These days YouTube is overflowing with rare cinematic gems like this short film by Luigi Filippo D’Amico Guglielmo il dentone, which is part of a triptych film named I Complessi with the other two shorts directed by Dino Risi and Franco Rossi. I searched for the other two on YouTube, with no luck. That said,… Continue reading Guglielmo il dentone – William “Il Dentone” (Luigi Filippo D’Amico – 1965)
Category: Comedy
Open Roads 2013: E’ stato il figlio – It was the Son (Daniele Cipri – 2012)
It’s June, so that means it’s time for Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2013 at New York’s Lincoln Film Society. It’s a fantastic annual festival that brings some of the freshest voices in Italian Cinema, thus breaking the chain for the typical crop of old classics that some Italian cinema fests tend to focus on.… Continue reading Open Roads 2013: E’ stato il figlio – It was the Son (Daniele Cipri – 2012)
Pane e cioccolata – Bread and Chocolate (Franco Brussati – 1974)
In this film, director Franco Brusati brings to life a common theme in 70’s cinema, packaged in commedia all’italiana film genre ; the struggle to find your own identity in a foreign land. It’s a universal theme we can find in today’s challenges of immigrants. Idyllic park scene where poor Nino eats his sandwich: a bread… Continue reading Pane e cioccolata – Bread and Chocolate (Franco Brussati – 1974)
Boccaccio ’70: Renzo e Luciana (Mario Monicelli – 1962)
With the global success of Fellini’s 1960 La Dolce Vita, Cinecitta’ the glorious studio in Rome continued the theme of love in modern times, featuring four leading directors: Mario Monicelli, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Vittorio de Sica. The last three were considered veterans back then, whereas Monicelli an up and coming director that his… Continue reading Boccaccio ’70: Renzo e Luciana (Mario Monicelli – 1962)
Il Sorpasso – The Easy Life (Dino Risi – 1962)
Labeled as the first Italian road trip movie and hallmark of the Italian comedy (Commedia all’italiana) genre, director Dino Risi provides an alarming prophecy for the future of Italy during the prosperous early 60’s of what is typically referred to as the Italian Economic Miracle (Boom Economico). This is Italy after WWII that experienced a… Continue reading Il Sorpasso – The Easy Life (Dino Risi – 1962)