Il giovane corsaro - Pasolini da Bologna 2022    star_border 8.5
A young student prepares his degree thesis on Pasolini and Bologna by investigating the relationship of the great intellectual with the city of his childhood and his studies. Following in the footsteps left by Pasolini in Bo­logna, the protagonist will tell, for the first time in the form of a documentary and with a rock narrative rhythm, the emotional, visceral but also controversial bond of Pasolini with Bologna until his final days, also characterized by severe criticisms of the “consumerist and communist” city, a symbolic terrain of the adverse social and economic metamorphosis from paleo­industrial to neo-capitalist society.

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Hidden Away 2020    star_border 7.5
The film tackles the life journey of Toni Ligabue, visionary naïf painter who used to draw tigers, lions and jaguars while living among the poplar trees of the boundless Po valley. A harsh life that is a fairy tale too, as a lonely and marginalized kid finds redemption in his art, and a way to express himself and be admired by the world.

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Bertolucci on Bertolucci 2013    star_border 5.7
Documentary on the life and work of legendary director Bernardo Bertolucci, using filmed interviews he has given over the last 50 years.

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Segni particolari - Appunti per un film sull'Emilia-Romagna 2003

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Fit to Be Untied 1975    star_border 8.5
This documentary was distilled from a 3 1/2-hour television film Nessuno o Tutti, to make the point that many inmates now in mental hospitals could be released without harm to society, and to their advantage.

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