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DONALD GLOVER: WEIRDO (2012) – Full Transcript

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, gonna talk about a lot of stuff. My parents are gonna see it. They're the ones in the other car. My mom hasn't. Yeah. I want her to see what I do, you know? Yeah... but you know, if you gotta do that... You know, you can't live in fear. You see I'm trying to...

ALI WONG: BABY COBRA (2016) – Full Transcript

Ali Wong's stand up special delves into her sexual adventures, hoarding, the rocky road to pregnancy, and why feminism is terrible.

NORM MACDONALD: HITLER’S DOG, GOSSIP & TRICKERY (2017) – Full Transcript

In this new stand-up special, Norm Macdonald delivers sly, deadpan observations from an older — and perhaps even wiser — point of view.

BLUE VELVET (1986) – Review by Tracy Biga [Film Quarterly]

by Tracy Biga Much of the humor in David Lynch’s reworked fifties crime thriller/horror/gothic film Blue Velvet comes from mundane statements which, when filtered by his personal vision, appear weird, but still oddly familiar, just as the open­ing shots of flowers against a white picket fence and a waving fireman seem filtered and unna­tural, and yet commonplace. One such mundane...

DANIEL TOSH: PEOPLE PLEASER (2016) – Full Transcript

Transcript of the Stand-up Special that Daniel Tosh did for Comedy Central, which he performed in July 2015 at The Wilshire Ebell Theater, in Los Angeles

MARC MARON: MORE LATER (2015) – Full Transcript

More Later captures Maron as he dishes out compelling, raw and wildly honest stand-up. In this brand new special, Maron tackles religion, relationships, rage, Skype sex and ice cream among other topics.

THE GODFATHER WARS – by Mark Seal

Mark Seal recalls how the clash of Hollywood sharks, Mafia kingpins, and cinematic geniuses shaped the Hollywood masterpiece 'The Godfather'

THE GODFATHER (1972): MARIO PUZO’S LETTER TO MARLON BRANDO

Transcript of Mario Puzo’s 1970 letter to Marlon Brando telling him he was the only actor who could play Don Corleone

THE GODFATHER (1972) – Review by Janet Maslin

Janet Maslin reviews Francis Ford Coppola's 'The Godfather'. Published in Boston After Dark, 1972 March 28

LAST TANGO IN PARIS – Review by Pauline Kael

The following review, one of the most renowned in the history of film criticism, appeared in The New Yorker magazine on October 28, 1972

BLUE VELVET: OUT THERE AND IN HERE – Review by Pauline Kael

by Pauline Kael “Maybe I’m sick, but I want to see that again.” —Overheard after a showing of Blue Velvet. When you come out of the theatre after seeing David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, you certainly know that you've seen something. You wouldn’t mistake frames from Blue Velvet for frames from any other movie. It’s an anomaly—the work of a genius naif. If...

STANLEY KUBRICK’S THE SHINING – Review by Flo Leibowitz and Lynn Jeffress [Film Quarterly]

by Flo Leibowitz and Lynn Jeffress To all appearances, The Shining is simply a hope­lessly clichéd gothic horror film. Can this be ser­ious? A lonely house on a hill haunted by ancestral ghosts that curse successive generations and force them to re-enact the original horror. It is not even redeemed by overwhelming technique—Kubrick no doubt enjoyed the helicopter and Steadicam...

DIANE ARBUS – IDENTICAL TWINS, ROSELLE, NEW JERSEY, 1967

Identical twins, Cathleen and Colleen Wade, 7, were spotted by Diane Arbus at a Christmas party for twins and triplets.

DYLAN MORAN: OFF THE HOOK (2015) – Full Transcript

Moran shows off his highly quotable brand of crackpot lyricism in routines about midlife travails, hipster scorn and feeling like a ‘jelly baby with money’

THE FALLING MAN – by Tom Junod

Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day.

HO VISTO L’INFERNO

Lo scrittore spagnolo Antonio Muñoz Molina era nel centro di New York l’11 settembre. Ecco la sua testimonianza sui primi istanti della tragedia

“THE RAGE AND THE PRIDE” [LA RABBIA E L’ORGOGLIO] – by Oriana Fallaci

English translation of Oriana Fallaci's “The Rage and the Pride”, the article that redefined Italy’s conception of the conflict between the Western world and the Islamic world

LA RABBIA E L’ORGOGLIO – di Oriana Fallaci

Articolo di Oriana Fallaci, apparso sul quotidiano Il Corriere della Sera il 29 settembre 2001 in seguito all'attacco alle Torri Gemelle dell'11 settembre 2001

RICHARD PRYOR: LIVE AND SMOKIN’ (1971) – Full Transcript

Richard Pryor delivering his one-of-a-kind routine. One of his earliest live performances in 1971 at the Improvisation in New York.

RICHARD PRYOR: …HERE AND NOW (1983) – Full Transcript

Three years after a drug-related accident that nearly killed him, a clean and sober Richard Pryor weighs in on heroin, Ronald Reagan and more.

PROFILE: STANLEY KUBRICK (1966) by Jeremy Bernstein

Jeremy Bernstein's 1966 profile of director Stanley Kubrick

BILL BURR: WHY DO I DO THIS (2008) – Testo italiano completo

Va bene, grazie, grazie mille. Va bene, Gesù. Va bene, va bene. Sedetevi, sedetevi. Avremo di che parlare... Va bene, grazie, grazie. Grazie mille. Grazie. Va bene, va bene, grazie, grazie... Gesù Cristo! Distribuisci un po' di biglietti omaggio e si presentano tutti. "Questo tizio spacca! Biglietti omaggio! Mi piace!" È bello essere di nuovo qui a New York....

AMY SCHUMER: MOSTLY SEX STUFF (2012) – Full Transcript

In her raunchy and matter-of-fact style, Amy Schumer leaves all inhibitions at the door. No topic is off limits, from encounters with unexpected body parts to hate-filled personal grooming appointments. Forget boundaries. When Amy discusses her sex life, there are none.

BOB DYLAN: INTERVISTA A PLAYBOY (1978)

Nel gennaio 1978 Bob Dylan rilascia una lunga intervista alla rivista Playboy

JIM JEFFERIES: ALCOHOLOCAUST (2010) – Transcript

*Alcoholocaust: (Meaning: The aftermath of a drinking party, usually resulting in every available horizontal surface being covered in empty booze containers, spilled beverages, and a general sticky alcoholic residue.)

MARC MARON: TOO REAL (2017) – Full Transcript

Battle-scarred stand-up comedian Marc Maron unleashes a storm of ideas about meditation, mortality, documentary films and our weird modern world.

WANDA SYKES: I’MA BE ME (2009) – Full Transcript

Smart, outspoken, opinionated and one of a kind. Three-time Emmy® Award-winning actress/comic Wanda Sykes returns to HBO for her second full-length stand-up special. Taped before a live audience at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C.

AMY SCHUMER: LIVE AT THE APOLLO (2015) – Full Transcript

Emmy®-winner Amy Schumer gets personal in her first HBO stand-up special, directed by Chris Rock and taped at New York's iconic Apollo Theater

KEVIN HART: SERIOUSLY FUNNY (2010) – Full Transcript

Full transcript of "Seriously Funny", Kevin Hart's second solo stand-up performance. Recorded live at the Allen Theater, Cleveland, Ohio

STANLEY KUBRICK: THE ROLLING STONE INTERVIEW (1987)

The last formal interview Stanley Kubrick gave was in London in 1987 as part of the publicity campaign for "Full Metal Jacket". By Tim Cahill of Rolling Stone magazine

HANNIBAL BURESS: COMEDY CAMISADO (2016) – Full Transcript

In a special packed with stealthy humor, Hannibal Buress tackles zipper etiquette, the legacy of steroids and the fallout from his Bill Cosby routine.

NEAL BRENNAN: WOMEN AND BLACK DUDES (2014) – Full Transcript

Neal Brennan dives into the hot topics of race, sex and religion. Covering everything from the N-word (and why it's OK for him to use it) to the challenges of being single, he never plays it safe, even when he reveals what really went down the time he met Barack Obama.

NICK OFFERMAN: AMERICAN HAM (2014) – Full Transcript

A live taping of Nick Offerman's one-man show at New York's historic Town Hall theater, featuring a collection of anecdotes, songs and woodworking/oral-sex techniques.

AZIZ ANSARI: INTIMATE MOMENTS FOR A SENSUAL EVENING (2010) – Full Transcript

Recorded on July 1, 2009 at The Brentwood Theatre in Los Angeles. - Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Aziz Ansari! - Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Whoa, whoa. Oh, wow. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That's so nice...

PERSONA: SWEDISH SUMMER – Review by Pauline Kael

by Pauline Kael There is a brief passage in Ingmar Bergman's Persona - Bibi Andersson tells about a day and night of sex - that is so much more erotic than all of Ulysses that it demonstrates what can be done on the screen with told material. We do not need to see images of the beach and the boy...

‘SPARTACUS’: HAILED IN FAREWELL

by Eugene Archer Critics have always debated the correct way to apportion the credit for a multi-million-dollar production among producers, writers, actors and corps of technicians, but Stanley Kubrick, the youthful director of Spartacus, has no such doubts. If any critical bouquets are available after the elaborate costume spectacle opens Thursday at the De Mille, the dynamic Mr. Kubrick is...

SPARTACUS (1960) and THE GUNS OF NAVARONE (1961) – The Guardian Review

EPIC FILMS ANCIENT AND MODERN A week of epics. It is true that neither Spartacus (Gaumont) nor The Guns of Navarone (Regal) conform to Bible thumping traditions but as both last for over three hours, including intermissions for the audience to recuperate on orange squash, and are littered with stars, they demand to be regarded as epics. Far more important than...

STANLEY KUBRICK: AT A DISTANCE – Interview by Lloyd Rose

by Lloyd Rose PINEWOOD GREEN, ENGLAND – The board room at Pinewood Studios is disturbingly baroque. The ceiling sags with chandeliers. Gilt-edged paneling dresses every inch of wall. At one end a cold-eyed movie mogul, the late J. Arthur Rank, grins from his painted portrait. It hangs above a sideboard bearing an electric burner. "IMPORTANT! COFFEE MUST NOT BOIL" reads...

BIG JAY OAKERSON: LIVE AT WEBSTER HALL (2016) – Full Transcript

"Big Jay Oakerson Live at Webster Hall", is raw, compelling, and honest to the core as he takes viewers on a journey of brutal truths about his relationship with his daughter, sexual tension between he and his best friend Dave, and plenty more!

LENNY BRUCE: THE BERKELEY CONCERT (1965) – Full Transcript

Recorded December 12, 1965 (released 1971, produced by John Judnich and Frank Zappa) Thank you, thank you, thank you. Hahahaha, you like this? Be weird I have no pants on… The ecumenical council has given the Pope permission to become a nun…just on Friday's. I can't work with this thing..it's a…isn't that funny? Backstage I really loved it and I fooled around with...

LE NOTTI DI CABIRIA (1957) – Review by James Kerans [Film Quarterly]

by James Kerans All the Fellini virtues are here: the fluent camera, the wit, the elegant composition, the theme-and-variations style, the melange of theatrical and religious symbol, the parabolic eloquence, the vocabulary of private motifs. La Strada is more exciting, because it calls for the management of material more coarse, more extravagant, more dangerous, more mysterious. But in Cabiria Fellini’s...

UMBERTO D. (1952) – Review by Bosley Crowther

by Bosley Crowther Old age has never been a topic of particular interest to makers of films for a very obvious reason: It is not one that particularly appeals to the vast majority of moviegoers, not even to those who are old. Age, at best, is a condition that merely symbolizes the ultimate stage of fulfillment of the work ethic...

LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1972) – Review by Bosley Crowther

by Bosley Crowther The vast attention that Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris received while it was several months in the making and when it opened in the fall of 1972 was not due to the prospect of its being a likely worldshaking film. It was because Marlon Brando was in it, and he was the hottest screen actor alive....

DOUG STANHOPE: NO REFUNDS (2007) – Trascrizione italiana

È finita. Ultima chiamata. Questa generazione fa schifo, è la generazione più fottutamente noiosa nella storia della gente. È tutto moscio e annacquato... quand'è stata l'ultima volta che avete sentito parlare di gruppi rock che lanciano televisori dalle finestre di un albergo? Dov'è finita quella roba che era... divertente! Dov'è finito il divertimento?

ENCOUNTERING ROBERT BRESSON – by Charles Thomas Samuels

Charles Thomas Samuels interviews Robert Bresson in Paris, September 2, 1970

KUBRICK’S STRANGE LOVE – Review by Gerard Fay [The Guardian]

by Gerard Fay Stanley Kubrick is unusual among American film directors for a complete lack of flamboyance. He dresses without distinction, talks quietly and modestly, eats and drinks frugally, reads and thinks a lot. He is not an Austrian or even an Hungarian but was born in the Bronx, New York. He has a round, pale face, thick, dark hair...

NEO-NEO-REALISM: BANDITS AT ORGOSOLO

by Jean-Andre Fieschi Original article: ‘Néo-néo-réalisme’, Cahiers du Cinéma 141, March 1963 No one could be more pleased than we are that American cinema has on the whole won the war that history said it had to win (and not just by winning over the critics). We don't deny that there is still work to be done in this field, for...

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE – Review by Don Daniels [Sight and Sound]

by Don Daniels Stanley Kubrick's films seem to provoke the kind of mindless praise and attack that is called 'controversy' these days. In the case of A Clockwork Orange, the responses have ranged from 'brilliant' to 'boring', with special attention to the film's depictions of violence. If the viewer responds to nothing else, he is sure to notice the sensational...

GEORGE CARLIN AT USC (1977) – Full Transcript

George Carlin's first ever comedy special, filmed live at the University of Southern California. Here, he talks about monopoly, flying on planes, random thoughts, walking, and other things

JIM NORTON: MOUTHFUL OF SHAME (2017) Full Transcript

In this unrestricted jaunt, comic Jim Norton offers a personal perspective on romance, desire, and sexual proclivities.

THE WILD BUNCH: MAN AND MYTH – Time Magazine Review

"When the legend becomes fact," says the canny newspaper editor in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, "print the legend." Sam Peckinpah is a filmmaker dedicated to telling truths and still preserving the legend of the American West. In feature films (Ride the High Country, Major Dundee) and television shows (The Westerner), his characters are eminently fallible,...

MICHAEL CHE MATTERS (2016) – Full Transcript

"Saturday Night Live" star Michael Che takes on hot-button topics like inequality, homophobia and gentrification in this stand-up set filmed live in Brooklyn

JOE ROGAN: TRIGGERED (2016) – Full Transcript

Unleashing his inquisitive, intense comedic style, Rogan explores everything from raising kids and Santa Claus to pot gummies and talking to dolphins

INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989) – Review by Pauline Kael

by Pauline Kael A friend of mine who’s in his early fifties and is eminent in his field says that when he grows up he wants to be Sean Connery. He doesn’t mean the smooth operator James Bond; he means the bluff, bare-domed Connery of The Man Who Would Be King and The Untouchables and now Indiana Jones and the...

THE GODFATHER PART III (1990) – Review by Pauline Kael

by Pauline Kael At the end of The Godfather Part II (1974), the story was complete—beautifully complete. Francis Ford Coppola knew it, and for over a decade he resisted Paramount’s pleas for another sequel. But the studio’s blandishments became more honeyed, his piggy bank was smashed, and late in 1988 he had an illumination: he discovered how the story should...

GOODFELLAS (1990) – Review by Pauline Kael

by Pauline Kael Martin Scorsese’s GoodFellas has a lift. It’s like Raging Bull, except that it’s not domineering. It’s like Raging Bull made in a jolly, festive frame of mind. It’s about being a guy and guys getting high on being a guy. In the Nicholas Pileggi book Wiseguy, which this movie is based on, the Mafia-led mobsters are moral...

SAM PECKINPAH: WHAT PRICE VIOLENCE?

On the set of Sam Peckinpah's movie "The Gateway". LIFE magazine , 11 August 1972

CONVOY (1978) – Review by Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael reviews Sam Peckinpah's "Convoy"

SAM PECKINPAH: PLAYBOY INTERVIEW (1972)

A candid conversation with the screen's "Picasso of violence," controversial creator of "the wild bunch" and "straw dogs"

WIM WENDERS: AN INTERVIEW (1984)

Wim Wenders on 'Paris, Texas' (1984). Interview by Katherine Dieckmann for film Quarterly

BLADE RUNNER – Review by Michael Dempsey [Film Quarterly]

by Michael Dempsey In director Ridley Scott’s $30-million noir thriller, Blade Runner, set in Los Angeles 36 years from now, sophisticated new robots known as “replicants” have drastically narrowed the gap between humans and machines. Prize creations of the cadaverous, ironic Dr. Eldon Tyrell and his superconglomerate, they not only surpass all people in physical strength and at least match...

STANLEY KUBRICK AND THE AESTHETICS OF THE GROTESQUE – by James Naremore

“The grotesque,” which became a stylistic term in the Italian renaissance and later contributed significantly to all forms of modernist art, can help us better understand the so-called “coldness” often attributed to Stanley Kubrick’s films

TREVOR NOAH: LOST IN TRANSLATION (2015) – Full Transcript

Noah addresses major domestic and international events of the past year, sharing his outlook on the world today, including terrorism, racial tensions in America and what it was like being African and traveling into the United States during the Ebola crisis.

MARIA BAMFORD: OLD BABY (2017) – Full transcript

Maria Bamford performs a rapid-fire, playful stand-up set for crowds at park benches, bowling alleys and LA theaters in this roving comedy special.

BARRY LYNDON: KUBRICK’S GRANDEST GAMBLE – by Richard Schickel

by Richard Schickel FIRST PARADOX: Barry Lyndon, a story of an 18th century Irish gentleman-rogue, is the first novel of a great 19th century writer, William Makepeace Thackeray. It shows early signs of a genius that would nourish only after creative struggle and personal adversity. In time, this forgotten book becomes the basis for the tenth feature film by a...

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1972) – Review by Richard Schickel

Future shlock by Richard Schickel For a director like Stanley Kubrick, a novel like Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange must have seemed an irresistible challenge. Kubrick is essentially a daring imagist, yet he has twice before been tempted by projects that pose powerful problems of language for the film maker. One was an attempt, largely unsuccessful, to translate the dazzling and...

THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS – Review by Richard Schickel

A tragedy of false security by Richard Schickel The film looks as if it had been photographed through the mists of time. Often its characters seem to move with the strange deliberation of figures in a dreamed memory, their outlines softened by the years. Yet its images, its language (and its silences) arc as carefully and as economically calculated as those...

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1972) – Review by Dilys Powell

Dilys Powell reviews Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange'

HENRI-FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL: IL PRINCIPIO ASTRATTO DELL’UGUAGLIANZA

di Henri-Frédéric Amiel Le masse saranno sempre al di sotto della media. La maggiore età si abbasserà, la barriera del sesso cadrà, e la democrazia arriverà all'assurdo rimettendo la decisione intorno alle cose più grandi ai più incapaci. Sarà la punizione del suo principio astratto dell'uguaglianza, che dispensa l'ignorante di istruirsi, l'imbecille di giudicarsi, il bambino di essere uomo e...

MODERN TIMES: AN INTERVIEW WITH STANLEY KUBRICK

Philip Strick & Penelope Houston interview with Stanley Kubrick regarding 'A Clockwork Orange'

NOTES ON SEEING ‘BARRY LYNDON’ – by Harold Rosenberg

Kubrick's Barry Lyndon is a lot more than a substitute for an allbutforgotten tale. The movie also translates the printed page into art for the eye and the ear by coordinating the story with the paintings, music and landscaping of the period

BARRY LYNDON – Review by Dilys Powell

Dilys Powell review of Stanley Kubrick's 'Barry Lyndon'

DARK ROOTS: HUMOR AND TRAGEDY IN ‘DOCTOR STRANGELOVE’

by Caran Wakefield Pablo Ferraro’s original commercial for Doctor Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb teases the audience, offering a sample of the gutsy black humor and subversive political satire that made the film famous. The trailer commences with an atomic explosion, and quickly bombards the viewer with written questions, frenzied xylophone scales, and...

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY – Review by Dilys Powell

Dilys Powell reviews '2001: A Space Odyssey' by Stanley Kubrick

DR STRANGELOVE – Review by Dilys Powell

Dilys Powell reviews Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove

LA DOLCE VITA (1960) – Review by Dilys Powell

Dilys Powell reviews Federico Fellini's 'La Dolce Vita'

THE GREAT DICTATOR – Review by Dilys Powell

After nearly thirty years, then, of playing one character in one set of clothes, Chaplin takes on a double role. The subject of the film is thus new to him, or shall we say it is a new and advanced branch of his old subject, the dictatorship of the powerful and cruel over the humble and the dispossessed?

BO BURNHAM: WHAT (2013) – Full Transcript

Bo What? Old MacDonald had a farm E I E I O And on that farm he had a pig E I E I O Here a snort There a Old MacDonald had a farm E I E I O This is Bo Burnham. He's 22 years old. He's a male. And he looks like the genetic product...

BO BURNHAM: MAKE HAPPY (2016) – Full Transcript

'Make Happy' is a stand-up comedy routine by Bo Burnham which he performed live in 2015 and 2016; a recording of the show was released on Netflix on June 3, 2016. The show is a specifically choreographed performance which amalgamates comedy with music, and uses pre-recorded music, stage lighting effects and sound effects.

IL SOGNO DELLA FARFALLA (1994) – Recensione di Paolo Taggi [Segnocinema]

di Paolo Taggi A quattordici anni un ragazzo decide di scegliere il silenzio. Da quel momento può fare a meno delle proprie parole e comunica soltanto attraverso i testi scritti da altri. Recita, e sul palcoscenico si esprime attraverso copioni già scritti, che non gli appartengono, nei quali può soltanto (ma lo vuole davvero?) tentare di riconoscersi. Una intera famiglia...

ANTHONY JESELNIK: CALIGULA (2013) – Full Transcript

Anthony Jeselnik brings his signature dark and twisted point of view to this special. He holds nothing back, routinely saying things most wouldn't ever dare. Anthony is not for the easily offended or humorless

ANTHONY JESELNIK: THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS (2015) – Full Transcript

There's no subject too dark as the comedian skewers taboos and riffs on national tragedies before pulling back the curtain on his provocative style

JOHN MULANEY: THE COMEBACK KID (2015) – Full Transcript

Armed with boyish charm and a sharp wit, the former "SNL" writer offers sly takes on marriage, his beef with babies and the time he met Bill Clinton

C’ERA UNA VOLTA IN AMERICA: LA VERTIGINE DEL TEMPO

'C'era una volta in America' e altri ricordi. Il sentimento del passato e degli errori compiuti, il senso del tradimento e del rimorso nel capo d’opera di Sergio Leone. Saggio critico di Morando Morandini

IL MIO NOME È NESSUNO: GIOCARE COI MITI

Nel film 'Il mio nome è Nessuno' di Tonino Valerii - prodotto da Leone - s'incrociano tre universi del western: l'hollywoodiano classico, quello degli anni ’60 e l'italiano comico

GIÙ LA TESTA: IL PESSIMISMO DELLA RIVOLUZIONE

Giù la testa, il più spietato, lucido, egoistico, radicalmente nichilista dei film di Sergio Leone. Saggio critico di Gianni Canova

C’ERA UNA VOLTA IL WEST: IL RITO E L’ENFASI

L’amplificazione dei ritmi e delle pause trova in C'era una volta il West la sua massima celebrazione e ragion d'essere. Saggio di Roberto Pugliese

NIHILISM AND FREEDOM IN THE FILMS OF STANLEY KUBRICK

by Daniel Shaw Much critical ink has been spilled over the question of whether the worldview of archetypal auteur Stanley Kubrick is nihilistic, and appropriately so. To my mind, this is one of the most important questions we can ask about genuine artists and their oeuvres. If auteur criticism is to have any validity, from a philosophical perspective, it must...

ARANCIA MECCANICA (1972) – Recensione di Pietro Bianchi

di Pietro Bianchi È difficile dire quale fosse la precisa intenzione del regista Stanley Kubrick quando decise di fare un film, Arancia meccanica, dal romanzo di Anthony Burgess dallo stesso titolo. Per Burgess non ci sono dubbi. Cattolico, avendo sfiorato la morte per una grave malattia, desiderava mostrare i pericoli cui va incontro l’umanità dei robot e delle droghe. Linguista,...

BILL HICKS: REVELATIONS (1993) – Full Transcript

This was Bill Hicks last recorded stand up routine performed at the London Dominion Theatre several months before his death in 1994

LEWIS BLACK: BLACK TO THE FUTURE (2016) – Full Transcript

Lewis Black meanders through anecdotes about a trip to Copenhagen (where it’s possible to be simultaneously Socialist and happy), a lactating German woman and mental-illness policies, and - just in time for the elections - he takes on Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton

DOUG STANHOPE: BEFORE TURNING THE GUN ON HIMSELF (2012) – Transcript

Before Turning the Gun on Himself is the eighth stand-up comedy album by Doug Stanhope, released on November 6, 2012, by Roadrunner Records. It was recorded live at The Complex in Salt Lake City, Utah. To Salt Lake, and now please welcome Doug Stanhope. (audience cheers and applauds) Thank you! Thank you very much. Thanks. (man shouts in audience) Yeah,...

DOUG STANHOPE: DEADBEAT HERO (2004) – Transcript

In "Deadbeat Hero," Stanhope tackles all of the most relevant and controversial issues of our times: Abortion, "liberty," war, whether blindly supporting the troops is a good thing, the drug war, the Alabama-Mississippi ban on dildos and other sex toys, gay marriage and priest molestations. More bizarre topics include two-head babies, his suicidal cat-lady mother, and more.

LA MORTE DI EMILIO LUSSU NELLA PAGINE DELL’UNIONE SARDA

Raccolta di articoli apparsi sul quotidiano L'Unione Sarda il giorno dopo la morte di Emilio Lussu

IL PADRINO: NEPPURE UNA VOLTA LA PAROLA ‘MAFIA’!

Giacomo R. Carioti incontra a Roma il giovane produttore del 'Padrino', Albert S. Ruddy, con cui ricostruisce la storia del film

DESSÌ E IL SUO PAESE D’OMBRE

Lo scrittore sardo Giuseppe Dessì intervistato in occasione della pubblicazione del suo romanzo Paese d'ombre

RAGING BULL: INTERVIEW WITH MARTIN SCORSESE (1981) by Michael Henry

This interview took place in Paris during the night of February 11-12, 1981. A translation of "Nuit blanche et chambre noire" from Positif, April 1981. Translated by Peter Brunette. by Michael Henry HENRY: Robert De Niro brought you Juke La Motta's autobiography when you were preparing Taxi Driver. What attracted you to this character? Did your vision of him evolve in...

ANTONIO SINI: POESIE

Esiste un solo modo per uccidere un poeta: consegnare all'oblio le sue parole —Massimo Calabrese LA VITA La vita non sono solo io, non sei solo tu. Gli operai viaggiano sui tram con volti di deportati. I contadini aspettano il domani da quando l'uomo inizio a graffiare la terra. La vita non sono solo io, non sei solo tu. Molti cani hanno il cappotto. Molti bambini non hanno pane. Non tutti hanno una casa. Non tutti hanno un vestito. Tu hai...

JIM JEFFERIES: CONTRABAND (2008) – Full Transcript

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the Art theatre. Can you please go mental for, Jim Jefferies! How you all going? Welcome to the recording of my first ever DVD people, so thank you for coming. Who’s seen me before, give me a yell? All right, who’s never seen me? OK, you do seem like a happier bunch. The show’s called...

BLADE RUNNER’S MOVING STILL – Essay by Elissa Marder

by Elissa Marder In the decade that has elapsed since Blade Runner's first commercial release, Ridley Scott’s 1982 science-fiction film has been retroactively hailed as one of the most powerful and influential examples of cinematic postmodernism.1 Despite the fact that Blade Runner has achieved almost canonical status in the annals of film theory,2 the discomfort displayed by its earliest critics...

MIKE BIRBIGLIA: THANK GOD FOR JOKES (2017) – Full Transcript

Comedian Mike Birbiglia takes the stage in Brooklyn and hits on hard truths about puppets, late people and the very real dangers of being funny.

SARAH SILVERMAN: A SPECK OF DUST (2017) – Full Transcript

In her first comedy special post-health scare, Sarah Silverman shares a mix of fun facts, sad truths and yeah-she-just-went-there moments

ON THE STUPIDITY OF BEING OFFENDED

A compilation for the rejection of the culture of offense. Featuring Christopher Hitchens, Stephen Fry, Penn Jillette, Louis C.K. and Jim Norton, Richard Dawkins, Peter Hitchens, Steve Hughes

GEORGE CARLIN: PLAYING WITH YOUR HEAD (1986) – Full Transcript

Recorded May 2–3, 1986, at the Beverly Theater in Los Angeles It started out like any other night. I was feeling good. I'd just put in a long days work and I was really sure about this. It felt tight, no loopholes but I wasn't about to get cocky. I'd been down this road before. Hey where's Billy? Uh, Mexico....

BLADE RUNNER: SCIENCE FICTION & TRANSCENDENCE

A discussion of the film's atmosphere relating BLADE RUNNER to Film Noir and of the significance of the Christian symbolism of the film

GEORGE CARLIN: AGAIN!* (1978) – Full Transcript

Performing at the Celebrity Star Theater in Phoenix on July 23, 1978, Carlin mesmerizes his audience in the second of his 12 HBO specials. The routines include: Death, Kids & Parents, Newscast #2, Time and Al Sleet, the Hippy-Dippy Weatherman

LOUIS C.K.: CHEWED UP (2008) – Full Transcript

Transcript of 'Chewed Up', Louis C.K.'s second one-hour special filmed at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston, March 1, 2008

LOUIS C.K.: SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE S42E17 (2017) – Transcript

Host Louis C.K. calls out chickens for being racist and wonders if giraffes are amazed by their long necks

SHOESHINE (1946) – Review by Pauline Kael

Shoeshine, written by Cesare Zavattini, is a social protest film that rises above its purpose. It is a lyric study of how two boys betrayed by society betray each other and themselves

MITCH HEDBERG: COMEDY CENTRAL SPECIAL (1999) – Full Transcript

Mitch Hedberg's half-hour special on Comedy Central This is the uncut 37 minute version. Tonight from the Palace in Hollywood, California. Comedy Central Presents Mitch Hedberg! Thank you. Hey. Welcome to my half-hour special. Does anybody know who I am? Why did a bunch of people who don't know who I am show it my special? That's bullshit. All right. Everybody. This...

IDEOLOGY AS DYSTOPIA: AN INTERPRETATION OF ‘BLADE RUNNER’

Unlike the vast majority of films in the science fiction genre, 'Blade Runner' refuses to neutralize the most abhorrent tendencies of our age and casts serious doubt on a host of the cliches about where we should locate their causes

BLADE RUNNER: 21ST CENTURY NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. INTERVIEW WITH RIDLEY SCOTT

by Harlan Kennedy Do Androids dream of electric sheep? Do Northumbrians dream of eclectic myths? Every so often the British cinema hatches a mold-busting filmmaker, and the world stops, looks, and listens, aware that an accident has happened in the process of Nature. Ridley Scott, Northumberland-born and 41, has made three feature films in six years: a measured pace à la that other...

HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE ‘BARRY LYNDON’

John Hofsess reviews Stanley Kubrick's 'Barry Lyndon' for The New York Times

TOM SEGURA: COMPLETELY NORMAL (2014) – Full Transcript

Levelheaded stand-up Tom Segura shares offhand appraisals on hotels and opens up about his hobbies and digestive ailments in this comedy special

PLANET OF THE APES (1968) – Review by Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael reviews "Planet of the Apes", a 1968 science fiction film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. Published in 'The New Yorker', February 17,1968

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (1966) – Review by Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael reviews Sergio Leone's "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly". Published in 'The New Yorker', March 2, 1968

GEORGE CARLIN: CARLIN ON CAMPUS (1984) – Full Transcript

Full transcript of 'Carlin on Campus', 10th album and fourth HBO special by American comedian George Carlin recorded April 18–19, 1984

LOUIS C.K.: LIVE AT THE BEACON THEATRE (2011) – Full Transcript

Louis jokes about fatherhood, success, and flying first class at the Beacon Theatre in New York

GEORGE CARLIN: DOIN’ IT AGAIN (1990) – Transcript

George Carlin brings his comedy back to New Jersey and this time talks about Offensive Language, Euphemisms, They're Only Words, Dogs, Things you never hear, see or wanna hear, Some people are stupid, Cancer, Feminists, Good Ideas, Rape, Life's moments, and organ donors.

GEORGE ORWELL’S ‘1984’ – Introduction by Robert Harris

Introduction to the official 60th anniversary edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four

SUPERMAN (1978): THE PACKAGE – Review by Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael's review of 'Superman' (1978). Published in 'The New Yorker', January 1, 1979

PAULINE KAEL ON ‘STAR WARS’

Pauline Kael reviews George Lucas' Star Wars. Published in 'The New Yorker', September 26, 1977

RICKY GERVAIS: OUT OF ENGLAND 2 (2010) – Full Transcript

Full transcript of HBO stand-up special 'Ricky Gervais: Out of England 2'. Recorded before a live audience at the Chicago Theatre in Chicago

AMY SCHUMER: THE LEATHER SPECIAL (2017) – Full Transcript

Comic sensation Amy Schumer riffs on sex, dating and the absurdities of fame in a bold and uncensored stand-up set at Denver's Bellco Theater

CELEBRATING ‘INDEPENDENCE DAY’ (1996)

'Starlog' magazine correspondents report on the Independence Day War

JIM GAFFIGAN: CINCO (2017) – Full Transcript

Full transcript of Jim Gaffigan's fifth Netflix original stand up special Cinco. Recorded at the Palace Theater in Columbus, Ohio

PAUL SCHRADER ON ‘TAXI DRIVER’ – Interview by Richard Thompson

TAXI DRIVER'S SCREENWRITER Paul Schrader interviewed by Richard Thompson Richard Thompson is grateful to Jack Shafer for his help with this interview, which took place in L.A. on January 26 and 29, 1976. Paul Schrader, 30, is probably best known in Hollywood for selling his first screenplay, Yakuza, for $300,000. He is considered one of the new breed of screenwriters which includes...

JIM JEFFERIES: I SWEAR TO GOD (2009) – Full Transcript

In this HBO special, 'I Swear to God', Jim Jefferies discusses religion and racism, his own family and childhood, the idiocy of no-smoking signs, sluts vs. studs, drugs and alcohol, and tells a very embarrassing story about what happened to him after purchasing some adult entertainment material

«LA VERGOGNA DI BERGMAN»: DAL SILENZIO DI DIO AL MARE DEI MORTI

Ingmar Bergman ha definito il suo ultimo film, che ha per titolo Skammen (La vergogna) una storia di gente che non ha nessuna fede, nessuna convinzione politica, che non agisce secondo canoni e regole politiche

28 Days Later: An Interview with Danny Boyle (2003)

Director Danny Boyle's latest feature, 28 Days Later, spins contempo­rary paranoia regarding disease and viral infection into a frightening tale of post-apocalyptic horror, survival, and rampaging zombies.

ROBERT BRESSON, POSSIBLY – INTERVIEW BY PAUL SCHRADER (1976)

In 1972 Robert Bresson, in response to my recently pub­lished book, Transcendental Style in Film, wrote me, “I have always been very surprised not to recognize myself in the image formed by those who are really interested in me" It's equally a shock for a critic to meet a director whom he has respected from a distance and whose...

2001: FUORI NELLO SPAZIO MA DENTRO LA VITA

2001: IL FILM DI STANLEY KUBRICK Il viaggio interplanetario è un viaggio biologico di Lino Curci Sono giorni di scienza, non di fantascienza. Per la prima volta, con l’«Apollo 8», ritorno ha varcato il confine che separa il campo gravitazionale della Terra dalla zona in cui agiscono le forze dì attrazione di un altro corpo celeste: il geo­centrismo, spodestato scientificamente da Galileo,...

LOUIS C.K.: HILARIOUS (2010) – Full Transcript

In this unique and dynamic live concert experience, Louis C.K.'s exploration of life after 40 destroys politically correct images of modern life with thoughts we have all had...but would rarely admit to

PORCILE O NO tiriamo le somme su PASOLINI

Piero Sanavìo intervista Pier Paolo Pasolini per la rivista 'Il Dramma', Settembre 1969

IN MARGINE AL FILM DI PASOLINI ‘MEDEA’

Che cosa è la Medea? È la rievocazione mitica, nostalgicamente ricomposta, del tempo della religione, cioè di «un rapporto di tipo religioso con la realtà, cioè considerare la realtà non naturale»

Il bel volo di PAPILLON da Mauriac a Polanski

Papillon: una farfalla che vola alto, come un’aquila. Il lungo romanzo autobiografico dell’ex-ergastolano Henri Charrière sta battendo il record assoluto dei best-sellers

LOUIS C.K.: SHAMELESS (2007) – Full Transcript

Please welcome Louis C.K.! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, thanks, that's very nice. Hello, everybody. How are ya? Woo! Good, thanks for- thank you, oh, good. Thanks, thanks for coming, thanks for being here. Thanks for not dying before you got here. Which could've happened. - Thanks for getting through the traffic. I drove here, and...

GEORGE ORWELL: 1984 – Introduzione, antologia critica e bibliografia

Introduzione, antologia critica e bibliografia a cura di Aldo Chiaruttini Arnoldo Mondatori Editore, Oscar Mondatori, Dicembre 1983 George Orwell La vita e l'opera George Orwell è il nome che lo scrittore inglese adottò negli anni trenta, in occasione della pubblicazione delle sue prime opere. Nato nel 1903 a Motihari in India, quando quell'immenso paese era un possedimento dell'Inghilterra, il suo vero...

FUTURISTIC ‘BLADE RUNNER’ – Review by Janet Maslin

The view of the future offered by Ridley Scott's muddled yet mesmerizing 'Blade Runner' is as intricately detailed as anything a science-fiction film has yet envisioned

JUVENTUS-REAL MADRID: LE EUROSFIDE

CONDUCE 5-4 LA JUVE In Coppa dei Campioni/Champions League, Juve e Real si sono sfidate in 9 occasioni e la Juve ha potuto gioire 5 volte contro le 4 dei rivali. I blancos hanno però vinto l’unica finale, quella del 1998. In semifinale sempre bene i bianconeri (2-0), parità nei quarti (1-1), negli ottavi (1-1) e nella fase a gironi...

TAXI DRIVER: UNDERGROUND MAN – Review by Pauline Kael

by Pauline Kael Taxi Driver is the fevered story of an outsider in New York—a man who can’t find any point of entry into human society. Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), the protagonist of Martin Scorsese’s new film, from a script by Paul Schrader, can’t find a life. He’s an ex-Marine from the Midwest who takes a job driving a...

BILL BURR: I’M SORRY YOU FEEL THAT WAY (2014) – Full Transcript

All right, thank you! Thank you very much! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. How are you? What's going on? Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here in the greater Atlanta, Georgia, area, this oasis. It's nice to be here. I don't know why I came here in June. It's nice to be here. Wasn't thinking. Fucking...

BILL BURR: YOU PEOPLE ARE ALL THE SAME (2012) – Full Transcript

Ladies and gentlemen: Bill Burr! All right. Thank you! Thank you. Thank you, sir. How are ya? How's it going? All right. All right, all right, all right, all right. All right, everybody settle down. I wanna get a gun. I do. I really do. I never had that feeling before till I moved out to...

PERSONA (1966) – Review by Richard Corliss

Richard Corliss reviews Ingmar Bergman's "Persona" for Film Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 4 (Summer, 1967)

THE LEOPARD [IL GATTOPARDO, 1963] – Review by Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael reviews Luchino Visconti's 'The leopard' (Il Gattopardo). Published in The New Yorker, September 19, 1983

EXISTENTIAL ETHICS. WHERE THE PATHS OF GLORY LEAD

Stanley Kubrick's 'Paths of Glory' (1957) is much more than an antiwar film; it is as much about the necessary absurdity of the human condition as about the contingent horror of war

DAVE CHAPPELLE: FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH (2004) – Full Transcript

Chappelle lets loose on such topics as black celebrities, what it's like to have raunchy fans of his TV show approach him while he's trying to enjoy Disneyland with his kids, Michael Jackson, Kobe Bryant and crackheads, of course

DAVE CHAPPELLE: KILLIN THEM SOFTLY (2000) – Full Transcript

Wooo! Ya'll gone make me lose my mind. Up in here! Up in here! Y'all gone make me throw her out. Up in here! Up in here! Y'all gone make me act a fool. Up in here! Up in here! Y'all gone make me lose my cool. Up in here! Up in here! From the historic Lincoln Theater in...

ORSON WELLES: PLAYBOY INTERVIEW (1967)

Our interviewer is England's eminent drama critic Kenneth Tynan, whom readers will remember as the author of previous Playboy Interviews with Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole, as well as several trenchant Playboy articles. Of this month's larger-than-life subject, Tynan writes: "The performing arts have now enjoyed the professional services of George Orson Welles for 35 years—ever since 1931, when he...

JUVENTUS-AMBURGO 0-1: FINE DI UN SOGNO

Dieci anni dopo la sfida di Belgrado con l’Ajax, la squadra bianconera ha sorprendentemente fallito la sua seconda finale nel più prestigioso torneo continentale - Un gol di Magath è bastato per assicurare ai tedeschi dell'Amburgo il trofeo

HEYSEL, 29 MAGGIO 1985 – JUVENTUS-LIVERPOOL: LE PAGINE DI ‘REPUBBLICA’

La tragedia dello stadio Heysel del 29 maggio 1985 raccontata nelle pagine del quotidiano la 'Repubblica'

MARTIN SCORSESE: HE HAS OFTEN WALKED ‘MEAN STREETS’

Martin Scorsese interview with Guy Flatley for 'The New York Times', December 1973

JUVENTUS-LIVERPOOL 1-0: OMAGGIO AI TIFOSI

Più degli inglesi, i bianconeri volevano la Coppa inseguita da sempre. L’hanno vinta in una serata crudele per dedicarla anche a chi non cera più

EDDIE GRIFFIN: YOU CAN TELL ‘EM I SAID IT! (2011) – Transcript

Ladies and gentlemen, The one and only, The emperor of comedy... Sir Eddie Griffin I want to fuck Michelle Obama. I need her on my team. I'm waiting on Obama to fuck up. That nigga slip up, I'ma slide right in. What's happening, Michelle? You like comedy? That's some fine chocolate motherfucker. You understand me? I didn't vote for Obama...

SCARFACE (1983) – Review by Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael reviews Brian De Palma's 'Scarface'

BLADE RUNNER AND SARTRE: THE BOUNDARIES OF HUMANITY

Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982) combines film noir and science fiction to tell a story that questions what it means to be human

ALIEN (1979) – Review by Brian McFarlane for ‘Cinema Papers’

Brian McFarlane reviews Ridley Scott's sci-fi movie 'Alien'. Published in 'Cinema Papers' magazine, December 1979 - January 1980 issue

H.R. GIGER: BEHIND THE ALIEN FORMS

Interview with Swiss surrealist H.R. Giger, designer of the monsters in Ridley Scott's sci-fi movie 'Alien'

8½: CONFESSIONS OF A MOVIE DIRECTOR – Review by Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael reviews Federico Fellini's '8½'

INGMAR BERGMAN: PLAYBOY INTERVIEW (1964)

A Candid Conversation with Sweden's One-man New Wave of Cinematic Sorcery

RIDLEY SCOTT: DIRECTING ‘ALIEN’ THROUGH AN ARTIST’S EYES

The Making of "Alien". Interview with director Ridley Scott. Published in 'Starlog' n. 26, September 1979

BILL BURR: WALK YOUR WAY OUT (2017) – Full Transcript

Netflix special filmed on October 21, 2016 at The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville

HEYSEL, 29 MAGGIO 1985: LA PARTITA DELLA MORTE

di Marino Bartoletti BRUXELLES - Nel derby del dolore anche la Juventus ha ora le sue stimmate di sangue. Maggio 1949, Superga: il cielo si abbatte sul Grande Torino e lo rapisce ai suoi tifosi e al mondo. Maggio 1985, Bruxelles: la follia omicida di una barbara orda di inglesi e la criminale inefficienza della polizia belga macchiano coi colori...

ALIEN (1979): A GOTHIC SET IN SPACE – Review by Vincent Canby

Vincent Canby reviews Ridley Scott Si-Fi movie 'Alien' (1979). Published in The New York Times, May 25, 19

ALIEN (1979): INTERVIEW WITH SCREEWRITER DAN O’BANNON

by Bob Martin Vistas of unearthly beauty. . . A creature of inescapable terror. . . It’s SF cinema’s first outer space gothic thriller In some distant region of uncharted space, the battered starship Nostromo carries seven astronauts, five men and two women, on a commercial voyage. They are independent prospectors—traveling from planet to planet, extracting oil and precious minerals from...

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: WHIPPED – Review by Pauline Kael

by Pauline Kael The marketing executives are the new high priests of the movie business. It's natural. They’re handling important sums of money. And they dispense the money dramatically, in big campaigns that flood out over the country. It’s not unusual for more to be spent on marketing a picture than on making it, and this could become commonplace. (Everybody...

RAGING BULL: RELIGIOUS PULP, OR THE INCREDIBLE HULK – Review by Pauline Kael

by Pauline Kael As Jake la Motta, the former middleweight boxing champ, in Raging Bull, Robert De Niro wears scar tissue and a big, bent nose that deform his face. It’s a miracle that he didn't grow them—he grew' everything else. He developed a thick muscled neck and a fighter s body, and for the scenes of the broken, drunken...

HEYSEL, 29 MAGGIO 1985: OLOCAUSTO

Un gruppo di criminali di Liverpool ha tramutato in tragedia la finalissima fra i «reds» e la Juve bruciando decine di vite sull’altare dello sport

JUVENTUS-LIVERPOOL 1-0: UNA VITTORIA, UN INCUBO

Cabrini, Scirea e Tardelli sono i tre alfieri juventini che hanno vinto tutto ciò che c’era da vincere al mondo. Ma come gioirne oggi?

LOUIS C.K.: OH MY GOD (2013) – Full Transcript

'Oh My God' is the fifth comedy special performed by Louis C.K.. It premiered on HBO on April 13, 2013. Filmed in Phoenix, Arizona at the Celebrity Theatre

KILLING HITLER’S HANGMAN

Reinhard Heydrich's international ‘fame’ rose considerably as a result of his 1942 assassination which quickly became the subject of countless movies and books

LOUIS C.K.: LIVE AT THE COMEDY STORE (2015) – Transcript

The comic puts his trademark hilarious/thought-provoking spin on finding a bat in his kitchen, seeing rats having sex, Boston accents and dead pets.

APOCALYPSE NOW: A CLASH OF TWO CULTURES

Vittorio Storaro recalls the photographic challenges he confronted during the tumultuous production of Francis Ford Coppola's hallucinatory Vietnam War epic 'Apocalypse Now'

SPARTACUS AND THE SECOND PART OF THE SOUL

by Gordon Braden Roman History at the Movies At the end of Ridley Scott’s film Gladiator (2000), the mortally wounded Maximus (Russell Crowe), having killed the psychopathic emperor Commodus in gladiatorial combat in the Colosseum, speaks to the suddenly silent crowd: “There was a dream that was Rome. It shall be realized. These are the wishes of Marcus Aurelius.” Marcus was...

BILL HICKS: RELENTLESS (1992) – Transcript

Recorded in 1991 at the Centaur Theatre during the annual Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, Canada

DANIEL TOSH: HAPPY THOUGHTS (2011) – Transcript

Daniel Tosh performs in front of a live San Francisco audience in this stand-up special for Comedy Central, and touches on topics ranging from sports and pop culture, to religion and politics

PATRICE O’NEAL: ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (2011) – Transcript

Full transcript of 'Elephant in the Room', stand up special by comedian Patrice O'Neal, released by Comedy Central. It premiered on February 19, 2011

KATT WILLIAMS: LIVE (2006) – Full Transcript

(POLICE SIREN BLARING) (POLICE RADIO CHATTERING) (CROWD CLAMORING) CHRIS: Thank you. 100.9 the Wiz. Blazing hip hop and R and B. Jamming in the building right now. Man, it's just an honor to have this guy just stop by just to say hi and say what's up to Cincinnati. My man Katt Williams in the house. Say, Katt, you...

RICHARD PRYOR: LIVE IN CONCERT (1979) – Full Transcript

Filmed in Long Beach, California on December 10, 1978 Richard Pryor: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hey, thank you. Thank you much. Good evening. Waiting for the people to get from the bathroom. People are in there pissing, wait, the shit done started. Damn. What's happening, blood. Right on....

RICHARD PRYOR: LIVE ON THE SUNSET STRIP (1982) – Full Transcript

Comedy legend Richard Pryor touches on all subjects, ranging from women to his trip to Africa, and even his scandalous past: the brothel run by his grandmother, his cocaine addiction, and the infamous incident in which he lit himself on fire.

TREVOR NOAH: AFRAID OF THE DARK (2017) – Full Transcript

The "Daily Show" host ponders the perils of naming countries, how traffic lights turn New Yorkers invincible and why you shouldn't drink in Scotland

STRANGE DAYS (1995) – Sight and Sound Review

Philip Strick reviews 'Strange Days', the 1995 science fiction thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Published in 'Sight and Sound', January 1996

JIM JEFFERIES: BARE (2014) – Full Transcript

Nothing is sacred in this show from Australian comic Jim Jefferies, whether it’s the mother of his child, auditioning disabled actors, or gun control.

THE WHITE BALLOON (BADKONAKE SEFID, 1995) – Sight and Sound Review

Sight and Sound review of 'The White Balloon', a 1995 Iranian film directed by Jafar Panahi, with a screenplay by Abbas Kiarostami

DAVE CHAPPELLE: DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS (2017) – Full Transcript

Chappelle gets real about racially charged run-ins, celebrity scandals and fatherly dilemmas in a searing stand-up set at Austin's Moody Theatre

TOM SEGURA: MOSTLY STORIES (2016) – Full Transcript

Comedian Tom Segura savors wondrous strip-club names, basks in foul-mouthed heckling and shares life's dirty truths in an irreverent stand-up special

BILL BURR: LET IT GO (2010) – Full transcript

Burr's special 'Let it Go', recorded at The Fillmore in San Francisco and premiered on Comedy Central on September 18, 2010

TWELVE MONKEYS: EXTREMITIES

Debris and nightmare, madness and time preoccupy director Terry Gilliam in 'Twelve Monkeys’, with a screenplay by the writer of 'Blade Runner’. David Morgan visited the set

SEVEN (1995): THE ALLURE OF DECAY

Revulsion against the body haunts the new film by David Fincher as it does so much current cinema. What makes ‘Seven' distinctive? Amy Taubin explains

SEVEN (1995) – Sight and Sound Review

by John Wrathall Homicide detective William Somerset is joined for his last seven days on the job by his replacement, David Mills, who has just moved to the city. When the discovery of a man who has apparently been forced to eat until he bursts (Gluttony) is followed by the bleeding to death of a rich lawyer, whose body is...

CASINO: MARTIN SCORSESE’S TESTAMENT

What has drawn Scorsese to mix a mafia story with a Biblical epic? The director explains

GEORGE CARLIN: JAMMING IN NEW YORK (1992) – Testo italiano completo

Ciao, grazie. Grazie. Grazie. Grazie molte. Grazie. Grazie a tutti. Grazie a tutti. Grazie e un saluto a New York. Ciao New York e grazie. Si'. Ok. E' passato un po' di tempo dall'ultima volta che sono stato qui... ...e nel frattempo sono successe un paio di cose. Volevo parlare un po' della guerra nel Golfo Persico. Grandi attività...

GEORGE CARLIN: YOU ARE ALL DISEASED (1999) – Testo italiano completo

Siete gentili, grazie! Grazie mille, lo apprezzo. Grazie mille, grazie a tutti, grazie! Lo apprezzo... Grazie, grazie... Allora, lasciate che vi chieda una cosa... ...lasciate che vi chieda, come state tutti stasera, eh? Ottimo, be', andate affanculo! Cerco solo di farvi sentire a casa vostra. Ora, sentite, sono stato qua fuori tutto questo tempo e non mi sono ancora...

GEORGE CARLIN: IT’S BAD FOR YA! (2008) – Testo italiano completo

Grazie, grazie, grazie! Mi piacerebbe iniziare... Mi piacerebbe... grazie, grazie! Mi piacerebbe iniziare dicendo: affanculo Lance Armstrong! Affanculo lui e le sue palle e le sue biciclette e i suoi steroidi e le sue maglie gialle... ...e la stupida espressione vuota sul suo volto, sono stanco di quello stronzo. E già che ci siamo, affanculo anche Tiger Woods! Un'altra...

JIM JEFFERIES: FREEDUMB (2016) – Full Transcript

Jim Jefferies talks about family life and challenges the idea of American freedom live on stage in Nashville, Tennessee

EDDIE MURPHY: DELIRIOUS (1983) – Full Transcript

Transcript of Eddie Murphy's 'Delirious', stand-up comedy HBO special released August 30, 1983.

DAVE CHAPPELLE: THE AGE OF SPIN (2017) – Full Transcript

This is Dave. He tells dirty jokes for a living. That stare is where most of his hard work happens. It signifies a profound train of thought, the alchemist's fire that transforms fear and tragedy into levity and livelihood. Dave calls that look "the trance." ♪ Play me ♪ ♪ Buy me ♪ ♪ Workinonit ♪ ♪ Tune up...

AMICI MIEI (1975) – Recensione di Giovanni Grazzini

Amici miei è un'opera crudelissima e scanzonata, cattiva come una beffa del Lasca e cupa come il racconto d'un filosofo pessimista

SEDOTTA E ABBANDONATA (1964) – Recensione di Giovanni Grazzini

di Giovanni Grazzini Con Sedotta e abbandonata gli affezionati spettatori di Divorzio all'italiana si ritrovano in una Sicilia dominata da un grottesco senso dell'onore, nuovamente si muovono in un clima cupo e afoso con bagliori terrificanti, in cui scoppiano feroci contrasti familiari, e per la seconda volta s'imbattono in una Stefania Sandrelli concupita da un focoso isolano. Simile la cornice,...

GEORGE CARLIN: BACK IN TOWN (1996) – Full transcript

Back in Town is George Carlin's 15th album and ninth HBO special. It was also released on CD on September 17, 1996. This was also his first of many performances at the Beacon Theater in New York City "Abortion" Why, why, why, why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn't want to fuck...

LOUIS C.K.: 2017 – Full transcript

Louis C.K. muses on abortion, religion, eternal love, giving dogs drugs, email fights, teachers and more in a live performance from Washington, D.C.

GEORGE CARLIN: JAMMING IN NEW YORK (1992) – Full Transcript

Jammin' in New York is George Carlin's 14th album and eighth HBO special, recorded on April 24 and 25, 1992, at the Paramount Theater, on the grounds of Madison Square Garden in New York City. "Rockets and Penises in the Persian Gulf" Thank you and hello New York! Okay, it’s been a little while, it’s been a little while since I’ve...

GEORGE CARLIN: YOU ARE ALL DISEASED (1999) – Full Transcript

You Are All Diseased is the 16th album and 11th HBO live broadcast stand-up special by comedian George Carlin, recorded on February 6, 1999 at the Beacon Theater in New York City

FULL METAL JACKET: RECENSIONE DI FERNALDO DI GIAMMATTEO

Saggio critico di Fernaldo Di Giammatteo su "Full Metal Jacket", pubblicato nel numero monografico su Stanley Kubrick della collana Il Castoro Cinema

JIM JEFFERIES ON GUN CONTROL [FULL TRANSCRIPT]

Comedian Jim Jefferies breaks down the absurdity of America's obsession with guns in his Netflix special 'Bare'

ARANCIA MECCANICA – Analisi di Enrico Ghezzi, Il Castoro Cinema

Saggio critico di Enrico Ghezzi su "Arancia Meccanica", pubblicato nel numero monografico su Stanley Kubrick della collana Il Castoro Cinema

GEORGE CARLIN: COMPLAINTS AND GRIEVANCES (2001) Full Transcript

Full transcript of Complaints and Grievances, HBO comedy special by stand-up comedian George Carlin. It was recorded on November 17, 2001.

PHOTOGRAPHING STANLEY KUBRICK’S BARRY LYNDON

Interview with Director of Photography John Alcott Among all the film-makers of the world, there is no one quite like Stanley Kubrick. To be more accurate, there is no one even remotely like him. An early dropout from formal education, largely self-taught, but possessed of a razor-sharp intelligence and a voracious curiosity, he has, since the late 1950s steadily risen toward the...

KUBRICK’S SHINING – REVIEW BY RICHARD T. JAMESON FOR “FILM COMMENT”

by Richard T. Jameson Camera comes in low over an immense Western lake, its destination apparently a small island at the center that seems to consist of nothing but treetops. Draw nearer, then sweep over and pass the island, skewing slightly now in search of a central focus at the juncture of lake surface and the surrounding escarpment, glowing in...

LOLITA (1962): REVIEW BY ROBERT HATCH FOR ‘THE NATION’

Sue Lyon makes Lolita a mirror of the popular culture and as alarming a harbinger of Western civilization's imminent collapse as I can remember.

IL BUONO, IL BRUTTO, IL CATTIVO di Marcello Garofalo

di Marcello Garofalo Una località isolata battuta dal vento. Due uomini scendono da cavallo avanzando verso un terzo, loro complice: insieme entrano in un saloon sparando all’impazzata, quando dalla finestra sbuca un messicano, Tuco, tenendo in una mano un cosciotto di bue e nell’altra la pistola. Fermo immagine con la didascalia «il brutto». L’uomo fugge a cavallo, lasciando i sicari...

HISTORICISM IN “THE SHINING” by Fredric Jameson

Kubrick’s adaptation of King's novel, while it maintains elements necessary to cue the genre of the horror film, expands King’s work of popular entertainment into a thoroughly postmodern work of art.

REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS FORGOTTEN: THE SHINING

by Thomas Allen Nelson After Barry Lyndon, his least commercially successful but one of his most artistically satisfying films, Stanley Kubrick turned to a contemporary American horror novel by Stephen King. As interesting a potboiler in its own right as Thackeray’s obscure nineteenth-century picaresque adventure, King’s The Shining (1977) represented for Ku­brick something more than just a ready commercial property...

FAMILY LIFE AND LEISURE CULTURE IN “THE SHINING”

A recent variation in the horror movie genre has been a series of films about middle class life in America in which the source of potential hazard is middle class life.

GENRE THEORY AND “THE SHINING”

Toward a Post-structural Influence in Film Genre Study: Intertextuality and The Shining. Essay by Walter Metz

1984: ORWELL, O DELL’ENERGIA VISIONARIA – Saggio di Umberto Eco

Il terribile libro di Orwell ha segnato il nostro tempo, gli ha fornito una immagine ossessiva, la minaccia di un millennio assai prossimo, e dicendo "quel giorno verrà..." ci ha impegnato tutti nell'attesa di quel giorno

EYES WIDE SHUT: WHAT THE CRITICS FAILED TO SEE IN KUBRICK’S LAST FILM

Not a single critic, not even those few who claimed to like Eyes Wide Shut, made any attempt to understand the film on its own artistic terms. Instead, the critics denounced the film for not living up to the claims its publicists had made for it.

SCORSESE’S GANGS OF NEW YORK: WHY MYTH MATTERS

by Timothy J. Gilfoyle MARTIN SCORSESE, et al., Gangs of New York: Making the Movie. New York: Miramax Books, 2002, pp. 228, illustrations, $24.95 paper. HERBERT ASBURY, The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld. New York: Knopf, 1928, pp. xvii, 400; reprint, New York: Old Town Books, 1989; reprint, New York: Paragon House, 1990; reprint, New York:...

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI: UN MARXISTA A NEW YORK

È a New York da dieci giorni, è venuto per il festival cinematografico, vi davano due dei suoi film. Sono proprio cu­riosa di saper se l’America piace a questo marxista con­vinto, a questo cristiano arrabbiato, insomma a Pasolini.

THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940) – Review by Dilys Powell

by Dilys Powell The Grapes of Wrath is not just a film, not just a tragedy, not just a social indictment even; it is an experience; it is history unfolding like a terrible fungus; it is America. Not the cinema America; no lovely silk legs, no Civil War; not the vicious-naive underworld America of the gangster film either. This is...

THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940): THEMATIC EMPHASIS THROUGH VISUAL STYLE

by Vivian C. Sobchack Since its release in 1940, the film version of The Grapes of  Wrath has attracted enormous and enduring critical and popular attention.1 Yet, in some ways it has also remained a neglected film, a film obscured by the shadow of its illustrious parentage (John Ford out of John Steinbeck) and by its generic absorption into that...

APOCALYPSE NOW (1979): JOSEPH CONRAD AND THE TELEVISION WAR

"The most important thing I wanted to do in the making of Apocalypse Now was to create a film experience that would give its audience a sense of the horror, the madness, the sensuousness, and the moral dilemma of the Vietnam war. "

SEX AND DR. STRANGELOVE

This study will point out how Dr. Strangelove is a sex allegory: from foreplay to explosion in the mechanized world.

VLADIMIR NABOKOV: PLAYBOY INTERVIEW (1964)

Few authors of this generation have sparked more controversy with a single book than a former Cornell University professor with the resoundingly Russian name of Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

L’ANNO DEL DRAGONE – Recensione di Gualtiero De Marinis per “Cineforum”

C'è un patto di non aggressione tra la polizia e gli «anziani» della comunità cinese di Chinatown. Ma quando al posto dell'opimo William McKenna arriva l'agile Stanley White le cose cambiano.

FUORI ORARIO (1986) – Recensione di Franco La Polla per “Cineforum”

«Cambiano le regole. Quando si fanno le ore piccole è zona franca», dice il simpatico barista a Marcy e Paul, offrendo loro la consumazione, per divenire di lì a poco il burbero, inesorabile proprietario che impone al giovane l’ordinazione.

PAULINE KAEL ON OLIVER STONE’S PLATOON

Pauline Kael reviews Oliver Stone's "Platoon". Published in "The New Yorker", January 12, 1987

RISORGIMENTO RIVOLUZIONARIO

Dal 1831 al 1860 i rivoluzionari italiani tentarono una serie di insurrezioni spedizioni militari nella convinzione di suscitare una guerra di popolo: per lo più quei tentativi furono male organizzati e spesso si conclusero in tragedia; a volte ebbero invece un clamoroso successo che superò qualunque logica.

BEHIND THE SCENES OF “THE SHINING” WITH SCATMAN CROTHERS

"I wanted to play the part of Dick Halloran before I even knew that they were going to make the movie," says Scatman Crothers

25 LUGLIO 1943: MONTANELLI RACCONTA LA FINE DEL DUCE

Nel luglio 1943 la caduta di Mussolini e il crollo del regime che aveva tenuto in pugno l'Italia per 21 anni rappresentarono per molti italiani la fine di un incubo. Per altri, cresciuti nel mito dell'Impero e del «genio italico», fu una tragedia.

MARTIN SCORSESE: PLAYBOY INTERVIEW (1991)

Martin Scorsese interviewed by David Rensin for Playboy magazine, April 1991

THE THREE FACES OF LOLITA, OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE ADAPTATION

Lolita’s path from novel to the Stanley Kubrick's and Adrian Lyne's film adaptations. Essay by Rebecca Bell-Metereau

FROM ‘TRAUMNOVELLE’ (1927) TO SCRIPT TO SCREEN—’EYES WIDE SHUT’ (1999)

Stanley Kubrick came very late in life to the screen adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s novella, though he had read it and been intrigued by it some thirty years earlier.

ARMY OF SHADOWS: PIÈCE DE RÉSISTANCE

Pierre Lhomme, recalls his work on "Army of Shadows", Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 masterpiece about the French Resistance

ARANCIA MECCANICA – Recensione di Giovanni Grazzini

Giovanni Grazzini recensisce "Arancia Meccanica" di Stanley Kubrick. Corriere della Sera, 24 agosto 1972

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY – CATCHER IN THE MILKY-WAY

Paul Schrader reviews Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey". Published in 'Spectacle', September 13, 1968

MATTATOIO N. 5 – Introduzione di Vincenzo Mantovani

Introduzione di Vincenzo Mantovani alla versione italiana Mondadori del romanzo di Kurt Vonnegut Jr. "Mattatoio N.5"

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE: DREAD AND DESIRE

Aching desire and repression and guilt collide in Scorsese’s version of Edith Wharton’s 'The Age of Innocence'

CUORE DI TENEBRA: INTRODUZIONE DI ROBERT HAMPSON

Introduzione di Robert Hampson all'edizione Mondadori del romanzo di Joseph Conrad "Cuore di tenebra" (Heart of Darkness)

FURORE: IL TEMPO, LA SOCIETÀ

Introduzione alla versione italiana del romanzo "Furore" (The Grapes of Wrath) di John Steinbeck, pubblicato da Bompiani nel 1940

SENTINEL OF ETERNITY (1951) by Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke's short story "Sentinel of Eternity", published in 1951 , which was used as a starting point for the novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey

MAO 1966-1996: IL VERO VOLTO DELLA RIVOLUZIONE CULTURALE CHE ILLUSE UNA GENERAZIONE

Uno sconvolgente dossier-verità sulla rivoluzione culturale, sul mito del maoismo e sulle illusioni di una generazione

THE ARTFUL PROPAGANDA OF FORD’S “THE GRAPES OF WRATH”

Athough audiences still want to see John Ford's "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), it has been belittled by critics since the emergence of scholarly interest in American film in the 1960s.

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA: PLAYBOY INTERVIEW (1975)

American director Francis Ford Coppola interviewed by William Murray for Playboy magazine, July 1975 issue

PATHS OF GLORY – Review by Bosley Crowther

To a certain extent, this forthright picture has the impact of hard reality, mainly because its frank avowal of agonizing, uncompensated injustice is pursued to the bitter, tragic end.

PATHS OF GLORY – Review by Dilys Powell

Paths of Glory is the work of a brilliant young professional who is easing himself into the more difficult teaches of his job.

KUBRICK: LA GUERRA E LA STORIA

Il film di Kubrick "Paths of Glory" visto nel contesto della cinematografia più critica verso la Grande Guerra

COBB AND KUBRICK: AUTHOR AND AUTEUR: (PATHS OF GLORY AS NOVEL AND FILM)

Not the least of the virtues of Stanley Kubrick’s movie version of Paths of Glory is that it has been a chief help in rescuing Humphrey Cobb’s 1935 novel— now appearing, as they say, on your neighborhood book-stand.

1848: LA RIVOLUZIONE MANCATA

Gianluca Formichi racconta il biennio della rivoluzione nazionale italiana conclusosi il 25 agosto 1849 con la resa di Venezia, ultimo baluardo della rivoluzione. Pubblicato su "Storia e Dossier", luglio-agosto 1995

DR. STRANGELOVE: NIGHTMARE COMEDY AND THE IDEOLOGY OF LIBERAL CONSENSUS

by Charles Maland DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (Stanley Kubrick, 1964) is one of the most fascinating and important American films of the 1960s. As a sensitive artistic response to its age, the film presents a moral protest of revulsion against the dominant cultural paradigm in America—what Geoffrey Hodgson has termed...

EYES WIDE SHUT: STANLEY, TOM AND NICOLE—THREE OF A KIND

Tom and Nicole tell how they succumbed to Stanley Kubrick's obsession—and his charm

EYES WIDE SHUT: ALL EYES ON THEM – Review by Richard Schickel

The theme is sexual obsession. The stars are Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. The director is Stanley Kubrick. Who could look anywhere else?

ARANCIA MECCANICA: ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN

E se "Arancia meccanica" fosse il primo metafilm di tutto il cinema postmoderno? Saggio di Marcello Walter Bruno

ARANCIA MECCANICA E LOLITA: KUBRICK REPLAY

Le riedizioni di Lolita e di Arancia Meccanica: il cinema come "magnifica ossessione", la componente ludica della violenza in una messa in scena "assoluta" delle nostre pulsioni e illusioni culturali.

DR. STRANGELOVE – Review by Bosley Crowther

Stanley Kubrick's new film, called Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, is beyond any question the most shattering sick joke I've ever come across.

FULL METAL KUBRICK – UN DOSSIER PROVVISORIO di Paolo Cherchi Usai

Full Metal Jacket (1987) di Stanley Kubrick. Recensione di Paolo Cherchi Usai, in "Segnocinema", n. 31, 1988

FULL METAL JACKET: KUBRICK’S ULTERIOR WAR

Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" review published in Film Comment, September/October 1998. By Robert Castle and Stephen Donatelli

EYES WIDE SHUT: KUBRICK CASTS A RIVETING SPELL

Unquestionably one of the most highly anticipated films of modern times due to its high-powered talent combo, protracted and secrecy-enshrouded shoot, rumored racy content

FULL METAL JACKET: PONDEROSO – Review by Pauline Kael

Chances are that when Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam film Full Metal Jacket is at midpoint a lot of moviegoers will be asking themselves what it’s going to be about, and when it’s over they still won’t know.

I CANCELLI DEL CIELO: RECENSIONE DI “SEGNO CINEMA”

I cancelli del cielo si aprono sull’inferno. Il film è il crack economico più disastroso di tutti i tempi e gode di un efferato ostracismo critico indigeno

IL CACCIATORE – Recensione di Morando Morandini

Morando Morandini recensisce "Il cacciatore" di Michael Cimino

THE DEER HUNTER – Review by Vincent Canby [The Ne York Times]

Vincent Canby reviews Michael Cimino's "The Deer Hunter" for The New York Times, December 15, 1978

GANGS OF NEW YORK: AMERICA OF SCORSESE

Gangs of New York (2002) di M. Scorsese. Contributi critici di F. La Polla, F. Cattaneo, E. Morreale, A.G. Mancino e A. Piccardi. Cineforum 423, marzo 2003

IL PIANISTA (2002) – Recensione Cineforum

Contributi critici di Emanuela Martini e Francesco Cattaneo. In "Cineforum" 421, gennaio 2003

IL SIGNORE DEGLI ANELLI: LE DUE TORRI – IL CREPUSCOLO DEGLI EROI

Nella Terra di Mezzo, il Male sta dilagando; le sue schiere si rafforzano e si infittiscono, mentre il minuscolo esercito del Bene è disperso e confuso.

A.I. INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE: UN MONDO SENZA PIETÀ – Speciale Cineforum

"A.I." delinea l'immagine di un mondo (futuro?) in cui "nascere" robot aiuta forse a capire, ma non a sconfiggere il destino di solitudine e silenzio che incombe sulla specie umana

SREBRENICA DIECI ANNI DOPO

11 luglio 1995: i soldati serbobosniaci uccidono settemila uomini e ragazzi musulmani. La storia di Fatima e Damir. E di una fotografia che sconvolse il mondo

UOMINI CONTRO: RECENSIONI ITALIANE

Con contributi di Giovanni Grazzini (Il Corriere della Sera), Calisto Cosulich (ABC), Onorato Orsini (La Notte), Ugo Casiraghi (l’Unità)

RETAKE: THE FILMS OF ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

Rereading articles in 'Positif' on Iranian cinema recalls opportunely that the appearance on the international scene of Abbas Kiarostami was not without precedence: the soil of Iran was already cinematographically fertile

FULL METAL JACKET: PAINT IT BLACK – Essay by Michael Klein

Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987) presents a very different vision of the Vietnam War, one with enhanced perspective.

L’ANNO DEL DRAGONE: RECENSIONE DI ‘SEGNO CINEMA’

Cimino fa sollevare le comunità cinesi d’America per la sua ritrattistica di una mafia gialla che tesaurizza tutta l’iconografia hollywoodiana in materia, da Fu Manchu in poi

THE RIGHT PLACE: INTERVISTA A MICHAEL CIMINO (1985)

Intervista a Michael Cimino realizzata da Marc Chevrie, Jean Narboni e Vincent Ostria, Cahiers du Cinéma n. 377

ARANCIA MECCANICA (RIEDIZIONE, 1998) – Recensioni italiane

Raccolta di recensioni italiane pubblicate in occasione della riedizione del film di Stanley Kubrick 'Arancia meccanica' nel 1998

THE SHINING: Review by Robert Hatch for “The Nation”

I am not certain what it means to call Stanley Kubrick's The Shining "the first epic horror film," as the ads are quoting Jack Kroll of Newsweek, but surely it is one of the strangest of them.

FULL METAL JACKET: Review by Terrence Rafferty for “The Nation”

Full Metal Jacket certainly isn’t what we expect a Vietnam movie to be. Then again, it’s only secondarily a movie about the war. First and foremost, this is a Kubrick movie

ROBIN WILLIAMS: PLAYBOY INTERVIEW (1992)

In 1992, the actor-comedian revealed the wonderful agony of stand-up, the perils of a life in Hollywood, and manic temptations that came with his Oscar-nominated gifts

EYES WIDE SHUT: L’ULTIMA LUCCICANZA DI KUBRICK

Recensioni di 'Eyes Wide Shut' pubblicate sulla rivista Duel, n.74, Ottobre 1999. Contributi critici di Ezio Alberone, Gianni Canova e Mario Sesti

STANLEY KUBRICK RAPS

Interviewer Charlie Kohler met with Kubrick in an MGM conference room surrounded by posters and stills from 2001. Kubrick was eager to discuss his new film.

BODIES IN SPACE: FILM AS CARNAL KNOWLEDGE

Annette Michelson in her famous 1969 essay, Bodies in Space: Film as 'Carnal Knowledge' in which she explored the phenomenal impact of 2001: A Space Odyssey

BONNIE E CLYDE: DUE FIGLI DELL’AMERICA DEPRESSA

Bonnie e Clyde, la coppia di amanti-rapinatori come simbolo di atteggiamenti d'istintiva ribellione a una società di tipo convenzionale

TODD MCCARTHY ON ‘SERGEANT YORK’ (1941)

Todd McCarthy on Howard Hawk's movie "Sergeant York" (1941), the story of Alvin C. York, one of the most decorated soldiers in American history

2001: ODISSEA NELLO SPAZIO – Analisi di Enrico Ghezzi, Il Castoro Cinema

Il 1968 fu un anno memorabile. Il primo Giro vinto da Eddy Merckx, Beamon che a Città del Messico salta 8,90 in lungo, il Maggio, Praga. Inoltre, esce 2001: Odissea nello spazio

PAULINE KAEL ON ‘2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY’

Kubrick literally learned to stop worrying and love the bomb; he’s become his own butt—the Herman Kahn of extraterrestrial games theory

BONNIE AND CLYDE: REVIEW BY PAULINE KAEL

How do you make a good movie in this country without being jumped on? Bonnie and Clyde is the most excitingly American American movie since The Manchurian Candidate.

BEHIND THE CAMERAS ON “THE SHINING”

August 1980 issue of American Cinematographer magazine, including an interview with John Alcott and an article on the use of Garrett Brown’s invention, the steadicam, in The Shining.

SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE: REVIEW BY MICHAEL CRICHTON

In 1969, a then relatively unknown Michael Crichton reviewed Kurt Vonnegut's latest novel, "Slaughterhouse Five". In an ambivalent take, Crichton called it "hideous, ghastly, murderous—and calm."

FULL METAL JACKET: L’OSSESSIONE SENZA FINE DELLA GUERRA IN VIETNAM

Forse l'America ha trovato il sistema per esorcizzare una guerra dolorosamente perduta: basta continuare a combatterla al cinema, all'infinito.

FULL METAL JACKET: KUBRICK E I ‘MINISTRI DI MORTE’

Tullio Kezich recensisce il nuovo film di Stanley Kubrick "Full Metal Jacket". Pubblicato in La Repubblica, 10 ottobre 1987

EFFETTO “SHINING”: TECNICA ED ESPRESSIONE DELL’ULTIMO KUBRICK

Saggio di di Paolo Cherchi Usai. “Segnocinema”, 1981, n. 1

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA: AN OFFER HE COULDN’T REFUSE

Francis Ford Coppola on 'The Godfather Part III. Interview by Ana Maria Bahiana for CINEMA Papers

CALLIE KHOURI: SCRIPTING THELMA & LOUISE

Interview by Ana Maria Bahiana. In a town like LA, where everybody from your valet parker to your dentist seems to be writing a screenplay with dreams of wealth and glory on their minds, Callie Khouri is a strange, notable exception.

MARTIN SCORSESE: GANGSTER AND PRIEST

Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas: Interview by Ana Maria Bahiana and Afterword by Raffaele Caputo. From CINEMA Papers, December 1990

VIEW FLAWS DON’T DIM ‘THE SHINING’ – Review by Janet Maslin [The New York Times]

Stanley Kubrick, once again leaves his audiences asking a familiar question: How can anyone make a film so fastidiously beautiful and still leave so many loose ends?

THE SHINING: Review by Janet Maslin for the New York Times

The Shining, Stanley Kubrick's spellbinding foray into the realm of the horror film, is at its most gloriously diabolical as Jack and Wendy Torrance take the grand tour.

EYES WIDE SHUT E VERTIGO: EROTISMO, MORTE E METAFISICA IN KUBRICK E HITCHCOCK

Eyes Wide Shut (1999), capolavoro postumo di Stanley Kubrick, condivide con Vertigo (1958), di Alfred Hitchcock, non solo le linee tematiche di sviluppo, ma anche quelle linguistiche e strutturali.

EYES WIDE SHUT: KUBRICK SE NE VA LASCIANDOCI L’ENIGMA

Porteremo a lungo nella memoria l’enigma di questo film, che è come una dolce e vaga serata d’addio di un nostro misterioso amico settantunenne, che ci ha lasciato per sempre senza svelarci quasi nessuno dei suoi segreti.

2001: A PHILOSOPHICAL ODYSSEY

In 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) we are invited by director Stanley Kubrick to experience a mesmerizing yet also alienating form of sensory liberation, as paradoxical as such an experience may at first sound.

BLADE RUNNER: RECENSIONE DI GIOVANNI GRAZZINI

Uno dei più clamorosi film di fantascienza che si siano visti negli ultimi anni, una delle più sgomentevoli profezie sull'imminente medioevo, uno dei frutti più maturi del cinema spettacolare.

C’ERA UNA VOLTA IN AMERICA: LEONE E LA MEMORIA – di Piera Detassis

L'operazione dei distributori americani di tagliare e rimontare cronologicamente il film di Sergio Leone, C’era una volta in America, è un atto di violenza che riduce in polvere, cancellandolo, il cuore narrativo stesso di questo film

GEORGE CARLIN: LIFE IS WORTH LOSING (2006) – Full transcript

George Carlin returns to the stage in Life is Worth Losing, his 13th live comedy stand-up special, performed at the Beacon Theatre in New York City for HBO

BLADE RUNNER: BABY, THE RAIN MUST FALL – Review by Pauline Kael

Blade Runner doesn’t engage you directly; it forces passivity on you. It sets you down in this lopsided maze of a city, with its post-human feeling, and keeps you persuaded that something bad is about to happen.

MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI: THE PLAYBOY INTERVIEW (1967)

As the creator of such meticulously crafted and psychologically penetrating films as L‘Avventura, Red Desert and Blow-Up, 55-year-old Michelangelo Antonioni has earned a lofty but controversial niche among cinematic chroniclers of the problems that beset modern man.

APOCALYPSE NOW – Review by Vincent Canby [The New York Times]

Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now lives up to its grand title, disclosing not only the various faces of war but also the contradictions between excitement and boredom, terror and pity, brutality and beauty.

UNA TENEBRA INCOMPIUTA: CONRAD RIPRODOTTO

Apocalypse Now come segno della divisione fra il moderno e il postmoderno. Saggio di Francesco Binni

THE CHAIN NEVER STOPS: A SPECIAL REPORT FROM INSIDE THE USA’S SLAUGHTERHOUSES

Thousands of meatpacking workers suffer crippling injuries each year. A special report from inside the nation's slaughterhouses.

CARNE DA MACELLO: INCHIESTA DI ERIC SCHLOSSER

Nei mattatoi degli Stati Uniti la produzione non si ferma mai. Inchiesta sul lavoro più pericoloso d’America

ROMA-LIVERPOOL, 30 MAGGIO 1984: LE PAGINE DI “REPUBBLICA”

Finale della Coppa dei Campioni 1984, Roma-Liverpool raccontata nelle pagine del quotidiano la Repubblica

CUORE DI TENEBRA: INTRODUZIONE DI FRANCESCO BINNI

Joseph Conrad, Cuore di tenebra, introduzione di Francesco Binni, traduzione di Luisa Saraval, Milano, Garzanti, 2002

DESERTO ROSSO: RECENSIONE DI GIOVANNI GRAZZINI

È il male del secolo, tutti ne siamo affetti. Matti incurabili, l'unico conforto ci viene dal tenere per mano un bambino e dall'avere coscienza della nostra condizione. La colpa di tutto? Innanzi tutto, della civiltà industriale.

CUORE DI TENEBRA: L’ANGELO NERO – Saggio di Alberto Asor Rosa

Di Cuore di Tenebra la Linea d'ombra rappresenta idealmente l'antecedente immediato, anche se è stata scritta diciott'anni circa dopo l'altro racconto.

FRANCIS COPPOLA: THE ROLLING STONE INTERVIEW (1982)

The director discusses his new movie — One from the Heart — and his bold vision for the future of filmmaking

MARIO MONICELLI: «BASTA CON QUESTE BUFFONATE!»

Orio Caldiron intervista Mario Monicelli, l'inventore della commedia all'italiana, prima bistrattata e poi rivalutata

ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA: REVIEW BY “CINEMA PAPERS”

Much of the confusion about "Once Upon a Time in America" stems from a certain critical inability to understand why the film is structured the way it is, and why Leone chooses to conclude the fiction with such a supposedly enigmatic scene.

ENNIO MORRICONE: INTERVIEW (1984)

Ennio Morricone has written some of the cinema's most- recognizable and best-loved film scores including the recent Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in America". Here he is inter­viewed by Sue Adler.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA: THE NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW

A lazily hallucinatory epic that means to encapsulate approximately 50 years of American social history into a single film

C’ERA UNA VOLTA IN AMERICA: Recensione di Giovanni Grazzini

Recensione del film di Sergio Leone "C'era una volta in America", a cura di Giovanni Grazzini, Il Corriere della Sera, 21 maggio 1984

L’ISOLA IN PRIMA LINEA

Durante la guerra di Spagna la Sardegna svolse un ruolo rilevante come base aerea e navale

C’ERA UNA VOLTA IN AMERICA: ODIOSO SUBLIME LEONE – di Tullio Kezich

Tullio Kezich recensisce dal Festival di Cannes il film di Sergio Leone "C'era una volta in America"

2001: ODISSEA NELLO SPAZIO – Recensione di Giovanni Grazzini

Non siamo soli nell'universo. Per convincercene, e umiliare il nostro orgoglio, Stanley Kubrick ha scritto e diretto il più clamoroso e agghiacciante film di fantascienza, o come lui dice, di "prescienza", che sinora sia apparso sugli schermi del sistema solare.

CAPOTE (2005): A SANGUE FREDDO

Quando Philip Seymour Hoffman sale sul palco del teatro Walter Reade, a Manhattan, sono appena passati i titoli di coda di Capote, il film che potrebbe valergli l’Oscar 2005 per il migliore interprete maschile.

TAKESHI KITANO: ARTISTA A DUE FACCE

È uno dei registi giapponesi più amati del mondo. Ma nel suo paese si fa chiamare Beat Takeshi ed è il re della tv spazzatura

IL CASTELLO ERRANTE DI HOWL: MIYAZAKI LIBERA TUTTI

Il 9 settembre esce in Italia Il castello errante di Howl del regista giapponese Hayao Miyazaki. Che anche questa volta assegna all’immaginazione dei bambini il compito di salvare il mondo

MEMORIE DI GUERRA

“Per tutto quel periodo non ho fatto che sognare le scarpe. Come ottenerle? Che fare per procurarmele?”. Sessantanni fa finiva la seconda guerra mondiale. Il ricordo di Ryszard Kapuscinski

FULL METAL JACKET: CYNIC’S CHOICE

September 1987 issue of American Cinematographer, detailing the making of Stanley Kubrick's film 'Full Metal Jacket'.

PLATOON: Review by Terrence Rafferty for “The Nation”

Oliver Stone’s Platoon, about a group of American infantrymen in Vietnam between 1967 and 1968, is the first Hollywood film about this country’s Southeast Asian adventure that’s just a war movie

FIDEL CASTRO: Dagli archivi del “Corriere”

L'avventura politica di Fidel Castro raccontata nelle pagine del Corriere della Sera

FULL METAL JACKET: REMOTE CONTROL

Review of Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket", by Terrence Rafferty, in Sight and Sound, Autumn 1987

STANLEY KUBRICK: QUEST FOR PERFECTION

Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic collaborators recall the man and his very unique methods

EYES WIDE SHUT: A SWORD IN BED

Cinematographer Larry Smith helps Stanley Kubrick craft a unique look for Eyes Wide Shut, a dreamlike coda to the director’s brilliant career

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE: THE OLD ULTRA-VIOLENCE

Director Stanley Kubrick lent a learned eye to A Clockwork Orange, enlisting lighting cameraman John Alcott, BSC to help create a bleak dystopian futurescape

FIDEL CASTRO SECONDO LE GRANDI FIRME DEL “CORRIERE DELLA SERA”

Raccolta di articoli su Fidel Castro pubblicati dalle grandi firme del Corriere della Sera

PAUL SCHRADER ON TAXI DRIVER

In this extract from Schrader on Schrader, a collection of interviews and essays, screenwriter Paul Schrader tells Kevin Jackson about the genesis of Travis Bickle, working with Martin Scorsese and the link between the Coppertone advert and Crime and Punishment

SARDEGNA 1943: TERRORE DAL CIELO

Tra febbraio e settembre del 1943, molti piccoli centri sardi furono attaccati dall’aviazione alleata

VIDDY WELL, LITTLE BROTHER!

A Clockwork Orange by Tony Parsons A Clockwork Orange was like seeing your little life blown up and put on the big screen. It took all the consolations of being a teenager in Britain in the early 70s — the tribal identity, the comfort of friendship, the mindless intoxication — and made them mythic, monumental, glorious. When the film was released...

CAMPANE A MORTO

Dopo il dramma dei bombardamenti, l’avvocato cagliaritano Giuseppe Musio annunciò nel quotidiano sassarese “L’Isola” la definitiva scomparsa della sua città

GERTRUD (1964) – Recensione di Giovanni Grazzini

Giovanni Grazzini recensisce per il Corriere della Sera il film "Gertrud" di Carl Theodor Dreyer

LA PIÙ BELLA DEL MONDO

Nel trionfo degli azzurri al «Mundial 82» (il primo dell'era moderna) si mescolano varie componenti: atletiche, tecniche e tattiche, ma soprattutto una virtù di comportamento che ci ha reso la squadra più ammirata

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI: IL VANGELO SECONDO MATTEO – Recensione di Giovanni Grazzini

A ogni altra considerazione sul film che Pasolini ha tratto dal Vangelo secondo Matteo bisogna avanzare una premessa: l'azzardo ha avuto già il suo premio nel coraggio, nella buona fede, nella rigorosa aderenza al testo sacro.

ELSA MORANTE E L’ISOLA DI ARTURO

Sergio Saviane incontra Elsa Morante

KUBRICK AND ‘THE SHINING’

P.L. Titterington discusses the evolution of Kubrick’s style and the language of his ideas.

IL SETTECENTO DI BARRY LYNDON E DI 2001: ODISSEA NELLO SPAZIO

Avvisaglie della fine impossibile di Francesco Cattaneo «...è l'individuo tale quale, elementare e tortuoso, vomitato dal Caos in piena Versailles". E.M. Cioran (1). «La luce è tenebra quando è solo luce» Franco Rella (2). Una delle immagini più vulgate del Settecento è sine dubio quella afferente alla formula kantiana secondo cui «l'Illumi­nismo è l'uscita dell'uomo dallo stato di minorità che egli deve imputare...

2001: ODISSEA NELLO SPAZIO: Recensione di Fernaldo di Giammatteo

Il caso di 2001: A Space Odyssey, film di enorme successo e di enorme sfortuna, è uno dei più clamorosi. Tanti furono i sofismi che ne accolsero l’uscita da indurre lo stesso Stanley Kubrick a fornire, un poco infastidito, la sua semplice spiegazione

A SKELETON KEY TO 2001 – by Don Daniels [Sight and Sound]

The young cult for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey now has its HolyWrit. The second 70 mm. release of the movie was accompanied by a collection entitled The Making of Kubrick's '2001' and edited, with the cooperation of the director, by Jerome Agel.

MARIO MONICELLI: IL MIO CINEMA FRA MUSSOLINI, SORDI E GORBACËV

E' stato uno dei più grandi registi italiani di tutti i tempi. Qui ripercorre la sua vita in un racconto intensissimo e divertente, amaro e surreale. Proprio come le sue commedie.

THE SHINING: RESIDENT PHANTOMS

Jonathan Romney looks for clues to Stanley Kubrick’s themes in The Shining’s Overlook Hotel (Sight and Sound, September 1999)

EYES WITHOUT A FACE

Eyes Wide Shut movie review by Charles Whitehouse, Sight and Sound, September 1999

IL PREZZO DELLA VITTORIA

Gli italiani alla guerra di Spagna. Di John F. Coverdale

ROBERT BRESSON: THE POETRY OF PRECISION

Robert Bresson interview with Michel Ciment for American Film, October 1983

SUSAN SONTAG: THE ROLLING STONE INTERVIEW (1979)

The writer reflects on her bout with cancer, the fundamentals of love, and her "desert childhood" by Jonathan Cott The only possible metaphor one may conceive of for the life of the mind,'' wrote the late political scientist Hannah Arendt, ''is the sensation of being alive. Without the breath of life, the human body is a corpse; without thinking, the human...

TRUMAN CAPOTE – PLAYBOY INTERVIEW

“Wealthy Farmer, Three of Family Slain: H.W. Clutter, Wife and Two Children Are Found Shot in Kansas Home.” The UPI dispatch below this headline, buried in the back pages of the November 15, 1959, New York Times,had an electrifying effect on novelist Truman Capote.

‘2001’ IS UP, UP AND AWAY: KUBRICK’S ODYSSEY IN SPACE BEGINS RUN

2001: A Space Odyssey, a film in which infinite care, intelligence, patience, imagination and Cinerama have been devoted to what looks like the apotheosis of the fantasy of a precocious, early nineteen-fifties city boy.

LOLITA (1962) – Review by Dilys Powell

See the film twice within the space of five days: the test is severe, especially when the original from which the piece is drawn is already familiar...

QUEL GIORNO DA INFARTO A TORINO CON LA JUVE

Juventus - Cagliari, una partita drammatica ricostruita attraverso la testimonianza del medico sociale del Cagliari dello scudetto, il dottor Augusto Frongia

THE MOST BRILLIANT SCI-FI MIND ON ANY PLANET: PHILIP K. DICK

Profile of Philip K. Dick by Paul Williams published in the November 6, 1975 edition of Rolling Stone magazine

KUBRICK COUNTRY – Interview by Penelope Houston