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Giallo a Venezia, also known as Giallo In Venice, has a reputation for being one of the sleaziest films produced in an already sleazy sub genre. Giallos, for the uninitiated, are Italian horror films known for their extreme violence punctuated by scenes of explicit sex; they heavily influenced the American slasher films of the late 70s and early 80s, but, for the most part, American horrors paled in comparison to their Italian counterparts.Read More »
From his rise to power in 1922 to the coming of WWII in 1939, Benito Mussolini ‘s dictatorial career is documented, with entire unedited speeches from newsreels of the time.
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A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.Read More »
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The title of this Italian slice-of-life drama translates to Young Husbands. The husbands in question rather casually enter into marriage, never intending true fidelity to their spouses. When they realize that they’re committed for life, our immature heroes return to their home town for one last fling. In the course of their final hours of bachelorhood, they come to the sobering conclusion that their carefree youth is not only past, it’s already long past.Read More »
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Starring in this bustling summer comedy are Vittorio Gassman (an army captain terrified of falling in love with Gigi, a cabaret transvestite who instead turns out to be a charming girl), Amedeo Nazzari (icon of masculine beauty of our cinema of the 40’s, which lends himself to the irony of this film going into the shoes of a fashion wearer a bit too over the years, trying to win back his girlfriend, and boss, making her jealous by bragging a relationship with a girl, Foschina, much younger than him), Philippe Leroy (nonchalant young Tuscan who teaches swimming to beautiful foreign girls and meanwhile “plays” at being a small entrepreneur in the field of advertising, causing instead lots of trouble and involving poor Luigi into them) and Sandra Milo (buxom and “generous” hot donuts vendor, who ends up taking care of an ill-fated Spanish cyclist, played by Vittorio Congia).Read More »
Through little-seen archive and his characteristically cinematic analysis, Mark Cousins narrates the ascent of fascism in Italy and its fall-out across 1930s Europe. Both essay film and historical document, Cousins contextualises history through the now, holding a mirror to a political landscape of a creeping far right and manipulated media.Read More »
The Son of Black Eagle (Italian: Il figlio di Aquila Nera) is a 1968 Italian historical adventure film directed by Guido Malatesta and starring Mimmo Palmara, Edwige Fenech and Franco Ressel. It was inspired by the historic success of Riccardo Freda’s Black Eagle and Revenge of Black Eagle.
Count Aleksej is a notorious seducer at the Czar court but also the son of local Caucasus hero Black Eagle. When the Russians invade his land Aleksej must decide where to stand while pursuing his passion for Natascia, who detests him.Read More »
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The awkward and often hilarious reunion between a divorced father and his precocious eight-year-old son is beautifully observed in Risi’s tender comedy.
Walter Chiari, a good-for-nothing who dreams of building an empire selling Encyclopedia Brittanicas, embellishes his life to impress his son (effortlessly played by child actor Roberto Cicciolini), only to discover that the boy, whom he hasn’t seen in years, harbors his own share of restless loneliness.Read More »
In this interesting Italian WW II comedy-drama, the residents of a remote Italian village find their lives forever changed when two American GIs break out of a German prison camp and hide out in their town. The fugitives are harbored by a local family. This divides the town into those wanting to protect them and those fearing German retribution. When a young German officer arrives to watch the town, tension mounts. One of the GIs is an African American and one night he gets terribly drunk and stumbles into the officer who is also rip-roaring drunk. The two end up continuing their bender together and no fighting erupts.Read More »