Sun April 5, 2015
The Organizer (Mario Monicelli; Italy, 1963)
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Mastroianni plays a stubbornly idealistic schoolteacher who comes from Genoa to Turin to lead the local textile-mill workers in a much-needed strike. Monicelli draws on his neorealist roots to capture the late-nineteenth-century setting in seeming documentary style: cinematographer Rotunno’s gray-toned photography etches an image of the times. Monicelli is unyielding but never less than compassionate in this look at the beginnings of the trade union movement in northern Italy. The Organizer was nominated for an Oscar for story and screenplay, and still stands as a classic of Italian cinema.
• Written by Monicelli, Age and Scarpelli. Photographed by Giuseppe Rotunno. With Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Gabriella Giorgelli, Folco Lulli.
(126 mins, In Italian with English subtitles, B&W, 35mm, From Janus Films/Criterion Collection)
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Mastroianni plays a stubbornly idealistic schoolteacher who comes from Genoa to Turin to lead the local textile-mill workers in a much-needed strike. Monicelli draws on his neorealist roots to capture the late-nineteenth-century setting in seeming documentary style: cinematographer Rotunno’s gray-toned photography etches an image of the times. Monicelli is unyielding but never less than compassionate in this look at the beginnings of the trade union movement in northern Italy. The Organizer was nominated for an Oscar for story and screenplay, and still stands as a classic of Italian cinema.
• Written by Monicelli, Age and Scarpelli. Photographed by Giuseppe Rotunno. With Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Gabriella Giorgelli, Folco Lulli.
(126 mins, In Italian with English subtitles, B&W, 35mm, From Janus Films/Criterion Collection)
(I compagni)
Mastroianni plays a stubbornly idealistic schoolteacher who comes from Genoa to Turin to lead the local textile-mill workers in a much-needed strike. Monicelli draws on his neorealist roots to capture the late-nineteenth-century setting in seeming documentary style: cinematographer Rotunno’s gray-toned photography etches an image of the times. Monicelli is unyielding but never less than compassionate in this look at the beginnings of the trade union movement in northern Italy. The Organizer was nominated for an Oscar for story and screenplay, and still stands as a classic of Italian cinema.
• Written by Monicelli, Age and Scarpelli. Photographed by Giuseppe Rotunno. With Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Gabriella Giorgelli, Folco Lulli.
(126 mins, In Italian with English subtitles, B&W, 35mm, From Janus Films/Criterion Collection)
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Mastroianni plays a stubbornly idealistic schoolteacher who comes from Genoa to Turin to lead the local textile-mill workers in a much-needed strike. Monicelli draws on his neorealist roots to capture the late-nineteenth-century setting in seeming documentary style: cinematographer Rotunno’s gray-toned photography etches an image of the times. Monicelli is unyielding but never less than compassionate in this look at the beginnings of the trade union movement in northern Italy. The Organizer was nominated for an Oscar for story and screenplay, and still stands as a classic of Italian cinema.
• Written by Monicelli, Age and Scarpelli. Photographed by Giuseppe Rotunno. With Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Gabriella Giorgelli, Folco Lulli.
(126 mins, In Italian with English subtitles, B&W, 35mm, From Janus Films/Criterion Collection)
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2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
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