Tag Archives: Romanzo criminale

Latest DVD releases

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Matt Blake

The first season of the 2008 Italian TV mini series Romanzo criminale – an alternate version of the excellent film made by Michele Placido in 2005 – has been released on DVD in Italy.  This is supposed to be pretty … Continue reading →

Posted in DVD releases | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Romanzo criminale… the series

Posted on November 28, 2008 by Matt Blake

Airing on TV soon is Romanzo criminale, the series, based on Michele Placido’s excellent film of the same name. One of the directors, by the way, is Stefano Sollima, Sergio Sollima’s kid!

Posted in Latest News | Tagged | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Performers & directors, Reviews | Tagged , , | 1 Comment