Matt Blake – Page 61 – The Wild Eye

April 22, 2010

The Cricket, Desirable Teacher, Satan’s Wife etc etc on DVD

Bunch of new MYA DVDs has just come out…

April 16, 2010

Totò Tarzan

1951 Aka Tototarzan Original running time: 85 mins Italy A C.D.I. production Distributed by C.D.I. Director: Mario Mattoli Story: Vittorio Metz Screenplay: Vittorio Metz,…

April 15, 2010

R.I.P. Raimondo Vianello

He wasn’t very well known outside of Italy, but Raimondo Vianello, who died earlier this morning (15th April), was a huge figure in Italian…

April 14, 2010

Quo Vadis Baby? – The TV series

It looks like something of a trend, in Italy, to base TV series around succesful films. Firstly there was Romanzo criminale, and now there’s…

April 14, 2010

La prima linea on DVD

Renato de Maria’s La prima linea has just been released on DVD in Italy, complete with English subs. Here’s a previous post I made…

April 9, 2010

Chiamate 22-22 tenente Sheridan

Chiamate 22-22 tenente Sheridan is an obscure 1960 giallo directed by comedy specialist Giorgio Bianchi. A spin off from a popular television series of the time, Tenente Sheridan, which also starred Ubaldo Lay, it’s of some historical interest for being one of the earliest Italian feature films to have been spawned from the then-novel TV medium.

April 9, 2010

I Am Love (Io sono l’amore)

Bold, refreshing and unorthodox as ever in her choice of projects, Tilda Swinton takes the lead in this family drama from Italian film-maker Luca Guadagnino, with whom she has worked twice in the past, on The Protagonists (1999) and The Love Factory (2002).