Author Federico Passi

The ever popular I soliti ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street, Mario Monicelli, 1958) is a pivotal film in Italian cinema. It marks the end of 1950s “pink neo-realism”, which adapted neo-realist settings to the ...

Although Elio Petri’s second film, I giorni contati (1962), has all the characteristics of the director’s debut feature, L’assassino (1961), it was written (with Tonino Guerra) before it. It is a personal story...

After years of neglect, the story and films of Giorgio Mangiamele has now become the object of wider attention with the release of a DVD box set and publication of two books in 2011 and in 2012. Mangiamele (192...

In the crowded calendar of film festivals Bologna’s Cinema Ritrovato stands out for being one of the very few which persistently investigates cinema’s lesser-known history. Strategically set between the end of ...

Malcolm Wallhead’s 15-minute voyeuristic essay on Melbourne city life, consumerism, and waste is plotted within the arc of a cinematic day. This structure – the musically edited rhythm of the images, the freque...