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October 2, 2008

Sabata

When a gang of bandits steal the safe from the bank in Daugherty City, it leaves all the townsfolk penniless and understandably angry. So they’re rather appreciative when it’s brought back by the mysterious Sabata (Lee Van Cleef), an inscrutable pistolero with dubious motivations.

September 26, 2008

The Sicilian Clan

The Sicilian Clan is a super-cool crime film from 1969, which stars three of the biggest names in French cinema – Alain Delon, Lino Ventura and Jean Gabin – and is directed by a master of the genre in Henri Verneuil.

September 15, 2008

Romanzo criminale

Here’s an excellent, classy, Italian crime thriller that takes its cues from City of God and The Godfather and also resembles another recent film, Ridley Scott’s American Gangster, in using a true story set in the criminal underworld to tell the history of a city through the seventies and eighties.

September 9, 2008

The Mother of Tears

To be honest, it’s quite difficult to convey just how disappointing Dario Argento’s most recent film, The Mother of Tears, actually is. Now, to call this long-awaited is an understatement…

August 29, 2008

Johnny West

After dabbling with the spy film in Cave of Diamonds, Gianfranco Parolini turned to another genre that was just coming into vogue, the spaghetti western. Although undoubtedly a flawed film, Johnny West does hint at the much better westerns that he’d go on to make.

August 19, 2008

Destinazione Piovarolo

Partly in tribute to the late Marisa Merlini, I decided to dig out Destinazione Piovarolo, made just after she’d had considerable success in Pane, amore e fantasia (53) and it’s sequel Pane, amore e gelosia (54).

August 18, 2008

Spectre, The

The Spectre was Matteo Gil’s contribution to the ‘Films to Keep You Awake’ series made for Spanish TV in 2006

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