La leggenda di Al, John e Jack (2002)

Actors: Marco Beretta (actor), Giovanni Cacioppo (actor), Enzo Castelluccio (actor), Antonio Catania (actor), Giorgio Centamore (actor), Frank Crudele (actor), Thomas Daniel (actor), Paolo Dell'Orto (actor), Giovanni Esposito (actor), Giacomo (actor), Giovanni (actor), David Kaplan (actor), Freddie Maas (actor), Aldo Maccione (actor), Aldo (actor),

Plot: Al Caruso, John Gresco and Jack Amoruso are three gangsters working for the Genovese family. However, their efforts are more than headache-inducing, and when they are given one last chance: To protect the boss's aunt, she is accidentally killed and the three men are sentenced to death. They come up with a plan to sell the boss to the police and the FBI. However, Al suffers from short-term memory loss and has to be told the story by John and Jack.

Keywords: 1950s, accidental-shooting, amnesia, character-name-in-title, drive-in, electrocution, gangster, local-blockbuster, mafia, surprise-ending
Genres: Comedy, Crime,

Quotes:

Al: [Jack has accidentally "shot" The Boss's aunt and a bus driver and the three of them are on the run] What the fuck did you do, Jack? What the *fuck* did you do?::Jack: I did nothing bad, Al. I didn't mean it!::Al: We're dead meat. [turns to Jack] And it's your fault, you damn pill-popper!::Jack: I just went like this! [stretches his arms out in a T shape like a martyr - a bullet hits the car radio]::John: Hold the wheel, Al! [turns to Jack] Give me the gun, Jack!::John: [Jack gives him the gun] This gun is *cursed*, now it won't kill innocent people any more! [throws it out the window, where it shoots the final bullet into a pedestrian's back. The pedestrian falls to the floor, dead, dropping his hat]

John: [seeing Al acting like an exorcist] What the *fuck* is going on, Jack?::Jack: When Al woke up, I told him he was an exorcist!::Al: I am not afraid of you, Satan! Go back to - the - daaaaaarknesssss!::Al: [seeing John - thinking that he's Satan] I have finally found you. Leave this deformed body. Enter into me. Enter into me!::Jack: Just play along with him.::Al: Leave this grotesque body! And enter into *me*! [shouts] Enter into me, now! [John slaps Al - Al grunts and falls to the floor]

The Boss: What was on your agenda today? I can't remember.::John: We had to kill "Frankie Rubber Butt".::The Boss: Ah. [opens a locker] *This* Frankie Rubber Butt? The one who steals the betting money? Oh, shut up! [slams the locker] The arsehole who sold seven of our men to the FBI? [holds up a photo of Frank Contropelo] Or was it this one?::Jack: That's him, boss.::The Boss: Frankie Backcomber. The barber on the 15th Street. You had to kill a spy! You killed a barber instead. I don't know what to do with you, guys. Two weeks ago you collected the protection money from the wrong shops! And today you killed a barber!::Jack: There's also the bourbon incident.::The Boss: What bourbon?::Jack: It was a bourbon we were supposed to deliver, but we downed it all at Billy Rotten Gum's party.::The Boss: What am I supposed to do? Come on - tell me!::Jack: Well...::The Boss: Jack! It's a rhetorical question, you're not meant to answer it!

Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995)

Actors: Joseph Alessi (actor), Gottfried John (actor), Peter Lovstrom (actor), Uri Roodner (actor), Mark Rylance (actor), César Sarachu (actor), Daniel Smith (actor), Jonathan Stone (actor), Peter Whitfield (actor), Alice Krige (actress), Karl Baumgartner (producer), Keith Griffiths (producer), Janine Marmot (producer), Katsue Tomiyama (producer), Alan Passes (writer),

Plot: Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school's operation. Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of breakdown. There's a whiff of incest. Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, she becomes catatonic. Things get worse; Johannes notes that all this has happened since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect?

Keywords: aphorism, avant-garde, based-on-novel, black-and-white, blackboard, blindfold, brother-sister-relationship, chalk, cult-film, dancing
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Jakob: I shall never let myself be rescued, nor shall I ever rescue anybody.

Lisa Benjamenta: I am dying from the emptiness of cautious and clever people.