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  • Barry Forshaw's Guide to Italian Cinema

    Barry Forshaw's Guide to Italian Cinema
    Aug 3 2025
    Barry Forshaw is the author of the Guide to Italian Cinema: Arthouse to Exploitation. Available here. Italian cinema is one of the most glorious and energetic celebrations of the medium that any nation has ever offered. For many years, this astonishing legacy was largely unseen, but the DVD revolution is making virtually everything available, from Steve Reeves' muscle epics to long-unseen Italian art house movies. The one characteristic that most of the great (and not so great) Italian movies have in common is the sheer individualism of the directors. This applies to populist moviemakers and the giants of serious cinema. While Fellini, Visconti and Antonioni have rightly assumed their places in the pantheon, so have such talented popular auteurs as Sergio Leone, who was doing something with the Western that no American director would dare do. All the glory of Italian cinema is celebrated here in comprehensive essays, along with every key film in an easy-to-use reference format. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h et 27 min
  • Bologna Cinema Ritrovato Film Festival

    Bologna Cinema Ritrovato Film Festival
    Jun 30 2025
    My report from the Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    23 min
  • Kapò by Gillo Pontecorvo

    Kapò by Gillo Pontecorvo
    Jun 4 2025
    Gillo Pontecorvo's film was one of the first movies to deal with the concentration camps. It starred Susan Strasberg and was inspired by the books of Primo Levi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    29 min
  • 8 1/2 with Matthew Asprey Gear

    8 1/2 with Matthew Asprey Gear
    May 29 2025
    We look at Federico Fellini's masterpiece 8 1/2, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Claudia Cardinale. Matthew Asprey Gear is a writer and lecturer. His online courses are available here: www.matthewaspreygear.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h et 18 min
  • The Mattei Affair with Nicholas Bell

    The Mattei Affair with Nicholas Bell
    May 22 2025
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    1 h et 9 min
  • La Notte di San Lorenzo (The Night of the Shooting Stars) with Michael Brook

    La Notte di San Lorenzo (The Night of the Shooting Stars) with Michael Brook
    May 15 2025
    The masterpiece by the Taviani brothers is a wartime tale of a village in Tuscany on the eve of allied victory, as fascists and Germans take their terrible revenge. All is seen through the eyes of a young girl and the horror is fringed with comedy and wonder. I talk to Michael Brook about the film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h et 15 min
  • Vincere with David Thomson

    Vincere with David Thomson
    May 8 2025
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    57 min
  • C'Erevamo Tanto Amati with Bilge Ebiri

    C'Erevamo Tanto Amati with Bilge Ebiri
    May 1 2025
    We All Loved Each Other So Much, from 1974, was directed by Ettore Scola and starred Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Stefania Sandrelli, Stefano Satta Flores, Giovanna Ralli and Aldo Fabrizi. Dedicated to Vittorio De Sica, who died shortly before the film was released, the film is a portrait of post-war Italy, through the eyes of three ex-partisan friends who all fall in love with the same woman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h et 37 min