It’s a very special day in 1939—the day Hitler first visits Mussolini in Rome. The event has been marked by a massive Fascist party rally and parade, drawing everyone in the city. An entire tenement block leaves for the parade, except housewife Antonietta and unemployed radio announcer Gabriele. A chance meeting causes the pair to return to each other’s company over and over during the day and in the space of a few short hours, they have formed a very close and ultimately redemptive bond.

REVIEW:

Archival footage shows the arrival of Hitler and his highest-ranking Nazi cohorts by train and Mussolini’s Fascist army meeting and greeting them in Rome. A radio announcer gives full details of the historic event while giant swastikas float in the breeze, the streets choked with spectators. The announcer says that the Fascist forces are there in preparation for the next day, when an even bigger event will take place.

Daylight dawns over a tenement block in central Rome. The date is May 8, 1939—the day after the one the archival footage presented and the day of a huge Fascist party rally and parade. Pauletta (Françoise Berd), the caretaker of the block of flats, unveils a huge Nazi flag next to the Italian flag. In one of the flats, long-suffering mother and housewife Antonietta (Sophia Loren) goes from room to room, waking up all six of her children as well as her husband, Emanuele (John Vernon). It is nearly six, and if any of them are late for the rally, she doesn’t want them to complain to her. A flurry of activity results as the children, from little boy Vittorio to Antonietta’s surly and spoiled daughters Maria Luisa (Alessandra Mussolini) and Romana (Patricia Bazzo). Antonietta angrily discovers dirty pictures in the bed of Fabio (Maurizio Del Paoloantonio), but when she scolds him, he says that his father gave them to him.

Emanuele is a fervent Party member and exhorts his children to their patriotic duty as they have breakfast. Emanuele clearly has no respect for Antonietta, calling her lazy even though she has clearly gotten up hours before dawn to prepare the rest of the family. As the family make a mass exodus, in patriotic costume and their best clothes, streaming out into the courtyard with all the other families, Emanuele wonders that Antonietta doesn’t go to the rally. She says she has too much work to do. At last, the entire tenement empties, and only Antonietta and the caretaker are left in the silent building.

Or so she thinks. Going about her chores as if in a dream, Antonietta is flung into action when the family mynah bird flies out the window and across the courtyard to the flat opposite. Antonietta tries to signal to the man in the flat (Marcello Mastroianni), but he isn’t paying attention. Inside the flat, we see he has stacks of papers surrounding him as well as a gun. The impression is made that he is about to shoot himself. Antonietta arrives and asks for his help to rescue the bird. He helps her to rescue the bird and is relieved at the interruption. The loudspeaker radio announcer detailing every detail of the rally can be heard through every moment of the next few hours. Antonietta wants to make a quick getaway back to the safety of her flat, but the man introduces himself as Gabriele. Antonietta notices his copy of The Three Musketeers, which she accidentally confuses with The Four Musketeers, an extremely popular Italian radio serial of the time. Gabriele asks her to take the book with her, but she declines and leaves.

Gabriele receives a phone call from “Marco,” who it soon becomes clear is his absent lover. They argue and hint at a future that looks very bleak. Gabriele goes soon after to Antonietta’s flat and gives her the book anyway. He asks her for a cup of coffee, and she begins the long laborious process of hand grinding he beans. She takes the opportunity to try to tidy up and at the same time improve her appearance (she is dressed in an old housedress and dressing gown). They are interrupted by the arrival of Pauletta, who mean-spiritedly warns Antonietta against Gabriele. Gabriele decides he should probably leave, but Antonietta convinces him to stay for his coffee. She finds out that he is a radio announcer who was recently fired. He looks at the albums dedicated to Mussolini that she has put together, and he is both impressed and saddened by her devotion to “Il Duce.” She notes that she has six children and if she has a seventh the family will be eligible for the Large Family subsidy; as a bachelor, Gabriele has to pay a Celibacy Tax.

Pauletta interferes once again, intimating that Gabriele is not to be trusted because he is an antifascist. She also says Antonietta’s washing on the roof is dry. Antonietta says that he is in the flat fixing a light. Gabriele fixes the light but is rebuffed by Antonietta. She goes up to the roof to get her washing, while Gabriele follows her, ostensibly to avoid meeting Pauletta on his way back to his flat. Up on the roof, Gabriele surprises Antonietta by wrapping her up in a sheet, allowing her to laugh for the first time all day. Then she grows angry, saying that “all you men are the same,” and implies that Gabriele has only been after her to have a casual affair. Gabriele admits to her that the reason he was fired from the radio station was because of “degenerate behavior.” Antonietta gradually realizes that he means he has been ostracized for being gay—or “queer,” as he calls it. Gabriele is hurt by Antonietta’s attitude since has just bared his soul to her, and grows angry, attacking her and pretending to assault her. He chases her down the stairs and shouts for the entire complex to hear. Will the two remain friends on this special day? Or will scandal and unhappiness result when Emanuele and the children return?

A Special Day (Una giornata particolare in Italian) was nominated for two Oscars and two Palme D’Ors. It was a joint production with Canadian production company Canafox, and several of the actors, including the superb John Vernon, were Canadian. Set in one location and following the Aristotelian conceits of drama, it takes place in 24 hours. Its backdrop story is a dramatic and ominous one—Mussolini and Hitler and the takeover of Fascism—but its main story is a quiet and relatively uneventful one. Still, it is a powerful drama beautifully filmed by Scola and acted by the two leads.

Sophia Loren seems to have gone to extraordinary lengths to dull down her incredible good looks to exude Antonietta’s unhappiness. Trapped in a marriage to a cheating husband she doesn’t respect, her days filled endlessly with dreary chores, self-admittedly a woman of little education, she seems to go about in a perpetual cloud of exhaustion and tedium. We get this information, and the sense that her devotion to the Party and to radio are there because she has nothing else, mostly from the way Loren performs rather than the script. Mastroianni also beautifully underplays the erudition, the repression, and the extreme kindness at the heart of Gabriele’s character. For once in her life, Antonietta has found a man who doesn’t act like a man—that is, he cleans up after himself, he cooks, and he treats her as a human being rather than a housewife-robot. The two are trapped in different ways, and for that reason they create a unique bond that is touching to watch develop.

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Film Review: OFFICE SPACE, 1999

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Tribute review for actor Gary Cole, born today September 20th.

OFFICE SPACE, 1999
Movie Reviews

Directed by Mike Judge
Starring: Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston
Review by Matt Lohr

SYNOPSIS:

Peter Gibbons, thanks to a hypnotic suggestion, decides not to go to work at the same time his company is laying people off. When layoffs affect his two best friends, they conspire to plant a virus that will embezzle money from the company into their account.

REVIEW:

Mike Judge’s Office Space is a movie for me. And a movie for you. And really, a movie for anyone who’s ever worked what I call a “joe job”, a job so mentally undemanding and essentially meaningless that any joe can do it. Supervised by idiots who treat you like a bigger idiot, besieged by obnoxious co-workers, strait-jacketed by nonsensical company policy…we’ve all been there, and if Judge hasn’t, he certainly fooled me, because he has captured the deadening, infuriating hell of modern corporate culture with pitch-perfect satirical accuracy. Of course, why, after a day at our awful jobs, would we want to watch a movie about people with awful jobs? Because these people, unlike most of us, finally figure out how to fight back.

Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) is a cubicle slave at the monolithic Initech Corporation, one of those companies in which lots of anonymous people work too hard doing things they don’t quite understand. Peter hates his job, his desk, his soulless supervisor (Gary Cole), and pretty much the fact that the sun rises and sets every day. “Every day since I started working at Initech has been worse than the last,” says Peter, “which means that, every time you see me, it’s the worst day of my life.” Willing to try anything to bring him out of his funk, Peter goes to an “occupational hypnotherapist”, who puts him into a serene, I-don’t-care-about-work trance…then drops dead of a heart attack before bringing Peter out of it. That trance stays put but good, and Peter finally starts doing his job the way he’s always wanted to…that is, not doing it. He skips mandatory-overtime days to go fishing, guts the fish on his desk, dismantles the door handle that shocks him every morning, and even finds romance with a cute waitress (Jennifer Aniston) whose own frustrations with her job (and its policy about a mandatory number of funny buttons, or “flair”, on the uniforms) are reaching the breaking point.

The marvelous (and, when you think about it, rather horrifying) thing about Office Space is that even though it is clearly a satire, there is nothing in it that seems so far over the top as to be unbelievable. Everyone’s dealt with a fax machine that always says “Paper Jam” when there’s no such thing, co-workers whose relentless cheerfulness seems like a constant slap in the face, and the stultifying drag of having three different managers caution you about the same infinitesimal screw-up. Arbitrary workstation moves, paranoia-inducing “efficiency experts”, managers who do nothing and still get to drive Porsches home…it’s all here, and it all elicits a laugh of recognition and empathy for the characters’ miserable plight.

Mike Judge is one of those rare things today, a comic filmmaker with a genuine vision. His comedic muse is lower-middle-class America, its frustrations and glories, trials and triumphs, and his satirical approach to this universe can be both affectionate (King of the Hill) and pitilessly savage (the brilliant but barely released Idiocracy). Office Space falls somewhere in the middle of this divide. Surely, many of the jokes are cruel, particularly at the expense of poor Tom Smykowski (Richard Riehle), an office schlump who sweats every day over his tenuous hold on his job, then finally has his dreams of financial security come true when he’s crippled in a horrible car accident. However, Judge is not just poking fun here. He truly feels for Peter and his fellow office drones, and their revenge against corporate America works not just comedically, but emotionally as well; we get our own vicarious charge out of watching the fatcats get royally screwed. This was Judge’s first live-action effort, but there’s no hint of awkwardness or uncertainty in this transition from animation. The directorial hand here is a firm one, and the jokes hit home with all the punch they deserve.

Perfect casting is the main key to the success of Office Space. Livingston’s blandly handsome looks and deadpan manner make him a perfect choice to convey both Peter’s work-induced funk and his later devil-may-care rebellion, and he and Aniston spark nicely in their scenes together. Gary Cole scores big laughs as a soulless middle-manager with a coffee mug permanently welded to his hand. Also quite enjoyable are Ajay Naidu as Samir Nahinanajar, a software programmer who can’t understand why no one in America can pronounce his name, David Herman as a fellow techie cursed with the unfortunate name of Michael Bolton, and Stephen Root (who does the voice of Bill on King of the Hill) as poor put-upon Milton, whose ever-escalating battle to defend his workstation and his beloved red stapler soon leads to hilarious consequences for Initech.

The film’s soundtrack also scores a lot of laughs, mainly by being comprised of what would seem on the surface to be wildly inappropriate music. There’s a little Louis Armstrong and a few mambos by Perez Prado, but the majority of the soundtrack is gangsta rap tunes; a montage of Peter’s office antics is scored with the Geto Boys’ “Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta”, and Canibus and Biz Markie kick in a hilarious end-credits anthem, “Shove This Jay-Oh-Bee”. The hardcore urban black sounds hilariously clash with the images of white-collar white revolt, while at the same time perfectly bringing out the outlaw streak that runs deep within these corporate rebels.

Office Space was not a success upon its initial theatrical release, but has found a loyal fan base in ancillary markets. Almost everyone I know has seen it and loves it, and I have a hunch that as long as people still spend their days trapped in little boxes with desks, doing work they don’t understand for people they don’t like, Mike Judge’s film will be there, easing the pain and offering hope that some day, we can escape and do our own thing. And if you don’t respond to it quite so strongly, at least it should give you some good laughs after a hard day’s work.

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Film Review: THE WOLF MAN, 1941

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Tribute review for Lon Chaney Jr., AKA – The Wolf Man, who died today on September 20th.

THE WOLF MAN, 1941
Movie Reviews

Directed by: George Waggner

Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers, Warren William, Bela Lugosi and Maria Ouspenskaya

Review by JR Kuzm

SYNOPSIS:

Upon the death of his brother, Larry Talbot returns from America to his ancestral home in Wales. He visits a gypsy camp with village girl Jenny Williams, who is attacked by Bela, a gypsy who has turned into a werewolf. Larry kills the werewolf but is bitten during the fight. Bela’s mother tells him that this will cause him to become a werewolf at each full moon. Larry confesses his plight to his unbelieving father, Sir John, who then joins the villagers in a hunt for the wolf. Larry, transformed by the full moon, heads for the forest and a fateful meeting with both Sir John and Gwen.

REVIEW:

After the sudden death of his brother, Lawrence Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.) is called home to take on the family estate. Home is the Welsh country side and after a fight with his father, Sir John Talbot (Claude Rains), decided to move to America in order to study, but the death forced him home and to make amends with his father.

Upon his arrival, the two men act rather coy about their relationship and are obviously trying to find a common interest to talk about. The solution is resolved when Larry comes across a brand new telescope Sir John had recently installed. As Larry takes hi

Larry walks down to the village and enters the antique shop. The young girl greets him and ask if he needs any help with anything, Larry tells her that he is looking for a pair of earrings exactly like the pair the girl was putting away earlier. Not quite picking up on this yet, Larry tells her that he saw her through her window, at first upset, Larry sets the girl at ease with his charm. It is revealed that the girl is Gw

Even a man that is pure of heart

And says his prays by night

May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms

And the autumn moon is bright

Larry asks Gwen if she would like to do something later, which she informs him that she and her friend Jenny are going to the Gypsy fortune tellers that night if he cared to go, which was a no brainer. So that night, Larry escorts the two young ladies to the Gypsy camp.

While Jenny is receiving her fortune telling, Larry and Gwen take a little walk through the forest. During her reading though, the Gypsy Bela (Bela Lugosi) sees a pentagram appear on Jenny’s hand. This symbol is only visible to a werewolf and appears on its next victim. Bela begs Jenny to run, so she does. While in the woods, Larry is moving in for a kiss when it is interrupted by Jenny’s scream. Larry rushes to her rescue to find her dead body being mauled b

Larry and Gwen take Jenny’s remains to Dr. Lloyd (Warren William) who tries, but is unable to do anything for Jenny. Larry also takes the police out to the spot where the attack happened, but when they got to the spot, there wasn’t the dead wolf lying thchecks him and discovers that his skull had been bashed in. The police believe what happened was that both Bela and Larry hear Jenny’s screams and rushed to the rescue and in the frenzy of a fight got confused and accidently killed Bela. Larry knows that She tells him that Bela was a werewolf and that Larry now carries the mark. At first Larry is skeptical but as he visits Bela tomb he comes to realize the curse he now bears.

Although the Talbot family is well respected in the area, the villagers have become cold and distance towards Larry believing that he is a murderer now, no scene shows this more than when Larry and Sir John go to church the following Sunday and the people jus

Later that night, while Larry is preparing for bed, he starts scratching all over his body. He removes his shoes and socks and sees them start to get hairy. He has transformed and leaps from his bedroom window. Peering from behind a tree, it is revealed th

The next morning, Larry is awaken from the sunlight shining on him. Not remembering a thing that had happened, he sees muddy footprints on his floor and starts to worry. It is at this time that his father comes in and tells him about the dead gravedigger, wsees him as the wolf and comes to his aide. She says a chant and Larry transform back to normal, but the next morning the villagers are much more scared and this compels the Talbots to join in on the posse. Before they head out though, Larry visits Gwen, th

So later that night, Larry transforms again, attacks and kills another man, while Gwen is running around the forest fearful for Larry’s safety, when she happens upon the wolf. The beast attacks her, Sir John hearing her screams comes to her aide. Carrying

Ten years after the success of Frankenstein and Dracula, a few years after what many believed to be end of the golden age for the monster movies, Universal, now considered mostly as a B studio released The Wolf Man. Not excepting it to be much of a success due to the recent failures that the genre had produced and the fact that the release date was just five days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Universal was surprised to see that the movie was a runaway hit, quickly raising The Wolf Man to the third spot in the studios monster roster.

One reason for the movie’s success is due to its escapism affect it had on the public, who went to see the movie to forget about the drama that was happening in the real world. Another aspect that Universal did not count on was having Lon Chaney Jr as its

Just a few years prior Chaney Jr made himself a name in the industry for his performs in Of Mice and Men (1939), which many believe is the best supporting actor of that year, even though he was not even nominated. This though was his first big hit as the lead and it propelled him to the ranks of Lugosi and Karloff. Chaney would later say that the wolf man was

Outside of Chaney, the acting is pretty dull, once again, being perceived as a B picture, many of the actors were still novices, except for Rains who had just come off one Oscar nomination for his work in Mr. Smith goes to Washington (1939) and one year prior to his second nomination for Casablanca (1942).

The acting isn’t what the film is known from anyway though, it is the wolf makeup that the legendary Jack Pierce did that was the real star. Pierce, the wizard behind all the classic looks, spent four hours day applying the legendary look, many consider this as one of his best jobs.

Once again, although the acting in this movie for the most part isn’t very good, this is a film is a must for fans of the horror genre. As I have stated earlier, The Wolf Man has become the third most popular of the Universal monsters, so might as well see

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Died Today (September 20th) – Lon Chaney Jr. (1906–1973)

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Lon Chaney Jr. (1906–1973)

Born: February 10, 1906 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Died: July 12, 1973 (age 67) in San Clemente, California, USA

The trouble with most of the monster pictures today is that they go after horror for horror’s sake. There’s no motivation for how monsters behave. There’s too much of that science-fiction baloney.

THE WOLF MAN
1941
dir. George Waggner
Starring:
Lon Chaney Jr.
Claude Rains

THE UNHOLY THREE
1930
dir. Jack Conway
Starring:
Lon Chaney
Harry Earles

My Favorite Brunette
1947
dir. Elliott Nugent
Starring
Bob Hope
Dorothy Lamour

THE DEFIANT ONES
1958
dir. Stanley Kramer
Cast:
Tony Curtis
Sydney Poitier

BUD ABBOTT LOU COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN
1958
dir. Charles Barton
Starring:
Chick Young
Wilbur Grey

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Happy Birthday: George R.R. Martin

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George R.R. Martin

Born: September 20, 1948 in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA

[on writing ‘The Red Wedding’ in A Storm of Swords] That was the hardest scene I’ve ever had to write. It’s two-thirds of the way through the book, but I skipped over it when I came to it. So the entire book was done and there was still that one chapter left. Then I wrote it. It was like murdering two of your children. I try to make the readers feel they’ve lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?

The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you’re hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them.

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Happy Birthday: Sammi Hanratty

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Sammi Hanratty

Born: September 20, 1995 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

I started visiting schools and talking to kids about bullying and what to do and how to deal with it. I don’t think that there is one person who has lived life without being bullied. Everybody gets bullied – whether it’s cyber-bullying or to your face or behind your back.

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Happy Birthday: Moon Bloodgood

September 20, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday actor, Happy Birthday, Moon Bloodgood

Moon Bloodgood

Born: September 20, 1975 in Alliance, Nebraska, USA

Married to: Grady Hall (August 2011 – present) (1 child)

I don’t know why I’ve always been uncomfortable being too feminine. If a dress has too many flowers on it, if I’m giggling too much, I’m like ugh, put some combat boots on. I love masculine women. I think it’s because I’m like a fake lesbian, I don’t know.

THE SESSIONS
2012
dir. Ben Lewin
Stars:
John Hawkes
Helen Hunt

FASTER
dir. George Tillman Jr.
Stars:
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Billy Bob Thornton

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Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
2009
Directed by
Andrzej Bartkowiak
Starring
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EIGHT BELOW
2006
dir. Frank Marshall
Stars:
Paul Walker
Jason Biggs

Terminator 4: Salvation
dir. McG
Starring
Christian Bale
Worthington

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Happy Birthday: Aldis Hodge

September 20, 2016 festreviews Happy Birthday actor, Aldis Hodge, Happy Birthday

Aldis Hodge

Born: September 20, 1986 in Onslow County, North Carolina, USA

Appeared in two different “Die Hard” films as two different characters: “Die Hard With a Vengeance” (1995) in which Aldis, in his debut, played ‘Raymond’. And eighteen years later in “A Good Day to Die Hard” (2013) as a character named ‘Foxy’.

THE EAST
2013
dir. ALDIS HODGE
Stars:
Brit Marling
Alexander Skarsgard

A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD
2013
dir. John Moore
Stars:
Bruce Willis
Jai Courtney

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Season 1
Starring:
Aimee Teegarden
Taylor Kitsch

Die Hard 3
1995
dir. John McTeirnan
starring
Willis
Samuel L Jackson

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Month: September 2016

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Film Review: A SPECIAL DAY, 1977

Film Review: OFFICE SPACE, 1999

Film Review: THE WOLF MAN, 1941

Died Today (September 20th) – Lon Chaney Jr. (1906–1973)

Happy Birthday: George R.R. Martin

Happy Birthday: Sammi Hanratty

Happy Birthday: Moon Bloodgood

Happy Birthday: Aldis Hodge