#franco prosperi

[strathshepard]

Goodbye Uncle Tom (Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi, 1971)

[weirdlookindog]

Mondo cane n. 2 (1963)

[kino-zoo]

Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974)

[swampflix]

Wild Beasts (1984)

I have a bad habit of ordering Blu-rays every single time I see an advertisement for a boutique label sale.  It used to just be an occasional dip into the Criterion Collection during that prestige label’s regular Black Friday and Barnes & Nobles sales, but it has since escalated to include loving restorations of vintage genre trash from labels like Severin, Vinegar Syndrome, and Mélusine.  I’ve…

[anhed-nia]

So Paolo Cavara made the notorious MONDO CANE (1961) and WOMEN OF THE WORLD (1963) with Franco Prosperi and the especially-notorious Gaultiero Jacopetti, but when the latter two made the even more notorious AFRICA ADDIO (1966), Cavara wasn't involved for whatever reason. He then accused them of staging the latter movie's execution footage, helping touch off a whole avalanche of problems for them.

But backing up a minute, between MONDO CANE and WOMEN OF THE WORLD, Jacopetti dated this English actress Belinda Lee. She died in a car accident that Jacopetti and Cavara were in (as well as a third person), though I didn't find anything about who was driving, only that they were going 100 miles an hour when a tire exploded. WOMEN OF THE WORLD is dedicated to her.

So when I heard that Paolo Cavara made a movie about a Mondo-type director who is a manipulative sadist, I thought ok that tracks. But I didn't know all this stuff about Belinda Lee before, and THE WILD EYE (1967) is pretty bizarre. The main character is clearly supposed to be like Jacopetti, but he's called "Paolo", and he seduces "Barbara Bates", this British girl who you understood is automatically doomed because she won't leave this obvious creep alone. It's not great, in part because the relationship is so kind of shameful, but it's very interesting; there's something almost Ballardian about this guy bouncing from one exotic catastrophe to another and trying to make art out of it. But it's also impossible not to think that Cavara was in love with Belinda Lee or something, and does he see himself as sharing various forms of guilt with Gaultiero, maybe for more than the car crash? I mean what fucking gives? Crazy that this movie exists.

[dykepuffs]

Mateo JWHJ0715 knew what he was doing - It's a dark subversion of the beloved Russian comedy "The Unbelievable Adventures Of Italians In Russia" by Eldar Ryazanov and Franco Prosperi which was released to huge acclaim in 1974. In that, the granddaughter of an elderly Russian émigreé to Italy hunts for the treasure "Underneath a lion" in Leningrad, in a race against time as five Italians (Inevitably including a mafioso!) who overheard the story are hunting for it as well. Olga (the granddaughter) is helped by Andrei, an undercover police officer (...Which has obvious parallels with Goncharov's Andrei!) And it generally results in chaos and fun as the newly-arrived Italians stumble around Leningrad. Ryazanov writes and directs incredible comedies-of-manners, really deeply awkward studies of the petty foibles of normal people (His best works centre on a new year's eve, and on allocation of parking spots in a garage), and Mateo's Goncharov takes the same attention to detail, but shows it as tragedy rather than farce.

How much American fans of Goncharov, both at the time and now that it's been getting some critical reappraisal, really understand that the source material is built on Russian ideas of Italian culture, Italian ideas of Russian culture, and dialogue between the two (as well as being an explicit response to Ryazanov and Prosperi's comedy!) Is probably something worthy of its own essay.

Goncharov is SO obviously made by Americans I can't enjoy it though the concept is funny

You know Russian and Italian are entirely different cultures right lol

[mondocanebooks]

SOBRE MONDO CANE BOOKS En 1962, los cineastas italianos Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti y Franco Prosperi expusieron al público una película casi documental que consistía en una serie de viñetas de diversos lugares del mundo donde se mostraban detalles de las prácticas culturales que allí ocurrían, con la única intención de impactar o sorprender al público occidental. Estas escenas donde el folklore y las tradiciones se mezclaban con la excentricidad, lo grotesco y el salvajismo, expuestos con toda crudeza y autenticidad, se presentaban con poca continuidad, ya que pretendían ser una exhibición caleidoscópica de contenido impactante en lugar de presentar una estructura argumental clásica. Este inusual trabajo, que dio a luz a todo un género, se tituló Mondo Cane. Inspirados por esa intención visceral e imbuidos del mismo propósito fundamental, Mondo Cane Books pretende que cada publicación suponga un puñetazo en la boca del estómago del lector, al mismo tiempo que ofrece una visión particular de una realidad cultural de la forma más veraz posible. Así que advertido quedas. Puede que nuestros libros no sean para ti. De hecho, no son para ti. ¡No nos sigas! ─ Ilustración: Perros Atados Vol. 1 de IRRA.

[berezina]

Mondo Cane [trailer] (1962) (Gualtiero Jacopetti, Paolo Cavara, & Franco E. Prosperi) [buy]

[gatutor]

Barbara Bouchet "The conjugal debt" (Il debito coniugale) 1970, de Franco Prosperi.

[strathshepard]

Mondo Cane movie poster by Wojciech Zamecznik via Posteritati

[take-it-sloooooow]

"La donna nel mondo" Movie, 1963 Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi et Paolo Cavara https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Femme_%C3%A0_travers_le_monde https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_of_the_World

[howlingmadmoonwolf]

The Wild Beasts (1984)

“There's No Escape!”

[suspiria76]

THE WILD BEASTS

Italy

1983

Directed by Franco Prosperi

[illustraction]

DICK SMART 2.007 (1967) - MY 20 FAVORITE ITALIAN MOVIE POSTERS (Part 8/20)

The EUROSPY genre has spawned some of the best Italian movie posters ever painted. Among those, one of my favorite is this sensual painting by RODOLFO GASPARRI for an otherwise forgettable (yet deliciously cheesy) movie. Above is the Italian 2 Fogli poster.

Director: Franco Prosperi Actors: Richard Wyler, Margaret Lee

All our Italian 2F and 4F movie posters are here

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The poster above courtesy of ILLUSTRACTION GALLERY 

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Sweet and Savage (1983) Greca Vision https://www.videospace.fi/release/sweet_and_savage_vhs_greca_vision_greece

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il controverso Horror di Jess Franco (LEGGETE DI SEGUITO LE NOTE...)

Il trono di fuoco

Data di uscita: 5 febbraio 1970 (Italia)

Regista: Jesus Franco

Musiche Bruno Nicolai

Paese di produzione: Italia, Gran Bretagna, Spagna, Germania

Scritto da: Enrico Colombo, Jesús Franco, Harry Alan Towers

DURATE INTERNATIONAL

103 min (versione uk) 🇬🇧

98 min (versione argentina) 🇦���

96 min (versione spagnola) 🇪🇸

94 min (versione svedese) 🇸🇪

91 minuti (versione italiana) 🇮🇹

82 min (versione tedesca) 🇩🇪

84 min (versione statunitense) 🇺🇸

Uscì in numerosi paesi, con differenze significative.

La versione più lunga è quella inglese, intitolata The Bloody Judge, che tuttavia manca completamente della fondamentale scena del lago, nella quale Mary tenta il suicidio, è salvata da Harry e se ne innamora.

La versione Italiana in Dvd uscita per la Sinister Film il 27 ott 2017 riporta una durata di 98 min. 1 ora e 38 minuti (da verificare) + scene tagliate.

Nel 1972 Franco ne ha girato un sequel intitolato Les Démons (film, 1973)

•Titoli e versioni alternative•

The Bloody Judge (Gran Bretagna) “titolo originale e riconosciuto dal regista”

El proceso de las brujas (Spagna)

El juez sangriento (Spagna)

Il trono di fuoco (Italia)

Il giudice sanguinario (Italia)

Der Hexentöter von Blackmoor (Germania) “tagliata drasticamente ma con inserti sadicoerotici”

Night of the Blood Monster (USA)

Le Trone de feu (Francia)

De Sadistische Rechter (Paesi Bassi)

Le Bûcher aux Sorcières (Belgio)

Le Trône de l'Exorciste (Belgio)

Interpreti e personaggi

Christopher Lee: Giudice George Jeffreys

Margaret Lee: Alicia Gray

Pietro Martellanza: Barnaby

Maria Schell: Madre Rosa

Leo Genn: Conte di Wessex

Hans Hass Jr.: Harry Selton

Maria Rohm: Mary Gray

Howard Vernon: Jack Ketch, il boia

Diana Lorys: Sally Gaunt

Werner Abrolat: un soldato

José María Práda: Palafox

Milo Quesada: Satchel

José Martinez Blanco: Steven Truro

Vicente Roca: il pubblico ministero

John Thompson: Jonathan Dickens

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DA NON CONFONDERE CON “Il Trono di Fuoco del 1983 Diretto da FRANCO PROSPERI

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