#Franco Prosperi

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Mondo cane n. 2 (1963)

#mondo cane n. 2 #1960s movies #1963 #gualtiero jacopetti #franco prosperi #horror #shockumentary #mondo

[kino-zoo]

Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974)

#lions #Russian cinema #Eldar Ryazanov #Franco Prosperi

[alightinthelantern]

film reviews:  Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia

Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia is a 1974 Italian-Soviet comedy film directed by Eldar Ryazanov and Franco Prosperi.

Synopsis: Two ambulance drivers race through the streets of Rome, sirens blaring, so that one of them can drop his kids off at school. The two drivers, who are brothers-in-law, then drive to a nursing home to pick up an old Russian woman who is dying. They bring her to an overflowing hospital and squeeze her onto a bed where a man with a broken leg is recuperating. The Russian woman’s granddaughter arrives to hear her last words, and the grandmother tells her that in Russia before the Revolution she was incredibly rich, and she buried a treasure worth nine billion underneath a lion in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). The ambulance drivers, the doctor, the man with the broken leg, and a mafioso whose wife is giving birth all overhear this confession, but not what the woman subsequently whispers in her granddaughter’s ear. Everyone in the group decide separately to travel to Russia to search for the treasure, and all run into each other on the same flight. The men try to convince the granddaughter to team up with them unsuccessfully, while the mafioso decides to eliminate his competition one by one. However, everyone’s plans continually get derailed by each other, with hilarious results.

Review: This movie was hilarious, and I was shrieking with laughter throughout. I can’t recommend the film highly enough. It’s on YouTube and you can watch it here.

#films #movies #film #cinema #film recs #movie recs #film reviews #movie reviews #Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia #Eldar Ryazanov #Franco Prosperi

[may8chan]

Mondo Cannibale - Jesús Franco & Francesco Prosperi 1980

#Mondo Cannibale #Jesús Franco #Jess Franco #Francesco Prosperi #Al Cliver #Sabrina Siani #Lina Romay #Anouchka #Poster

[clemsfilmdiary]

The Hired Killer / Tecnica di un omicidio (1966, Francesco Prosperi)

9/19/22

#The Hired Killer #Tecnica di un omicidio #Robert Webber #Franco Nero #Jose Luis de Vilallonga #Cec Linder #Theodora Bergery #Michel Bardinet #Giovanni di Benedetto #Jeanne Valerie #60s #crime #thriller #Italian #grindhouse #Francesco Prosperi #assassins #hitmen #snipers #plastic surgery #gangster

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Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia or A Crazy, Crazy, Crazy Race in Russia  is a 1974 Soviet-Italian comedy film directed by Eldar Ryazanov and Franco Prosperi. The plot is about a group of Italian treasure hunters who set on a journey to find long-forgotten treasure in Leningrad. In a hospital in Rome, a poor 92-year-old white émigré lies on her deathbed. She reveals to her granddaughter Olga there is a treasure worth 9 billion Italian lire buried "underneath a lion" in Leningrad. However, the story is overheard by the woman's attending physician, two male nurses named Antonio and Giuseppe, an mafioso named Rosario, and a patient with a broken leg. All six of the characters fly to Leningrad to hunt for the treasure.

In the Soviet Union the movie was seen by 49.2 million people, becoming one of the leaders of the 1974 Soviet box office.

english subtitles

[mondocanebooks]

SOBRE MONDO CANE BOOKS En 1962, los cineastas italianos Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti y Franco Prosperi expusieron al público una película casi documental que consistía en una serie de viñetas de diversos lugares del mundo donde se mostraban detalles de las prácticas culturales que allí ocurrían, con la única intención de impactar o sorprender al público occidental. Estas escenas donde el folklore y las tradiciones se mezclaban con la excentricidad, lo grotesco y el salvajismo, expuestos con toda crudeza y autenticidad, se presentaban con poca continuidad, ya que pretendían ser una exhibición caleidoscópica de contenido impactante en lugar de presentar una estructura argumental clásica. Este inusual trabajo, que dio a luz a todo un género, se tituló Mondo Cane. Inspirados por esa intención visceral e imbuidos del mismo propósito fundamental, Mondo Cane Books pretende que cada publicación suponga un puñetazo en la boca del estómago del lector, al mismo tiempo que ofrece una visión particular de una realidad cultural de la forma más veraz posible. Así que advertido quedas. Puede que nuestros libros no sean para ti. De hecho, no son para ti. ¡No nos sigas! ─ Ilustración: Perros Atados Vol. 1 de IRRA.

#comics #concept art #illustration #graphic novel #art

[berezina]

Mondo Cane [trailer] (1962) (Gualtiero Jacopetti, Paolo Cavara, & Franco E. Prosperi) [buy]

#Youtube

[librairiemelodieensoussol]

Nouveauté bientôt en ligne : Adios Africa Adieu Afrique (Africa addio) est un documentaire mondo italien réalisé par Gualtiero Jacopetti et Franco Prosperi, sorti en 1966. Le film porte sur la fin de l'ère coloniale en Afrique. #oiseaumortvintage #melodieensoussol #butindechine #retourdechine #vhs #cassettevideo #africaaddio #mondo #mondomovies #shockumentary #jacopetti #prosperi https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl-v9kVMiKq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#oiseaumortvintage #melodieensoussol #butindechine #retourdechine #vhs #cassettevideo #africaaddio #mondo #mondomovies #shockumentary #jacopetti #prosperi

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594 to go

Magnolia (1999, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson): Self-indulgent is the word I’d use to describe this movie. Not always a bad thing but I think a little restraint could have gone a long way here. And boy is PTA ill-equipped when it comes to writing black characters.

The Right Stuff (1983, dir. Philip Kaufman): I hadn’t heard of this movie before starting this project, which is weird because watching it I recognized so many moments from other movies and tv shows so it seems to have been at least somewhat influential. It’s great fun if a bit weirdly structured and weak on characterization.

Carrie (1976, dir. Brian De Palma): I’ve read so much about this movie and I was so excited to watch it. It was a lot different than I expected - I don’t think it really has a plot? - but the best parts of it shone so much brighter than the whole.

Deconstructing Harry (1997, dir. Woody Allen): This is a lot more damning of Woody Allen than I think he realized.

Three Lives and Only One Death (1996, dir. Raúl Ruiz): I was intrigued by the premise of seemingly disconnected stories slowly coming together but I didn’t love the reveal at the end. Marcello Mastroianni was phenomenal though.

Mondo Cane (1962, dir. Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi): Large parts of this movie are just a parade of racism and animal abuse, and the mix of real and fake facts makes the social commentary lose a lot of its bite. Which is a shame, because this film is beautifully edited and has some powerful themes.

#1001 movies #magnolia #the right stuff #carrie #desconstructing harry #three lives and only one death #mondo cane

[gatutor]

Barbara Bouchet "The conjugal debt" (Il debito coniugale) 1970, de Franco Prosperi.

#Barbara Bouchet #Franco Prosperi

[take-it-sloooooow]

"La donna nel mondo" Movie, 1963 Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi et Paolo Cavara https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Femme_%C3%A0_travers_le_monde https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_of_the_World

#Gualtiero Jacopetti #Franco Prosperi #Paolo Cavara

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Movies on Youtube:

Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean)

Opening Night (1977, John Cassavetes)

Close Up (1990, Abbas Kiarostami)

Taste of Cherry (1997, Abbas Kiarostami)

The Song of Sparrows (2008,  Majid Majidi)

Russian Ark (2002, Alexander Sokurov)

Dreams (1990, Akira Kurosawa)

Dersu Uzala (1975, Akira Kurosawa)

The Idiot (1951, Akira Kurosawa)

Drunken Angel (1948, Akira Kurosawa)

Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujirō Ozu)

Early Summer (1951, Yasujirō Ozu)

Late Spring (1949, Yasujirō Ozu)

The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (1952, Yasujirō Ozu)

Good Morning (1959, Yasujirō Ozu)

An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Yasujirō Ozu)

Sword for Hire (1952, Inagaki Hiroshi)

Rebecca (1940, Alfred Hitchcock)

Thunderbolt (1929, Josef von Sternberg)

Larceny (1948, George Sherman)

Among the Living (1941, Stuart Heisler)

Andrei Rublev (1966, Andrei Tarkovsky)

Mirror (1975, Andrei Tarkovsky)

Solaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky)

Ivan’s Childhood (1962, Andrei Tarkovsky)

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog)

Fitzcarraldo (1982, Werner Herzog)

Medea (1969, Pier Paolo Pasolini)

Medea (filmed stageplay)

Is It Easy To Be Young? (1986, Juris Podnieks)

We'll Live Till Monday (1968, Stanislav Rostotsky)

Ordinary Fascism (aka Triumph Over Violence) (1965, Mikhail Romm)

Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein)

The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)

Johnny Come Lately (1943, William K. Howard)

Mister 880 (1950, Edmund Goulding)

Beethoven’s Eroica (2003, Simon Cellan Jones)

Katyn (2007, Andrzej Wajda)

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004, Brad Silberling)

Mean Girls (2004, Mark Waters)

The Neverending Story (1984, Wolfgang Petersen)

The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990, George T. Miller)

The Thief and the Cobbler (Richard Williams)

Osmosis Jones (2001, myriad directors)

Megamind (2010, Tom McGrath)

Ghost in the Shell (1995, Mamoru Oshii)

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004, Mamoru Oshii)

Steamboy (2004, Katsuhiro Otomo)

Badlands (1973), Terrence Malick

Wargames (1983, John Badham)

By the White Sea (2022, Aleksandr Zachinyayev)

White Moss (2014, Vladimir Tumayev)

The Theme (1979, Gleb Panfilov)

The Duchess (2008, Saul Dibb)

Bed and Sofa (1927, Abram Room)

Fate of a Man (1959, Sergei Bondarchuk)

Ballad of a Soldier (1959, Grigory Chukhray)

Uncle Vanya (1970, Andrey Konchalovskiy)

An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (1977, Nikita Mikhalkov)

Family Relations (1981, Nikita Mikhalkov)

The Seagull (1970, Yuli Karasik)

My Tender and Affectionate Beast (1978, Emil Loteanu)

Dreams (1993, Karen Shakhnazarov & Alexander Borodyansky)

The Vanished Empire (2008, Karen Shakhnazarov)

Winter Evening in Gagra (1985, Karen Shakhnazarov)

Day of the Full Moon (1998, Karen Shakhnazarov)

Zero Town (1989, Karen Shakhnazarov)

The Girls (1961, Boris Bednyj)

The Diamond Arm (1969, Leonid Gaidai)

Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures (1965, Leonid Gaidai)

Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession (1973, Leonid Gaidai)

Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974, Eldar Ryazanov & Franco Prosperi)

Office Romance (1977, Eldar Ryazanov)

Carnival Night (1956, Eldar Ryazanov)

Hussar Ballad (1962, Eldar Ryazanov)

Kin-dza-dza! (1986, Georgiy Daneliya)

The Most Charming and Attractive (1985, Gerald Bezhanov)

Autumn (1974, Andrei Smirnov)

War and Peace: Part 1 (1966, Sergei Bondarchuk)

War and Peace: Part 2 (1966, Sergei Bondarchuk)

War and Peace: Part 3 (1967, Sergei Bondarchuk)

War and Peace: Part 4 (1967, Sergei Bondarchuk)

The Red Tent (first half) (1969, Mikhail Kalatozov)

The Red Tent (second half) (1969, Mikhail Kalatozov)

Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939, Sidney Lanfield)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939, Alfred L. Werker)

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942, John Rawlins)

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The Spider Woman (1944, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The Scarlet Claw (1944, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The Pearl of Death (1944, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The House of Fear (1945, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The Woman in Green (1945, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: Pursuit to Algiers (1945, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: Terror by Night (1946, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: Dressed to Kill (1946, Roy William Neill)

If any of the links don’t work, try looking up the film in this playlist: link

#movies #films #cinema #film #movies on youtube #films on youtube #youtube #movie recs #film recs

[howlingmadmoonwolf]

The Wild Beasts (1984)

“There's No Escape!”

#horror #the wild beasts #franco prosperi #italian horror #killer animals #80's horror

[suspiria76]

THE WILD BEASTS

Italy

1983

Directed by Franco Prosperi

#cult horror #gore #italian horror #eighties #animals #franco prosperi

[trashvideofinland]

Sweet and Savage (1983) Greca Vision https://www.videospace.fi/release/sweet_and_savage_vhs_greca_vision_greece

#Videospace #VHS #Sweet and Savage #Antonio Climati #Franco Prosperi #Mike Gunn #Karl Wallenda #VHS tapes #VHS art #VHS cover