Italy

  • Massimo Pupillo – La vendetta di Lady Morgan AKA Lady Morgan’s Vengeance (1965)

    1961-1970HorrorItalyMassimo Pupillo

    A young woman is killed by her treacherous husband and returns as a vengeful ghost.Read More »

  • Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi – Inventario balcanico + Nocturne (2000)

    1991-2000Angela Ricci LucchiExperimentalItalyYervant Gianikian

    Quote:
    Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi are filmmakers of the resistance. They don’t want to convince at all costs, but rather aim at inducing a productive sense of dout, leading to a dialectic between present and past, there and elsewhere, truth and lies, ideology and history. Like Godard, the Gianikians have a solid belief in the ontological power of the image, in its radiant permanence. (…) If their films are formally superb, the Gianikians are part of that category of filmmakers of splendor, who use this as a dialectical means, rather than as an aim on itself. It’s also in this regard that they are political filmmakers. Like all great cineastes, the Gianikians learn us to look anew. They are worried poets, who compose their films with scraps from the past to throw a stronger light on the present. (Frédéric Bonnaud) Inventario Balcanico: Images of the Balkans, coming from diverse Yugoslav communities.Read More »

  • Giorgio Capitani – Odio le bionde AKA Je hais les blondes (1980)

    1971-1980ComedyGiorgio CapitaniItaly

    Synopsis :
    Emilio travaille comme nègre pour Donald, un romancier célèbre en panne d’inspiration. Las de cette situation, il décide de quitter l’artiste et de de publier ses poèmes. Lors d’une réception, les deux hommes se retrouvent et la vérité éclate…

    Writer of detective novels that are selling well, Emilio Serrantoni not figure as an author: shy and insecure, has agreed to publish with the signing of another Donald Ross, which are the most fame and money. Avid player, but he regularly loses. After a particularly heavy defeat, Donald urgent need of a new work by Emilio, who is called ‘I hate blondes’ which tells of a robbery at a house whose alarm systems are identical to that del’editore Brown. For a number of misunderstandings real thieves think Emilio is their inside guy.Read More »

  • Bruno Gaburro – Maladonna (1984)

    1981-1990Bruno GaburroEroticaItaly

    Since Osvaldo is a wealthy landowner, his beautiful wife Maria is forced to live in the countryside. But some wild party with neighbors is certainly not enough to alleviate her dissatisfaction. She has long lover, Alessio, a depleted man and hardened player. At one of the parties in question, the banker Tesser intervenes, who has every intention of taking Osvaldo’s vast property possession, as well as Claudia, an elegant woman whom Osvaldo has fortuitously met in the woods and rescued during a fall from a horse- in fact she is Alessio’s wife.Read More »

  • Yervant Gianikian – I diari di Angela: Noi due cineasti. Capitolo secondo (2019)

    2011-2020DocumentaryExperimentalItalyYervant Gianikian

    I diari di Angela – Noi due cineasti. Capitolo secondo recounts in the first place our private lives, revealing what we went through while the movies we were making–on the violence of war, on colonialism and fascism—took shape. The film draws on the writings of soldiers, the wounded and prisoners of war. The passages describe some of the battle sites and the boundaries of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and show us the face and the acute gaze of Freya Stark at Asolo, as well as reminding us of the unmistakable voice of Walter Chiari in Soviet Armenia. In those years at the same time as the Trilogia della guerra we were working on a large installation called La marcia dell’uomo. Read More »

  • Laura Samani – Piccolo corpo aka Small Body (2021)

    Drama2021-2030ItalyLaura SamaniQueer Cinema(s)

    Quote:
    Italy, 1900. Agata is a young woman who embarks herself on a desperate journey to reach a mysterious sanctuary to save her daughter’s soul from the eternal damnation of Limbo.Read More »

  • Yervant Gianikian – I diari di Angela – Noi due cineasti (2018)

    2011-2020DocumentaryExperimentalItalyYervant Gianikian

    Quote:

    Every day of her life, Angela kept a diary, filled with words and drawings, in which she recorded public and private matters, meetings, things she had read, everything. Including the account of two trips to Russia (1989-90). The period of the collapse of the USSR. A diary that she had been keeping in small Chinese notebooks, since before Dal Polo all’Equatore (1986), on our uninterrupted work on the violence of the 20th century. From our tours in the United States with the “scented films” of the late seventies to the Anthology Film Archive of New York and the Berkeley Pacific Film Archive… Now I reread these diaries and see again the film-diary of all those years. I am alone now, after many years of life and artistic work together.Read More »

  • Pasquale Festa Campanile & Massimo Franciosa – Le voci bianche (1964)

    1961-1970ComedyDramaItalyMassimo FranciosaPasquale Festa Campanile

    Quote:
    Set in the 17th century, Le voci bianche tells the story of a young Roman youth,
    Meo (Paolo Ferrari), who embarks on a career as “castrato,” although he manages to
    escape the mandatory castration. As a “castrati” he comes into contact with the upper
    classes of his time, and becomes a kind of casanova with the often bored and sex
    starved wives of the rich and wealthy. For an early directorial effort, this is a
    very handsome production with an impressive cast.Read More »

  • Giuseppe Patroni Griffi – Divina creatura AKA The Divine Nymph (1975)

    1971-1980DramaGiuseppe Patroni GriffiItaly

    The sentimental battle that two men, Dany and Michele, who are fighting to conquer the heart of Manuela, a beautiful and alluring woman who has become the only person who gives meaning to the lives of both men. They are part of the same lineage and must play their cards properly with the intention of falling in love with the girl. Even so, she goes out of her way to downplay the issue every time people ask about her two suitors.Read More »

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