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La Grande Bouffe
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Tales of Ordinary Madness
: :'Style is the answer to everything,' intones skid row poet Charles Serking, played by the suitably grizzled and worn Ben Gazarra, to his somnambulistic audience. Serking is, of course, a not-at-all veiled stand-in for beat legend Charles Bukowksi, whose autobiographical short stories were the basis for this film. But Serking, in many ways, comes off more like a gin-soaked fantasy of a skid row Hemingway whose sports of choice are alcohol, women, and sex. Behind the salt-and-pepper beard and rummy eyes lies an actor too poised to allow himself to fully sink into ...
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La Grande Bouffe
:Description:Marco Ferreri's greatest international success, 'La Grande Bouffe' scandalized audiences when it was released in 1973. Audiences were shocked by its tale of four world-weary middle-aged men (superbly portrayed by Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli and Philippe Noiret) who decide to gorge themselves to death in one final orgiastic weekend full of gourmet food, call girls and a hefty, lusty schoolteacher. This blackly humorous parable of modern society's collapse won the Cannes Film Festival's International Critics Award. The New York Times called it 'vulgar vaudeville on an epic scale...a mordant, chilling, hilarious ...
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La Grande Bouffe
:Description:Marco Ferreri's greatest international success, 'La Grande Bouffe' scandalized audiences when it was released in 1973. Audiences were shocked by its tale of four world-weary middle-aged men (superbly portrayed by Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli and Philippe Noiret) who decide to gorge themselves to death in one final orgiastic weekend full of gourmet food, call girls and a hefty, lusty schoolteacher. This blackly humorous parable of modern society's collapse won the Cannes Film Festival's International Critics Award. The New York Times called it 'vulgar vaudeville on an epic scale...a mordant, chilling, hilarious ...
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Bye Bye Monkey
:Description:Marco Ferreri's greatest international success, 'La Grande Bouffe' scandalized audiences when it was released in 1973. Audiences were shocked by its tale of four world-weary middle-aged men (superbly portrayed by Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli and Philippe Noiret) who decide to gorge themselves to death in one final orgiastic weekend full of gourmet food, call girls and a hefty, lusty schoolteacher. This blackly humorous parable of modern society's collapse won the Cannes Film Festival's International Critics Award. The New York Times called it 'vulgar vaudeville on an epic scale...a mordant, chilling, hilarious ...
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Her Harem
:Description:Marco Ferreri's greatest international success, 'La Grande Bouffe' scandalized audiences when it was released in 1973. Audiences were shocked by its tale of four world-weary middle-aged men (superbly portrayed by Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli and Philippe Noiret) who decide to gorge themselves to death in one final orgiastic weekend full of gourmet food, call girls and a hefty, lusty schoolteacher. This blackly humorous parable of modern society's collapse won the Cannes Film Festival's International Critics Award. The New York Times called it 'vulgar vaudeville on an epic scale...a mordant, chilling, hilarious ...
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Seeking Asylum
:Description:Starring Roberto Benigni (Life is Beautiful, Down By Law), this is the rare Marco Ferreri 'family film,' where a fun-loving and highly unorthodox school teacher brings some magic into the lives of the young children when he takes a job at an unusually strict preschool. A visually stirring and emotionally riveting treat. :Young Roberto Benigni plays a nonconformist kindergarten teacher who brings his brand of creative chaos to the classroom in Marco Ferreri's comic drama. This is a much calmer Benigni than the hyperactive rubber-face we're used to, but though he manages to ...
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Bye Bye Monkey (Ws)
:Description:Bye Bye Monkey has been called one of Italian director Marco Ferreri's most powerful and haunting works. Variety describes it as 'a sort of fable on man's transient state today, which [Ferreri] intimates has about destroyed all the old standards, leaving little to replace them...[a] sometimes jolting, entertaining and disturbing look at a fringe side of mankind.' In this richly symbolic work, Gerard Depardieu and Marcello Mastroianni star as two foreign eccentrics whose discovery of an abandoned baby chimpanzee causes them to question their own lives. Winner of the 1978 Cannes Film Festival ...
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Tales of Ordinary Madness (Ws)
:Description:Charles Serking, loosely based on the infamous poet Charles Bukowski, rejects a conventional lifestyle to journey through the underbelly of Los Angeles in 'Tales of Ordinary Madness.' He indulges an insatiable appetite for sex and booze in what the Hollywood Reporter calls 'a cinematic walk on the wild side.' Directed by Marco Ferreri, this 1981 film won four Italian Academy Awards and the San Sebastian Film Festival Grand Prize. Compelling, sometimes shocking, and explicit. :'Style is the answer to everything,' intones skid row poet Charles Serking, played by the suitably grizzled and worn ...
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Ciao maschio
:Description:Charles Serking, loosely based on the infamous poet Charles Bukowski, rejects a conventional lifestyle to journey through the underbelly of Los Angeles in 'Tales of Ordinary Madness.' He indulges an insatiable appetite for sex and booze in what the Hollywood Reporter calls 'a cinematic walk on the wild side.' Directed by Marco Ferreri, this 1981 film won four Italian Academy Awards and the San Sebastian Film Festival Grand Prize. Compelling, sometimes shocking, and explicit. :'Style is the answer to everything,' intones skid row poet Charles Serking, played by the suitably grizzled and worn ...
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