From its birth in 1913 to its abolition in 2021, film censorship marked the history of Italian cinema, and its evolution mirrored the social, political, and cultural trava...
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...
Since 1929, with the release of a popular book series with bright yellow covers, the Italian word "giallo" (yellow) has come to define the whole spectrum of mystery and de...
Qui a vu les films de Marco Ferreri ? En 1973, dans le sillage du scandale de La Grande Bouffe, le réalisateur italien s'est taillé une réputation sulfureuse. On le redéco...
The Italian Gothic horror genre underwent many changes in the 1980s, with masters such as Mario Bava and Riccardo Freda dying or retiring and young filmmakers such as Lamb...
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...
Mario Bava's Blood and Black Lace (1964) is a legendary title, and is commonly considered as the archetypal giallo. A murder mystery about a faceless and menacing killer s...
Gordiano Lupi completa la sua opera (iniziata con il primo volume, Storia della commedia sexy all'italiana. Da Sergio Martino a Nello Rossati) e indaga a fondo un periodo ...
In an eclectic career spanning four decades, Italian director Riccardo Freda (1909-1999) produced films of remarkable technical skill and powerful visual style, including ...
La commedia sexy all'italiana (detta anche scollacciata o erotica) è un sottogenere della commedia all'italiana. Imperversò dagli anni '70 fino ai primi anni '80 quando gr...
Tonino Valerii is one of Italy's best genre film directors. Starting out as Sergio Leone's assistant on For a Few Dollars More (1965), he went on to direct spaghetti weste...
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...
The "Gothic" style was a key trend in Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s because of its peculiar, often strikingly original approach to the horror genre. These films po...
The giallo—an Italian brand of thriller known for its stylish and lurid excesses—got its start in the cinema with the release of Mario Bava’s THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH in...
Visioni proibite: I film vietati dalla censura italiana (dal 1969 a oggi)
Roberto Curti, Alessio Di Rocco
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(0)Il '68 e tutto ciò che da esso è nato - la controcultura, il pacifismo, la rivoluzione dei costumi, la sessualità libera - hanno cambiato profondamente il cinema. Il mondo...
Beginning with the release of Mario Bava's THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH in 1963, Italian filmmakers developed and perfected their own peculiar brand of mystery-thriller know...
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...
Visioni proibite. I film vietati dalla censura italiana (1947-1968)
Roberto Curti, Alessio Di Rocco
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(0)Grazie ai documenti originali e ad altre fonti d'epoca, spesso inedite, "Visioni proibite" ricostruisce in modo sistematico le vicissitudini di centinaia di pellicole cui ...
Profumo di donna. Le più belle attrici italiane degli anni Settanta. Dall'introduzione di Orchidea De Santis: "Molti dei film che ho interpretato furono vietati alle varie...
Il volume 4 della "Storia del cinema horror italiano" prende in considerazione gli anni Ottanta, per certi versi critici, ma comunque capaci di produrre autori interessant...