Alexander, an old writer, is ill and prepared to die. Read More »
Tag Archives: Italy
Ulysses’ Gaze AKA To vlemma tou Odyssea (1995) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Harvey Keitel, Maia Morgenstern, Erland Josephson
A, a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas Read More »
The Dam on the Yellow River AKA Apocalisse sul fiume giallo (1960) Renzo Merusi, Anita Ekberg, Georges Marchal, Franca Bettoia
Anti-Communist propaganda flick, in which the victory of Mao Tse-Tung’s People’s Liberation Army Read More »
The Assassination of Trotsky (1972) Joseph Losey, Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider
After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940. Read More »
Stranger on the Prowl AKA Imbarco a mezzanotte (1952) Joseph Losey, Paul Muni, Joan Lorring, Vittorio Manunta
A nameless, homeless and rejected man who is looking for a new life and a young boy from an impoverished family Read More »
Bluebeard AKA Landru (1963) Claude Chabrol, Michèle Morgan, Danielle Darrieux, Hildegard Knef
France, WWI. Landru, the father of four children, contacts Parisian women through newspaper ads, seduces and eventually kills them. Read More »
Afganistan – The last war bus (L’ultimo bus di guerra) (1989) Pierluigi Ciriaci, Mark Gregory, John Vernon, Savina Gersak
A group of soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. Read More »
A Spiral of Mist AKA Una spirale di nebbia (1977) Eriprando Visconti, Marc Porel, Claude Jade, Carole Chauvet
The lovely Maria Teresa is unhappily married with the impotent lawyer Marcello. Read More »
The Day the Sky Exploded AKA La morte viene dallo spazio (1958) Paolo Heusch, Mario Bava, Paul Hubschmid, Madeleine Fischer, Fiorella Mari
Scientists discover that a group of meteors are hurtling on a collison course with Earth, and if they hit, the planet will be destroyed. Read More »
Black Jesus AKA Seduto alla sua destra (1968) Valerio Zurlini, Woody Strode, Franco Citti, Jean Servais
A thinly-disguised biography of African leader Patrice Lumumba, here called Lalubi. Read More »