Author Gino Moliterno

To think about Italian cinema in the immediate postwar era is almost inevitably to conjure up heartrending images from the classic neo-realist films like Roberto Rossellini’s Roma città aperta (1945) and Vittor...

Undoubtedly motivated by its poor performance at the box office, and the generally hostile critical reaction it received at the time it was released, Vittorio De Sica’s Il boom (1963) long remained one of the m...

After graduating from the Italian National Film School in the immediate postwar period Flavio Mogherini became one of the most esteemed and sought-after production designers and art directors of the reborn Ital...

In his later years Elio Petri’s sardonic sense of humour appears to have allowed him to savour the irony of having been perhaps the only front-rank Italian director to have been refused entry to the prestigious...

Beginning with the socially-committed films of neo-realism, postwar Italian cinema became, perhaps even more than Italian postwar literature, a form that inherently tended to reflect and refract its own social ...

Elio Petri’s death in 1982 at the age of only 53 robbed Italy, and the world, of one of the most eclectic and audacious directors to have emerged in the crowded jostle that was the golden age of Italian postwar...

The last of what would turn out to be a mere handful of films by this major director, a relatively meagre opus which nevertheless houses some of the most remarkable and lyrical images to have ever been create...

L’amore (1948 Italy 78 mins) Prod Co: Tevere Film Prod, Dir: Roberto Rossellini Ed: Eraldo Da Roma Mus: Renzo Rossellini Una voce umana/A Human Voice Scr: Roberto Rossellini from the play, La voix ...

Accattone (1961 Italy 120 mins) Source: ScreenSound Australia Prod Co: Arco Film/Cino del Duca Prod: Alfredo Bini Dir, Scr: Pier Paolo Pasolini Phot: Tonino Delli Colli Ed: Nino Baragli Art Dir: Flavio M...

b. 15 November 1922, Naples, Italy d 10 January, 2015, Rome, Lazio, Italy filmography bibliography web resources Widely-known and respected both in Italy and abroad, Francesco Rosi has continued for ha...

b. March 15, 1922, Bologna, Italy d. November 1, 1975, Ostia (Rome), Italy filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Outside Italy Pasolini is usually remembered as one of the most...

The Canterbury Tales (I Racconti di Canterbury, 1971 Italy 109mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod. Co: PEA Prod: Alberto Grimaldi Dir, Scr: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Geoffrey Chaucer Assist. Dir: Sergio Citti Pho...

The Sacrifice (1986 Sweden 145mins) 35mm Source: Sharmill Films Prod Co: Svensk Filmindustri, Argos Prod: Katinka Farago Dir Scr: Andrei Tarkovsky Phot: Sven Nykvist Ed: Tarkovsky, Michal Leszczylowski ...

Dead Man (1996 USA/Germany 120mins) 35mm Prod Co: 12-Gauge Productions, Pandora Film, FFA Berlin Filmboard, Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmstiftung NRW Prod: Demetra J. MacBride Dir, Scr: Jim Jarmusch Phot: Rob...