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Oct 5, 2015 - 2:31 AM
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hyperdanny
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Great call, hyperdanny. I haven't seen a single one of those but if they even half live up to the scores I'd like to track them down.
TG
Bolognini had a strange career..up until the 80’s he was an extremely respected , high-profile director, and then he went into decline, now he’s almost forgotten.
In the 60’s and 70’s he had perfected his brand of glossy historical movies, almost a kind of Italian pre Merchant –Ivory ..sometimes from famous novels, sometimes from true stories, but always with major stars and beautiful costumes, photograpy, décor.
This is when he made his best movies (Metello, Per la antiche scale, L’eredita’ Ferramonti, Fatti di gente perbene, these are all really great movies IMHO).
Less convincing were his forays into 60’s psichedelia (L’Assoluto naturale) or 70’s political cinema (Imputazione di omicidio per uno studente).
Then in the 80’s something went bad, this kind of movies was seen as dated, Mosca Addio and la Storia vera della Signora dalle Camelie were not very successful.
So he started to make movies more veering towards the erotic , still glossy, still high-ish profile, but just kind of pointless (La Venexiana with the gorgeous team Laura Antonelli-Monica Guerritore, corny but enjoyable, la Villa del Venerdi’with Julian Sands, downright terrible).
A big miniseries for TV (Gli Indifferenti), didn’t make much of a splash, either. He died early in the 90's, I think of cancer.
What is common between all of these movies is the very high, often outstanding quality of the scores that Morricone penned for Bolognini..you all know these titles even if you never saw the movies, they're masterpieces,
Actually, I believe that the La Venexiana cd (double feature with Mosca Addio) is the single cd I ever payed most..I just had to have it.
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Robert Aldrich/Frank DeVol.
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COrigliano/ Ken Russell
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Quentin Tarantino and His Record Collection.
Post of the day! 
...yesterday.
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