Italian

A troubled young man falls for an American military auxiliary after a single glance. A year later, he moves to the American Midwest to write his novel, next to the auxiliary’s elderly mother’s house, separated by a grim garden.Read More »

The film, based on the personal memories of Scola, specifically focuses on the early years of Fellini’s career: his arrival in Rome, the beginnings as a cartoonist in the editorial staff of the satirical magazine Marc’Aurelio (where he met among others precisely Scola), up to his first landfall in the cinema as a screenwriter.Read More »

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Spazio: 1999 was originally distributed by Variety Film, and debuted in Italian cinemas on January 14, 1975. This was seven months prior to the premiere broadcasts of the TV series Space: 1999 in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States.

The Movie is a compilation of three episode: “Breakaway”, “Ring Around the Moon” and “Another time, Another Place”. These three episodes were edited down, amounting to around an hour of footage ending on the cutting room floor.Read More »

From Trevico in the province of Avellino, a young man arrives in Turin to work at Fiat. Once hired, he will face harsh experiences as an immigrant and a worker.Read More »

Francesca Comencini tells the story of her special relationship with her father Luigi, master of Italian cinema, at the most difficult moment of her life. “First life, then cinema” are the words that Luigi speaks to Francesca on the set of Pinocchio, a sentence that is a little like the soul of the film and an omen of the dramatic moments to come that they will have to face together, as father and daughter, sealing a very strong relationship.Read More »

“Leonardo, a 19-year-old student, leaves his hometown of Palermo to study economics in London. He soon grows restless and enrolls at the University of Siena to study literature before dropping out of school to study classics on his own. The following year, he travels to Turin where he meets a man who will help him on his journey of self-discovery.”Read More »

Mariano De Santis, (fictitious) President of the Italian Republic, is a veteran democrat, humanist and Christian politician, but he suddenly begins to have doubts about several important decisions he has to make, especially about whether or not to approve a law on euthanasia, posing a great moral dilemma.Read More »

Edoardo Mulargia’s El Puro (1969; a.k.a. The Reward’s Yours… The Man’s Mine), western icon Robert Woods (My Name is Pecos) gives arguably his greatest performance as a legendary gunfighter forced to emerge from hiding after the bounty hunters on his tail murder the tender-hearted barmaid (Rosalba Neri, Smile Before Death) who offered him a new life.Read More »

From the blu-ray cover:
Adopting the Viennese version of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera, István Gaál, one of the most important filmmakers of Hungarian modernist cinema, returned to his safe haven in his final feature film—classical music and ancient Greek mythology European culture is rooted in. Framing the ancient story sung and depicted with images of nature and landscapes arranged in abstract geometric shapes highlights the universal human experience to be gained from the mythological theme—the desire to overcome mortality through love and art.Read More »