The Wild Eye

Ruggero Deodato talks about the filming of Son of Spartacus (translated from Nocturno)

Review of La lama nel corpo, aka The Murder Clinic from Monthly Film Bulletin

Luca Lambertenghi (Lino Capolicchio)’s life of gentle meditation amid London’s flower children and gurus is rudely shattered when his wealthy industrialist father (Gabriele Ferzetti) cuts off his allowance and forces him to work for the family olive factory in Milan…

Review of Devilman Story, from The Monthly Film Bulletin, May 1969.

Review from The Monthly Film Bulletin, May 1969

Here’s an archive review of Pietro Germi’s early crime film Four Ways Out (La citta si difende) from The Times in 1951.

Another unreleased / unfinished film…

Il rossetto, directed by Damiana Damiani, with Pierre Brice, Laura Vivaldi, Bella Darvi, Giorgia Moli, Pietro Germi. Italian, drammatico. (Cinema: Doria). Review from La Stampa

Here’s another of our occassional examinations of lost or incompleted films, this time out, it’s La morte ha ballato il twist, a crime film starring Gordon Mitchell and Rober Browne

Review of Bava’s Black Sabbath from The Times in 1964

I’ve been watching a lot of these Italian cine-fumetti films recently, and so here’s a rundown of my top five films from the genre.

Here’s an interesting bit of information I’d never come across before. During the filming of Companeros, Sergio Corbucci claims to have seen a flying saucer!

Here’s an article about Spaghetti Westerns I’ve just translated from an old issue of La Stampa, back in December 1966.

Excerpt from Continental Film Review, September 1970: Despite trials, prison sentences (albeit suspended) and the holding up of films (as in the case of H2S)…

Il delitto allo specchio: A giallo about the dolce vita. Review from LaStampa – 21.07.1964

Article on Fellini’s The Clowns taken from Continental Film Review, Sept 1970

Moving on to some contemporary reviews of films by another of my favourite directors, Damiano Damiani. Here’s one from the Times for Arturo’s Island…