November 20, 2016 Elio Petri: Property is no Longer a Theft If The Working Class Goes to Heaven was a pretty idiosyncratic affair, Elio Petri’s next film, Property is no Longer a Theft (La proprietà non è più un furto, 73) is simply bonkers.
October 6, 2016 Elio Petri: The Working Class Go To Heaven Volonté and Petri joined forces again for 1971’s The Working Class Goes to Heaven and, impressively, they managed to concoct something that was even more hysterical than Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion.
May 20, 2016 Elio Petri: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion For 1969’s Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion, Elio Petri turned his eye to the then nascent urban crime thriller, a genre that reflected – and some would say preyed upon – the political and economic uncertainties rife in Metropolitan Italy at the time.
March 13, 2016 Elio Petri: We Still Kill the Old Way After all the high-concept exuberance of The Tenth Victim, We Still Kill the Old Way saw Petri move from sci-fi to the crime genre and, stylistically, marked a return to a more subtle, low-key approach.
January 21, 2008 R.I.P Ugo Pirro Sad news… Ugo Pirro has died. Here’s the obituary that ran in The Times. Ugo Pirro The screenwriter Paul Haggis was acclaimed recently as…
