Category Archives: Italian Film
April 26, 2012 Il Boom
By Neil Hargreaves There is a scene in Vittorio De Sica’s Il Boom where a number of well-to-do Italians dance to a band who are performing the tackier sort of early 60s pop song. The lyrics are sung in English. That same quality of a cheap import is imbued in the title of the film. [...]
Tags: il Boom, Vittorio De Sica
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- Posted under Classic Films, Home Video, Italian Film
April 5, 2012 The Gospel According to Pasolini
by Viv Wilby It’s not hard to see Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1964 film, Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew), as a deliberate shift away from, perhaps even rebuke to, the style of religious filmmaking that had poured out of Hollywood in the 1950s and early 1960s. These were gaudy, technicolor affairs, [...]
Tags: christianity, italian cinema, jesus christ, pier paolo pasolini, religious films, the gospel according to st matthew
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- Posted under Classic Films, Cult Movies, Directors, History, Italian Film
November 1, 2011 London Film Festival 2011 – The Italian Job
Concetta Sidoti rounds up our LFF11 coverage with a special report on the Italian films that played at the festival For a couple of years, the most interesting Italian films in the London film festival have been about outsiders moving in – often ex-communitari (non-EU migrants) and clandestini (illegal migrants) – and the uneasy welcome [...]
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- Posted under Film Festivals, Italian Film, London Film Festival 2011
