Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Italy"

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Year of the Gun ** (1991, Andrew McCarthy, Sharon Stone, Valeria Golino) – Classic Movie Review 13,117

John Frankenheimer’s 1991 film Year of the Gun stars Andrew McCarthy, Sharon Stone and Valeria Golino. A real-life Italian-set political thriller from the director of The Manchurian Candidate, well that sounds good.  ‘In a city […]

Sep, 12

The Four Days of Naples [Le Quattro Giornate di Napoli] **** (1962, Regina Bianchi, Aldo Guffre, Lea Massari, Jean Sorel) – Classic Movie Review 12,992

The 1963 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nomination deservedly went to this powerfully staged and extremely potent re-enactment of the 1943 blood-stained but successful revolt by the citizens of Naples against the Nazis.  Director Nanni […]

Jul, 10

Il Mare [The Sea] **** (1962, Umberto Orsini, Françoise Prévost, Dino Mele) – Classic Movie Review 12,604

The rich and strange 1962 Italian film Il Mare [The Sea] chronicles a love triangle of desire, eroticism and violence, set and filmed in an impressively bleak and empty wintry Capri. Italian master writer/ director […]

Aug, 08

Tell No One [Come non detto] *** (2012, Josafat Vagni, José Dammert, Valeria Bilello, Monica Guerritore, Francesco Montanari) – Classic Movie Review 12,471

Josafat Vagni is a real charmer as Mattia, a Rome gay guy about to move to Madrid to live with his boyfriend Eduard, who announces his arrival in Rome to meet the unsuspecting in-laws, in […]

Apr, 08

Un Bacio [One Kiss] *** (2016, Rimau Ritzberger Grillo, Valentina Romani, Leonardo Pazzagli) – Classic Movie Review 12,381

Director Ivan Cotroneo’s 2016 Italian film Un Bacio [One Kiss] tells the story of three teenagers who start an unusual, close friendship, and are rejected as outsiders by their school buddies, a role they proudly […]

Jan, 05

Domenica d’agosto **** (1950, Anna Baldini, Vera Carmi, Emilio Cigoli, Franco Interlenghi, Elvy Lissiak, Massimo Serato, Mario Vitale, Marcello Mastroianni) – Classic Movie Review 12,325

Director Luciano Emmer’s 1950 Italian multi-story comedy and drama film Domenica d’agosto [Sunday in August] is a haunting pleasure and a sweet delight, in which a rich assortment of different people spend a hot Sunday at […]

Oct, 01

Raw Wind in Eden ** (1958, Esther Williams, Jeff Chandler, Carlos Thompson, Rossana Podestà, Eduardo De Filippo, Rik Battaglia) – Classic Movie Review 12,263

Director Richard Wilson’s 1958 American Universal Pictures widescreen Mediterranean Seas romantic adventure film Raw Wind in Eden stars Esther Williams, Jeff Chandler, Carlos Thompson, Rossana Podestà, Eduardo De Filippo and Rik Battaglia. It is shot […]

Aug, 01

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