“Being born in Palermo is a kind of punishment, but I’ve never left because it would feel like betrayal. Moreover, I can’t imagine Cinico Tv in any other place in the world.” To Franco Maresco, a brilliant, solitary director from Palermo, his city was the stage of a surreal comedy of rampant decay just as the Mafia was renegotiating the division of power and influence in the emerging Second Republic. Ruins, trash, scraps, underwear, flatulence and burping raided the TV screen at dinnertime in Italian homes in the spring of 1992, sparking hostile cultural debates about the limits of trash and the aesthetics of ugliness, the sense of post-history and post-humanity
A Walk in the Clouds
1995
7.4/10
That's Life
1998
7.5/10
Titanic
1997
7.9/10
Joker
2019
8.1/10
Oppenheimer
2023
8.0/10
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2019
7.4/10
Inside Out
2015
7.9/10
Back to the Future
1985
8.3/10
PK
2014
7.7/10
Extraction
2020
7.3/10
Soul
2020
8.1/10
Batman Begins
2005
7.7/10
Shutter Island
2010
8.2/10
The Shawshank Redemption
1994
8.7/10
In Time
2011
7.0/10
Call Me by Your Name
2017
8.1/10
8 Mile
2002
7.1/10
The Truman Show
1998
8.1/10
Jojo Rabbit
2019
8.0/10
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017
8.1/10
The Running Man
1987
6.535/10
