Matt Blake – Page 81 – The Wild Eye

March 10, 2009

New DVDs 10/03

A mixed bag this week… I guess the most interesting release for Eurotrash films is Roberto Montero’s The Eye of the Spider, which has…

March 6, 2009

Maruzzella

Maruzzella is a little known 1956 film that neatly intersects several popular Italian genres of the time without really belonging to any of them. The fishing village setting is familiar from numerous Neapolitan dramas, there are regular songs in the fashion of the musicarelli and the story is heavily influenced by the hugely popular melodramas.

March 5, 2009

R.I.P. Salvatore Samperi

Just heard that director Salvatore Semperi, who directed films like Grazie zia and Uccidete il vitello grasso, has died. There’s an obituary on the…

March 3, 2009

La siciliana ribelle, Iago, Giulia non esce la sera

New out in Rome this week, La siciliana ribelle, which is the latest in the stream of Italian films which touch on the crime…

March 2, 2009

New DVDs, 2nd March 09

A bunch of new DVDs have been released in the last week or so… From Italy, there’s I guappi. This is Pasquale Squitieri’s 1974…

March 2, 2009

Emimmo Salvi

A brief look films by director Emimmo Salvi that have been released on DVD

March 2, 2009

Maurizio Lucidi

Here’s a new category dedicated to the films of director Maurizio Lucidi… more posts to follow soon…