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Il grande sogno

February 2, 2010 Matt Blake 0

Michele Placido’s Il grande sogno, which I wrote about briefly when it was released, has just been released on DVD in Italy. And… it actually has English subs!

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Il grande sogno

September 17, 2009 Matt Blake 0

New out this week, Il grande sogno, the new film from Michele Placido, whose Romanzo criminale was one of the better Italo-crime films of recent […]

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Romanzo criminale

September 15, 2008 Matt Blake 1

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.