edited by Jonathan Doyle

Mafioso (The Criterion Collection, 3.18.2008) Nino Badalamenti is a supervisor in a car manufacturing plant who hasn't taken a vacation in over two years. On his way out the door to visit his beloved childhood hometown of Sicily -- with his blonde wife and daughters -- Nino is handed a package by his boss and asked to deliver it to a powerful and influential Sicilian gangster named Don Vincenzo. Once in Sicily, Nino has a hoot seeing friends and family, but his wife has trouble fitting in and is unfairly dismissed as a snob by Nino's family. Even more worrisome, Nino finds himself entangled in an intricate web of secret mafioso dealings and is eventually sent on an unexpectedly... elaborate errand. (continued)

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I finally clicked on that IFC/Red Bull ad, which I didn't have a clue about since I don't do the selling these days. The IFC guys want people to submit a trailer for a miniseries with an urban nocturnal theme. It can't be any longer than six minutes and it has to tell some kind of story. That doesn't seem too hard. As always, the thing to do is avoid the cliches. No stories about bartenders, waitresses, cabbies, cops. I got it, I got it -- make one about a homeless cat. Or a dog. The lonely lives of vagrant animals.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on March 23, 2008 at 01:18 PM

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