Category Archives: From the Archives

A selection of snippets taken from archive interviews and articles about European Cinema

A vaccinated cineaste, an interview with Steno

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Matt Blake

Here’s another interview with Stefano Vanzina, aka Steno [see also here]. Once again, this was translated from an old copy of the Italian newspaper L’Unita. Continue reading →

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Il terrore con gli occhi storti

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Matt Blake

Another Unita review, this time of Steno’s comic thriller Il terrore con gli occhi storti from 1972. Continue reading →

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Beffe, licenze et amori del Decamerone segreto

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Matt Blake

Here’s a Unita review of Giuseppe Vari’s decameroticon Beffe, licenze et amori del Decamerone segreto, aka Love, Passion and Pleasure. Continue reading →

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Ruggero Deodato on shooting in the Philippines, part 2

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Matt Blake

Continuing with the article written by Ruggero Deodato for Nocturno magazine about his experiences working in the Philippines while making The Atlantis Interceptors?. Continue reading →

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Beati i ricchi

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Matt Blake

Here’s an article I’ve just translated from an old copy of L’unita, about the obscure Salvatore Samperi film Beati i ricchi Continue reading →

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Sergio Corbucci on The Specialists

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Matt Blake

Here’s a little article I found in L’unita from March 20th 1970. Continue reading →

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Nuns, giallos and comedy mix ups…

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Matt Blake

Here’s a fun article I found in L’unita from February 1977 regarding Maurizio Pradeaux’s middling giallo Death Steps in the Dark. Smacks of being publicity buff, but it’s quite fun anyway… Continue reading →

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Lucrezia, Monthly Film Bulletin Review

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Matt Blake

To make a film about the Borgias without either poisonings or parricides must in itself rate as some kind of achievement… Continue reading →

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Face to Face, Monthly Film Bulletin Review

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Matt Blake

A personality switch between a bandit leader and a dying university professor might have made an interesting variation on more familiar Italian Western themes… Continue reading →

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Ruggero Deodato on Sergio Corbucci

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Matt Blake

[Corbucci] called me for whatever reason… one day I he called me from Ischia, where he was on holiday… Continue reading →

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They Came to Rob Las Vegas

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Matt Blake

In view of its hybrid origins it seems highly appropriate that one of the central ideas in They Came to Rob Las Vegas should be the impersonality of life in the space age… Continue reading →

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Ruggero Deodato on Toto Sexy

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Matt Blake

With Il figlio di Spartacus began the busiest and most intense period of my career as an assistant director… Continue reading →

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A Curious Way to Love, aka La morte ha fatto l’uovo

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Matt Blake

Review of A Curious Way to Love, aka Death Laid an Egg, from The Monthly Film Bulletin, May 1969. Continue reading →

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Ruggero Deodato on Son of Spartacus

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Matt Blake

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

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La lama nel corpo, aka The Murder Clinic

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Matt Blake

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

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Escalation, directed by Roberto Faenza

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Matt Blake

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… Continue reading →

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Devilman Story (The Devil’s Man)

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Matt Blake

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

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I crudeli (The Hellbenders)

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Matt Blake

Review from The Monthly Film Bulletin, May 1969 Continue reading →

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Four Ways Out

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Matt Blake

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

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Ferdinando Baldi on Il massacro della foresta nero

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Matt Blake

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