February 11, 2008 R.I.P. Charles Fawcett Charles Fawcett was one of several ex-pat Brits who ended up in Rome and worked in the film industry, as much out of pure…
February 8, 2008 Il Bidone Il bidone was Federico Fellini’s direct follow up to La strada, and forms a neat quartet with I vitelloni (53) and Le notti de…
February 6, 2008 R.I.P. Lilamani Kapoor Lilamani Kapoor, aka ‘Princess Lilamani’, a Sri Lankan heiress and dancer, was a fixture of the Cinecitta scene in the 50s and 60s. She…
February 6, 2008 R.I.P. Carlos Aured Carlos Aured, who directed several cult films in the seventies, has died. Particular favourites of mine include Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll, a…
February 5, 2008 Bastardi, dir Andres Alce Meldonado Well, there’s absolutely nothing released this week in Italy, so instead I’m going to turn my eye onto Bastardi, a crime film that was…
February 4, 2008 Outlaw Nick Love, as with his regular collaborator Danny Dyer, is a rather divisive character; there’s no middle ground where his films are concerned, you…
February 2, 2008 Blinded 2004’s Blinded is an interesting, not entirely succesful film that at least tries to do something a little different and has a certain amount…