Bernardo Bertolucci's 255-minute 1900 was a gargantuan undertaking, requiring the resources of three European countries
and a trio of American movie studios. Set in the Italian town of Parma, the film's continuity backtracks from Liberation Day in 1945 to the ...
Generally considered to be the foremost example of Italian Gothic horror, this darkly atmospheric black-and-white
chiller put director Mario Bava on the international map and made the bewitching Barbara Steele a star. Steele plays Princess Asa, a high priestess of ...
Gina Lollobrigida delivers a bright comic turn in Melvin Frank's farce concerning Carla, an Italian
woman who, during World War II, had affairs with three American soldiers who served in the U.S. Army Air Force -- Phil Newman (Phil Silvers), ...
While Umberto Lenzi began the Italian-made cycle of brutal Amazonian cannibal horrors with Il Paese
del Sesso Selvaggio and effectively ended it with the nauseating Cannibal Ferox, it was Ruggero Deodato who directed the subgenre's most enduring film. This popular ...
Italian director Mario Bava took a brief hiatus from horror films to make this fairly
interesting Viking-themed adventure. Iron (Cameron Mitchell) is a Viking leader whose long-lost brother Erik (Giorgio Ardisson) was raised by Queen Alice of England. Alice's counselor, ...
Death Smiles on a Murderer (La Morte ha Sorriso All'Assassino) is a grotesque yarn starring
the equally grotesque Klaus Kinski. The murderer of the title thinks he's gotten off scott free. But, no, someone has been dabbling in Things Man ...
In this 1968 filmed performance of Verdi's La Traviata, soprano Anna Moffo takes over the
role of Violetta, backed by conductor Giuseppe Patanè and the orchestra and chorus of the Rome Opera House. Mario Lanfranchi directs.
While arch surrealist Luis Bunuel never made a secret of his skepticism about the existence
of God, he was also raised as a strict Spanish Catholic and remained fascinated with the church's teaching throughout his life, and his obsessions with ...