Fabrizio Falco in "Il Lotto" Recently, I discovered Postmodernissimo, a website dedicated to quality cinema, entertainment and visual arts. Named after the Modernissimo D'Essai, Perugia’s oldest cinema which had closed its doors for nearly two decades, the website came about following an effort to get the cinema back up and running. After that goal was achieved, organizers broadened the cinema’s international reach by making a rotating selection of films available online. With Italy’s country-wide quarantine, the list of films was recently expanded. Looking through the titles, I noticed a short film by Marco Bellocchio , “La Lotta” (The Fight). I watched it today. Then I watched it again, and again. I felt that I was missing something because there are so many elements and layers. I enlisted the help of our resident producer, Mauro Ianari, who produced our 2019 short about the pioneer documentarian Luigi Di Gianni . We went through the film together and noticed a...
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