老头子Woody(布鲁斯·邓恩 Bruce Dern 饰)收到一份广告,上面说他中了一百万大奖,对此他深信不疑,更决定从蒙大拿的比灵斯市步行到内布拉斯加的林肯市去领奖。他的妻子和两个儿子多次劝阻未果,最终小儿子David(威尔·福特 Will Forte 饰)决定开车载着他到林肯去领奖。去林肯的路上他们经过了Woody的老家,便决定去拜访那些久未谋面的亲戚们。Woody一家在那里短暂停留的几天里,整个小镇的人都知道Woody中了大奖,Woody顿时成了镇上的红人,接踵而来的是他的那些老债主们。David也渐渐了解了Woody那些不为人知的过去,对自己的父亲有了新的了解......
The Last of the Chupacabras, one of six Disney Launchpad Shorts, starts streaming May 28 on Disney+. “THE LAST OF THE CHUPACABRAS,” Written and Directed by Jessica Mendez Siqueiros. Producers are Nicole Crespo and Steak House; Executive Producers are Julie Ann Crommett, Mahin Ibrahim, Alyssa Navarro, Chris Caraballo, Jason Alvidrez and Adam Nusinow. In a world where culture has...
The Last of the Chupacabras, one of six Disney Launchpad Shorts, starts streaming May 28 on Disney+. “THE LAST OF THE CHUPACABRAS,” Written and Directed by Jessica Mendez Siqueiros. Producers are Nicole Crespo and Steak House; Executive Producers are Julie Ann Crommett, Mahin Ibrahim, Alyssa Navarro, Chris Caraballo, Jason Alvidrez and Adam Nusinow. In a world where culture has...
This utterly gorgeous Gothic melodrama would be widely hailed as a masterpiece, had it not been made in Italy during the Mussolini regime. A gross injustice, as Malombra - unlike Piccolo Mondo Antico, Mario Soldati's earlier film of an Antonio Fogazzaro novel - contains not one moment of triumphalist flag-waving or Fascist family values. Oddly akin to Rebecca in its atmosphere of death-haunted romance and voluptuous doom, it reaches a peak of visual refinement of which Hitchcock could only dream. Its star is Isa Miranda (famous, and not without reason, as Italy's answer to Garbo and Dietrich) playing a headstrong but unstable young noblewoman, confined by her uncle to a gloomy villa on the shores of Lake Como. A yellowed and crumbling letter, found in an old spinet, convinces her that she is the reincarnation of her uncle's first wife - another troubled beauty who died a virtual prisoner after being caught in a forbidden love affair. When a handsome young writer (Andrea Checchi) comes to stay, Miranda decides that HE is the reincarnation of the dead woman's lover. Gradually, she lures him into her web of sex and revenge... What more to say without spoiling the fun Miranda gives a performance to rival any of the great divas of Hollywood. Only Davis and Stanwyck, perhaps, could play a bad girl so boldly without losing all sympathy. The evocation of 19th century aristocracy, in its full decadent splendour, is visually and dramatically flawless - a model for such later Italian gems as Visconti's Senso and The Innocent. It helped, perhaps, that Soldati himself was a leading novelist. Blessed with an absolute respect for the classics he adapted, but in no way inhibited by them. He was also the guiding spirit of the now-forgotten 'calligraphic' movement, which brought the Italian cinema to such wondrous aesthetic heights during World War Two, only to collapse before the horror of Neo-Realism. Can we blame Soldati for giving up film-making in disgust and going back to writing novels So if you've ever felt (as I do) that Rossellini's much-touted Rome - Open City is the work of an amateur...well, Malombra is the film you have to see!