Category Archives: Italian Filmmakers

My Favorite Federico Fellini Films

12 Thursday Apr 2018

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1.   8 1/2 (1963)

2.   La Dolce Vita (1960)

3.   Amarcord (1973)

4.   Nights of Cabiria (1957)

5.   La Strada (1954)

6.   I Vitelloni (1953)

7.   Fellini Satyricon (1969)

8.   Juliet of the Spirits (1965)

9.   Fellini’s Casanova (1976)

10. Roma (1972)

11. Il bidone (1955)

12. The White Sheik (1952)

13. Variety Lights (1950)
(co-directed with Alberto Lattuada)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   Spirits of the Dead (1968)
(Segment: “Toby Dammit”)
(Anthology Film)

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1.   And the Ship Sails On (1983)

2.   The Clowns (1970)
(Documentary)

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My Favorite Vittorio De Sica Films

07 Saturday Apr 2018

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1.   Umberto D. (1952)

2.   Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1961)

3.   Bicycle Thieves (1948)

4.   Marriage Italian-Style (1964)

5.   Miracle in Milan (1951)

6.   Two Women (1960)

7.   Shoeshine (1946)

8.   The Children Are Watching Us (1944)

9.   The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   Boccaccio ’70 (1962)
(Segment: “La riffa”)
(Anthology Film)

My Favorite Damiano Damiani Films

02 Monday Apr 2018

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1.   A Bullet for the General (1966)

2.   How to Kill a Judge (1974)

3.   Confessions of a Police Captain (1971)

4.   The Day of the Owl (1968)

5.   A Man on His Knees (1978)

6.   The Inquiry (1986)

7.   The Most Beautiful Wife (1970)

8.   The Witch (1966)

My Favorite Bernardo Bertolucci Films

27 Tuesday Mar 2018

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1.   1900 (1976)

2.   Last Tango in Paris (1972)

3.   The Conformist (1970)

4.   La Luna (1979)

5.   The Spider’s Stratagem (1970)

6.   Before the Revolution (1964)

7.   The Grim Reaper (1962)

8.   Partner (1968)

9.   Besieged (1999)

10. Stealing Beauty (1996)

11. The Dreamers (2003)

12. The Sheltering Sky (1990)

13. The Last Emperor (1987)

14. Little Buddha (1993)

15. Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (1981)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Anthology Films)

1.   Love and Anger (1969)
(Segment: “Agony”)

2.   Ten Minutes Older (2002)
(Segment: “Histoire d’eaux”)

My Favorite Sergio Corbucci Films

25 Sunday Mar 2018

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1.   The Great Silence (1968)
(aka The Big Silence)

2.   Django (1966)

3.   The Mercenary (1968)

4.   Companeros (1970)

5.   The Hellbenders (1967)

6.   Navajo Joe (1966)

7.   Minnesota Clay (1965)

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1.   Ringo and His Golden Pistol (1966)

2.   Grand Canyon Massacre (1964)
(billed as Stanley Corbett) 

My Favorite Marco Bellocchio Films

03 Saturday Mar 2018

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1.   Vincere (2009)

2.   Dormant Beauty (2012)

3.   My Mother’s Smile (2002)

4.   A Leap in the Dark (1980)

5.   Fists in the Pocket (1965)

6.   Good Morning, Night (2003)

7.   The Wedding Director (2006)

8.   Devil in the Flesh (1986)

9.   The Eyes, the Mouth (1982)

10. The Conviction (1991)

11. The Nanny (1999)
(No relation to the sitcom of the same name)

12. The Prince of Homburg (1996)

13. Henry IV (1984)

My Favorite Mario Bava Films

01 Thursday Mar 2018

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1.   Kill, Baby…Kill! (1966) 

2.   A Bay of Blood (1971)
(aka Twitch of the Death Nerve)

3.   Blood and Black Lace (1964)

4.   Black Sunday (1960)

5.   Black Sabbath (1963)

6.   Danger: Diabolik (1968)

7.   Planet of the Vampires (1965)

8.   Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970)   

9.   Rabid Dogs (1974)
(aka Kidnapped)

10. The Whip and the Body (1963)

11. Lisa and the Devil (1973)

12. Hercules in the Haunted World (1961)

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1.   Baron Blood (1972)

2.   Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970)

3.   The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963)

4.   Shock (1977)

5.   Erik the Conqueror (1961)

My Favorite Dario Argento Films

23 Friday Feb 2018

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1.   Suspiria (1977)

2.   Inferno (1980)

3.   Tenebre (1982)

4.   The Mother of Tears (2007)

5.   Phenomena (1985)

6.   Opera (1987)

7.   Deep Red (1975)

8.   The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Anthology Films)

1.   Two Evil Eyes (1990)
(Segment: “The Black Cat”)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Cable/Television)

1.   Jenifer (2005)
(Masters of Horror Episode)

2.   Pelts (2006)
(Masters of Horror Episode)

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1.   The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)

2.   Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)

My Favorite Michelangelo Antonioni Films

22 Thursday Feb 2018

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1.   L’Eclisse (1962)

2.   Le Amiche (1955)

3.   La Notte (1961)

4.   Zabriskie Point (1970)

5.   L’Avventura (1960)   

6.   The Passenger (1975)

7.   Red Desert (1965)

8.   Blowup (1966)

9.   Il Grido (1957)

10. Identification of a Woman (1982)

11. Beyond the Clouds (1995)
(co-directed with Wim Wenders)

12. The Mystery of Oberwald (1981)

13. Story of a Love Affair (1950)

14. I Vinti (1952)

15. The Lady Without Camelias (1953)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

My Favorite Pier Paolo Pasolini Films (New)

23 Sunday Oct 2016

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1.   Mamma Roma (1962)

2.   The Canterbury Tales (1972)

3.   Accattone (1961)

4.   A Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights) (1974)

5.   The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)

6.   The Decameron (1971)

7.   Teorema (1968)

8.   Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

9.   The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)

10. Medea (1969)

11. Pigsty (1969)

12. Oedipus Rex (1967)

13. The Anger (1963) (co-directed with Giovannino Guareschi)
(Documentary)

14. Love and Anger (1969)
(Segment: “The sequence of the paper flower”)

15. Love Meetings (1964) (Documentary)

16. Notes Towards an African Orestes (1970) (Documentary)