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Tag Archives: Italy
Behold the Bumblebee / Ecce bombo (1978) Nanni Moretti, Lina Sastri, Luisa Rossi
This non-narrative, sketch-based film is a non-stop feast of antic and black humor. Read More »
The Almost Perfect Crime / Delitto quasi perfetto (1966) Mario Camerini, Philippe Leroy, Pamela Tiffin, Graziella Granata
The journalist Paolo Respighi meets the nuns who ask him to accompany the young Annie Robson Read More »
The Sparrow’s Fluttering / Il frullo del passero (1988) Gianfranco Mingozzi, Philippe Noiret, Ornella Muti, Nicola Farron
A woman, who has been the mistress of a man who has just died Read More »
First Love / Primo amore (1978) Dino Risi, Ugo Tognazzi, Ornella Muti, Mario Del Monaco
Ugo Cremonesi, left without work and awaiting liquidation Read More »
Three Steps North (1951) W. Lee Wilder, Lloyd Bridges, Lea Padovani, Aldo Fabrizi
During WW2, American G.I. Frank Keeler has a job driving a supply truck for the company’s quartermaster. Read More »
The Two Lives of Mattia Pascal / Le due vite di Mattia Pascal (1985) Mario Monicelli, Marcello Mastroianni, Senta Berger, Flavio Bucci
Unlike in the previous 3 adaptations of the book, here Mattia narrates in flashback Read More »
Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay / Buon funerale amigos!… paga Sartana (1970) Giuliano Carnimeo, Gianni Garko, Antonio Vilar, Daniela Giordano
After witnessing a brutal massacre, the legendary hero Sartana is ready Read More »
Lady Caliph / La califfa (1970) Alberto Bevilacqua, Ugo Tognazzi, Romy Schneider, Marina Berti
As strikes upset Italy, the Califfa’s husband is killed and she becomes Read More »
How to Rob the Bank of Italy / Come svaligiammo la banca d’Italia (1966) Lucio Fulci, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Lena von Martens
Dim-wits Franco and Cicco try to come up with a plan to rob the safes of the Bank of Italy Read More »