Peter Dane
I’ve noticed the name Peter Dane crop up in a couple of Italian films that I’ve watched now, so it seems like a good opportunity to revive my ‘Americans in Cinecitta’ posts.
Month: March 2012
They Came to Rob Las Vegas
In view of its hybrid origins it seems highly appropriate that one of the central ideas in They Came to Rob Las Vegas should be the impersonality of life in the space age…
Benzina
Benzina is a 2001 thriller that was marketed as an Italian equivalent to Thelma and Louise (91) and which managed to get a small amount of International distribution (it was shown at festivals in the States and UK).
Ruggero Deodato on Toto Sexy
With Il figlio di Spartacus began the busiest and most intense period of my career as an assistant director…
Native, by John Real
Must be something to do with the time of year, but there’s suddenly a glut – well, in Italian terms, in reality it’s more of […]
L’arrivo di Wang
Here’s a new one from the Manetti Brothers, Antonio and Marco, a pair of former music video directors who are doing their best to revive genre cinema in Italy
The Curious Filmography of Gianfranco Parolini
Considering that he’s responsible for some of the most succesful Italian popular films, Gianfranco Parolini’s filmography is full of weird entries and misaccreditations