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Dec 20, 2014 - 1:27 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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Virna Lisi co-starred with Jeanne Moreau and Stanley Baker in Joseph Losey's film EVA. Losey's original cut of the film ran 155 minutes, but his version was only screened once, at Cinecitta Studios in 1962. The producers withdrew the film as Italy’s official entry at the Cannes film festival, then cut the film to 130 minutes, at which point Losey disowned the film. When this version was poorly received by the critics, the producers again cut the film, this time to 116 minutes, and the film opened at this length in France in October 1962.
Michel Legrand scored the film, evoking Miles Davis and Gil Evans. (Losey had originally wanted Davis to score the film.) The score was conducted by Carlo Savina. The most recent recording of the score was issued on Bella Casa/Cherry Red Records (CASA3CD) in 2007.
The film was originally scheduled to be released in the U.S. in 1963, under the revised title EVE, but that release was cancelled. When the film finally opened in Los Angeles in October 1964, it retained the original title EVA, but was cut again, to 107 minutes.
For decades afterward, the 107 minute version was the only available cut of the film. In the late 1990s, a longer print of the film surfaced in Scandinavia. This English-language print, with burned in Swedish/Finnish subtitles, was erroneously dubbed the "Unseen Director's Cut" by Kino International and was made available for showings on the art house circuit, under the title EVE. The print runs 119 minutes, and was released on DVD by Kino in 2000 (back under the original title EVA again), along with a British PAL transfer of the 107-minute cut that, because of the PAL-NTSC conversion, runs a faster 104 minutes. In the British version, an unknown English actress voices Lisi's role. In the longer version, actress Anna Proclemer provides a more natural English dubbing that better matches Lisi’s performance.
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virna as a nurse would quite definitely murder me in a cardiac scenario!!
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Dec 20, 2014 - 4:15 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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In April 1967, Columbia released another of those Italian comedy compilation films, this one entitled MADE IN ITALY. This film was more ambitious than most. Originally, the Italian version, which ran 130 minutes, was composed of 32 vignettes depicting life in modern-day Italy, divided into five chapters: "Habits and Customs," "Work," "Women," "Citizens--the State--and Church," and "The Family." When the film opened in the U.S., it was cut down to 101 minutes, and a number of stories with lesser known actors were dropped. In Lisi's segment, Virginia (Lisi), a defenseless woman, describes to Renato (Giulio Bosetti), her former boyfriend, how she suffered at the hands of her recently deceased patron.
Carlo Rustichelli scored the film, but the RCA LP of his music has never been issued on CD.
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Dec 20, 2014 - 5:40 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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In 1965, Lisi co-starred with Marcello Mastroianni and Pamela Tiffin in a comedy for producer Carlo Ponti called "Oggi, Domani, Dopodomani" (Today, Tomorrow, the Day After Tomorrow). In the film, Lisi plays the wife of a man who has given shelter to an amnesiac (Mastroianni) who has escaped from a homosexual sheik.
Originally, the film consisted of three episodes by three different directors, Luciano Salce, Eduardo De Filippo, and Marco Ferreri. The film was intended for U.S. release by Embassy Pictures as "Paranoia." But that plan fell through. Instead, the episode directed by Marco Ferreri (featuring Catherine Spaak and Ugo Tognazzi) was dropped and additional scenes were directed by Luciano Salce. MGM took over the American distribution of the film, opening it in New York in July 1968 under the title KISS THE OTHER SHEIK. As a result, Virna Lisi, director Eduardo De Filippo, and screenwriter Isabella Quarantotti had their names removed from the credits in objection to the refurbished film.
The film's score, which has music from both Nino Rota and Armando Trovaioli, has never had any release.
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Dec 20, 2014 - 6:18 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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Lisi costarred with Ursula Andress, Claudine Auger, and Marisa Mell in the 1967 comedy ANYONE CAN PLAY. The film was released in the U.S. in September 1968 by Paramount, who drastically cut the film from 110 to 88 minutes. In the film, Lisi, playing one of four college friends, has succumbed to extramarital temptations, and is being blackmailed by a gang of extortionists. The film's score, by Armando Trovaioli, has never had a release.
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