Tag Archives: Italian cinema

the dreams of yesterday (film: Gianni Di Gregorio, 2019)

Posted on January 13, 2021 by admin

If you are looking for an entertainment with heroes that you can identify with, especially if you have reached retirement age or if you have parents or grandparents at this age, then ‘Lontano Lontano‘, the 2019 film by Italian director … Continue reading →

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an historic saga in Italian comedy style (film: C’eravamo tanto amati – Ettore Scola, 1974)

Posted on December 31, 2020 by admin

Produced in 1974, ‘C’eravamo tanto amati‘ (The English title is ‘We All Loved Each Other So Much‘) was for Ettore Scola his first highly successful film, that also brought him international recognition. Many remarkable movies were to follow, but this … Continue reading →

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a moral choice (film: La corruzione – Mauro Bolognini, 1963)

Posted on October 3, 2020 by admin

In the opening scene of ‘La corruzione‘, the 1963 film by director Mauro Bolognini, the director of an elite Italian high school, he separates from the graduates with a speech in which he exposes a Manichean vision of the world. … Continue reading →

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passenger on the train of life (film: The Passenger / Professione: reporter – Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)

Posted on July 9, 2020 by admin

Michelangelo Antonioni‘s ‘The Passenger‘ or ‘Professione: reporter‘ (the original title) is a case study of a remarkable film by one of the important directors in the history of cinema, a film that changes its meaning and perspective over time, but … Continue reading →

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two crazy women on the road (film: La pazza gioia / Like Crazy – Paolo Virzi, 2016)

Posted on July 4, 2020 by admin

To define madness starts by defining normalcy. ‘La pazza gioia‘ (the English title is ‘Like Crazy‘), the film written and directed by Paolo Virzì in 2016 has as main heroines two women hospitalized in a sanatorium for psychiatric diseases. In … Continue reading →

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passion and money in the end-of-century Rome (film: The Inheritance / L’eredità Ferramonti – Mauro Bolognini, 1976)

Posted on June 27, 2020 by admin

‘L’eredità Ferramonti‘ (whose English title is ‘The Inheritance‘) made in 1976 is one of the latest films in Mauro Bolognini‘s directing career. His name is less mentioned today, being overshadowed by those of his more famous contemporaries, but in the … Continue reading →

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becoming a child like all the other (Film: Pinocchio – Matteo Garrone, 2019)

Posted on June 5, 2020 by admin

Pinocchio fascinates filmmakers. The first atru to bring to screen Carlo Collodi’s novel took place in 1936, as an animated feature, in Italy, but the first to complete the project were Walt Disney and his colleagues in 1940. Another 20 … Continue reading →

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Bertolucci’s Communist Manifesto (Film: Novecento / 1900 – Bernardo Bertolucci, 1976)

Posted on April 16, 2020 by admin

‘1900‘ is a historical film that has a history of its own, one that probably hasn’t ended yet. The perception of critics and the public about this film seems to have changed several times already during its hectic launch in … Continue reading →

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trash and/or masterpiece (Film: Suspiria – Dario Argento, 1977)

Posted on April 4, 2020 by admin

‘Suspiria‘ and a few other of Dario Argento‘s films that became the classics of today have represented a turn towards extreme of the horror genre. By pushing the level of bloody violence and sexuality, either implicit or explicit, the Italian … Continue reading →

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neo-realism meets Catholicism in an early work of Pasolini (film: Mamma Roma – Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1962)

Posted on January 16, 2020 by admin

A few days ago I saw ‘1917‘, the film that has a good chance of picking up several Academy Awards in a few weeks. The glory of this film is due to the fact that its director, Sam Mendes, uses … Continue reading →

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