September 17, 2009 Il grande sogno New out this week, Il grande sogno, the new film from Michele Placido, whose Romanzo criminale was one of the better Italo-crime films of…
September 11, 2009 Visions, Vincere, Gli amici del bar Margherita Three interesting films released on DVD in Italy this week: Luigi Cecinelli’s giallo Visions, Marco Bellochio’s award winning drama Vincere and Pupi Avati’s succesful…
September 11, 2009 L’utimo ultras, Le ombre rosse New out this week in Italy: L’utimo ultras, a football hooligan drama directed by Stefano Calvagna. This did moderate business over its opening weekend,…
September 11, 2009 Carlo Ausino interview Here’s another Italian language interview with Carlo Ausino, who seems to be getting about a bit nowadays. I wonder whatever happened to his new…
September 11, 2009 Almeria documentary Here’s an interesting documentary about making westerns in Almeria in the 70’s. Includes interviews with Tomas Milian, Lucio Fulci and a lot of stuff…
September 3, 2009 Smile Well, after the summer hiatus, a few new Italian films are emerging onto the screen this week, by far the most interesting of which…
August 27, 2009 Sogno il mondo il venerdi This is the first new release in Italian cinemas for ages (distributors don’t bother releasing new Italian films in August, as it’s the Summer…