Face to Face, Monthly Film Bulletin Review
A personality switch between a bandit leader and a dying university professor might have made an interesting variation on more familiar Italian Western themes...
View ArticleSlap the Monster on Page One – Review
A short review of Marco Bellochio's 1972 film, aka Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina, starring Gian Maria Volonte and John Steiner
View ArticleSlap the Monster on the Front Page
Slap the Monster on the Front Page is a political thriller from Marco Bellochio starring Gian Maria Volonte
View ArticleElio Petri: We Still Kill the Old Way
After all the high-concept exuberance of The Tenth Victim, We Still Kill the Old Way saw Petri move from sci-fi to the crime genre and, stylistically, marked a return to a more subtle, low-key approach.
View ArticleElio Petri: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
For 1969’s Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion, Elio Petri turned his eye to the then nascent urban crime thriller, a genre that reflected – and some would say preyed upon – the political and...
View ArticleElio Petri: Todo Modo
Elio Petri’s tendency towards obfuscation stepped up yet another gear with Todo modo (76), which is one of the strangest films ever made. Set in the near future, it delineates an Italian society that...
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