March 30, 2012 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.
March 26, 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…
March 23, 2012 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).
March 16, 2012 Ruggero Deodato on Toto Sexy With Il figlio di Spartacus began the busiest and most intense period of my career as an assistant director…
March 13, 2012 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…
March 12, 2012 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
March 9, 2012 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