by Sean Axmaker | Jan 22, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Adua and Her Friends (Raro / Kino Lorber, Blu-ray) are prostitutes from a Rome brothel attempting to take charge of their own lives after their place is shut down in the aftermath of Italy’s Merlin Law, which ended legalized prostitution in 1958 (the film was...
by Sean Axmaker | Oct 30, 2013 | Home Viewing
La Notte (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD), the second film in Michelangelo Antonioni’s “trilogy of alienation” (it’s bracketed by L’Avventura, 1961, and L’Eclisse, 1962, both on Criterion DVD), stars Marcello Mastroianni as a celebrated...