October 20, 2009 La doppia ora Here’s a tasty sounding number that’s just come out in Italy: La doppia ora (aka The Double Hour), directed by Giuseppe Capotondi and starring…
October 19, 2009 R.I.P. Rosanna Schiaffino More sad news, Rosanna Schiaffino died on the 17th October after a long battle with breast cancer. She was one of the best known…
October 15, 2009 Barbarossa New out in Italy, Barbarossa, a costly epic from Renzo Martinelli, who previously directed controversial films like The Stone Merchant and Vajont. Martinelli’s an…
October 12, 2009 R.I.P. Gianfranco Mingozzi According to recent reports, director Gianfranco Mingozzi died in Rome over the weekend. The director, born in 1932 in Bologna, had been seriously ill…
October 9, 2009 The Montesi Scandal I mentioned Alida Valli’s career being ruined by scandal in my review of Senso earlier. Well, it also involved (more closely) the composer Piero…
October 9, 2009 Senso Ok, here’s my totally un-academic review of the Luchino Visconti classic Senso. Now this was one of those films which I felt a certain…
October 6, 2009 R.I.P. Giovanni Elsner This blog in danger of becoming an obituary listing at the moment. Anyway, Giovanni Elsner isn’t possibly that familiar a name to Italian film…