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In the first half of Girl with a Suitcase, 16-year-old Lorenzo (Jacques Perrin) looks after the showgirl, Aida (Claudia Cardinale), whom his older brother, Marcello (Corrado Pani), promised to help before cruelly and casually ditching her during a road trip. Unaware that Lorenzo is Marcello’s little brother, Aida accepts his kindness at face value, knowing that doing so may cause him to become emotionally attached to her, but, exhausted and embittered, she can’t resist the reprieve of a young man actually treating her with warmth and tenderness.

Throughout Girl with a Suitcase, the filmmakers use an array of wide shots to elucidate the feelings of alienation and isolation that grip the characters by surrounding them with negative space, and in settings ranging from the immense rooms in Lorenzo’s parents’ mansion to sparsely populated seaside locales. Via meticulous compositions and Perrin and Cardinale’s empathetic performances, the film...

A classic Sergio Leone gangster movie is making its way to the free streaming service, Tubi. Once Upon a Time in America will hit Tubi on April 1. The movie stars Robert De Niro, James Woods, Treat Williams, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci, Danny Aiello, and William Forsythe. The film won two BAFTA Awards in 1985, one for Best Score and another for Best Costume Design.

Leone, who died in 1989 at the age of 60, was known for directing Spaghetti Westerns like The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966), Once Upon a Time in the West(1968), and Duck, You Sucker! (1971). Once Upon a Time in America was directed by Leone and based on the 1952 novel The Hoods by Harry Grey. The screenplay was written by Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Enrico Medioli, Franco Arcalli, Franco Ferrini, and Sergio Leone.

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The movie starring Robert De Niro in what may be one of his finest mobster roles is coming to Paramount+. Once Upon a Time in America will begin streaming on the platform starting November 1, 2024. The 1984 gangster drama was directed by the late Sergio Leone, who wrote such iconic films as A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968).

Once Upon a Time in America also stars James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci, Treat Williams and Danny Aiello. It is Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with an 86% critic score and a 93% audience score.

Set in 1968, De Niro plays David Noodles Aaronson, who comes back to New York where he had once ruled the criminal underground in the 1920s. Woods plays Max, Noodles longtime partner, who is long gone. The story in the film is told mostly through flashbacks and shows Noodles journey from a child in a...

Rarovideo is back, with an excellent Italo war drama that finds humanist values in an appalling situation: a young Italian lieutenant is tasked with distributing 12 Athenian prostitutes to garrisons on the road back to Italy, to ‘service’ the troops. It’s a mixed group — a couple of the women have signed up to avoid starvation. The trek takes them directly into partisan conflict. Sympathetic director Valerio Zurlini assembles a terrific international cast: Mario Adorf, Anna Karina, Tomas Milian, Marie Laforêt, Lea Massari, Valeria Moriconi and Milena Dravic.

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1965 / B&w / 1:85 widescreen / 118 min. / Street Date October 25, 2022 / The Camp Followers / Available from Kino Lorber / 29.95

Starring: Mario Adorf, Anna Karina, Marie Laforêt, Lea Massari, Tomas Milian, Valeria Moriconi, Milena Dravic, Aleksandar Gavric, Dusan Vujisic, Jovan Rancic, Dragomir Felba, Jelena Zigon, Alenka Rancic, Milica Preradovic, Rossana Di Rocco, Mila Cortini, Guido Alberti.

Cinematography: Tonino Delli Colli

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Once Upon a Time in America

Directed by Sergio Leone

Written by Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Enrico Medioli, Franco Arcalli, Franco Ferrini, Sergio Leone ​

Italy/USA, 1984

Widely and justly heralded for his trendsetting Spaghetti Westerns, Sergio Leone’s final and arguably most ambitious work was in another staple American genre. Like these Westerns though, this film was as much of its respective variety as it was about it. Once Upon a Time in America, with its name obviously derived from Leone’s previous Once Upon a Time in the West, is a gangster film of the highest order, and, at the same time, it recalls so many of its predecessors, from the Warner Brothers classics of the 1930s to The Godfather. This was by design. As Leone himself notes, “My film was to be an homage to the American films I love, and to America itself.”

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Gerard Depardieu and Harvey Keitel will be heading to Romania to play in an adaptation of Titus Popovici novel Moartea lui Ip (The Ip's Death) - the feature will be known as So I Say. In the director's chair we find Bogdan Dumitrescu Dreyer, whose previous work includes Never Enough (2004), The Last Station (1998) and also Thalassa, Thalassa (1993) – the Tiger Award winner at Rotterdam Film Festival. The French actor plays the lead character in the project which will be filmed at Sighişoara, Romania, starting with August 22nd. Apart from Keitel, the film will feature Romanian actors Dorel Vişan, Alexandru Bindea, Gabriel Spahiu, Bogdan Iancu, Adina Cartianu and Mihai Constantin. A previous adaptation of Popovici novel was made by Sergiu Nicolaescu, back in 1972, which was known as Then I Sentenced Them All To Death. Written by Piero de Bernardi (co-writer of Sergio Leone's 1984 film, Once Upon a Time in America) and...