Tag: Cinema of Italy
Ariaferma (The Inner Cage) | 2021 Venice Film Festival Review
Guards and Monsters: Costanzo Finds Humanity in Balanced Ratios
Utilizing the novel opportunity of how power wanes in the crumbling of an institution’s viability, Italian...
The Macaluso Sisters | Review
Sister Acts: Dante Wallows in Tragedy Defined Sisterhood
Director Emma Dante spins a melancholic web of familial woe following five women defined by tragic circumstances...
Pinocchio | Review
Nose the Ropes: Garrone Renovates Collodi’s Classic Children’s Text
Sometime over the past century, the cinematic conception of the fairy tale has enabled a movement...
The Life Ahead [Video Review]
In the Mood for Loren: Ponti Resurrects an Icon in Reticent Remake
It’s been over a decade since iconic Italian actress Sophia Loren appeared...
Martin Eden | Review
The Working Class Goes to Heaven: Marcello Retrofits London’s Ruminations on Superficial Social Status
Pietro Marcello brings his unconventional sensibilities to new heights with Martin...
Love is a Battlefield in Visconti’s Swan Song, L’innocente (1976) | Blu-ray Review
Premiering out of competition at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival just two months after he died from a stroke, Luchino Visconti’s final masterpiece, The...
Dead Again: Fulci’s “Zombie” (1979) Cult Classic Finds New Life | Blu-ray Review
Italian ‘Maestro of Gore’ Lucio Fulci canvassed a wide array of genres. Not unlike his colleague Mario Bava, his filmography resists being pigeonholed, seeing...
Criterion Collection: Teorema (1968) | Blu-ray Review
“Whatever the bourgeois do is wrong?” is a question posited in the flurried opening segment of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s arcane arthouse classic Teorema, a...
Hidden Away | 2020 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Painter Man: Diritti Resurrects Famed Italian Artist
Italian director Giorgio Diritti presents his first film in seven years with Hidden Away, a biopic on famed...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #128. Tre piani – Nanni Moretti
Tre piani
Italy’s Nanni Moretti breaks a five-year hiatus (from feature films) with his thirteenth narrative, Tre piani, which is also the director’s first adaptation....
Interview: Carlo Sironi – Sole | 2019 PYIFF
Italian filmmaker Carlo Sironi — whose shorts have already brought him attention at Venice and Locarno — has now given us a striking first...
Criterion Collection: Fists in the Pocket | Blu-ray Review
Criterion re-releases the mordant directorial debut of Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio, Fists in the Pocket (1965), just as the perennial filmmaker ends his sixth...
If Only | 2019 Locarno Film Festival Review
Father of My Children: Elkann Siphons Lovingly from Familial Dysfunction for Debut
The holidays will always be rife for cinematic exploration of familial discord and...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor
Master filmmaker Marco Bellocchio returns to Cannes (he was last there for 2016’s Sweet Dreams - a Directors’ Fortnight entry) for what will be...
The Traitor | 2019 Cannes Film Festival Review
Witness for the Prosecution: Bellocchio Delivers Vigorous Portrait of the Man Who Took Down the Cosa Nostra
Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio, on the verge of...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #143. Sole – Carlo Sironi
Sole
Director Carlo Sironi makes his directorial debut with Sole, a project which was selected for several notable initiatives during its development, including Residence de...
The Vice of Hope | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Hope to It: De Angelis Tackles Child Trafficking in Latest Neapolitan Drama
Life may be bleak, but it’s also textured with fascinating possibilities in the...
The Spirit of Ferreri Found in Edoardo de Angelis’ Indivisible (2016) | Blu-ray Review
Italian director Edoardo de Angelis received stateside distribution with this third title, the Siamese twin melodrama Indivisible, which picked up a couple of awards...
Tuesday Blus: Cold Cults in Soavi and Argento’s The Sect
In a sense, one could point to the 1991 film The Sect as the link between Jamie Lee Curtis and giallo master Dario Argento,...
