Posts Tagged with ‘Movies:Italy’
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WW I In The Italian Alps: Torneranno i Prati by Ermanno Olmi
21 Oct 2015Ermanno Olmi is best known in the United States for his 1978 movie, The Tree of Wooden Clogs, even though…
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Making the Crossing: Migrants in the Movies
14 Oct 2015Mediterranea at the Mill Valley Film Festival couldn’t come at a better time. Though several years in the making, and…
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Massacre in Rome, Richard Burton as a Nazi
24 Sep 2015Surely one of the lesser known movies from the Italian film corpus on WW II is Massacre in Rome, (Rappresaglia)…
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Rome, Open City, 1945
14 Sep 2015The Nazi occupation of Rome ended on June 2, 1944, nine months after it had begun, four days before the…
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General della Rovere – Roberto Rossellini Looks at Choices in War
07 Sep 2015Roberto Rossellini’s Generale della Rovere, 1959, while not properly part of his great WW II trilogy which defined the emerging Italian…
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Miracolo a Milano — Neo Realism in Italy Goes Magical
07 Jul 2015Several weeks ago at the wonderful Italian language school, Romanica, in Modena, Italy one of the after class treats was a…
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A Soldier on the Southern Front — Italy, WW I
03 Jul 2014World War I brought with it some 10 million combatant deaths, 23 million wounded. Two and one half million non combatants died from fire and…
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Shun Li and the Poet — a Gem from Italy
17 Dec 2013It’s not hard to convince us to see a movie filmed in Italy, or by or about its people. Even…
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The Sheltering Sky — in Morocco
31 May 2013Since my wife returned from a two week visit to Morocco we’ve been combing old movies for scenes shot in…
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Sunflower: Italians on the Russian Front — a Movie
04 Jun 2012Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, in their prime would be enough to attract any warm-blooded movie goer, much less an Italo-cinephile.…
