07 Tuesday Aug 2018
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Face to Face (1967)
(no relation to the 1976 Ingmar Bergman film)
2. The Big Gundown (1966)
3. Revolver (1973)
(no relation to the 2005 film)
4. Run, Man, Run! (1968)
5. Violent City (1970)
23 Monday Jul 2018
Posted in 1940's Cinema, 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, American Cinema, Anthology, Biography, Cinema, Comedy, Drama, Film Directors, French Cinema, German Cinema, Greatest, History, Italian Cinema, Italian Filmmakers, Lists, Music, Roberto Rossellini, Romance, Short Cinema, Television, Top 304, War
Tags
Blaise Pascal (TV Film), Cartesius (TV Film), Escape by Night, Europe '51 (a.k.a. Europa '51), General della Rovere, Germany Year Zero, Joan of Arc at the Stake, Journey to Italy (a.k.a. Voyage to Italy), Paisan, Ro.Go.Pa.G. (Illibatezza) (Short Film) (Anthology), Rome Open City, Stromboli, The Age of Medici (TV Miniseries), The Flowers of St. Francis, The Messiah 1975, The Taking of Power by Louis XIV, Vanina Vanini, Viva l'Italia!, Where Is Freedom?
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Viva l’Italia! (1961)
2. Journey to Italy (1954)
(a.k.a. Voyage to Italy)
3. Germany, Year Zero (1948)
4. The Taking of Power by Louis VIV (1966)
(French TV Film)
5. Stromboli (1950)
6. The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)
7. Paisan (1946)
8. Rome, Open City (1945)
9. General Della Rovere (1959)
10. Europe ’51 (1952)
(a.k.a. Europa ’51)
11. Escape by Night (1960)
12. The Age of the Medici (1973)
(Italian TV Miniseries)
13. Blaise Pascal (1972)
(French and Italian TV Film)
14. Cartesius (1974)
(French and Italian TV Film)
15. Where Is Freedom? (1954)
16. The Messiah (1975)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)
17. Vanina Vanini (1961)
18. Joan of Arc At the Stake (1954)
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)
1. Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963) (Segment: “Illibatezza”)
(Anthology Film)
23 Monday Jul 2018
Posted in 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, American Cinema, Biography, Cinema, Crime, Drama, Film Directors, Francesco Rosi, French Cinema, German Cinema, Greatest, History, Italian Cinema, Italian Filmmakers, Lists, Music, Mystery, Romance, Swiss Cinema, Top 304, War, Yugoslavian Cinema
Tags
Carmen 1984, Christ Stopped at Eboli, Hands over the City, Lucky Luciano, Many Wars Ago, Salvatore Giuliano, The Moment of Truth, The Truce, Three Brothers
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Salvatore Giuliano (1962)
2. Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
3. Hands over the City (1963)
4. The Moment of Truth (1965)
5. Many Wars Ago (1970)
6. Three Brothers (1981)
7. Lucky Luciano (1974)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)
8. The Truce (1997)
9. Carmen (1984)
P.S. I have not seen The Mattei Affair (1972) because it has never been available here in the United States.
25 Monday Jun 2018
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
2. Burn! (1969)
3. Kapo (1960)
4. The Wide Blue Road (1957)
20 Wednesday Jun 2018
Tags
Accattone, Arabian Nights, Love and Anger (The sequence of the paper flower) (Anthology Film), Love Meetings (Documentary), Mamma Roma, Medea 1969, Oedipus Rex, Pigsty, Ro.Go.Pa.G (La ricotta) (Anthology Film), Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom, Teorema, The Canterbury Tales, The Decameron, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, The Hawks and the Sparrows, The Witches (The Earth Seen From The Moon) (Anthology Film)
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
2. The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)
3. Teorema (1968)
4. Mamma Roma (1962)
5. Oedipus Rex (1967)
6. Arabian Nights (1974)
7. Medea (1969)
8. The Decameron (1971)
9. Pigsty (1969)
10. The Canterbury Tales (1972)
11. Accattone (1961)
12. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
13. Love Meetings (1964)
(Documentary)
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)
1. Ro.Go.Pa.G (1963)
(Segment: “La ricotta”)
(Anthology Film)
2. Love and Anger (1969)
(Segment: “The sequence of the paper flower”)
(Anthology Film)
3. The Witches (1967)
(Segment: “The Earth Seen From The Moon”)
(Anthology Film)
28 Monday May 2018
Posted in 1960's Cinema, Carlo Lizzani, Cinema, Crime, Drama, Film Directors, French Cinema, German Cinema, Greatest, Italian Cinema, Italian Filmmakers, Lists, Top 314, Western
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Requiescant (1967)
2. Wake Up and Die (1966)
3. Bandits in Milan (1968)
22 Tuesday May 2018
Tags
A Fistful of Dollars, Duck You Sucker! (a.k.a. A Fistful of Dynamite), For a Few Dollars More, Once Upon a Time in America, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Colossus of Rhodes, The Good the Bad and the Ugly
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
2. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
3. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
4. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
5. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
6. Duck, You Sucker! (1971)
(a.ka. A Fistful of Dynamite)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)
12 Thursday Apr 2018
Tags
8 1/2, Amarcord, And the Ship Sails On, Fellini Satyricon, Fellini's Casanova, I Vitteloni, Il bidone, Juliet of the Spirits, La Dolce Vita, La Strada, Nights of Cabiria, Roma, Spirits of the Dead (Toby Dammit) (Anthology Film), The Clowns (Documentary), The White Sheik, Variety Lights
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
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)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. And the Ship Sails On (1983)
2. The Clowns (1970)
(Documentary)
07 Saturday Apr 2018
Tags
Bicycle Thieves, Marriage Italian-Style, Miracle in Milan, Shoeshine, The Children Are Watching Us, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Two Women, Umberto D., Yesterday Today and Tomorrow
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
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)
02 Monday Apr 2018
Posted in 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, Action, Cinema, Crime, Damiano Damiani, Drama, Film Directors, Greatest, Horror, Italian Cinema, Italian Filmmakers, Lists, Mystery, Thriller, Top 314, Western
Tags
A Bullet for the General, A Man on His Knees, Confessions of a Police Captain, How to Kill a Judge, The Day of the Owl, The Inquiry, The Most Beautiful Wife, The Witch
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
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)
