2008 – Page 3 – The Wild Eye

November 27, 2008

Rosella Bergamonti

Anybody who watches Italian spy films will be familiar with the name – if not the face – of Rosella Bergamonti

November 25, 2008

Cristina Comencini’s 1993 film The End is Known, a classy thriller based on Geofrrey Holiday Hall’s little-remembered 1950 novel of the same name, would appear to have never had a proper English language release, beyond a subtitled broadcast on the Australian TV channel SBS.

November 25, 2008

Paolo Solvay obituary

Further to my RIP post for Paolo Solvay, here’s a translated version of one that appeared in the Italian press: To the general public,…

November 24, 2008

Amore che vieni amore che vai

Just out in Italy: Amore che vieni amore che vai, directed by Daniele Constantini. This is an interesting sounding film inspired by the story…

November 24, 2008

R.I.P. Paolo Solvay

News just filtering through that Paolo Solvay, one of the iconic directors of Italian z-grade films of the sixties and seventies, had died. Solvay…

November 20, 2008

R.I.P. Ennio De Concini

Sad to report, but Italian scriptwriter Ennio De Concini has died. De Concini was a hugely prolific scriptwriter and one of the unheralded architects…

November 18, 2008

Scorpion, Le

Obscure international co-production, which boasts a handful of Italian character actors (Franco Giacobini, Eva Maltagliati) but very little other input from Cinecitta