9/17 - I Pugni in Tasca

My pick for Monday is I Pugni in Tasca, or, Fists in the Pocket.

From The New York Times:
Considered one of the great lost classics of Italian neo-realism, this bleak drama was the debut feature of filmmaker Marco Bellocchio. Lou Castel stars as Alessandro, an epileptic from a large family of similarly afflicted siblings, headed up by a blind matriarch (Liliana Gerace). The only healthy member of the family is Alessandro's brother Augusto (Marino Mase), who wants to marry his girlfriend but refuses to saddle a bride with the enormous burden of helping to care for his ailing relatives. Sympathetic to Augusto's plight, Alessandro decides to murder the rest of the family so as to set his brother free and assure him of an inheritance. After hurling his mother into a ravine and drowning his little brother, Alessandro returns home to suffer a seizure. Long hailed by critics and historians as an unjustly ignored film, I Pugni in Tasca (1965) was one of 15 titles selected by New York's Museum of Modern Art for its "Second Act" retrospective of post-war Italian cinema in the spring of 2000.

I'll be showing it at 8 p.m. Monday, unless anyone has a scheduling conflict, and there will be pizza/drinks. I don't think most of you know where my new place is, but I'll get a hold of you to give directions. See you then! (Unless anyone wants to see 3:10 to Yuma this weekend. In that case, give me a call and I'll see you before then.)