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Country: Italy
Genre: Drama/ Suspense/ Art/ Romance
Director: Elio Petri
Year: 1967
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Dr. Antonio Roscio (Franco Tranchina) has been receiving anonymous death threats, which surprises no one because he’s an incorrigible skirt chaser in Sicily, where such things are not happily tolerated. Suspicion quickly falls on the brother and father of a fifteen year old […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Drama/ Art/ Comedy/ Romance
Director: Michael Radford
Year: 1994
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Fleeing his native Chile to avoid arrest, poet Pablo Neruda (Philippe Noiret) winds up on a remote Italian island. In the area in which he is staying, Neruda is the only person who isn’t illiterate. The local post office hires Mario Ruoppolo (Massimo […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Drama/ Art
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Year: 1988
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
I can count on my fingers the number of films that make me sob uncontrollably — that’s a good thing, by the way. A great film can engender empathy to an extraordinary degree, and Cinema Paradiso fits the bill.
Toto (played by three of the most […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Drama/ Art
Director: Matteo Garrone
Year: 2008
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I knew going in that Gomorra wasn’t going to be a laugh riot, but as a critic, I felt obliged to see this universally lauded film about the Camorra crime family. And guess what? It’s pretty much as good as the critics say.
Gomorra is filmed in […]
