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Author: Matt Blake

The WildEye is a blog dedicated to the wild world of Italian cinema (and, ok, sometimes I digress into discussing films from other countries as well). Peplums, comedies, dramas, spaghetti westerns... they're all covered here.
September 15, 2008

Romanzo criminale

Here’s an excellent, classy, Italian crime thriller that takes its cues from City of God and The Godfather and also resembles another recent film, Ridley Scott’s American Gangster, in using a true story set in the criminal underworld to tell the history of a city through the seventies and eighties.

September 15, 2008

Old Testament on DVD

Weird, Gianfranco Parolini’s The Old Testament has just come out on DVD! Also out this week: Dante 0.1 & Outpost

September 12, 2008

New Soavi plays Rome

Looks like the new Michele Soavi film is having it’s first showing in the Rome Film Festival (the same festival that caused all that…

September 11, 2008

Blood Feud

A man hired to commit murder finds himself unable to do the deed in this early crime drama directed by Damiano Damiani

September 10, 2008

Pranzo di Ferragosto

The third of four Italian releases this week – they’ve all moved straight from Venice to the cinemas – is Pranzo di Ferragosto, a…

September 10, 2008

Il seme della discordia

It’s not quite as succesful a release as Un giorno perfetto, but Il seme della discordia has been doing reasonable business in its opening…

September 10, 2008

Un giorno perfetto

Un giorno perfetto is the new film from Ferzan Ozpetek, one of the more respected of the ‘new breed’ of Italian directors (he made…

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  • Cinematografo Italian language database of all Italian Films
  • European Trash Cinema Craig Ledbetter’s excellent magazine ETC has now made it online…
  • Giallo Fever Superb website about giallos and other Italian films
  • M.E.C.D. Database A great database with information about Spansih cinema (and other films shot in Spain)
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