Author Pasquale Iannone

Russian Ark/Russkiy kovcheg (2002 Russia 99 mins) Prod Co: Egoli Tossell Film/For a Film/The Hermitage Bridge Studio Prod: Andrei Deryabin, Jens Meurer Dir: Aleksandr Sokurov Scr: Anatoli Nikiforov, Alek...

In her 2007 study of the Russian war film, Denise J. Youngblood argues that while Soviet society was in a state of stagnation in the 1970s, the Soviet war film certainly was not: “The thematic gap between the w...

The most famous work by Siracusa-born Elio Vittorini, Conversations in Sicily (1941) tells the story of Silvestro Ferrauto, a Sicilian living in Milan who makes the trip back to his birthplace in an attempt to ...

While he may be most famous outside of Italy for co-directing Federico Fellini’s first feature Luci del varietà (Variety Lights, 1950), Milan-born Alberto Lattuada had a long career spanning more than four deca...

While there are many examples of individual actors playing multiple roles in the same film – Alec Guinness in Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949), Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to...

Between 1961 and 1968, Elio Petri established himself as one of the most distinctive voices of Italian post-neo-realist cinema. His 1961 feature debut L’Assassino is an often-overlooked example of the filmic gi...

Among the great wave of film debuts in the late 1950s and early 1960s, that of Rome-born director Elio Petri is often overshadowed by those of his contemporaries both in Italy and abroad. Even in terms of Petri...

In her 2007 study of the Russian war film, Denise J. Youngblood argues that while Soviet society was in a state of stagnation in the 1970s, the Soviet war film certainly was not: “The thematic gap between the w...

Released two years before his international breakthrough Salvatore Giuliano (1962), Francesco Rosi’s I magliari (1959) is the story of immigrant Italian workers seeking their fortune in late Adenauer-era West G...

As Gian-Piero Brunetta has noted, Francesco Rosi’s Il caso Mattei (The Mattei Affair, 1972) and Lucky Luciano (1973) saw the Neapolitan filmmaker return to the narrative model of his first major success Salvato...

Who was my friend? Who was my enemy? How could they be kind to me and at the same time kill others so horribly? What set us apart? A simple foreskin? - Solly Perel in Europa, Europa Among the many extraor...

Released in 1954, Senso was Visconti’s fourth feature and is recognised as a milestone in the director’s career. Not only did it mark a decisive move away from the neo-realism of Ossessione (1942) and La terra ...

In his 1993 biography Ernst Lubitsch: Trouble in Paradise, Scott Eyman argues that the term “The Lubitsch Touch” is “as insultingly superficial a sobriquet as that of calling Hitchcock ‘The Master of Suspense’”...

Germania anno zero/Germany, Year Zero (1947 Italy/West Germany/France 78 mins) Prod Co: Tevere Film/Sadfilm Prod: Alfredo Guarani, Roberto Rossellini Dir: Roberto Rossellini Scr: Roberto Rossellini, Carl...

Au revoir, les enfants/Goodbye, Children (1987 France/West Germany 104 mins) Prod Co: Nouvelles Éditions de Films/MK2 Productions/Marin Karmitz Prod, Dir, Scr: Louis Malle Phot: Renato Berta Ed: Emmanuel...

Russian Ark/Russkiy kovcheg (2002 Russia 99 mins) Prod Co: Egoli Tossell Film/For a Film/The Hermitage Bridge Studio Prod: Andrei Deryabin, Jens Meurer Dir: Alexandr Sokurov Scr: Anatoli Nikiforov, Alexa...

Il Vangelo secondo Matteo/The Gospel According to Matthew (1964 Italy/France 134 mins) Prod Co: Arco Film S.r.L/Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France Prod: Alfredo Bini Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini Phot:...

Buongiorno, Notte/Good Morning, Night (2003 Italy 105 mins) Prod Co: Filmalbatros S.r.l/Rai Cinemafiction/Sky Prod: Marco Bellocchio, Sergio Pelone Dir: Marco Bellocchio Scr: Marco Bellocchio, based on ...