April 16, 2012 Killer Crocodile 2 Coming some fourteen years after Jaws and just as the trend for Italian horror films was coming to a ignominious end, Killer Crocodile 2 is really a paltry cinematic offering.
March 23, 2012 Benzina Benzina is a 2001 thriller that was marketed as an Italian equivalent to Thelma and Louise (91) and which managed to get a small amount of International distribution (it was shown at festivals in the States and UK).
November 25, 2011 Submission of a Woman, by Alessandro Lucidi This is a (very) late period Italian thriller from 1992 and directed by Alessandro Lucidi, son of the better known Maurizio.
November 15, 2011 Teorema (Theorem) Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Teorema (Theorem), a contemporary review from the Monthly Film Bulletin
October 26, 2011 The Thieves, aka I ladri The Thieves is a 1959 vehicle for the hugely popular Italian comic Totò, which plays on the tenets of the American gangster genre in a very Italianesque fashion.
October 4, 2011 The Headless Woman If you’re under the misapprehension that Argentina is a place of Latin style and sophistication, then The Headless Woman should act as a suitable antidote…
September 9, 2011 Ghosts of Rome Ghosts of Rome is another excellent comedy from Antonio Pietrangeli, the well respected – but rather forgotten – director of classics such as Adua e le compagne and Io la conoscevo bene.