista (The Conformist) (Bernardo Bertolucci) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (Investigation of a Citizen Above suspicion) (Elio Petri) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Metello (Mauro Bolognini) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Strategia del ragno (The Spider’s Stratagem) (Bernardo Bertolucci) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Uomini contro (Francesco Rosi) [MORE] [ADD] |