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Showing posts with label Spotlight on Italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spotlight on Italy. Show all posts
Saturday, October 12, 2024

#2,977. Amok Train (1989) - Spotlight on Italy

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  Also released as Beyond the Door III , director Jeff Kwitny’s 1989 horror film Amok Train is a movie so insane, so amazingly, impressi...
Sunday, January 30, 2022

#2,701. Fellini's Casanova (1976) - The Films of Federico Fellini

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  Fellini’s Casanova kicks off with one of those great scenes the Maestro did so well; a carnival, set on the streets of 18th-century Ve...
Monday, January 24, 2022

#2,698. Four of the Apocalypse (1975) - Spotlight on Italy

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  Director Lucio Fulci had his share of trouble with the censors. Several of his movies, including The Beyond , The House by the Cemetery...
Friday, January 21, 2022

#2,697. Killer Crocodile (1989) - Spotlight on Italy

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  An Italian schlockfest of the highest (lowest?) order, Killer Crocodile is a Jaws rip-off that’s so goofy, so hilariously over-the-to...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

#2,696. Street Law (1974) - Spotlight on Italy

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  Director Enzo Castellari ( Eagles Over London , The Inglorious Bastards ) teamed up with actor Franco Nero ( Django ) for this action-p...
Monday, January 17, 2022

#2,695. The Children Are Watching Us (1944) - Spotlight on Italy

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  A precursor (in theme, if not execution) to the Italian Neorealist movement, Vittorio De Sica’s The Children Are Watching Us is an eff...
Saturday, January 15, 2022

#2,694. Alienween (2016) - Spotlight on Italy

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  Take the effects and dark humor of Peter Jackson’s Bad Taste , combine it with the dynamic energy of Lamberto Bava’s Demons , and toss i...
Thursday, January 13, 2022

#2,693. The House of Clocks (1989) - Spotlight on Italy

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  A Made for Television film that was originally produced as part of a series (which, alas, never aired on Italian TV), The House of Clock...
Tuesday, January 11, 2022

#2,692. The Moment of Truth (1965) - Spotlight on Italy

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  Combining documentary-like footage with a rags-to-riches storyline, director Francesco Rosi’s The Moment of Truth is a harsh, sometime...
Sunday, January 9, 2022

#2,691. The 10th Victim (1965) - Spotlight on Italy

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  It’s the 21st century, and legalized manhunts are all the rage. Participants in these hunts must survive ten rounds – five as a hunter ...
Friday, January 7, 2022

#2,690. Red Desert (1964) - Spotlight on Italy

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  Its landscape filled with factories, smokestacks, and apartment complexes, one might assume that Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert , ...
Wednesday, January 5, 2022

#2,689. The Flowers of St. Francis (1950) - Spotlight on Italy

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  One of the premier filmmakers of the Italian Neorealism movement, Roberto Rossellini directed a number of classics in the 1940s, includ...
Monday, January 3, 2022

#2,688. The Inglorious Bastards (1978) - Spotlight on Italy

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  Enzo Castellari’s highly entertaining World War II film stars Bo Svenson as Lt. Robert Yeager, who, as the movie opens, is awaiting cou...