Artavazd Pelesjan is an Armenian filmmaker. Unknown to the great audience, he theorizes a new kind of editing (editing by distance) Read More »
Tag Archives: Italy
Bonnot’s Gang AKA La bande à Bonnot (1968) Philippe Fourastié, Jacques Brel, Bruno Cremer, Annie Girardot
A group of French anarchists are moved to violence when their leader Raymond (Jacques Brel) is captured. Read More »
The Sheriff Won’t Shoot AKA Lo sceriffo che non spara (1965) José Luis Monter, Renato Polselli, Mickey Hargitay, Vincenzo Cascino, Aïché Nana
A sheriff is reluctant to take on a murderous gang because his brother is the gang’s head. Read More »
The Overcoat AKA Il cappotto (1952) Alberto Lattuada, Renato Rascel, Yvonne Sanson, Giulio Stival
Based on Nikolai Gogol’s story with the location changed from Russia to Italy Read More »
La noia AKA The Empty Canvas (1963) Damiano Damiani, Bette Davis, Horst Buchholz, Catherine Spaak
The son of a wealthy American woman and a deceased Italian nobleman, Dino, dabbles away at painting. Read More »
The Woman with Red Boots AKA La femme aux bottes rouges (1974) Juan Luis Buñuel, Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Adalberto Maria Merli
After a chance meeting with avant garde writer Francoise, an elderly millionaire starts to manipulate her life Read More »
Devil’s Ransom AKA Senza via d’uscita (1970) Piero Sciumè, Marisa Mell, Philippe Leroy, Lea Massari
A couple of blackmailers abduct a child from a married couple Read More »
Assault on Fort Texan AKA Gli eroi di Fort Worth (1965) Alberto De Martino, Edmund Purdom, Paul Piaget, Mónica Randall
During the Civil War, a group of confederate soldiers with the help of Apache Indians Read More »
A Man of Straw AKA L’uomo di paglia (1958) Pietro Germi, Luisa Della Noce, Franca Bettoia
Andrea Zaccardi has returned home from hunting. He and his wife Luisa are very close. Read More »
Le Sex Shop (1972) Claude Berri, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Juliet Berto, Claude Berri
The owner of a bookshop in Paris suffers a personal crisis. Read More »
Fangs of the Living Dead AKA Malenka (1969) Amando de Ossorio, Anita Ekberg, Gianni Medici, Diana Lorys
A beautiful virgin inherits a castle, but when she arrives at it, she finds that the inhabitants include a strange nobleman Read More »
Everybody’s Fine AKA Stanno tutti bene (1990) Giuseppe Tornatore, Marcello Mastroianni, Michèle Morgan, Valéria Cavalli
Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat (responsible mainly for the writing of birth certificates) and a father of five children Read More »
Shadow of the Eagle (1950) Sidney Salkow, Richard Greene, Valentina Cortese, Greta Gynt
Count Orlof, one of Catherine of Russia’s many overnight favourites, travels to Venice on her behalf to abduct Elizabeth Tarakanova Read More »
Where the Bullets Fly AKA Tutti fratelli nel west… per parte di padre (1972) Sergio Grieco, Antonio Sabato, Fernando Sancho, Lionel Stander
Young adventurer Gipo owns one fifth of a rock illustrating the location of a rich gold mine. Read More »
Guendalina (1957) Alberto Lattuada, Jacqueline Sassard, Raf Mattioli, Sylva Koscina
A teenage girl vacations in the Italian Riviera during the summer with her wealthy parents. Read More »