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Umberto L.
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About Me

24-year old Italian lad, MADLY in love with Cinema.

Right after the Disney classics (which I worshiped during my childhood), I began to watch – in addition to mainstream movies – many fine works by Sergio Leone, Alfred Hitchcock, Mario Monicelli, Luigi Magni, Dino Risi, the Coen brothers, Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese. When I was 15, I discovered Stanley Kubrick and Federico Fellini, whose amazing masterpieces strongly influenced my idea of cinema. In recent years, a wise exploitation of many specialized books and magazines – and a smart use of such useful web tools as ‘IMDb’ and ‘MUBI’ – helped me to deepen my knowledge and to better understand what I was looking for.

If I were to write down the greatest things I have discovered since I am on ‘MUBI’ (r.i.p. ‘TheAuteurs’), they would be: Orson Welles, David Lynch, ‘Buster’ Keaton, Andrei Tarkovsky, Michelangelo Antonioni (an Italian fellow, believe it or not!), Luis Buñuel, Jean Renoir, Kenji Mizoguchi, Werner Herzog, Terrence Malick, Jacques Tati, Hayao Miyazaki, Carl Th. Dreyer, the German Expressionism (F.W. Murnau!) and the American ‘film noir’. Feel free to follow me here or to ask for my Facebook account in a private message, if you are interested.

Latest Update

La-grande-bellezza

The Great Beauty

A brief journey into a devastated Rome with Jap Gambardella, a Guido Anselmi of our time, who lives in the very same places of Marcello Rubini, and who sees life, love and death with the same fascination and pureness-of-heart that a character of Terrence Malick would display. Paolo Sorrentino has signed an Italian masterpiece for the ages. And Rome has never looked more 'eternal' and immaculate on a film before.

Favorite Films

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Style

  • Auteur-driven
  • Inspired collaboration
  • Wildly romantic
  • Fashionable alienation
  • Canonical classics
  • Of-the-past
  • High Art

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Burt

1Jan13

Happy New Year!

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joey Noodles

5Nov12

thanks for fanning the list

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joey Noodles

5Nov12

my tied favourite mubian

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ENFANT TERRIBLE

3Aug12

hi there, i'm really enjoying your lists, your forum comments and your ratings! i'll be happy to follow, as i'm sharing your interest in film and your passion for discovering new things here on Mubi.

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    Umberto L.

    9Aug12

    Thank you very much for following me! From the films and the auteurs that you prefer, I think we might have a very similar idea of Cinema.. :)