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I Bastardi di Pizzofalcone - S1EP4 Gelo - Part 22 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

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Lojacono and Di Nardo go to see Biagio's ex-girlfriend to ask her one more question. She happens to remember something that gives them a new lead. They then go and talk to Renato, Biagio's friend and colleague.

I Bastardi di Pizzofalcone - S1EP4 Gelo - Part 23 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Lojacono is confident he knows how the murder happened and is able to trick Renato into saying something he couldn't have heard on the news.

I Bastardi di Pizzofalcone - S1EP4 Gelo - Part 24 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

The case has been solved, one gets the feeling that if the murderer had been Varricchio, a common ex-convict, instead of a promising biologist, son of a prominent professor, the outcome would have been more palatable to the city and to the press.

Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

This documentary is about Guido Crepax, the creator of a famous fumetto (comic strip) that came out in 1965. The main characters are Philip Rembrandt, an art critic, and Valentina Rosselli, a photojournalist.

Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Crepax started out with one protagonist, Philip Rembrandt, but gradually phased him out, along with his superpowers. Valentina then took over as the protagonist. Crepax talks about Milan in the sixties.

Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 4 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Filmmakers Tinto Brass and Giuseppe Tornatore comment on how some elements of expressivity are shared between comic strips and the cinema.

Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 5 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Crepax's Valentina was an intriguing character because she openly reflected the sexual freedom of the late sixties and was attractive to both men and women. It was very "in" to be seen walking around with an issue of "Linus," an Italian comics magazine published in Italy beginning in 1965.

Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 7 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Among the pages of the comic strip, family members find familiar objects, drawings, and personal information from their everyday life. Although Valentina was a figment of Crepax's imagination, she was also an integral part of his family.

Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 8 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

One of Crepax's techniques is to use the details of everyday life to build his stories and provide context. We even see the titles of the books in Valentina's bookcase.

Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 9 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Besides his much better known activity as a graphic artist, Crepax was a keen wargamer and wargame designer and collector of paper soldiers, drawn by himself.

Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 10 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Crepax loved playing at battles and would change the outcomes, using his friends to fine-tune the moves. He had some famous personalities as willing participants in the games, too.

Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 11 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Guido Crepax's son Antonio talks about the day Antonio Custra was killed in May of 1977, during an armed demonstration in Milan. This was during the so-called anni di piombo (years of lead), a period of social turmoil, political violence and upheaval that lasted from the late 1960s until the late 1980s, marked by a wave of both far-left and far-right incidents of political terrorism and violent clashes. Many demonstrators were arrested, but Antonio Crepax managed not to get loaded onto a paddy wagon.

Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 12 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Just as in Cubist art, Crepax would design his figures to be seen from various points of view simultaneously. Sometimes he would use small windows to attract attention rather than making them larger.

Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 13 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Who was the model for Valentina? Certainly, the actress Louise Brooks who portrayed Lulu in the movie Pandora's Box directed by G.W Pabst (based on two plays by Frank Wedekind), but also Crepax's wife, Luisa Mandelli.

Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 14 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Crepax's stories were based on imagination and vision. In those years, artists contaminated one another's works, and there was even a curious connection between Crepax's Ciao Valentina and Antonioni's Blow-Up.

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