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Orchestra Rehearsal [Prova d’orchestra] *** (1978, Balduin Baas, Clara Colosimo, Elizabeth Labi) – Classic Movie Review 7376

Federico Fellini’s intriguing, teasing and provocative 1978 Italian satirical film Orchestra Rehearsal [Prova d’orchestra] follows the story of an Italian orchestra as the members assemble for a rehearsal in a run-down auditorium converted from an ancient chapel now […]

Jul, 30

The Ciambra [A Ciambra] **** (2017, Pio Amato, Koudous Seihon, Damiano Amato) – Movie Review

Writer-director Jonas Carpignano’s gritty, penetrating film of the painful coming of age from adolescence to adulthood, set in a small Romani community in Calabria, is really intense and immersive. The Ciambra [A Ciambra] (2017) tells […]

Jun, 13

The Love Specialist [La ragazza del palio] ** (1958, Diana Dors, Vittorio Gassman, Franca Valeri, Bruce Cabot) – Classic Movie Review 7009

Swindon-born Diana Dors is bizarrely cast in director Luigi Zampa’s scenic but unlikely 1958 Italian-French movie The Love Specialist as Texan young woman Diana Dixon, who wins a quiz show jackpot and goes to Italy. Her car breaks […]

May, 06

Madonna of the Seven Moons **** (1945, Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc, Peter Glenville, John Stuart, Jean Kent, Dulcie Gray) – Classic Movie Review 6,965

Can we have your attention, please, for ‘The year’s strangest, most absorbing drama!’, the 1945 Gainsborough melodrama film Madonna of the Seven Moons, starring Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger and Patricia Roc. Director Arthur Crabtree’s engagingly florid 1944 British movie […]

Apr, 25

It Started in Naples *** (1960, Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica) – Classic Movie Review 6920

The ageing Clark Gable announced that he was too old to play romantic leading roles and would be looking for different kinds of parts after But Not for Me (1959), but his next film is […]

Apr, 14

Light in the Piazza **** (1962, Olivia de Havilland, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton, Rossano Brazzi, Barry Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 6837

Director Guy Green’s tasteful and quite rousing 1962 British romantic drama Light in the Piazza is sweetly told, expertly made and neatly acted, and is notable for its extensive location shooting in Florence and Rome […]

Mar, 20

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita *** (1965, Maureen O’Hara, Rossano Brazzi, Richard Todd) – Classic Movie Review 6823

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita is film-maker Delmer Daves’s final movie, a lively Italian-set love affair soap opera outing with ideal roles for Maureen O’Hara, Rossano Brazzi and Richard Todd, who eat them up […]

Mar, 18

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