Word: fascisti
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
AMARCORD ["I Remember"] is Fellini's most ingratiating film so far--the return to scenes of his childhood near Rimini on Italy's Adriatic coast seems to have mellowed him. His fascisti are Verdi caricatures who can be deflated by a phonograph blaring out the Internationale from the bell tower in the town's main square as Mussolini begins a speech; the worst they do to the perpetrator is give him a humiliating dose of castor oil. The strangest and most wonderful things happen in the city of Amarcord, but they are all good things: A great ocean liner sails...
...peeping tome of love and revolution in a banana republic allowed for no such adornments as taste or logic, and neither does the film, at least not in its original 3-hr., 11-min. version. As a boy, Dax Xenos (Loris Loddi) sees his mother raped by the Fascisti. He swears revenge and years later the adult Dax (Bekim Fehmiu) helps a Castro-style Latin American leader named Rojo (Alan Badel) to survive a bloody uprising. On the way to the palacio, Dax becomes an insatiable voluptuary. According to Robbins' five-peseta psychology, the poor...
Like many an autocratic schoolmarm, Miss Brodie is not in love with men, she is enamored of power. To her, Mussolini and his Fascisti offer humanity's best hope. She sends one girl packing to fight in Spain for the Falangists-where she is killed. Her favorite informant (Pamela Franklin) turns against her and squeals to the authorities. "Assassin!" shrieks Miss Brodie, and the echoing walls provide a bogus, melodramatic echo...
Sullen Romans watched Fascisti parade. Gestapomen watched the Romans. Suddenly a bomb exploded, followed by shots. Men & women fell, including, the Germans said afterward, 24 Gestapomen...
...Fascisti chanted "Doo-chay, "Doo-chay, Doo-chay I" as before. But they were not distracted from the ills at home. At week's end Mussolini's new party secretary, Carlo Scorza, sickeningly aware of impending invasion, offered the Italian people a prescription to be taken internally. Said...