Nymphomaniac character poster featuring Shia LaBeouf. According to some – since then discredited – reports, Frozen audience members were inadvertently shown the “sexually explicit” red band Nymphomaniac trailer. (Reality seems…
Pietro Germi
Clint Eastwood Western movies: The Good the Bad and the Ugly stars the former U.S. TV actor & B Hollywood flick performer as the silent, strong – and unfeeling, unwashed,…
Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Vittorio Gassman in Mauro Monicelli’s Big Deal on Madonna Street. Mario Monicelli, the (co)writer-director of Italian cinema classics such as I soliti ignoti / Big Deal on…
Salvatore Samperi sex tale Malizia with Laura Antonelli and Alessandro Momo. Director Salvatore Samperi, the maestro dell’erotismo all’italiana best known for the 1973 social/sex comedy Malicious / Malizia, died at…
Pietro Germi. Though not as well remembered as several of his contemporaries such as Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti, Pietro Germi was a respected director of Italian dramas and –…
This past June 14, one of the world’s top directors of the last 25 years, Pedro Almodóvar, was presented with the title of Commander of the Order of Merit of…
Palme d’Or winners: Joseph Cotten and Alida Valli in Carol Reed’s Vienna-set thriller The Third Man. Palme d’Or winners: Cannes Film Festival 1939*: Union Pacific (Cecil B. DeMille) 1946**: Brief…
A few recommendations for those who watch Turner Classic Movies: The beautifully photographed (and tinted) 1921 Cecil B. DeMille sex drama The Affairs of Anatol stars Wallace Reid as the…
The Perfect Crime movie review: In Álex de la Iglesia’s black comedy, Guillermo Toledo resorts to desperate measures to rid himself of the blackmailing, sexually insatiable chains of matrimony, as…