Scribbles and Ramblings

A double-bill of Paolo Sorrentino's first and newest features: One Man Up (2001) Parthenope (2024) Soccer and Women Tell me someone is ...

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)...

A criteria for previous Euro Film spotlights ( Euro 2008 , Euro 2012 , Euro 2016 ) was to select previously unseen films or films from unkno...

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...

Vittorio De Sica’s name looms large both in Italian and Global cinema due to his remarkable works of neorealism especially the essential Bic...

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...

La Strada (1954, Italy, Federico Fellini) My review of La Strada is published on Wonders in the Dark as part of its Romantic Cou...

Entry #12 of the Euro 2012 Book & Film Spotlight looks at the two Italian films. The Salt of Life (2011, Gianni Di Gregorio) Gia...

Sometimes genre filmmakers are easily dismissed by critics and their works remain ignored until some influential film festival programmer or...