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Tag Archives: italian
The Wastrel (1961) Il relitto – Michael Cacoyannis
Duncan Bell (Van Heflin) is a wealthy man who sets out to sail around the globe with his son. Read More »
Taboos of the World (1963) I tabù
An early shockumentary, a mondo style production that spins all over the world. Read More »
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis / Il giardino dei Finzi Contini (1970) Vittorio De Sica, Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger
Mussolini’s Italy, late 1930s: the Finzi-Contini are one of the leading wealthy Jewish families. 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 Three Thieves / I tre ladri (1954) Lionello De Felice, Totò, Jean-Claude Pascal, Simone Simon
Tapioca, a small time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, followed shortly after by Cascarilla Read More »
FantastiCozzi (2016) Felipe M. Guerra, Luigi Cozzi, Caroline Munro, Sybil Danning
A feature-length documentary about the life and career of Italian director Luigi Cozzi Read More »
Seeking Asylum / Chiedo asilo (1979) Marco Ferreri, Roberto Benigni, Dominique Laffin, Chiara Moretti
Roberto has a new job as the teacher at a nursery school. The first child he meets is Gianluigi, who’s mute. Read More »
Cjamango (1967) Edoardo Mulargia, Ivan Rassimov, Mickey Hargitay, Hélène Chanel
Just when Cjamango has won a bag of gold in a poker game, he is attacked by the gangs of El Tigre and Don Pablo. Read More »
