Word: marcello
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revolutionary iceberg hit Portugal last week--and though Marcello Caetano's dictatorship could still claim control at week's end, it could do so only by ignoring the nine-tenths that remained submerged...
Troops loyal to the dictatorship of Marcello Caetano kept an armed grip on Portugal, with soldiers posted at military installations and communications centers...
Mastroianni. Marcello Mastroianni always seems the epitome of the bourgeois Italian, a man who has the time and the interest to cultivate the appearance of urbanity for its own sake. Even when, as in La Dolce Vita, he had an aloof, introspective, critical streak as an observer of society, he was still getting himself involved in meaningless ego-enhancing encounters with Italian starlets. To me, the hedonistic pilot he played in The Grand Bouffe seemed the perfect role...
...Organizer (1961), showing at the Brattle, Marcello Mastroianni is a different man: leading a worker's rebellion. The Organizer may be his best film. Certainly director Mario Monicelli has put together one of the best films about a labor movement, carefully drawing his characters; building up suspense as the workers begin to organize; moving, with precise editing, to a gloomy yet somehow very inspiring ending. Set in Turin in the late 19th century, this film has a photographic restraint which keeps it from preaching. Monicelli never overdoes a scene. He presents striking scenery, for example, in a mature...
Five years ago, when illness forced Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar to end his 36-year reign, it seemed as though Portugal, like Rip Van Winkle, were awakening after a long sleep. Marcello Caetano, then a 62-year-old law professor, became the new Premier, bringing bright young technocrats into the government, reforming the antiquated educational system, and loosening the government's repressive hand on civil liberties. Last week, however, as Portuguese voters went to the polls to elect a new National Assembly, it was clear that Portugal, unlike Rip Van Winkle, had gone back to sleep...