Salina Art Center

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Vincere

Marco Bellocchio was among the great Italian directors who emerged in the late ‘60’s and early ‘70’s, creating films that were highly political (often Marxist), deliberately provoked bourgeois sensibilities, violent, irreverent, and explosive.  “Hip” American film critics (and youth involved in the anti-war movement) revered filmmakers like Lina Wertmüller, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, and of course the godfather of them all, Federico Fellini.  But Marco Bellocchio was in the same…

Babies

Babies-or Bébé(s), the original French title-is based on such a surefire attention-getting subject that it’s amazing it doesn’t get used more frequently (or effectively).  This simple, almost elemental documentary from director Thomas Balmes is about babies-the most natural, honest, expressive, and emotionally generous performers in the world.  One could be cynical: how could any film following one formative year in the life of a quartet of infants from different parts of the world (Africa,…