With a mysteriously enchanting soundtrack by Nicola Piovani and a black raven donned with a chiming bell flying over the timeless medieval villages perched defiantly on the mountains of Girgenti on the southern coast of Sicily – the brothers Taviani weave together five tales based on novels by 1934 Nobel prize in Literature laureate, Luigi [...]
Posted by Shlomi Ron on 12.31.2009 at 12:09 pm// Tagged: Classic Italian Cinema, Comedy, Drama , Franco and Ciccio, Luigi Pirandello, Nicola Piovani, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, sicily
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It’s that great excitement you get when you come across a truly rewarding film by a director you have never seen much of his work, when everything seems to work exactly how you’d want it to be. And Mafioso by Neorealist director, Alberto Lattuada is simply that perfectly fun film. It’s the same [...]
Posted by Shlomi Ron on 07.27.2008 at 10:55 am// Tagged: Classic Italian Cinema, Comedy, Drama, Italian Cinema, Thriller , albert sordi, alberto lattuada, sicily
In this masterpiece classic director Francesco Rosi tells the story of Salvatore Giuliano, a famous Sicilian gangster that during the mid-40’s collaborated with a Sicilian separatist group, Movement for the Independence of Sicily (MIS), with close ties to the Mafia engaging with small-scale attacks on government and police targets.
Rosi delivers a poignant documentary that whisks [...]
Posted by Shlomi Ron on 08.09.2007 at 6:07 am// Tagged: Classic Italian Cinema, Drama, Entertainment, Italian Cinema , Documentary, Drama, Entertainment, francesco rosi, History, Montelepre, Political, salvatore giuliano, sicily
Ricky Tognazzi’s classic anti-mafia thriller is deeply grounded in reality. The film was made a year after judge Giovanni Falcone was murdered as he was on his way to Palermo airport. The judge, his wife, and three police bodyguards were killed. Interestingly the film is not about the judge or the case, but [...]
Posted by Shlomi Ron on 02.26.2007 at 11:41 pm// Tagged: Drama, Entertainment, Italian Cinema, Modern Italian Cinema, Political, Thriller , Entertainment, Italian Cinema, la scorta, Neorealism, Political, sicily, the escort, Thriller, ugo tognazzi