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Fellini’s Roma **** (1972, dir Federico Fellini) – Classic Movie Review 1318

Rome wasn’t built in a day – for Fellini’s Roma it took forever to recreate a huge section of it in Cinecittà’s studios in Rome. But it was worth it. Roma looks a brilliant treat. Writer-director […]

Jun, 13

Bicycle Thieves [Ladri di Biciclette] ***** (1948, Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell) – Classic Movie Review 1046

Director Vittorio De Sica’s revered Italian classic of neo-realist cinema about a poor, unemployed Roman man (Lamberto Maggiorani) and his precious bike was voted the most outstanding foreign language film at the 1950 Oscars. It […]

Apr, 04

Rome, Open City [Roma Città Aperta] ***** (1945, Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero) – Classic Movie Review 869

Director Roberto Rossellini’s famous, great 1945 neo-realist classic Rome, Open City [Roma Città Aperta] focuses on a group of foolishly brave Italian resistance members, who try to oppose the sadistically evil occupying Nazi forces with […]

Mar, 05

Nights of Cabiria [Le Notti di Cabiria] ***** (1957, Giulietta Masina, Amedeo Nazzari, François Périer, Franca Marzi) – Classic Movie Review 627

Italian maestro director Federico Fellini’s 1957 classic won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 1958 Academy Awards. This admittedly sentimental drama about waifish Italian prostitute Maria ‘Cabiria’ Ceccarelli (Giulietta Masina), a wide-eyed streetwalker […]

Jan, 04

Roman Holiday ***** (1953, Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn) – Classic Movie Review 44

This delicious 1953 triple-Oscar-winning confection, restored and reissued for its 60th anniversary in 2013, stars Gregory Peck but now is better known as a beloved Audrey Hepburn classic. She’s credited after the title as ‘introducing […]

Jul, 12

The Talented Mr Ripley ****½ (1999, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman, James Rebhorn, Jack Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 41

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 […]

Jul, 10

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