No Shame Films (De Sicca, Fellini, Visconti, etc)
04-20-05, 02:28 AM
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No Shame Films (De Sicca, Fellini, Visconti, etc)
A company for which I admit I know very little about is putting two very interesting releases: De Sicca's 1964 Academy Award Winner Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow and the multi-production Boccaccio 70 starring La Dolce Vita's Anita Ekberg.
These appear to be newly remastered version and there are some good words so far...
Review:
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=15362
I have not been able to find the company's web site
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These appear to be newly remastered version and there are some good words so far...
Review:
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=15362
I have not been able to find the company's web site
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04-20-05, 03:08 AM
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Supposedly, their website address is http://www.noshamefilms.com, but they still haven’t gotten it up and running.
04-20-05, 03:13 AM
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not surprise - i dont think anyone knows much about noshame, as their italian discs are without english subtitles, though i posted a story or two about the label elsewhere and an italian poster said theyre the equivalent of criterion...
they have other titles coming too, 'the strange vice of mrs.wardh', 'case of the scorpions tale' from sergio martino... 'your vice is a lock and only i have the key' and a couple more too i think... some italian cop / polizie movies...
they have other titles coming too, 'the strange vice of mrs.wardh', 'case of the scorpions tale' from sergio martino... 'your vice is a lock and only i have the key' and a couple more too i think... some italian cop / polizie movies...
04-20-05, 03:52 AM
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mondo digital have a review of baccacio 70 up now (from the USA disc it seems) :
http://www.mondo-digital.com/boccaccio.html
http://www.mondo-digital.com/boccaccio.html
04-20-05, 12:41 PM
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Logboy:
Thank you for providing the link....these look like solid releases and I will be getting them. Please post more if you confirm what the rest of their catalog would be.
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Thank you for providing the link....these look like solid releases and I will be getting them. Please post more if you confirm what the rest of their catalog would be.
Regards,
Pro-B
04-21-05, 02:11 AM
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here are the covers for the other 2 upcoming Italian titles courtesy of dvddrive-in....
http://www.dvddrive-in.com/reviews/n-s/noshamepromo.htm
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http://www.dvddrive-in.com/reviews/n-s/noshamepromo.htm
Pro-B
04-21-05, 02:28 AM
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I know that one of the people heading this company used to work at 'Blue Underground' with Bill Lustig. There is a thread over at Mobius about these titles.
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04-21-05, 02:41 AM
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What I am a bit unsure is how is their catalog going to be structured? Classic titles, Giallo, etc?
If they are going to be releasing more classic Italian titles (or European for that matter) I will be VERY interested. And, YES, the covers look very good.
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If they are going to be releasing more classic Italian titles (or European for that matter) I will be VERY interested. And, YES, the covers look very good.
Pro-B
04-21-05, 08:28 AM
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Nice! I'd like to get an e-mail address. If someone knows how to contact them that would be great. The above link links to a page that says "this domain name has been registered by one of our customers"...
04-21-05, 04:53 PM
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Another "thanks" to logboy for the link to the Boccaccio 70 review. I must say that I am very disappointed to read that they didn't bother to do English subtitles for the restored Monicelli segment (How much could it have cost to hired some grad student to do the translation?) I'm glad I only pre-ordered Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow...of course, I'm even happier that I didn't get suckered into buying the horrible EPI release of the same title last year.
04-22-05, 09:47 AM
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They need to hire new DVD cover designers. I don't care if it's like the original art, they look awful (specifically the last two on the bottom, the first two are good).
04-22-05, 11:50 AM
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Originally Posted by The Bus
They need to hire new DVD cover designers. I don't care if it's like the original art, they look awful (specifically the last two on the bottom, the first two are good).
In my opinion, if you already hate the DVD covers, then you probably aren't going to be into these movies.I think they're are great - sure beats the heck out of the typical ho-hum Hollywood ones we see every week.
04-22-05, 12:57 PM
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Here's what the original Italian Giallo cover looks like for Strange Vice....
In fact, look at AlanYoung Pictures' catalog. They have quite the fame in Italy...
www.alanyoung.it
Ciao,
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In fact, look at AlanYoung Pictures' catalog. They have quite the fame in Italy...
www.alanyoung.it
Ciao,
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04-22-05, 05:15 PM
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I've never heard of any of these titles, but I do think the covers look GREAT. If I had money, and happened to find these used, I'd probably pick them up sight unseen based on the reviews.
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05-01-05, 07:21 PM
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Originally Posted by RevKarl
Another "thanks" to logboy for the link to the Boccaccio 70 review. I must say that I am very disappointed to read that they didn't bother to do English subtitles for the restored Monicelli segment...
By the by, here's the link to Savant's review of the DVD:
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=15468
05-01-05, 10:30 PM
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ohhhh....ohhh...ohhh....Look at this....Antonioni's Story of a Love Affair
This company is getting more and more sersious in my book....
Plus upcoming remastered hi-def Tinto Brass titles....
If they release the SE 2DVD set of Caligula the French did...hmmm!!!!
I will be picking ALL of the upcoming titles....
Great news,
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This company is getting more and more sersious in my book....
Plus upcoming remastered hi-def Tinto Brass titles....
If they release the SE 2DVD set of Caligula the French did...hmmm!!!!I will be picking ALL of the upcoming titles....
Great news,
Ciao,
Pro-B
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05-03-05, 10:48 AM
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My wish list for that company: Le Bambole (various directors, 1965) and The Girl with the Suicase (Zurlini, 1960) already available in Region 1 in dismal video-to-DVD barely legal transfers.
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05-03-05, 12:03 PM
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This film is much more important, Pietro Germi's first big success (1956):
It seems all the films offered by Noshame have a kind of barely dissimulated "sexploitation" angle. In the case of The Railroad Man, could that angle be Pietro Germi himself, Italy's answer to Gary Cooper?
It seems all the films offered by Noshame have a kind of barely dissimulated "sexploitation" angle. In the case of The Railroad Man, could that angle be Pietro Germi himself, Italy's answer to Gary Cooper?
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05-03-05, 12:56 PM
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Originally Posted by baracine
It seems all the films offered by Noshame have a kind of barely dissimulated "sexploitation" angle.
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05-03-05, 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist
Hardly so....even the Tinto Brass title is rather innocent (Snackbar Budapest). This company has some great titles to start with....I hope to see a full upcoming catalog soon.
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Come to think of it, it's really hard to come up with an Italian title of the 50's and 60's that was an international success which wasn't also some kind of controversial droolfest: Bitter Rice, Nights of Cabiria, La Dolce Vita, Divorce Italian Style, Two Women... The list goes on and on...
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