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Posts Tagged "Sicily"

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Kaos ***** (1984, Margarita Lozano, Orazio Torrisi, Carlo Cartier) – Classic Movie Review 11,331

The amazing 1984 Italian art work drama film Kaos is ‘A Canvas of People, Politics, Passion and Pirandello from Italy’s Taviani brothers’. Italy’s Taviani brothers conjure up an astonishing, visually astounding film drawn from Luigi […]

Jun, 21

La Cage aux Folles II *** (1980, Michel Serrault, Ugo Tognazzi, Marcel Bozzuffi) – Classic Movie Review 10,425

Director Edouard Molinaro’s 1980 comedy sequel La Cage aux Folles II finds that part two unexpectedly answers the awkward questions arising from the 1978 part one, La Cage aux Folles, as Michel Serrault and Ugo […]

Oct, 16

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? *** (1966, James Coburn, Dick Shawn, Sergio Fantoni) – Classic Movie Review 10,284

Director Blake Edwards’s 1966 comedy What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? Is an amusing, lightly over-played satire about World War Two, as Lieutenant Christian (James Coburn) and Captain Cash (Dick Shawn) lead their […]

Sep, 09

Everybody’s Fine [Stanno Tutti Bene] **** (1990, Marcello Mastroianni, Michèle Morgan, Valeria Cavalli) – Classic Movie Review 9732

Marcello Mastroianni’s certainly fine as Matteo Scuro, a retired old Sicilian bureaucrat who travels to mainland Italy to check what’s happened to his five kids, and is lied to by them to conceal the trouble […]

May, 08

Paisà [Paisan] ***** (1946, Carmela Sazio, Joseph Garland Moore Jr, William Tubbs, Maria Michi, Harriet Medin) – Classic Movie Review 7542

The 1946 Italian war drama Paisà [Paisan] is director Roberto Rossellini’s classic neo-realist account of how Italians lived in chaos, peril, emotional upheaval and hunger during the allied invasion of 1943-44, as the Allies head […]

Sep, 04

Sicilian Ghost Story **** (2017, Julia Jedlikowska, Gaetano Fernandez, Corinne Musallari) – Movie Review 

Sicilian Ghost Story is a beautifully imaginative, quite mesmerising and haunting Italian film art work. Julia Jedlikowska stars as young Luna, who loves her 13-year-old boyfriend Giuseppe (Gaetano Fernandez) truly, madly, deeply. Giuseppe reciprocates that love. But Luna’s […]

Sep, 18

La Terra Trema **** (1948, Antonio Arcidiacono, voices of Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli) – Classic Movie Review 5716

Director Luchino Visconti’s documentary-style 1948 neo-realist masterpiece is centred on the day-to-day working and living existence of a fisherman, ‘Ntoni Valastro (Antonio Arcidiacono), his family and the people from Aci Trezza, a small Sicilian village near Catania. It is […]

Jul, 05

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