Word: paolo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vesuvius in the background, diseases of the body, instabilities of the soul, Thanatos and Eros beating the big bass drum. One recognizes in the Magdalens and Madonnas the women that visitors like John Evelyn wrote of, "generally well-featured, but excessively libidinous." Even still lifes by artists like Paolo Porpora and Giovanni Battista Recco have the swollen intensity of painting infatuated with the surface of the world. However, Recco's picture of objects on a kitchen table, grouped around the visual pivot of a Delft dish, is so exquisitely designed and so full of severe visual rhymes and harmonies...
...difficult for the North American mentality to grasp. This observer had a swift introduction. On a sunny Monday afternoon early in July Italy's beloved Azzuri (a name derived from the team's uniforms) squared off against the World Cup tournament favorite--Brazil--in the quarterfinals. Propelled by striker Paolo Rossi's three goals, the underdog Italians through sheer tenacity somehow upset Brazil...
...PAOLO AND VITTORIO TAVIANI'S The Night of the Shooting Stars has all the qualities of a wonderful folktale--at once pungently earthy and dreamily fantastic. It unfolds to the leisurely rhythms of its own peculiar inner life and logic. It's a magical film, where the horrors of war, the crude beauty and humor of everyday existence, and the wonder of childhood all intersect in a flash of dream and memory...
Directed and Written by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani...
Since their first feature film in 1962, the brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani have explored the themes and feelings of the Italian left. But their work is no forced march of socialist stereotypes. Like the characters in the Tavianis' Allonsanfan and Padre Padrone, the people of San Martino never surrender their luxuriant individuality. One young woman with a large birthmark on her cheek and a mischievous smile in her eyes tells a virginal girlfriend: "You don't know what it's like to be ugly and still feel beautiful." An angel-faced teen-age boy, whose ardor...