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The neglected and underrated 1972 comedy film Avanti! is one of the great director Billy Wilder’s wittiest comedies, with one of Jack Lemmon’s funniest performances as a successful but stuffy Baltimore businessman Wendell Armbruster Jr, […]
The 1945 classic A Walk in the Sun about one American platoon in the 1943 invasion of Italy is another magnificent milestone war film from producer-director Lewis Milestone, the director of All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), […]
Udo Kier’s dying Count Dracula must drink the blood of virgins, in Paul Morrissey’s often stylish and amusing 1974 horror movie Blood for Dracula. It also stars Joe Dallesandro as the handsome servant Mario Balato. […]
Ralph Fiennes, Dakota Johnson, Matthias Schoenaerts and Tilda Swinton have a grand time in director Luca Guadagnino’s intriguing, tantalising mystery drama puzzle. It’s both arty and full on, with the talented starry quartet up for it, […]
Writer-director Paolo Sorrentino’s striking and informative, surreal biopic of controversial Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, showcases an uncanny, quite spooky performance by Toni Servillo as the nonogenarian ‘divine’ who was Italian prime minister seven times between […]
The 1977 Italian drama A Special Day [Una Giornata Particolare] is a special film, with Marcello Mastroianni superb as a persecuted gay radio announcer who meets a lonely mother (Sophia Loren) in Rome when Adolf […]
Writer-director Bernardo Bertolucci’s provocative, impressive, unsettling 1970 psychological thriller The Conformist [Il Conformista] has style to spare. It stars an ideally cast Jean-Louis Trintignant as Marcello Clerici, a weak-willed 1930s rich Italian who embraces taking a path […]