Collection of useless information circuitous to the OPERATION: Poisson Rouge Adventure.
This 6 week installment of Cyn's Cinema, we will be exploring movies that have been filmed in the regions we will be visiting. Take some time off from your everyday life and watch a movie with scenes from Barcelona, Naples, Rome, Florence, Nice and Toulon.
Let us know if you've seen any of these movies and what your thoughts are.
| Title | Year | Genre | IMDb Rating | Staring |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit 2009 (TV Movie) | 2009 | Reality | 6.8 | Jessica Bouz, Kim Cloutier and more models |
| Synopsis: | There is no plot to this tv movie, just boobies | |||
| Sightings: | Filming took place in many different locations in which Naples is one. | |||
| Thoughts: | When I came across this movie, I included it for the guys! | |||
| The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | 2004 | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 7.2 | Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett, Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum |
| Synopsis: | When his partner is killed by the mysterious and possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark, Steve Zissou and his Team Zissou crew set off for an expedition to hunt down the creature. Along with his estranged wife, a beautiful journalist and a co-pilot who could possibly be Zissou's son, the crew set off for one wild expedition. Synopsis written by FilmFanUK | |||
| Sightings: | Filming took place in Naples, Rome and Florence | |||
| The Talented Mr. Ripley | 1999 | Crime, Mystery, Drama | 7.2 | Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| Synopsis: | Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Italy, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie's cultured fiancée, pretending to love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury. Besides lying, Tom's talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom goes to extreme lengths to make Greenleaf's privileges his own. Synopsis written by {jhailey@hotmail.com} | |||
| Sightings: | Filming took place in many different locations in Naples and Rome | |||
| Thoughts: | Finally a movie I've seen. Thought the movie was really good and have been trying to talk Ken into watching it. | |||
| Yesterday Today and Tomorrow | 1964 | Genre | 7.3 | Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni |
| Synopsis: | Stories about three very different women and the men they attract. Adelina sells black-market cigarettes in Naples, is married to the unemployed Carmine, and faces a jail sentence. She can avoid it as long as she's pregnant. Several years and seven children later, Carmine is exhausted, so jail looks inescapable as does her contempt for Carmine. In Milan, Anna drives a Rolls, is bored, and picks up a writer. She talks dreamily of running off with him until he dents her car; that gets her emotional attention. Mara, a Roman call girl, turns the head of a naive seminarian, prompting a run-in with his granny and a vow of abstinence. Mara's fizzy lover from Bologna grows impatient. Synopsis written by {jhailey@hotmail.com} | |||
| Sightings: | Doubtful for Naples, possible for Rome | |||
| Marriage Italian-Style aka Matrimonio all'italiana | 1964 | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 | Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni |
| Synopsis: | Domenico, a successfull businessman, with an eye for the girls, begins an affair with Filumena when she is 17 years old. She becomes a prostitute, but also becomes the mistress of Domenico. He eventually sets her up in an apartment, and she works for him in his various businesses. She secretly bears three children, who are raised by nannys. Domenico starts planning to marry a young employee. Filumena tricks him into marriage by pretending to be dying. Domenico annuls the marriage. Filumena then tells him of the three children. She says that one of the children belongs to Domenico, but will not say which one is his. You start to believe that all of the children could be his, and Domenico then marries Filumena again, this time willingly. Synopsis written by Steve Jordan {jordan@warwick.net} . | |||
| Sightings: | Shot in Naples. | |||
| It Started in Naples | 1960 | Comedy, Drama | 5.9 | Sophia Loren, Clark Gable |
| Synopsis: | Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "black sheep" brother. Once there, he discovers that the deceased has left an eight-year old little boy named Nando, who is being raised by Michael's sister-in-law Lucia Curcio. Mike immediately disapproves of Nando's Italian-style (in other words "lax") education. To make matters worse, Lucia happens to be ... a sexy nightclub dancer. This is too much for a puritan like Mike and the only solution in his eyes is to have the boy brought up in the States... Synopsis written by Guy Bellinger | |||
| Sightings: | Filmed in Naples and the surrounding area. | |||
Next week we're off to Rome.
...I have not seen any of these movies...but I'd like to see "The Talented Mr. Ripley"
ReplyDeleteWas that first one filmed on Deck 13?
ReplyDeleteNice one Mom and Dad!
ReplyDeleteI saw Ripley. It was really good.
Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit 2009 - No plot?!?! I was riveted to the screen, through to the end!
ReplyDelete...and that was in Naples. eh-eh! eh-eh!!
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