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Cinema Italia

By: John Bleasdale
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  • An exploration of the worlds of Italian cinema from Neo Realism to Spaghetti Westerns, Gialli to Sword and Sandal epics, Poliziotteschi to white telehphone films: and anything I left out. Talking to illustrious guests, Italian and otherwise, all united with a love of il cinema Italiano and Hollywood on the Tiber.

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Episodes
  • 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.

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    1 hr
  • 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.


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    52 mins
  • 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.


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    1 hr and 6 mins
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