August 20, 2008 Ugo Pirro interview There’s a really interesting interview with Ugo Pirro up on Frame Online. It’s in Italian, of course, but there’s a lot of fascinating stuff…
August 19, 2008 Pier Angeli Pier Angeli was one of the better known female stars of the EuroSpy genre, mainly thanks to her brief flirtation with Hollywood in the 1950s
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
August 15, 2008 Damiano Damiani and photo-stories Interesting snippet I just found in ‘The Spoken Image’, by Clive Scott: Growing out of the graphic novelettes of increasingly realistic style, the first…
August 15, 2008 Lipstick, aka Il rossetto In this mystery, a 13-year old girl gets a crush on her good looking neighbor and soon finds herself entangled in a murder case
August 15, 2008 Taken, by Pierre Morel There’s a trailer up for the cheesy sounding new French thriller Taken, with Liam Neeson as an ex-spy searching for his missing duaghter, who’s…