Category Archives: Italian Filmmakers

My Favorite Lina Wertmuller Films

05 Wednesday Sep 2018

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1.   Seven Beauties (1975)

2.   Love & Anarchy (1973)

3.   Swept Away (1974)

4.   The Seduction of Mimi (1972)

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1.   Ciao, Professore! (1992)

2.   All Screwed Up (1974)

3.   Ferdinando and Carolina (1999)

4.   Blood Feud (1978)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

5.   A Night Full of Rain (1978)

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My Favorite Luchino Visconti Films

26 Sunday Aug 2018

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1.   The Leopard (1963)

2.   Senso (1954)

3.   Death in Venice (1971)

4.   Rocco and His Brothers (1960)

5.   Bellissima (1951)

6.   La Terra Trema (1948)

7.   White Nights (1957)

8.   Ossessione (1943)

9.   Ludwig (1972)

10. Conversation Piece (1974)

11. The Damned (1969)

12. The Innocent (1976)

13. The Stranger (1967)
(I watched it on youtube)

14. Sandra (1965)
(I watched it on youtube)

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

1.   Boccaccio ’70 (1962)
(Segment: “Il Lavoro”)
(Anthology Film)

My Favorite Sergio Sollima Films

07 Tuesday Aug 2018

Posted by in 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, Action, Adventure, American Cinema, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Film Directors, French Cinema, German Cinema, Greatest, Italian Cinema, Italian Filmmakers, Lists, Sergio Sollima, Spanish Cinema, Thriller, Top 304, Western

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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)

My Favorite Roberto Rossellini Films

23 Monday Jul 2018

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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)

My Favorite Francesco Rosi Films

23 Monday Jul 2018

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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.

My Favorite Gillo Pontecorvo Films

25 Monday Jun 2018

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1.   The Battle of Algiers (1966)

2.   Burn! (1969)

3.   Kapo (1960)

4.   The Wide Blue Road (1957)

My Favorite Pier Paolo Pasolini Films

20 Wednesday Jun 2018

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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)

My Favorite Sergio Leone Films

22 Tuesday May 2018

Posted by in 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, American Cinema, Cinema, Crime, Drama, Film Directors, German Cinema, Greatest, Italian Cinema, Italian Filmmakers, Lists, Sergio Leone, Spanish Cinema, Top 314, Western

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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)

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1.   The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)

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)