October 22, 2008 Enzo Musumeci Greco Nathan Juran on Enzo Musumeci Greco, taken from Psychotronic #30: “The stunt director [for The 7th Voyage of Sinbad] was Enzo Mustamachi [sic], and he first worked for me in Italy…”
October 22, 2008 Lezione 21 Just out in Italy this weekend… Lezione 21. This is a British / Italian co-production that seems to have garnered absolutely no attention whatsoever…
October 21, 2008 Lola Falana Lola Falana, the daughter of an African-American mother and Cuban father, appeared in two Italian films during the late 1960s.
October 20, 2008 Middletown Middletown is another film from the increasingly prolific Irish Film Board / Bórd Scannán na hÉireann who have, in recent years, put money into the likes of Isolation, Shrooms, Becoming Jane, Breakfast on Pluto and The Wind That Shakes the Barley.
October 17, 2008 Violent Rome Although by no means the first Italian crime film, Marino Girolami’s Violent Rome was the one that really crystallized the format, setting down a template that would be followed countless times over the next few years…
October 15, 2008 Sonetaula Another recent Italian film which sounds very interesting and has English subs is… Sonetaula, a neo-realist tinged thriller set in the fifties. This is…
October 15, 2008 I demoni di San Pietroburgo Giuliano Montaldo’s I demoni di San Pietroburgo is out on DVD in Italy and, yes, it actually includes English subs. I talked briefly about…