Tag: Gordiano Lupi

Down and dirty is too important to simply be defined  by a movie genre. A grotesque comedy, perhaps, but sometimes also a drama and...

Scent of a Woman (1974) is an Italian Comedy Film based on Giovanni Arpino’s novel The Darkness and The Honey (Il buio e il...

8 ½ is considered one of the greatest films in the cinema history. The movie inspires whole generations of directors (Pupi Avati decided to...

The Earth seen from the Moon is a surreal tale which is embodied in the movie The witches (1966), signed by Mauro Bolognini, Luchino...

Women in Skirts (1991) was a controversial but successful movie. It was the last great box office success by Nuti, even though it aroused...

Talking nowadays about Cinema Paradiso seems rather useless given that everyone has talked about it, after the Award from the Cannes jury, the Golden...

A Dangerous Toy is a film that suffers from the climate of insecurity typical of 1970s’ Italy. The narrative apparatus built by Donati is...

Ungrammatical cinematography was a definition that Pasolini himself gave to his cinema, nearer to painting, to Giotto’s and Masaccio’s fields of vision, and to...

Carlo Lizzani (1922-2013) is a director whose political ideas have never been a secret and, at the same time, he has always produced documentary...

To my son Daniele who is becoming a man Mauro Bolognini (1922-2001) is an amazing and versatile film director. He mainly focused on romantic comedies...