In 1820s Spain the soldier Don José falls in love with the fiery and charismatic factory worker Carmen. Read More »
Tag Archives: Francesco Rosi
Salvatore Giuliano (1962) Francesco Rosi, Frank Wolff, Salvo Randone, Frederico Zardi
In 1950, 28-year-old outlaw Salvatore Giuliano is found gunned down in a Sicilian courtyard. Little is as it seems. Read More »
The Palermo Connection / Dimenticare Palermo (1990) Francesco Rosi, Jim Belushi, Mimi Rogers, Joss Ackland
Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. Read More »
Lucky Luciano (1973) Francesco Rosi, Gian Maria Volontè, Vincent Gardenia, Silverio Blasi
Director Francesco Rosi returns to his recurring theme of the connections between legal Read More »
Many Wars Ago / Uomini contro (1970) Francesco Rosi, Mark Frechette, Alain Cuny, Gian Maria Volontè
In Northern Italy, WWI has turned into a bloody stalemate. Bogged down in their trenches on a barren highland Read More »
The Truce AKA La tregua (1997) Francesco Rosi, John Turturro, Rade Serbedzija, Massimo Ghini
This is the true story of Italian Jews returning home from Auschwitz after the war. Read More »
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987) Francesco Rosi, Rupert Everett, Ornella Muti, Gian Maria Volonté
A small village in Latin America. Santiago have been knife in the morning. It surprise nobody. Read More »
The Mattei Affair (1972) Francesco Rosi, Gian Maria Volontè, Luigi Squarzina, Gianfranco Ombuen
Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis Read More »
Diario napoletano / Neapolitan Diary (1992) Francesco Rosi, Simona Caramelli, Pietro Bontempo, Documentary, Crime, History
A fascinating return to the same issues done in a semi-docu style. The ‘story’ joins Rosi as he fights his way through impossible city traffic to a school of architecture to host a discussion of the older movie. Read More »
Cristo si è fermato a Eboli / Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979) Francesco Rosi, Gian Maria Volontè, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Drama
In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Read More »