Roberto Rossellini travels length of the Italian peninsula in the immediate aftermath of WWII to share 6 stories about the lives of Italian civilians and partisans and their relationships with foreign Allied troops. Love, tragedy, heroism, and sacrifice result from the difficulties of communicating purpose and need of individuals confronted with the inhumane machine of war.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Gillo Pontecorvo's Burn! (1969).

What does it mean to die? What does it mean to truly live… on a road trip across Spain with Terence Stamp, John Hurt, and Tim Roth in a giant white Mercedes Benz? Director Stephen Frears grabbles with these enduring questions in his sun-soaked take-down of the neo noir. Ten Years after snitching on his compatriots, a criminal in hiding is rousted from his dreamy Spanish village life by two hit men sent to exact retribution. But he seems oddly cool about it all. What gives?

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Roberto Rossellini's Paisan - War Trilogy (1946).

One, two monks kneel before you

That's what I said now

Monks, monks who adore you

Just go ahead now

One has diamonds in his pockets

And that's some bread now

This one says he has tuberculosis

It's in his lungs now…

Juan Bustillo Oro takes us on a Rashomon-esque journey into nightmarish memory in this 1930s Mexican classic.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Stephen Frears' The Hit (1984).