26 Thursday Mar 2020
Tags
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin, Don't Torture a Duckling, Four of the Apocalypse, Massacre Time, One on Top of the Other (a.k.a. Perversion Story), The Beyond
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. The Beyond (1981)
2. Four of the Apocalypse (1975)
3. Massacre Time (1966)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Don’t Torture a Duckling (1972)
2. A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (1971)
3. One on Top of the Other (1969)
(a.k.a. Perversion Story)
05 Wednesday Sep 2018
Tags
A Night Full of Rain, All Screwed Up, Blood Feud, Ciao Professore!, Ferdinando and Carolina, Love & Anarchy, Seven Beauties, Swept Away 1974, The Seduction of Mimi
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Seven Beauties (1975)
2. Love & Anarchy (1973)
3. Swept Away (1974)
4. The Seduction of Mimi (1972)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
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)
26 Sunday Aug 2018
Tags
Bellissima, Boccaccio '70 (Il Lavoro), Conversation Piece, Death in Venice, La terra Trema, Ludwig, Ossessione, Rocco and His Brothers, Sandra, Senso, The Damned, The Innocent, The Leopard, The Stranger 1967, White Nights
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
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)
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
Tags
Christ Stopped at Eboli, Hands over the City, Illustrious Corpses, Lucky Luciano, Many Wars Ago, Salvatore Giuliano, The Mattei Affair, The Moment of Truth, Three Brothers
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. The Mattei Affair (1972)
(I watched it online)
2. Salvatore Giuliano (1962)
3. Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
4. Illustrious Corpses (1976)
(I watched it online)
5. Lucky Luciano (1974)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)
6. Hands over the City (1963)
7. Three Brothers (1981)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. The Moment of Truth (1965)
2. Many Wars Ago (1970)
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)
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 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)
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)
