A funeral for celluloid, thrown by cinema's most unhinged party animal.
This documentary celebrates the 100th anniversary of the cinema birth. It is an historic running through the technical and artistic evolution of the 7th art. We move from mute to sound, from B&W to color, trough all the genders (musical, Lyric, politic...). Beside it we have a kind of resume of the historic contest in which cinema lived till now, events and movements (neo-realism, classical etc.). All the aspects are taken in consideration: fashion, star system till the end, the sad end, of cinema in the theaters.
Direction
Ferreri's anarchic love letter disguised as obituary.
Editing
Century of footage collaged into delirious rhythm.
Director
Marco Ferreri
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ferreri died just two years after this, making his funeral-for-cinema feel eerily prophetic.
The title refers to highly flammable nitrate film stock—literally cinema that could destroy itself, which Ferreri treats as metaphor.
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