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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.
November 10, 2008

The Past is A Foreign Land

A new crime-drama from Italy, Il passato e una terra straniera (aka The Past is a Foreign Land) has been doing some reasonable business…

November 4, 2008

Fantaghiro

Lamberto Bava’s susccesful Italian TV series Fantaghiro has been released, and – bizarrely – it has English audio options (was this ever actually sold…

November 4, 2008

Claudia Cardinale boxset

New from Minerva Classic, a three film Claudia Cardinale boxset. The films ere: I Guappi, aka Blood Brothers. This is probably the biggie of…

November 4, 2008

Un fiume di dollari

Just out from Koch DVD, this is Carlo Lizzani’s rather melodramatic spaghetti western, The Hills Run red starring Thomas Hunter & Henry Silva. Extras…

November 3, 2008

Passport for a Corpse

Here’s an interesting, obscure one, directed by Mario Gariazzo, who’d later make the excellent The Bloody Hands of the Law

October 31, 2008

María Badmajew

María Badmajew is a bit of a mystery. As an actress, she appeared in about 20 films between 1959 and 1969

October 30, 2008

We Are No Angels

We Are No Angels continues in much the same vein as Gainfranco Parolini’s previous film, This Time I’ll Make You Rich, which also featured an odd couple of protagonists caught up in a slapstick adventure.

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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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