1962: a year, two mirror, three movies
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1962: un anno, due specchi, tre film
"El angel exterminador" by Luis Bunuel
Mexico 1962
runtime: 95 min.
color: black and white
titolo italiano: "L'angelo sterminatore"
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july, 1, 1997
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1 luglio 1997
"Hollywood Hong Kong" by Fruit Chan
Hong Kong, France, GB, Japan., 2001
runtime: 102 min.
color: color
titolo originale: "Heung Gong Yau Gok Hor Lei Wood"
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"Made in Hong Kong " by Fruit Chan
Hong Kong 1997
runtime: 108 min.
color: color
original title: Xiang Gang zhi zao
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LOST NARCYSSUS
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NARCISO PERDUTO
"Seconds" by John Frankenheimer
USA 1966
runtime: 96 min.
color: black and white
titolo italiano (purtroppo): "Operazione diabolica"
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"Dead Ringers" by David Cronenberg
USA 1988
runtime: 111 min
color : color
titolo italiano: "Inseparabili"
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"Gozu" by Mike Takashi
Japan 2003
runtime: 127 min
color : color
titolo originale: "Gokudô kyôfu dai-gekijô: Gozu"
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"City of Glass" by Paul Auster, David Mazzucchelli, Paul Karisik
USA 1994
129 pages, black and white
Publisher: Harper Perennial
edizione italiana:
"Città di vetro"
Editore: Coconino Press; anno pubblicazione: 2005; 142 pagine; bianco e nero
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"History of Violence" by David Cronenberg
USA 2005
runtime: 96 min
color : color
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"Woman in the the dunes " by Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan 1964
runtime: 123 min. (147 min.)
color : black and white
titolo italiano: "La donna di sabbia"
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TOKYO: ROUND TRIP
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TOKYO: ANDATA E RITORNO
"Tokyo Story" by Yasujiro Ozu
original title: "Tôkyô monogatari"
Japan 1953
runtime: 136 min.
color: black and white
titolo italiano: "Viaggio a Tokyo"
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LIFE, DREAM AND ABSENCE
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VITA, SOGNO E ASSENZA
"I never Liked You" by Chester Brown
Canada 1996
185 pages
color: black and white
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
edizione italiana:
"Non mi sei mai piaciuto"
Editore: Black Velvet; anno pubblicazione: 1999; 192 pagine; bianco e nero
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"Promenade(s)" by Pierre Wazem
France 2001
62 pages
color: black and white
Publisher: Atrabile
edizione italiana:
"Passeggiate"
Editore: Lizard; anno pubblicazione: 2004; 62 pagine; bianco e nero
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DECOMPOSITION DISSOLUTION AND ABUSE OF CINEMATIC GENRE
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Contaminazione, dissoluzione e abuso del genere cinematografico.
"Dead Man's Shoes" di Shane Meadow
Inghilterra 2004
durata: 90 min.
colore: colore
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"Il tempo dei lupi" di Michael Haneke
titolo originale: Le temps du loup
Francia 2003
durata: 113 min.
colore: colore
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"Fantasmi da Marte" di John Carpenter
titolo originale: Ghosts of Mars
USA 2001
durata: 98 min.
colore: colore
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"36 Quai des Orfèvres" by Olivier MArchal
France 2005
runtime: 110 min.
color: color
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"American Pop" by Ralph Bakshi
USA 1981
runtime: 96 min.
color: color
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"Them" by Xavier Palud and David Moreau
original title: "Ils"
France 2006
runtime: 77 min.
color: color
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DEATH AND FREEDOM
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MORTE E LIBERTA'
"IF" by Lindsay Anderson
UK 2006
runtime: 121 min
color: color/black and white
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"IZO" by Mike Takashi
Japan 2004
runtime: 127 min
color: color
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Exploitatiom, trash and b-movies: maniacal eye behind the industry
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Exploitation, trash e b-movies: l'occhio maniacale alle spalle dell'industria
"Blood Feast" by Herschell Gordon Lewis
USA 1963
runtime: 67 min.
color: color
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"Vampyros Lesbos" by Jess Jesus Franco
USA 1970
runtime: 85 min.
color: color
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"Scarface - The Shame Of a Nation" by Howard Hawks
USA 1932
runtime: 90 min
color: black and white
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"The City of Lost Souls" by Mike Takashi
original title: "Hyôryû-gai"
other titles: The City of Strangers; The Hadard City
Japan 2005
runtime: 143 min
color: color
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"Ici Meme" by Jacques Tardi & Jean-Claude Forest
France 1979
200 pages
color: black and white
Publisher:Casterman
edizione italiana:
"Il Signore di Montetetro" Editore: Coconino Press; anno pubblicazione: 1999; 200 pagine; bianco e nero
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"300" by Frank Miller
USA 1998
84 pages
color: color
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
edizione italiana:
"300"; Editore: Play Press; anno pubblicazione: 1999;
90 pagine; colore
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"Igby Goes Down" by Burr Steers
USA 2002
runtime: 97 min
color: color
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"Hellboy - Wake the Devil" by Mike Mignola
USA 1997
144 pages, color
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
edizione italiana:
"Hellboy - Il risveglio del demone"
Editore: Magic Press - Dark Horse; anno pubblicazione: 1998; 142 pagine; colore
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"Be With Me" by Eric Khoo
Singapore 2005
runtime: 93 min
color: color
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"Il castello del drago" di Toyokazu Matsunaga
titolo originale: Ryuguden
distribuito da: Shogakukan Inc., Tokyo,
anno: 2004
edizione italiana: Kappa Edizioni 2006
collana: Manga San
3 volumi da 240 pag. circa, bianco e nero
"Fallen Art" by Tomasz Baginski
Poland 2004
runtime: 5 min
color: color
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"Dimension of a dialog..." by Jan Å vankmajer
original title: Možnosti dialogu
Czechoslovakia 1982
runtime: 7 min
color: color
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