Lists
25 Books
Books to Read
September 2022 | 18 views
Sort by:
Recent Desc
Inspired by this list
More lists by Niko Aiello
Best of All Time
I guess I’m more of an arthouse snob than I thought
February 2023
10
Sci-Fi and/or Horror
List includes: Stargate, Starship Troopers, Spaceballs
February 2023
1
Watchlist 2.0
List includes: Songs from the Second Floor, Calvary, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
February 2023
0
Italian Neorealism
Fellini = fantasy/baroque, Pasolini = sexuality, Rossellini = war, Visconti = decadence/decline of nobility
March 2021
3
Poliziotteschi Films
1970s Italian crime/action films. Born out of the French gangster film resurgence of the late 1960s-1970s, as well as the cultural turmoil in Italy at the time. Violence, vigilantism, corruption, “greatness of the working class protagonist over the corrupt bureaucracy”
March 2021
1
Hong Kong New Wave
Post-Colonialism, nostalgia, modernity and youth culture, and the ultimate cultural identity of Hong Kong
March 2021
3
Neuer Deutscher Film
German films, 1962 - 1982, born out of the Oberhausen Manifesto. Disillusionment with post-War Germany, rejection of mainstream German cinema and art, socially critical. Would go on to influence Italian Neorealism, Nouvelle Vague, and British New Wave
March 2021
0
Commedia all'italiana
Italian Comedies from the 1950s to 1970s: lots of satire, lots of "socially taboo" subjects, usually to the background of the working class with some sprinkles of social criticism
March 2021
1
From the Conversations of Tarantino and Edgar Wright
All the references and recommendations from the Director’s Commentary of Hot Fuzz, as well as those from their conversation on the Empire Film Podcast
March 2021
2