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Posts Tagged "Italy"
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Lucky Luciano ***** (1973, Gian Maria Volontè, Vincent Gardenia, Silverio Blasi, Edmond O’Brien, Rod Steiger, Charles Cioffi, Larry Gates) – Classic Movie Review 11,073
Gian Maria Volontè stars brilliantly as Sicilian-American Mafia boss gangster Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano, in Francesco Rosi’s superb 1973 Technicolor biopic Lucky Luciano. The detailed screenplay covers the mobster’s life from 1946, when the Americans gave […]
Hands Over the City [Le mani sulla città] **** (1963, Rod Steiger, Salvo Randone, Guido Alberti) – Classic Movie Review 11,072
Rod Steiger goes to Italy like so many other American actors in search of work and finds a prestige film by top director Francesco Rosi for the award-winning 1963 political and social drama film Hands […]
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man *** (1962, Richard Beymer, Paul Newman, Susan Strasberg, Arthur Kennedy, Jessica Tandy, Diane Baker, Corinne Calvet) – Classic Movie Review 10,733
Director Martin Ritt’s 1962 drama Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man stars Richard Beymer as Ernest Hemingway’s young, immature and restless semi-autobiographical hero, here called Nick Adams, who leaves his rural Michigan home to experience […]
Benvenuta *** (1983, Fanny Ardant, Vittorio Gassman, Françoise Fabian, Mathieu Carrière) – Classic Movie Review 10,715
Belgian writer-director André Delvaux assembles a strong cast for the 1983 film Benvenuta, his skilful, stylish but finally puzzling romance about a film writer called François (Mathieu Carrière) who digs out a reclusive novelist called […]
The Belly of an Architect **** (1987, Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Lambert Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 10,643
A fictional Chicago architect called Stourley Kracklite (Brian Dennehy), working on a project in Rome, Italy, an exhibition in tribute to visionary real-life French neoclassical architect Etienne-Louis Boullée (1728-99), discovers that everything is crumbling around him. Stourley […]
The Night of San Lorenzo [La Notte di San Lorenzo] **** (1982, Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli) – Classic Movie Review 10,465
Italians try to survive as the Americans liberate a small town in Tuscany from the Germans in August 1944, in the moving 1981 Italian wartime drama film The Night of San Lorenzo from Paolo Taviani […]
Night Sun [Il Sole anche di Notte] **** (1990, Julian Sands, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nastassja Kinski, Rüdiger Vogler, Patricia Millardet, Massimo Bonetti) – Classic Movie Review 10,463
Writers-directors Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani’s 1990 Italian art cinema drama Night Sun [Il Sole anche di Notte] stars Julian Sands, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Nastassja Kinski. [Spoiler alert] In 18th-century Italy, young nobleman Baron Sergio […]