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Year: 2011

January 24, 2011

Vallanzasca – Gli angeli del male

Nice to see the new year being welcomed in by a the relase of a bona-fide Italian crime movie, Michele Placido’s Vallanzasca – Gli angeli del male.

January 19, 2011

Eroticism in the Italian Cinema

Excerpt from Continental Film Review, September 1970: Despite trials, prison sentences (albeit suspended) and the holding up of films (as in the case of H2S)…

January 14, 2011

R.I.P. Juan Piquer Simón

Bit late off the newsdesk with this one, but Spanish director Juan Piquer Simón died on the 7th January of lung cancer.

January 11, 2011

Adua e la campagne

Here’s a really very good example of the Italian new wave cinema that came out during the late fifties and early 60s, spearheaded by the likes of Pasolini and Bertolucci, and also including the likes of Mauro Bolognini, Elio Petri, Franco Rossi and Valerio Zurlini.

January 10, 2011

Help – Giorgio Ardisson material wanted!

A favour… now that the end is nearly in sight for the first WildEye book, my attention is already wandering onto what subjects I could possibly tackle next. And I’m thinking that it would be nice to do a Giorgio Ardisson special.

January 4, 2011

Zen on the BBC

Any other UK people out there happen to watch Zen on Sunday night? It was the first in a series of BBC adaptations of Micheal Dibdin’s Aurelio Zen crime novels, filmed in Italy, albeit with a largely British cast headed by Rupert Sewell.

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