February 12, 2008 Caos calmo, Non c’e piu’ niente da fare A couple of new films released in Italy this week… Caos Calmo is the new Nanni Moretti film, and did pretty well at the…
February 11, 2008 Night of the Sunfolowers Night of the Sunflowers is an excellent Spanish thriller directed with some class by the debuatant Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo, who made some acclaimed shorts back…
February 11, 2008 R.I.P. Charles Fawcett Charles Fawcett was one of several ex-pat Brits who ended up in Rome and worked in the film industry, as much out of pure…
February 8, 2008 Il Bidone Il bidone was Federico Fellini’s direct follow up to La strada, and forms a neat quartet with I vitelloni (53) and Le notti de…
February 6, 2008 R.I.P. Lilamani Kapoor Lilamani Kapoor, aka ‘Princess Lilamani’, a Sri Lankan heiress and dancer, was a fixture of the Cinecitta scene in the 50s and 60s. She…
February 6, 2008 R.I.P. Carlos Aured Carlos Aured, who directed several cult films in the seventies, has died. Particular favourites of mine include Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll, a…
February 5, 2008 Bastardi, dir Andres Alce Meldonado Well, there’s absolutely nothing released this week in Italy, so instead I’m going to turn my eye onto Bastardi, a crime film that was…