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Eric Trules's avatar

Beautiful, Tommy. “Nights of Cabiria“ is also one of my favorite films and definitely my favorite of Fellini‘s. The clown/saint/brokenhearted whore that Messina creates is one of the greatest characters in filmic history. Thanks for writing this, my man..

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Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

You’re welcome herr Trules

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Martin Mc Carthy's avatar

Your ability to describe things, Tommy, is both breathtaking and memorable. I really love this: "The last scene of Nights of Cabiria is a two-minute miracle. By the end of the second act Cabiria’s been through the ringer. Let down by man, God and fate, she is soaked through with shame and hard luck, doomed to live a loveless life on the margins."

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Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

Thanks McCarthy. watch the film if you haven’t in a while. it’s all poetry

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Anna Schott's avatar

Beautiful

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Nick Winney's avatar

La strada is such a simple perfect film. it can seem a cliché if you watch it now but back in time?

heartbreaking through its sentimentality and thick with heat and dust of Italy.

Nobody seems to love this film as much as I do when i persuade them to watch it.

Yet cinema paradiso everyone loves... it owes everything it has to la strada if you ask me...in la strada the tragedy is deeper, the acting more physical less cerebral, the emotions more raw. it just doesn't have a cute little boy, i suppose.

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Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

La Strada very strong but Caberia plays more notes — paradiso not in the league of either.

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Renee Missel's avatar

Oh, Tommy. I have tears in my eyes as you take me back to that unforgettable scene on the bluff and then the revelers. So much humanity and pain. Chaplin with a Magnani chaser!!!YES!

Magnani and Julietta were my favorite actresses. Beautiful piece. Thank you.

As i told you some days ago, the story of a person who can only tell the truth and who is married to a person who only lies is a film in itself.

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Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

Glad i made good n what i mentioned as the crazy orthodox restaurant

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Renee Missel's avatar

definitely

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Reflections's avatar

I have to watch it!

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Patris's avatar

riveting.

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Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

Good

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Pattie Lee Pierce's avatar

On my watch list…. Thank you for writing so beautifully about it and making me desperately want to see it.

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Holly Starley's avatar

Beautiful

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