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Keith Mansfield – Our Coming Attraction

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Keith Mansfield, renowned for his Funky Fanfare made famous by Quentin Tarantino with the films Kill Bill and Grindhouse, is an Anglo-Saxon composer author of a surprising amount of musical themes from really excellent music libraries, capable of evoking positivity and well-being in the listener. In the so-called Muzak sector he is easily considered a genius, rising to a higher level than other composers in that vein and, with an impressive curriculum of over 60 albums released in about 30 years of career, also one of the most prolific ever.

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Mansfield, born in London in 1941, in the 60s and 70s was a fundamental figure in the music scene of Anglo-Saxon music libraries and recorded a large number of songs for the specialist label KPM (initials of Keith-Prowse-Maurice, then division of EMI).

In the so-called Muzak sector he is easily considered a genius, rising to a higher level than other composers in that vein and, with an impressive curriculum of over 60 albums released in about 30 years of career, also one of the most prolific ever.

His writing skills range easily from the funk and soul of “Morning Broadway“, “Bogaloo“, “Exclusive Blend“, “Big Shot“, “Soul Thing” (which will then be transformed into the famous Funky Fanfare) to the disco music of “Night Bird”, to the cheerful and energetic television themes such as “Grandstand” for the BBC. “Teenage Carnival” (which was used as the theme of the 1960s children’s television series Freewheelers), “The Young Scene” (1968 theme song for The Big Match football program), “Light and Tuneful” and “World Champion” ( used by BBC and NBC as the opening and closing of the Wimbledon tennis championships), “World Series” (used for BBC athletics broadcasts), classy easy jazz atmospheric lenses such as “Je Reviens“, “Life of Leisure”, “Love De Luxe”, to world music/jazz contaminations like the beautiful “Husky Birdsong”, to synthpop acts like the sci-fi “Superstar Fanfare” and “High Profile”.

Keith Mansfield is probably best known to the American public for the aforementioned “Funky Fanfare” which was used to soundtrack the infamous of psychedelic theatre snipes Astro Daters (“Our Feature Presentation” and “Our Next Attraction” which introduced the films – “Prevues of Coming Attractions” which introduced the movie trailers -“ Intermission” which introduced the interval between the various times of the film), produced by the National Screen Service in the late 1960s.

The Astro Daters were then used by director Tarantino in the films Kill Bill and Grindhouse, making them famous and iconic worldwide along with Funky Fanfare.

But the stainless Funky Fanfare is currently still used as a theme song in various television shows and podcasts.

He also composed scores for the films Loot (1970) and Taste of Excitement (1970) and the western Three Bullets for a Long Gun (1971) but his library songs can also be found in The Great Skycopter Rescue (1980), Fist of Fear, Touch of Death (1980) Kung Fu Killers (1981), TV shows and series and who knows where else.

 

The Astro Daters scored with Funky Fanfare

Mansfield also wrote the aforementioned “Superstar Fanfare“, which was used among others (in different variations) by Channel Television in the Channel Islands, the news program of RTL plus 7 vor 7, Worldvision Enterprises and Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC) as an identifying jingle for British Forces TV in West Germany, Berlin, Cyprus, the Falkland Islands and Gibraltar in the 1980s and 1990s.

Over time his songs have been covered (among others Soul Thing, of which a vocal version was made by James Royal, “House of Jack“, and a reworked in the slow psychedelic “Queen St. Gang” by the Canterburians Uriel/Arzachel by Steve Hillage and Dave Stewart), reworked and remixed (Skeewiff, Simon Begg) but also sampled and reused by hip-hop producers (Danger Mouse, Madlib, Fatboy Slim, Kal Banx).

Molte sue composizioni vengono utilizzate anche dalla NFL per i suoi film monografici delle squadre e i documentari sul Super Bowl e altre vengono usate come sigle di trasmissioni di vario genere.

Mansfield was also a producer (Maynard Ferguson) and arranger and conductor for Dusty Sprigfield (several tracks from the album “Dusty … Definitely“) as well as orchestral arranger on some Love Affair hits (“Everlasting Love“), Marmalade (“Reflections of My Life“) and others.
In short, one of the most incredibly talented, prolific and versatile musicians on the music scene, the ones who remain behind the scenes while you always wonder who knows who wrote that little piece of music that makes you feel so good and once you listen it never leaves your mind.

Keith Mansfield in recent times

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THE MATTEI AFFAIR (1972) – THE MISTERY THAT IS NOT A MISTERY

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These days there is a lot of talk about Italian energy independence, given that there is a need to disengage from the current enemy of the "masters" with crawling stars. Energy independence, the real one, has been within our reach for decades and has been hampered by the same leeches who today want to impose further sacrifices on us for their economic and political interests.

Daniele Pieraccini

Enrico Mattei

«We Italians have to get rid of this inferiority complex that we were taught, that Italians are good writers, good poets, good singers, good guitar players, good people, but they do not have the skills of the great industrial organization. Remember, friends from other countries: these are things that made us believe and are now teaching you too. This is all false and we are an example of it. You must have faith in yourself, in your possibilities, in your tomorrow; you have to train this tomorrow for yourself».

These days there is a lot of talk about Italian energy independence, given that there is a need to disengage from the current enemy of the “masters” with crawling stars. Energy independence, the real one, has been within our reach for decades and has been hampered by the same leeches who today want to impose further sacrifices on us for their economic and political interests.

Basilicata, for example, literally floats on oil. As early as 1400 the inhabitants saw tongues of fire produced by methane; the first research activities began in the 1900s, until 1959 when, thanks to Enrico Mattei, the first important deposits came to light.

The kitten’s parable

It is to this exceptional and courageous entrepreneur, whose figure Eni continues to exploit to boast an ethic that does not belong to it, Francesco Rosi dedicated a remarkable film in 1972 (never released on DVD), drawing it from the book The Assassination of Enrico Mattei by Fulvio Bellini and Alessandro Previdi (also co-writers of the film) and entrusting the role of manager to Gian Maria VolontéThe Mattei Affair (Il caso Mattei),
an investigative film that should be seen by everyone, screened in schools and recognized as an essential testimony of an event that has profoundly changed the fate of our country.

Starting from the end, or rather from the death of Mattei, which took place in a plane “accident” in 1962, Rosi stages a narrative of the facts carried out with documentary rigor but compelling, original and objective at the same time. Using different narrative registers and never leaning into hasty conclusions, the Neapolitan director gets involved artistically and humanly, creating, with the help of the usual great Volonté, a masterful mosaic of political inquiry.

Dwelling for a moment on Volonté, just think that in the same year he also shot Elio Petri’s The Working Class Goes to Heaven (La classe operaia va in paradiso)…

The Movie Poster

I don’t want to be rich in a poor country

In 1945 Enrico Mattei was appointed extraordinary commissioner for the liquidation of the Azienda Generale Italiana Petroli (AGIP). Soon the manager from the Marche contravened the orders, bypassing the Board of Directors recently appointed by AGIP and ordering new drilling in the Lodi area, convinced about the potential of the company he had been called to liquidate.

Mattei deems it necessary to keep in Italian hands the possibility of benefiting from any fruitful developments in the hydrocarbon sector, sparking controversy and disagreements between those who are ready to support it and those who fear above all a reaction from the Allies.

Mattei’s suspicions about the insistence on the liquidation of AGIP are confirmed by the generous offer, of 250 million, from the United States for the acquisition of the company’s facilities, as well as by the sudden increase in foreign technicians in the Lodi area and by the simultaneous release of permits for exploration and research.

Strongly supported by geologists, Mattei convinces the Minister of Industry Giovanni Gronchi and the Minister of the Treasury Marcello Soleri with his reports: he is finally appointed vice president with the task of continuing the mining exploration.

Later Mattei founded Eni, building gas pipelines for the exploitation of methane, obtaining oil concessions in the Middle East and an important trade agreement with the Soviet Union.

His activity breaks the oligopoly of world oil companies (which he himself called “the seven sisters“), placing Italy in a period of national autonomy as well as making it competitive in the world, outside the logic of exploitation of the economic cartel.

The interview (from the movie “The Mattei Affair”)

Over the years, also engaging through media and politics (he founded the newspaper Il Giorno) and opening up to African and Middle Eastern countries with an equal approach far from colonialist logic, Mattei increases its power and aims at a political and economic detachment from orbit of the Allies.

L’intervista (dal film “Il caso Mattei”)

 

Gagliano’s speech and death

On 27 October 1962 Enrico Mattei was in Gagliano Castelferrato, in the province of Enna. The area is promising in terms of gas and oil fields, but the local politics of the period is in the pay of the Americans and tries to block their way.

Mattei addresses the locals, the misery and hopes of the locals; his are important words, for future memory (if memory has a future). Those who took his place at Eni went in the opposite direction to his: drills roam wildly in Val di Noto and in our seas, but to supply NATO’s arsenals.

A few hours later, Enrico Mattei, together with the pilot and an American journalist who should have interviewed him, dies on board a small private plane that crashes while returning to Milan from Catania.

Enrico Mattei’s is not a story of a distant past, no longer of interest: it is the story of our wretched country, transformed into a land of conquest for other nations, it is the story of a murdered man, taken out of the way and replaced by others to pursue specific objectives. Objectives to date, sixty years after his sacrifice, more and more evident.

Watch the movie.

The arrogance of the powerful

Articles about the movie

Mattei in one of his frequent inspections at the plants

FRANCESCO ROSI TALKS ABOUT HIS FILM

“The Mattei Affair” (Italia 1972) by Francesco Rosi

Director Francesco Rosi
Script Tito Di Stefano, Tonino Guerra, Nerio Minuzzo, Francesco Rosi, Fulvio Bellini, Alessandro Previdi
Production VIDESFranco Cristaldi
Fernando Ghia
Starring Gian Maria Volonté: Enrico Mattei
Luigi Squarzina: the journalist
Gianfranco Ombuen: ingeneer Ferrari
Edda Ferronao: mrs Mattei
Accursio Di Leo: sicilian politician
Furio Colombo: Mattei’s assistent
Peter Baldwin: Mc Hale
Aldo Barberito: Mauro De Mauro
Cinematography Pasqualino De Santis
Editing Ruggero Mastroianni
Music Piero Piccioni
Distribution CIC
Release date

January 26th 1972

Time
118 minutes

TRIVIA:

In the last days of July 1970 Rosi contacted the journalist of the Palermo newspaper L’Ora Mauro De Mauro to reconstruct the last hours of Mattei’s life in Gagliano. De Mauro went to Gagliano where thanks to Mr. Puleo, manager of the local cinema, he managed to get the tape with the last speech made by Mattei; He also had talks with Graziano Verzotto, politician and administrator of the Sicilian Mining Authority (indicated by many as very close to the Giuseppe Di Cristina clan) and with Vito Guarrasi, a very ambiguous character close to both Amintore Fanfani and the US Secret Services. On September 16, 1970, De Mauro was seized from his home in Palermo and was never found again.

 

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Phase 4 (1974) – The dystopia of reality

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1974: the film destined to change (in silence) the history of cinematography is released and which, in a final as innovative and visionary as it is chilling, tells a hypothetical future of the human race that instead increasingly resembles the present.

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The novel “Phase IV” by Barry N. Malzberg was based on the draft of the screenplay and was released before the film

1974: the film destined to change (in silence) the history of cinematography is released and which, in a final as innovative and visionary as it is chilling, tells a hypothetical future of the human race that instead increasingly resembles the present.

THE POST-HUMAN CROSSROADS

Article by Daniele Pieraccini

Where works created by authors also geographically and chronologically distant meet, all converging towards a single concept: the “alien” invasion understood as the trigger of a palingenesis of known reality.

Something foreign to human nature works to take possession of our own Being, changing us to exercise unlimited and absolute control.

In this imaginary apocalyptic crossroads pass films such as “They Live“, “Logan’s Run“, “The Matrix“, “Videodrome“, “THX 1138″, “Soylent Green“, “The Terminal Man” as well as titles already covered in this blog such as “I viaggiatori della sera“, “Hanno cambiato faccia“, “Wounds“, “Swiss Made 2069“, “Good News“, “Omicron“.

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The fake mash-up poster derived from the Italian film Omicron and Phase 4

About the latter: the fake poster released a few months ago and referring to an alleged 1963 film entitled “The Omicron variant” is actually an edit of the poster of “Phase IV”, a surprising SF-horror from 1974, made by Saul Bass.

Saul Bass, illustrator, maker of logos for large companies and above all king of posters and film titles, which he transformed into a fundamental introduction to movies.

Influenced by Constructivism and Bauhaus, thanks to his minimalist artistic vision (see above all the example of “Anatomy of a murder”) Bass was able to leave his mark on the history of cinema, transforming the opening credits into an integral part of work, prologue to the story and an identifying mark of the film itself.

Saul Bass and some of his famous posters

After winning an Oscar in 1969 with the short film “Why Man Creates” and inspired by the short story “The Empire of Ants” by H. G. Wells (1905) and perhaps also by “The iron heel” (1907) by Jack London, Bass in 1974 he made his only feature film as a director.

“Phase IV” was a flop at the box office and crushed by critics, but over time it has become a “cult” and has finally been re-evaluated by some commentators, who have recognized its dimension as a universal metaphysical drama. Surely, on a visual level, we are faced with a nightmare of visionary intensity that deserves further study.

A recurring criticism of the film’s release consisted in highlighting a lack of satisfactory explanations to the story told, which made the work an exercise in visual style devoid of interesting meanings: ultimately a 50’s monster movie, with good intentions and valuable documentary shoots but summarily useless. This impression is shared by anyone who has seen Bass’s film over the years, including myself.

The leading actors are Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy and Lynne Frederick. Davenport and Frederick had previously worked together on another dystopian catastrophic film, “No Blade Of Grass” which is about a plant virus that undermines the food supply of all big cities, leading to famine.

After almost forty years from its release, however, here’s the surprise: the ending of the movie seen by the whole world until 2012 was not what the author thought. The production in fact opted for a rather obvious epilogue in the images and in the meaning, compared to that foreseen and created by Bass.

And it’s a different story entirely. It is with this rediscovered ending that everything takes on another meaning, so much so that a “50s monster movie” becomes a real masterpiece.
We find references to Kubrick, anticipations of Ken Russell’s visions, a concept of rebirth that we will find in Cronenberg… Many elements aimed at showing us a destiny, indeed, a post-atomic and post-human phase now upon us and that “someone” designed for us.

Whether they are the machines of Matrix, the aliens of Omicron / They Live, or the insects of Phase IV, a reality foreign to humanity is permanently changing our condition. A substantial dehumanization looms; the only way is to rebel against mechanization, depersonalization, the oppressive and coercive power that oppresses us more and more.

The computers shown in the laboratory are real: it is mainly the GEC 2050.

Those of the rediscovered finale of the film are five minutes of visionary creativity that change the fate and meaning of a film, raising it to grandiose and prophetic levels. An explosive ending, a disturbing trip that shows the decline of mankind. A majestic film mirage hard to forget.

The Italian title is therefore misleading: Phase IV is not about the destruction of our planet, but a reconfiguration of humanity itself, by taking possession of bodies and minds in order to mathematically and “efficiently” reorganize life on Earth.

The fatal Phase IV comes after an artfully constructed tension between visual metaphors, surrealism, excellent sound commentary, beautiful photography and even discreet acting. Everything takes on a sense with this ending, an apocalyptic sense blasted in the face (with force but also with a certain executive subtlety) to the spectators who are annihilated in front of a representation of anti-human inevitability that leaves us terrified.

Among the rich symbolism of the film we find lozenges inscribed in “crop circles” and 7 particular obelisks.

Desert shooting was done in Kenya.

The technical side is very important, just look at the use made of micro cameras (in 1974!) To follow insects closely; note also the realization of a “subjective” of an ant.
On a visual level, it is ultimately a monumental work: even the phenomenon of crop circles is anticipated by a few years.

The plot in short: following a spectacular and mysterious cosmic event, ants of every species evolve in a lightning-fast and inexplicable way. Insects soon wage war on humans, quickly immunizing themselves from the chemical weapons used to fight them and erecting eerie geometric monoliths surrounding a laboratory in Arizona, the base of humans trying to oppose the fierce colonies of mutated insects.

The ant revolt is mechanical, organized, an extreme and efficient assembly line that leaves no way out for humans.

The terrible mystical ecstasy of the finale reveals the real purpose of the invasion: far from wanting to destroy the planet, the plan of the ants, Phase IV, foresees the transformation of the human species and its adaptation to the world of insects. Total assimilation.

The film’s human protagonists eventually reveal that they don’t know what ants want from us, but await instructions. The technocrat dream of the (solely) operative man is about to come true.

“There are fields… endless fields, we’re human beings are no longer born. We are grown. For longest time, I wouldn’t believe it… and then I saw the fields with my own eyes. ”
The Matrix

THE ORIGINAL PHASE 4 TRAILER

The Japanese musician Stomu Yamashta contributed to the music of the final sequences.

“Phase 4″ (Usa 1974) by Saul Bass

Original Title

Phase IV

Countries

United Kingdom, United States

Release Date

September 6, 1974

Running time

86 min

Genre

SF, drama, horror

Directed by

Saul Bass

Written by

Mayo Simon

Produced by

Paul B. Radin

Production

Alced Productions, Paramount Pictures

Cinematography

Dick Bush

Edited by

Willy Kemplen

Special FX

John Richardson

Music

Brian Gascoigne

Scenography

Don Barry

Starring

  • Nigel Davenport: Dr. Ernest Hubbs

  • Michael Murphy: James R. Lesko

  • Lynne Frederick: Kendra Eldridge

  • Alan Gifford: Sig. Eldridge

  • Robert Henderson: Clete

  • Helen Horton: Mildred Eldridge

 

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Omicron (1963)

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In 1963 Ugo Gregoretti shoots what is probably his most dense and meaningful work.Moving between ironic science fiction, comedy, surrealism, television investigation and journalism à la Malaparte, certainly inspired by the master René Clair in crossing the fantastic with the everyday, the Roman director stages what could be defined as the prequel of the Carpenter's "They Live".The title, "thanks" to the arrival of the homonymous "pandemic variant" and the consequent collective hysteria as always fomented by the media, has recently brought to attention this jewel of italian cinema, which deserves quite another consideration.

Daniele Pieraccini

«Omicron was a film about the factory, or rather, about Fiat, so much so that its documentary basis is the investigation into Fiat made by Giovanni Carocci and appeared in the magazine” Nuovi Argomenti “, directed by Alberto Moravia, which analyzed difficult trade union issues within the Fiat factories after the creation of a secret police that supervised work in the factories. Some things came from a meeting in Turin with young people from the “Quaderni Rossi”, Fofi and Soave.

After my first works and after the success of the film Ro.Go.Pa.G. Cristaldi proposed to me in 1963 to shoot a science fiction film, which at first I thought of shooting directly in Turin. Omicron was a curious example of satire on blue-collar work in a large factory, with an alien embodying himself as a worker.

I went to Fiat, a little naively, to ask for the use of a large factory where I could shoot, but obviously Fiat did not give us permission. I then went to Eni which, driven by the desire to demonstrate how public bodies were more open than private ones, immediately made available a plant in Florence, the Nuovo Pignone, specialized in the construction of gas cylinders for kitchens.

We stayed there for almost a month, in Turin we only shot a few exteriors in Piazza San Carlo and on the outskirts» (U. Gregoretti, in D. Bracco, S. Della Casa, P. Manera, F. Prono, edited, Turin city of cinema , Il Castoro, Milan, 2001).

Ugo Gregoretti

“Un giorno non saremo più noi stessi, ma degli altri che stanno dentro di noi”

Nel 1963 Ugo Gregoretti filma quello che probabilmente è il suo lavoro più denso e significativo.
Muovendosi tra fantascienza ironica, commedia, surrealismo, inchiesta televisiva e giornalismo alla Malaparte, ispirato sicuramente dal maestro René Clair nell’incrociare il fantastico con il quotidiano, il regista romano mette in scena quello che si potrebbe definire il prequel del carpenteriano “Essi vivono”.

Il titolo, “grazie” all’arrivo della omonima “variante pandemica” e alla conseguente isteria collettiva come sempre fomentata dai media, ha recentemente riportato all’attenzione questo gioiello del nostro cinema, che merita invece ben altra considerazione.

 

One of the fake posters, based on that of the movie “Phase IV”

In those years science fiction seems to have found its own space within Italian cinema: in 1958 Paolo Heusch directs “The Day the Sky Exploded”, the first sci-fi film produced in our country with which he anticipates the catastrophic genre; Antonio Margheriti sets the poker of the “Gamma One” tetralogy (all movies set in the homonymous space station); the maestro Mario Bava realizes “Planet of the Vampires” which will inspire Ridley Scott’s Alien; Bruno Gaburro shoots the post-apocalyptic “Ecce Homo: i sopravvissuti” and Luigi Cozzi makes his debut with the experimental satire “The tunnel Under the World” (Frederik Pohl).

Gregoretti links sci-fi inspiration to costume satire, using touches that anticipate the mockumentary (how many avant-garde ideas in Italian cinema of the sixties, an inexhaustible source for Hollywood screenwriters even decades away …) to reflect, with the same clarity and the same disenchantment of Salce in his “Coup d’état”, a few years later, on a society already on the way to dissolution.

Renato Salvatori plays Angelo Trabucco/Omicron

Creature di prima e seconda scelta

Omicron tells us about an alien invasion, along the lines of “Invasion of the body snatchers”: beings from another planet want to conquer the Earth by possessing its inhabitants. To infiltrate us, they exploit the conformism of people, already “possessed” by the social dynamics (above all the servant-master one) that guide their existence.

It is here that Gregoretti’s vision refers us to Carpenter’s. At the height of the Reagan era, that of the American director is an awareness of an invasion by now consolidated; the Italian film instead shows us the dawn of the invasion itself. The capitalist parasite is the result of the merger between alien beings and the conformist progressivism of our times.

Calandroni giroscopici

Angelo Trabucco (played by Renato Salvatori) is a humble worker, a last of the class, who is found dead inside a concrete tube, in an opening sequence that alone is worth the film and that already shows us the mastery of Gregoretti in managing visual and conceptual expressiveness. The fact, however, is that Trabucco is not dead, but possessed by an alien entity, which gradually brings the body back to life and learns to know and control it.

The most comic gags in the film are due to this learning process aimed at parasitic control, but we also see some surprising imaginative ideas: above all the reading at an incredible speed of a lot of books, in order to learn everything about humans in the shortest possible time.

“La catalessi ha fatto di lui un uomo inesistente ed un operaio modello”

Clumsy, catastrophic and very rude in social interactions, Trabucco / alien has uncommon strength and resistance and above all is superhumanly productive in his work in the factory, putting other workers in crisis also because he makes no claims and obeys every request.

After many vicissitudes and incidents that inevitably bring the protagonist to the center of attention by colleagues and superiors, the main obstacle to the alien invasion is finally identified by our enemies who came from Space: human conscience.

This uncomfortable light, which re-emerges in Trabucco thanks to love, is however already in check by earthly forces, by the laws of the market and by the society bent on it. What troubles higher beings from other worlds is, however, stifled by the conformism of our age.

Angelo will fight in a gasp of rebellion, trying to warn his fellow men, but will eventually succumb to general indifference. Meanwhile, the aliens, who have figured out which bodies they must occupy (those of the elite), are planning the years to come. Years of prosperity for them and of slavery for most of humanity.

Rosemarie Dexter plays Lucia, the girl Trabucco/Omicron falls in love with

Rivedere la storia (del cinema italiano)

Faced with films like Omicron, like Salce’s Coup D’Etat and many, too many others, so rich from many points of view (creative, textual, imaginative, acting …) leads us to reflect on the need to free ourselves from the institutionally imposed vision of the history of our cinema. It is not possible that there are so many works of depth forgotten or ignored by the pragmatic gaze of “official” criticism.

But this is not surprising: there is a clear desire to push certain authors to the detriment of other “uncomfortable” works, to promote precisely the progressive, conformist, hypocritical and decadent vision observed and criticized in a lucid way by authors such as Gregoretti, Salce, Petri, Tognazzi, Ferreri.

Salvatori the istrione

“Sto perdendo sugo”

One last, dutiful tribute to Renato Salvatori, the perfect protagonist chosen by Gregoretti.

An eclectic and original actor, who in Omicron confirms his class and versatility, already shown first (with Risi, Monicelli, Castellani, Visconti …) and later (with Ferreri, Petri, Costa-Gavras … ).

In 1963 his career is already in a downward phase; his farewell to the cinema at the age of fifty (and his forgotten death a few years later) is another painful shame of our cinema.

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“Omicron” (IT 1963) by Ugo Gregoretti

Director: Ugo Gregoretti
Writer: Ugo Gregoretti
Script: Ugo Gregoretti
Productor: Franco Cristaldi
Production: Lux Film, Ultra Film, Vides Cinematografica
Distribution: Paramount
Cinematography: Carlo Di Palma
Music: Piero Umiliani
Scenography: Carlo Gentili

Cast

Renato Salvatori: Angelo Trabucco / Omicron
Rosemarie Dexter: Lucia
Gaetano Quartararo: Midollo
Mara Carisi: Midollo’s wife
Ida Serasini: Piattino’s widow
Calisto Calisti: Torchio
Dante Di Pinto: Policeman
Vittorio Calef: S.M.S.’ CEO
Maria Grazia Grassini: miss Mari, the nurse
Ugo Gregoretti: journalist