Pierluigi Puccini (pier007)

Fellini-an and kind portrait of a southern italian father, played by an old but still gracious Marcello Mastroianni.

Joe Morelli is a scoundrel who cheats illiterate sicilian villagers with dreams of stardom, shooting faux screen tests from town to town until unusual circumstances force his prosperous swindling business to end on sour note.

Great performance by Sergio Castellitto, as an irascible demagogue who stirs up the masses. Arousing the wishes of peasants, criminals and officials, gaining tremendous popularity among them, especially in a young, beautiful and impressionable girl named Beata.

Follows the same tread of "cinema paradiso" and though it can't reach the level of poetry and pathos of that film, it has wonderful moments too.

James Stewart, in the darkest, most profound and sad performance of his career, falls in love with the alluring, distant, unattainable and mesmerizing Kim Novak. Bernard Herrmann composes a heavenly, breathtaking wagnerian symphony. and Alfred Hitchcock, in the absolute peak of his powers, materializes the most beautiful, haunting, compelling and heart breaking tale of love that transcended any cinematic or human barrier. my all time favorite motion picture.

The peak of italian neoralism. an incomparable masterpiece which explores the avatar of a poor family in the post war escenario. tears invaded my face the first time I saw it. and to this day still amazes me, how bitter, shocking and yet touching and beautiful this film is. one of the most powerful endings in cinema history,