Scribbles and Ramblings

Spotlight on Vittorio De Seta with 10 short films and 1 feature film: Islands of Fire (1955, short film) Easter in Sicily (1955, short film)...

Elio Petri’s name doesn’t come up when the top names of Italian cinema are mentioned. Such a roll call often features titles by Fellini, Ant...

Top 20 Italian Films 1. The Battle of Algiers (1966, Gillo Pontecorvo) 2. Hands over the City (1963, Francesco Rosi) 3. Bandits of Orgosolo ...

 Il Posto (1961, Italy, Ermanno Olmi) The great Italian director Ermanno Olmi, who sadly passed away in 2018, is more famously associated wi...

Hands Over the City (1963, Italy, directed by Francesco Rosi) Francesco Rosi’s 1963 film Hands Over the City ( Le Mani sulla città ) ...