The Movie:

Pietro Germi's 1972 comedy Alfredo Alfredo stars Dustin Hoffman as a young man named Alfredo who makes a living as a bank teller. Alfredo is, in typical Dustin Hoffman style, fairly nebbish and more than a little meek and mild, but he's a nice enough guy. When we meet him he's head over heels in love with a beautiful woman named Maria Rosa (Stefania Sandrelli) - he can't get her off of his mind and would consider himself the luckiest man alive should he be able to make her his bride. When he somehow bucks the odds and manages to do just that, it looks like his dream has come true, until he quickly realizes that for all her sex appeal, she's about as exciting to him as a wet dish rag. They consummate their marriage and soon enough she's pregnant and he's stuck with her.

Things get a little more complicated for Alfredo when he loses interest in Maria Rosa and starts t...Read the entire review

The Movie:

Also known as The Sick Killers and S.S. Sezione Sequestri (which is the title used on the tape source this DVD was mastered from), 1973's Ransom Baby (known in its native Greece as Oi Apanthropoi) was directed by Pavlos Filippou, a prolific director with a long list of credits to his name.

Obviously inspired by the Italian crime films being churned out around this time by the likes of Umberto Lenzi and Fernando Di Leo, Filippou's film follows a beautiful woman named Christine (Sassa Kastoura) who is the leader of a criminal gang made up of a tough guy named Kurt (Andreas Barkoulis) and an older man named Heine (Zoras Tsapelis) who once had ties to the Nazi party. These three decide to rob a casino located on Mount Parnes by disguising themselves as IBM repairmen. They figure that the payday from this heist will be big enough that, if they can p...Read the entire review

Kinski Paganini:
You ever uttered a big, fat, pained, "wow" before? Follow me down the corridors of arthouse cinema at its most extreme and self-indulgent, as Klaus Kinski imagines his fiercely talented self as fiercely talented early-19th Century composer and violin virtuoso Nicolo Paganini. From one lust-crazed egomaniac artist to another, it's a case of the pot calling the kettle black, so if the shoe fits, Kinski must wear it. (Save for the catch that Kinski wasn't always the genius he thought he was, and his work will never have the impact on cinema that Paganini had on music.) Kinski did, however, leave us this woozily rapturous phantasmagoria of a biopic, the cinematic equivalent of that vertiginous moment when you're so drunk you abandon all inhibitions, sadly realizing it's only a matter of time before you vomit.

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