April 9, 2010 Inglourious Basterds’ inspiration gets glorious DVD reception More than 300,000 copies of the DVD of Enzo G Castellari’s 1978 film Inglorious Bastards, whose name spawned Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, have been sold in Britain
April 7, 2010 Latest DVD releases The first season of the 2008 Italian TV mini series Romanzo criminale – an alternate version of the excellent film made by Michele Placido…
March 10, 2010 R.I.P. Giuseppe Castellano It’s being reported on Nocturno that Italian character actor Giuseppe Castellano died earlier in March. Castellano was one of those faces who pops up all over the place in Italian exploitation films of the 1960s and 1970s
March 9, 2010 Trappola d’autore Just out on DVD in Italy is Franco Salvia’s Trappola d’autore, which kind of slipped by me and I don’t think is even listed on IMDB yet
March 2, 2010 R.I.P. Nini Grassia Director Nini Grassia, who won the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival in 2008, has died at the age of 66. His heart stopped beating Sunday night in the clinic where he was hospitalized for liver cirrhosis.
March 1, 2010 Missing in action, part 1: Italian Horror films of 2009 that you may never have heard of… I try to post up as much information as I can about Italian films that make it to the cinemas or DVD over there, but there are also a number of productions which never actually reach the big screen or manage to pass me by for one reason or another.
February 17, 2010 La doppia ora, Il mercenario Couple of essential new DVDs out this week. Giuseppe Capotond’s La doppia ora is a thriller that came out last year…