In the mid-1960s an unknown Italian film director named Sergio Leone was given $200,000 and some leftover film stock, and he went to make a Western. With an American TV ac...
Edwige Fenech è stato il "prodotto" collettivo di esperti artigiani che bene conoscevano le leggi del botteghino e la psicologia maschile. Più prodotto di consumo che oper...
Маэстро хоррора, ударник джалло, итальянский Хичкок, вдохновивший неоновые нуары Гаспара Ноэ и Николаса Виндинга Рефна. Его имя — Дарио Ардженто. Черный романтик кинематог...
Итальянское кино — живописное, чувственное, настоящее. Героини — прекрасные и эмоциональные итальянки — составляют важнейшую часть европейского кинематографа. Их образы, м...
L’homme aux mille pseudonymes, le réalisateur au plus de 200 films, le maître de l’horreur et de l’érotisme à l’italienne. Anthropophagous, Blue holocaust, références inco...
Introduction by Martin Scorsese. Foreword by Italian Horror Pioneer Riccardo Freda. This is the Complete Story of Mario Bava's life and careers as director, cameraman and ...
Spaghetti Westerns is the major critical exploration of the European Western. Christopher Frayling approaches the Westerns produced at Cinecitta Studios in Rome from a var...
Клинт Иствуд — один из самых уважаемых и легендарных актеров в Голливуде, который внес неоценимый вклад в развитие кинематографа. Он всегда отказывается давать какие-то оп...
Do not believe in what you think you see. Creeping mist, the milky fog of terror that can obscure untold dangers and shroud the confines of limited studio sets. Splashes o...
Style, sex and savagery are the main ingredients of Italian giallo cinema, a highly salacious art form which thrives on fetishist images of beautiful, scantily-clad female...
There is no cinema with such effect as that of the hallucinatory Italian horror film. From Riccardo Freda's I Vampiri in 1956 to Il Cartaio in 2004, this work recounts the...
Covering every Italian Spaghetti Western--mainly the good but also the bad and the ugly--this is an authoritative, entertaining and comprehensive companion to the implausi...
The giallo (plural gialli) is the Italian version of crime and detective films. The name literally means "yellow", and refers to the color of the covers of a collection of...
Bloodstained Narratives: The Giallo Film in Italy and Abroad
Matthew Edwards, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
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(0)The giallo (yellow) film cycle, characterized by its bloody murders and blending of high art and cinematic sleaze, rose to prominence in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s. Begi...
Italian sword and sandal burst upon worldwide screens in 1957/8 with the release of Steve Reeves’ The Labors of Hercules/Hercules. Eight years and over 300 films later, pe...
De Ben-Hur à Gladiator, le péplum de A à Z.Qui n’a jamais désiré connaître la beauté de Cléopâtre ou le charme mortel de Messaline, la sauvagerie des combats de gladiateur...
Le péplum est un cinéma de mauvais genre.Il raconte des histoires qui se déroulent en des temps mythiques ou lointains. Il chante les exploits d’héros bodybuildés et d’hér...
He’s remembered by connoisseurs of Italian cult cinema for his notorious cannibal epics like Cannibal Ferox and Eaten Alive!, as well as his high-octane crime films like A...
In the late 1950s, Mario Bava helped to create and define the Italian horror film. His classic directorial works of the 1960s and 1970s, including Black Sunday, Kill, Baby...
For many horror film fans, the name Lucio Fulci conjures images of gore and depravity. Derided by critics as a hack and an imitator and lionized by others as the “Godfathe...