Tag Archives: Michele Placido

Vallanzasca – Gli angeli del male

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Matt Blake

Nice to see the new year being welcomed in by a the relase of a bona-fide Italian crime movie, Michele Placido’s Vallanzasca – Gli angeli del male. Continue reading →

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Il grande sogno

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Matt Blake

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! Continue reading →

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Il grande sogno

Posted on September 17, 2009 by Matt Blake

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 years.  This sounds like a slightly less interesting production, being another in the line of … Continue reading →

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Romanzo criminale

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Matt Blake

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. Continue reading →

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