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Tag Archives: Italy
I Don Giovanni della Costa Azzurra (1962) Vittorio Sala, Annette Stroyberg, Curd Jürgens, Martine Carol
Mr. Edmond is a middle-aged playboy, living by his wits on the Riviera. Read More »
From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979) Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Olimpia Carlisi, Guido Lombardi, Gino Felici
Two segments. The first one arranges six stories from Cesare Pavese’s “Dialoghi con Leucò”, taken from classical mythology. Read More »
Secrets of a Nurse / Bisturi, la mafia bianca (1973) Luigi Zampa, Gabriele Ferzetti, Senta Berger, Enrico Maria Salerno
The surgeon Daniel Vallotti owns a luxurious private clinic, where patients admitted selling according to financial resources. Read More »
Dawn of the Dead (1978) George A. Romero, David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger
The zombie apocalypse has hit Earth. Two personnel from a TV station Read More »
A Talking Picture (2003) Manoel de Oliveira, Leonor Silveira, Filipa de Almeida, John Malkovich
A meditation on culture. July, 2001: buddies tide as a cruise boat departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and also the Indian Ocean. Read More »
Die Todesstrahlen des Dr. Mabuse / The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse (1964) Hugo Fregonese, Victor De Santis, Peter van Eyck, O.E. Hasse, Yvonne Furneaux
The final film in the Dr. Mabuse series is also truly the least of the series. Read More »
Folle à tuer / Mad Enough to Kill (1975) Yves Boisset, Marlène Jobert, Tomas Milian, Thomas Waintrop
Julie Ballenger has spent the last five years in a psychiatric clinic. Read More »
The Stranger’s Hand / La mano dello straniero (1954) Mario Soldati, Trevor Howard, Alida Valli, Richard Basehart
A British lad tries to investigate his father’s disappearance in Venice when nobody believes him. Read More »
Il processo di Verona / The Verona Trial (1963) Carlo Lizzani, Silvana Mangano, Frank Wolff, Vivi Gioi
This film is the moving story of Edda Ciano, the daughter of Italian dictator Mussolini Read More »