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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 […]
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 […]
The 1968 crime film The Biggest Bundle of them All is set in Naples, and stars Robert Wagner, Raquel Welch and Edward G Robinson. A kidnapped mobster gets a novice gang of crooks to steal […]
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 […]
Writer/ director Roberto Rossellini’s 1952 Italian neorealist film Europa ’51 [The Greatest Love] stars Ingrid Bergman, who (though she is dubbed into Italian by Lydia Simoneschi) does well as an American socialite in Rome who […]
The 1952 Italian film Rome Eleven O’Clock [Roma, Ore 11] is perhaps Giuseppe De Santis’s finest picture, a Neorealist look at postwar unemployment in an urban setting, entirely free from the banal melodrama and sex […]
Producer-director Clarence Brown’s 1952 religious-minded comedy gangster film When in Rome stars Paul Douglas as a tough American hood called Joe Brewster, who is on the run in Italy, and takes on the guise of […]