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Fulci Talks (2021)
Understanding Fulci through his own words
Trying to understand Fulci's cinema Is never an easy task, unless you use his countless interviews (both on books and feature documentaries). His real intent, moviemaking-wise must be filtered through his unique views, and this documentary really helps. Sort of a son to "The American Night of DR. Fulci", contains a view of all the elements that make Lucio's oeuvre so unique, and has the ability to be both entertaining and enlightening (I could hear his provocative talks for hours and hours). What the documentary is really missing is a visual counterpart with elements, scenes and bits from his movies. That would have certainly made it a more conventional study on the subject, but even more entertaining!! Great doc anyway!
Adam Sandler: Funny Guy (2020)
Kind of a wikidoc full of un-informative bits
I don't know the purpose of documentaries like this: the structure and content is loosely based on Adam Sandler wikipedia page, and its really a collage of generic press interviews (there are even parts that you get to see twice!!!!). The fact that Adam Sandler public persona is pretty low-profile makes this cut-up basically uninteresting. There's nothing new or original in this, just recycled content that Sandler's fans have already seen. Boring and useless
Fulci for fake (2019)
A Fake in the Brain
As a fan of Lucio Fulci I would have loved this film more, but it didn't happen. I think the reason lies in its amusing futility and lack of timeliness (too early to re-evaluate Italian artisanal cinema?), as well as in an unfulfilled promise, an extended and unhidden lie. Let me explain: One of the greatest qualities of Fulci's cinema has been that of having kept promises and premises; even his most boorish films (I quote Demonia or perhaps Aenigma) have always had an almost magical consistency with the parathetic aspect (synopsis, posters, press kits, photos of the scene), so much so that in each of his films EXACTLY what was expected to be seen, everything and more.
I remember that I was madly infatuated with the idea of this film as soon as I read it, a couple of years ago, until I idealized its form and content, dreaming about it, imagining it. In my dreams it was a different film.
The most problematic aspect of this documentary lies in its being a Fake at all costs, in wanting to define itself as something it is not: it does not have the depth (in the sense of mise en abyme) described in the press-kit and in the official synopsis, it is not a bio-pic (unlike the slogan...), it is not what it promises to be - hell, even the lenticular cover of the Severin mente edition! - is a documentary that joins a thousand others already released (Aenigma: Lucio Fulci and the 80s, Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1, Do you remember Lucio Fulci?, No longer responds, Tempus Fugit - An Inside Look at Director Lucio Fulci, La notte americana del Dr. Lucio Fulci...), with a meta-meta-meta frame in its own original way that serves as a pretext for the interviews.
Because it has to be said that Fulci, true, was ignored in life, but in the following years many books and documentaries have been dedicated to his work.
I was saying, I would have liked to love this film, maybe love it more. In fact, he still deserves affection, precisely as an act of love in turn.
An act of love towards certain cinema, and just as an act of love cannot be ignored. There is the documentation (increased in Blu-Ray by the strong presence of repertory materials accompanied by the comments of Michele Romagnoli - the scholar to whom we owe one of the two fundamental volumes on Fulci - the other is "Il Terrorista dei Generi" by Cacciatore and Albiero), there is the desire to present the director's "sentimental" background, there is a strong diplomacy of memory (so much so that we are amazed by the presence of the "loving" testimonies of Michele Soavi and Paolo Malco in the cut interviews of the extra content). There is the love of a daughter towards her father and the esteem of some collaborators.
On the technical side, the film is very well made, with a single note linked to the poor sound intelligibility of Camilla Fulci's testimony, due to an affectionate and very sweet use of her Romanesque. The subtitles (which cannot be deactivated!), very well adapted and made, in English, which perfectly summarize her thought, come to the aid.
I think it is, despite some flaws and criticalities listed, a film that should be part of any REAL fan and scholar of the director, next to the most badass books written about Fulci. The Italian edition of Blu-Ray, with identical contents, is coming out in September for the Midnight Factory.