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Tonight's Movies!

I'm filling in for @CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net tonight for the first Death and Dismemberment night of 2026! She'll be back next week.

We're in postwar Italy tonight! First on the Amalfi coast in Roberto Rosselini's La macchina ammazzacattivi/The Machine that Kills Bad People (1948/1952), then 1970s Milan in Tutto a posto, niente in ordine/All Screwed Up (1974), directed by Lina Wertmüller. We've watched her Love and Anarchy (1973) before. The theme "Traffic Boom" appears in The Big Lebowski (1998) as the soundtrack to "Logjammin'".

La macchina ammazzacattivi/The Machine that Kills Bad People (1948/1952)

Filmed in 1948, released in 1952. Rosselini is best known for his neorealist works. That perspective still shows up in this lighthearted (?) comedy set on the Amalfi coast. What if Death Note was set in late-1940s Italy and the weapon was a camera gifted by Saint Andrew (or is it?) instead of a notebook? Inspired by Commedia dell'Arte, this is an outlier in Rosselini's filmography.

• Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-machine-that-kills-bad-people/
• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040559/

Tutto a posto, niente in ordine/All Screwed Up (1974)

The story of a group of immigrants from southern Italy who emigrate to Milan for economic reasons. They start a commune. It's Lina Wertmüller, so expect lots of political commentary. CW for this: there is a scene about 71 minutes in where sexual assault gets played for laughs. I'll be CWing that for anyone who would rather not dive into the sexual pathology of the 1970s.

• Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/all-screwed-up/
• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070844/

CWs

La macchina ammazzacattivi/The Machine that Kills Bad People (1948/1952)

Links

• IMDB parental guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040559/parentalguide/
• doesthedogdie.com: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/270199
• UnconsentingMedia: (not listed)

List

No CWs listed anywhere I could find. I recall this being pretty tame.

IMDB Parental Guide:

(not listed)

Tutto a posto, niente in ordine/All Screwed Up (1974)

Links

• IMDB parental guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070844/parentalguide/
• doesthedogdie.com: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/286826
• UnconsentingMedia: (not listed)

List

-removed onscreen, played for laughs. Not graphic, but disturbing. What was in the air in the 70s?

• Discussion of sexual violence throughout
• 1970s misogyny throughout
• Dead animals
• Animals being killed
• Discussion of animal cruelty
• Police violence
• Racism throughout. Italian racism.

IMDB Parental Guide:

It's "mild" by 1970s movie standards. No nudity butremoved* played for laughs

(author's note: this is underselling it a little bit but again: it's 1970s Italian cinema)

tankie.tube links:

• La macchina ammazzacattivi/The Machine that Kills Bad People (1948/1952): https://tankie.tube/w/6QKmzJ9SnemATEaWH6zywy
• Tutto a posto, niente in ordine/All Screwed Up (1974): https://tankie.tube/w/tmHv3xKUBkaAS2usUWCXZy