This short movie came out of the alternative takes of a scene of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s previous film, Gente da Sicília (1999) and consists of a dialogue between a grinder and a foreigner.Read More »
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Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub – L’arrotino (2001)
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Sergio Sollima – Revolver AKA Blood in the Streets (1973)
1971-1980CrimeItalySergio SollimaThriller

Synopsis:
An Italian prison official’s wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets the man released – but then kidnaps him himself, in order to ensure that the man’s colleagues don’t kill his wife. Enraged, the gang sets out to free their compatriot and kill the man who took him.Revolver (also titled Blood in the Streets and In the Name of Love) is a poliziottesco film directed by Sergio Sollima and released in 1973. It stars Oliver Reed and Fabio Testi and the film’s theme “Un Amico” which was scored by Ennio Morricone was also featured in Quentin Tarantino movie Inglourious Basterds (2009)Read More »
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Mauro Bolognini – La certosa di Parma (1982)
Mauro Bolognini1981-1990DramaItaly

Stendhal’s epic tale of a young French officer in the Napoleonic wars, and his aunt – a duchess of legendary beauty and resourcefulness.Read More »
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Paolo Cavara – I malamondo (1964)
Documentary1961-1970ItalyPaolo Cavara

This documentary looks at strange behaviors and practices in Europe, including nude skiing in Switzerland, hog-butchering in Italy, and an orgy in a graveyard.Read More »
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Alessandro Santini – La pelle sotto gli artigli AKA The Skin Under The Claws (1975)
1971-1980Alessandro SantiniGialloItalySci-Fi

Plot
A series of murders takes place, and in each case there are traces of decomposed flesh under the victims’ nails. Is there a link to the brilliant scientist who is performing brain transplant experiments on baboons, who thinks he is close to cheating death itself?Read More » -
Renzo Rossellini & Roberto Rossellini – L’età del ferro AKA L’âge de fer AKA The Iron Age [French version] (1965)
Renzo Rossellini1961-1970DocumentaryItalyRoberto RosselliniTV

Peter Brunette wrote:
At the time of India , as we saw, Rossellini was not really very interested in the medium of television, and the episodes broadcast were little more than outtakes from the later theatrical version. By 1964, however, when Rossellini had begun to take television more seriously, he had learned many things. One of them was that the commentary should add something to the images rather than try to replicate them verbally, as it had in the television series on India. In L’età del ferro (The Iron Age), therefore, the director appears on-screen, acting overtly as teacher and serving as a guarantor of the images, as it were, rather than as their competitor.Read More » -
Mauro Bolognini – La venexiana AKA The Venetian Woman (1986)
Mauro Bolognini1981-1990EroticaItalyRomanceAfter years of black plague, Venice shines again. Angela and Valeria, two women from noble families, set their heart on a man in the Venetian crowd and decide to seduce him.Read More »
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Fernando Di Leo – Brucia, ragazzo, brucia AKA Burn, Boy, Burn (1969)
1961-1970DramaFernando Di LeoItalyThe film starts with a dream sequence, wide-angled lens deformed characters, where the main actress, named Clara, is running away from male pleasure and taking refuge on a female companion and once again running away sensing in the female a reciprocal attraction.
The themes of the movie are the emancipation of women and the female pleasure, the breakdown of the typical family and its hypocritical values, brought forward by the sexually liberated youths influenced by the sexual revolution initiated in the States.Read More »
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Umberto Lenzi – Roma a mano armata aka Rome Armed to the Teeth aka Brutal Justice (1976)
1971-1980ActionCrimeItalyUmberto Lenzi

A tough, violent cop who doesn’t mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.Read More »


