// Articles
R.I.P. Giulio PetroniMore sad news… According to news reports in the Italian press, director Giulio Petroni - who made the hugely succesful Death Rides a Horse - died over the weekend.
// In the news
R.I.P. Peter MartellMore sad news… Italian actor Pietro Martellanza, aka Peter Martell, died on the 4th February. Born in 1938 in Bolzano, the dark and handsome Martellanza starred in over 40 films between 1960 and 2009, and at one point in the late sixties looked like becoming a bonafide movie star
// New Italian Cinema
La prima linea
Here’s an interesting sounding new film that’s just been released in Italy, Renato De Maria’s La prima linea, aka The Front Line. It’s another in the recent series of dramatic crime films with an historical setting and is based on the memoirs of Sergio Sergio, the former “Commander Sirio” of the armed communist organization Prima [...]
// DVD releases
Il grande sogno
Michele Placido’s Il grande sogno, which I wrote about briefly when it was released, has just been released on DVD in Italy. And… it actually has English subs!
// From the Archives
Whatever happened to… Gioia Scola
If you lived through the beginnings of the home video era, then you’ll more likely than not be familiar with Gioia Scola
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