The Wild Eye – Page 81 – Keeping a wild eye on European Cinema of the past and present

March 11, 2009

R.I.P Sydney Chaplin

Doesn’t seem to have been picked up all that widely in Eurotrash circles, but Sydney Chaplin died on the 3rd March. Here’s the obituary…

March 10, 2009

New DVDs 10/03

A mixed bag this week… I guess the most interesting release for Eurotrash films is Roberto Montero’s The Eye of the Spider, which has…

March 6, 2009

Maruzzella is a little known 1956 film that neatly intersects several popular Italian genres of the time without really belonging to any of them. The fishing village setting is familiar from numerous Neapolitan dramas, there are regular songs in the fashion of the musicarelli and the story is heavily influenced by the hugely popular melodramas.

March 5, 2009