Episodios

  • C'Erevamo Tanto Amati with Bilge Ebiri

    C'Erevamo Tanto Amati with Bilge Ebiri
    May 1 2025
    We All Loved Each Other So Much, from 1974, was directed by Ettore Scola and starred Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Stefania Sandrelli, Stefano Satta Flores, Giovanna Ralli and Aldo Fabrizi. Dedicated to Vittorio De Sica, who died shortly before the film was released, the film is a portrait of post-war Italy, through the eyes of three ex-partisan friends who all fall in love with the same woman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 37 m
  • Neil Young on Banditi a Milano (The Violent Four)

    Neil Young on Banditi a Milano (The Violent Four)
    Apr 24 2025
    Writer and critic Neil Young talks Carlo Lizzani's 1968 poliziottesco Banditi a Milano, (or Bandits in Milan or The Violent Four), starring Gian Maria Volonté, Tomas Milian, Don Backy and Ray Lovelock. Based on a real bank robbery, the film is credited with launching a popular Italian genre. Check out Neil's work here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    57 m
  • Alice Rohrwacher's Heavenly Body (Corpo Celeste)

    Alice Rohrwacher's Heavenly Body (Corpo Celeste)
    May 6 2024
    Maathew Page joins John Bleasdale to discuss the career of Alice Rohrwacher and specifically her debut film from 2011, Heavenly Body, (Corpo Celeste). 13 year old Marta is preparing for her confirmation at the local Catholic church but soon finds that her own faith doesn't help her to fit in with the new home she has recently moved to. Alice Rohrwacher's new film La Chimera is released this month in the UK. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months extra here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/fspn It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 10 m
  • Giulia Saccogna on Rome Open City

    Giulia Saccogna on Rome Open City
    Apr 29 2024
    In the rubble of a Rome which still smelled of gunpowder, Roberto Rossellini filmed Roma Città Aperta (Rome Open City), a film that stands as an inaugural moment in Italian Neorealism and as a hugely influential masterpiece in world cinema. Giulia Saccogna is the programmer of a new season of films at the BFI - Chasing the Real: Italian Neorealism - which will include a 4K restoration of Rome Open City. Tickets are available here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 2 m
  • Nicholas Bell on The Killer Nun

    Nicholas Bell on The Killer Nun
    Apr 22 2024
    A 1979 Italian nunsploitation horror film, Killer Nun was directed by Giulio Berruti and starred Anita Ekberg, Joe Dallesandro, Lou Castel, and Alida Valli. Its plot follows a nun who, after recovering from brain surgery, grows increasingly paranoid that her health is again declining; she begins indulging in opioids from the hospital in which she works, and spirals into addiction and madness with violent consequences. Nicholas Bell is a film critic who writes for EyeOnCinema and on his YouTube channel Fish Jelly Film Reviews. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    54 m
  • Death in Venice with Lillian Crawford

    Death in Venice with Lillian Crawford
    Apr 15 2024
    Lillian Crawford talks about Luchino Visconti's 1977 adaptation of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. Lillian is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Little White Lies, Sight and Sound and the Times Literary Supplement as well as many other places. Her personal website can be visited here. The Music for the podcast is provided by Two Minute Noodles and more can be found here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 7 m
  • The Birds and the Bees and the Italians

    The Birds and the Bees and the Italians
    Apr 8 2024
    The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (Italian: Signore & Signori, literally "Ladies and Gentlemen") is a 1966 italian film directed by Pietro Germi. It won the Grand Prix with A Man and a Woman at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival and was later selected for screening as part of the Cannes Classics section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Jo-Ann Titmarsh is a film critic and travel writer whose work has appeared in The Evening Standard, HeyUGuys and Lonely Planet. The Music for the podcast is provided by Two Minute Noodles and more can be found here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    50 m
  • Assunta Spina with Pamela Hutchinson

    Assunta Spina with Pamela Hutchinson
    Mar 29 2024
    Assunta Spina starring Francesca Bertini is a classic Diva silent from 1915. (View it here). Writer and critic and expert in silent cinema Pamela Hutchinson gives her insight into where to start with Italian silent cinema. Here is a link to her blog. Music is by Two Minute Noodles, available here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    47 m
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