Articles – The Wild Eye

October 15, 2017

10 Best Italian crime films, 1945 – 1969

It’s been a couple of years now since I published In the Name of the Law, my book about Italian crime films prior to the poliziotteschi trend, but here’s a little bit of content I wrote for it which never made it into the final cut… my top ten Italian crime films made between 1945 and 1969.

Antoni Pierfederici plays a hack director in Ciak si muore

July 6, 2017

Ciak… si Moroni

Mario Moroni made two films during his long career in Italian cinema, both of them are authentic poverty row efforts of little critical or aesthetic value. But as nobody else is deranged enough to waste their time examining his work, it seems like an appropriate job for The WildEye…

Elio Petri, with Ursula Andress on the set of The Tenth Victim

May 24, 2017

Elio Petri: Investigation of a Filmmaker Above Suspicion

For some reason, Elio Petri is a filmmaker who seems to have slipped off the cultural (and counter-cultural) radar.

December 30, 2015

Italian film distribution in the ‘golden age’

At its heart, film-making in Italy during the golden age of Italian cinema was – despite the claims of auteur directors proclaiming their artistry…

August 15, 2015

Richard McNamara

Richard McNamara was another of the Americans – like John Kitzmiller – who came to Italy as an American soldier during World War 2 and stayed there, working in the burgeoning film industry

February 12, 2015

Franco Citti interview

Here’s an interview with Italian actor Franco Citti – who is famous for his work with Pasolini but also appeared in numerous other films – that I found on the web and have translated into English

October 16, 2014

Italian westerns in the forests of the Sila, an interview with Sergio Grieco

Here’s an interview with Sergio Grieco translated from an old copy of Unita. I don’t believe there’s any other interview with Grieco anywhere. I’d love to be proved wrong because he was a decent director who has been rather forgotten and was never really appreciated as much as he deserved.