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  • Various – L’amour à vingt ans AKA Love at Twenty (1962)

    1961-1970ArthouseFranceVarious

    IMDB says:
    “Love at Twenty” unites five directors from around the world to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson. The directors create their peculiar scenarios with Truffaut revisiting Antoine Doinel, this time finding some meaning to his life while getting involved with a girl; Renzo Rossellini’s episode about an abandoned mistress; Ishihara’s tale about an obsessive love; Ophüls’ story about a pregnant woman trying to plot against the baby’s father; and Wajda presenting a confusing relationship between people from different generations.Read More »

  • Sergio Martino – Lo Strano vizio della Signora Wardh aka The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971) (HD)

    1971-1980GialloItalySergio MartinoThriller

    Newly married to an older man, Julie returns to Vienna, where a razor wielding slasher is killing women. Jean, her cruel and sadistic former lover, immediately contacts her, certain that only he can satisfy her strange vice. But she rejects him. She also meets George, the handsome cousin of her friend Carol; both are newly rich, thanks to an uncle’s death. Julie’s husband Neil is away frequently, so George pours on the charm. Meanwhile, it seems that the slasher is now focused on Julie. Bodies pile up, other murders are barely avoided, and George invites her to go away with him. Can it end happily?Read More »

  • Alberto Cavallone – La Gemella erotica (1980)

    Alberto Cavallone1971-1980CultEroticaItaly

    IMDB:
    “Same Face, Same Body, Same Vice!, 3 September 2005
    8/10
    Author: ANTONIO LA TORRE (BCULT) from Palermo, Italy

    Two twin sisters are absolutely identical. Physically, but not mentally. In fact first sister is an unbridled nymphomaniac who continually collects sexual embraces. The second is timid and emotional. One day the first wants to involve her ingénue sister in this vicious circle, getting upsetting and unpredictable results. ‘La gemella erotica’ (Erotic Twin) was shot on Lake of Vico, central Italy. It is one of director Alberto Cavallone’s darkest films and one of the most indicative movie about Italian extreme cinema (banned to the minors), now become Cult Cinema. Also titled ‘Due gocce d’acqua’ (As Two Drops of Water), produced by Euritalia Cinematografica. O.S.T. was composed by maestro Carlo Carnelli. “Read More »

  • Federico Fellini – Lo sceicco bianco AKA The White Sheik (1952)

    1951-1960ClassicsComedyFederico FelliniItaly

    Synopsis:
    Who would have thought that only moments after arriving at Rome for their honeymoon, the young and pure bride, Wanda, would sneak out of the room, leaving her fastidious groom, Ivan, all alone? Obsessed with the masculine Fernando Rivoli–the hero of her favourite romantic photo-novel, The White Sheik–Wanda plucks up the courage to meet him in person, only to be seduced by the arrogant protagonist, so far away from the hotel and her husband. As a result–perplexed by Wanda’s strange disappearance, and unable to disclose the news to his family–Ivan meanders through the ill-lit Roman streets in search of his wife, on pins and needles, waiting for their eleven o’clock appointment with his uncle and the Papal Audience at the Vatican. What does the new day have in store for the separated newlyweds?Read More »

  • Lucio Fulci – Operazione San Pietro (1967)

    1961-1970ComedyCrimeItalyLucio Fulci

    Small time crook Napoleone falls into an unlikely gang made up of a gangster, called The Baron, and his two cohorts, Agonia and The Captain, where Napoleone takes them to Rome where they shack up with a shady used car dealer caled Il Cajella to help finance their new life of crime by planing to rob a statue from the Vatican. But a big-time American gangster, named Joe Ventura, hears about the heist and wants the priceless statue for himself by having his mistress, Samantha, come onto and betray the woman-hungry Cajella to give the statue away to her.Read More »

  • Marguerite Duras – Il Dialogo di Roma (1982)

    1981-1990ArthouseExperimentalItalyMarguerite Duras

    A man and a woman in Rome evoke a civilization and an ancient love.Read More »

  • Gabriele Muccino – L’estate addosso AKA Summertime (2016)

    2011-2020DramaGabriele MuccinoItalyQueer Cinema(s)

    Quote:
    Gabriele Muccino is an Italian filmmaker (“The Last Kiss,” “Ecco Fatto”) who had a high-profile moment of going Hollywood. He was handed the plum of directing two Will Smith vehicles in a row, “The Pursuit of Happyness” (2006) and “Seven Pounds” (2007), and he was able to bring his earthy intelligence and humanity to at least one of them. (The less said about “Seven Pounds” the better.) One way to talk about Muccino’s new film, “Summertime,” which premiered tonight at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, is to say that he is once again an “Italian filmmaker.” But that wouldn’t be quite accurate. “Summertime” is more like an American film embedded in an Italian one.Read More »

  • Augusto Genina – Frou-Frou (1955)

    1951-1960Augusto GeninaComedyItalyRomance

    Four prominent men take under their wing a young Parisian flower girl.
    With the help of her Pygmalions she becomes a famous cabaret singer. She falls in love with a charming gambler, Henri, who becomes her first lover. Abandoned by him, and after years spent in Russia with Prince Vladimir, Frou-Frou returns to France, where she has to rebuild her own life by singing in second-order theaters.
    She then meets and has a relationship with a painter, Michel, by whom she has a daughter. After Michel’s suicide she devotes herself to her.Read More »

  • Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli – Likemeback (2018)

    2011-2020DramaItalyLeonardo Guerra Seràgnoli

    Likemeback is set on a boat, where three friends are celebrating the end of high school and sharing every moment on social media, unaware that their friendship will soon be changed forever.Read More »

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