Filmed at locations like the Palazzo Albergoni in Moscazzano and the ancient Roman villa at the Grotte di Catullo near Lake Garda, the movie uses Italy’s rich history and scenic beauty to enhance its emotional depth. While praised for its sensuality and authenticity, particularly Chalamet’s ...
Tolkien's epic novel, the fantasy adventure trilogy follows hobbit Frodo Baggins and his Fellowship on a quest to destroy the One Ring in order to defeat its creator, the Dark Lord Sauron. Renowned for its sweeping scale, this iconic series combines breathtaking visuals, filmed entirely i...
This list represents films set in Italy, not necessarily filmed in Italy – we all know that set designers can make a studio backlot look like the meandering streets ofVeniceor aTuscany hill town. While most of these movies are in English, no Italy movie list can ignore the many fine sub...
yet, with different style, than films of the past. And their success spread not only around Italy, but also throughout the world. They differed from traditional westerns, not only because they were low-budget and filmed in Italy, but also because they had a...
not only because they were low-budget and filmed in Italy, but also because they had a unique and vivid cinematography. The most significant and popular spaghetti westerns wereSergio Leone‘s “Dollars Trilogy”, consisting of “A Fistful of Dollars”, “For a Few Dollars More” and “The ...
No country, however, was more responsible for the popularity of the feature thanItaly. The Italian cinema’s lavishly produced costume spectacles brought it international prominence in the years before the war. Theprototypesof the genre, by virtue of their epic material and length, were theCines...
Goriest Movie:Night of the Bloody Apes, in its English-language form, is one of the infamous “video nasties” banned in the 1980s in the UK. As I learned, it had a tangled history: a loose remake of the movie known asDoctor of Doomin English, it was filmed with an all-ages aud...
Known asThe Earth Tremblesin English, let’s start with one of the earlier movies filmed in Sicily. Post-World War II, neorealism was the flavour of the month in Italian cinema. Filmmakers liked shooting gritty movies about the working classes shot outside of studios on location.La Terra Tre...
Who doesn’t loveDenzel Washingtonright. We all do and here he teams up again with directorAntoine Fuquaonce again asRobert McCallin the third film of this series. This time they head to Italy where McCall goes to “find peace”. It isn’t long till the mafia shows up with one of the...
Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater's Boyhood is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (Ellar Coltrane), who literally grows up on screen before our eyes. Starring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette as Mason's parents an...