March 19, 2009 Nocturno March 09: Italian Gothic Horror The latest issue of Nocturno is out, and the dossier this month looks at Gothic Italian Cinema. Looks like a load of reviews /…
March 18, 2009 Gin Mart..? For a long time, Gin Mart, who starred in Il mostro di Venezia, was assumed to be Italian character actor Gino Marturano (veteran from…
March 16, 2009 Umberto Lenzi interview Umberto lenzi seems to be doing the rounds a bit at the moment… there another Italian language interview with him on the Cineblog website
March 11, 2009 R.I.P Sydney Chaplin Doesn’t seem to have been picked up all that widely in Eurotrash circles, but Sydney Chaplin died on the 3rd March. Here’s the obituary…
March 10, 2009 New DVDs 10/03 A mixed bag this week… I guess the most interesting release for Eurotrash films is Roberto Montero’s The Eye of the Spider, which has…
March 6, 2009 Maruzzella Maruzzella is a little known 1956 film that neatly intersects several popular Italian genres of the time without really belonging to any of them. The fishing village setting is familiar from numerous Neapolitan dramas, there are regular songs in the fashion of the musicarelli and the story is heavily influenced by the hugely popular melodramas.
March 5, 2009 R.I.P. Salvatore Samperi Just heard that director Salvatore Semperi, who directed films like Grazie zia and Uccidete il vitello grasso, has died. There’s an obituary on the…