49) Videocracy (2009) Dir: Erik Grandini Date Released: February 2010 Date Seen: February 11, 2010 Rating: 1/5
50) To Die for Tano (1997) Dir: Roberta Torre Date Released: February 2010 Date Seen: February 11, 2010 Rating: 4/5
Two portraits of macho Italian egos, one thoroughly enervating for its shallow probing and the other completely absorbed in its absurd premise of not only denying its subject valorization but of turning his life story into a violently disorienting, quasi-mystical, persona-absorbing hallucinatory celebration of his impenetrability. See my comparative piece for The New York Press.
http://www.nypress.com/blog-5856-to-die-for-tano-and-videocracy-or-how-to-stop-asking-questions-and-just-roll-with-the-italian-male-ego.html
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