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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 […]
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 […]
Director Ettore Scola’s 1985 Macaroni [Maccheroni] is a subtle, well-cooked comedy-drama from Italy, with yummy performances from Jack Lemmon as Robert Traven, a grouchy American businessman back in Naples for the first time in four […]
Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell make the ideal star couple for director Frank Borzage, here directing them for the third time in this compellingly romantic, if somewhat mawkish 1928 early sound film Street Angel, which […]
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 […]
Director Pier Paolo Pasolini kicks off his Trilogy of Life movies with this bawdy and entertaining 1970 film consisting of a series of eight tales from Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio’s classic 14th century book collection […]
With more subtlety, more noir, and an entirely different ending, the 1999 film The Talented Mr Ripley would be 100% brilliant. As it is, it’s still quite entrancing and mesmerising, with a dazzling cast pitch […]