ASGHAR FARHADI Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB. Spain/France/Italy, 2018. Memento Films Production, Morena Films, Lucky Red. Screenplay by Asghar Farhadi. Cinematography by Jose Luis Alcaine. Produced by Álvaro Longoria, Alexandre Mallet-Guy. Music by Javier Limón. Production Design by Maria Clara Notari. Costume Design by Sonia Grande. Film Editing by Hayedeh Safiyari. Cannes Film Festival 2018. Toronto International Film Festival 2018. The magnificence of Asghar Farhadi…
Tag: Italy
The Happy Prince (2018)
RUPERT EVERETT Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB. United Kingdom/Belgium/Italy/Germany, 2018. Maze Pictures, Entre Chien et Loup, Palomar, Cine Plus Filmproduktion, Robert Fox Limited, BBC Films, Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Daryl Prince Productions, Heimatfilm, Raindog Films. Screenplay by Rupert Everett. Cinematography by John Conroy. Produced by Sebastien Delloye, Philipp Kreuzer, Jörg Schulze. Music by Gabriel…
Face To Face (1967)
SERGIO SOLLIMA Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB. Italy/Spain, 1967. Produzioni Europee Associate, Arturo González Producciones Cinematográficas. Story by Sergio Sollima, Screenplay by Sergio Donati, Sergio Sollima. Cinematography by Rafael Pacheco. Produced by Alberto Grimaldi. Music by Ennio Morricone. Production Design by Carlo Simi. Costume Design by Carlo Simi. Film Editing by Eugenio Alabiso. Gian Maria Volonte plays a mild-mannered professor who leaves the…
Burn! (Queimada) (1969)
GILLO PONTECORVO Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB. Italy/France, 1969. Produzioni Europee Associate, Les Productions Artistes Associés. Story and Screenplay by Franco Solinas, Giorgio Arlorio, based on novels by Norman Gant. Cinematography by Marcello Gatti, Giuseppe Ruzzolini. Produced by Alberto Grimaldi. Music by Ennio Morricone. Production Design by Sergio Canevari. Costume Design by Marilù Carteny. Film Editing by Mario Morra. Toronto International Film Festival 1977. …
Happy As Lazzaro (Lazzaro felice) (2018)
ALICE ROHRWACHER Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB.5. Italy/Switzerland/France/Germany, 2018. Tempesta, Amka Films Productions, Ad Vitam Production, Pola Pandora Filmproduktions, Rai Cinema, RSI-Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Arte France, Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo, Centre National de la Cinématographie, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Regione Lazio, Office Fédéral de la Culture, Fonds Eurimages du Conseil de l’Europe. Screenplay by…
Faithless (Trolösa) (2000)
LIV ULLMANN Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB. Sweden/Italy/Germany/Finland/Norway, 2000. Classic, Nordisk Film- & TV-Fond, Norsk Rikskringkasting, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Rai Cinema, SVT Drama, Svensk Filmindustri, Svenska Filminstitutet, Yleisradio, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen. Screenplay by Ingmar Bergman. Cinematography by Jörgen Persson. Produced by Kaj Larsen, Johan Mardell. Production Design by Göran Wassberg. Costume Design by Inger Pehrsson. Film Editing by Sylvia Ingemarsson. Cannes Film Festival 2000. Toronto International Film Festival…
Lisa And The Devil (Lisa e il diavolo) (1973)
MARIO BAVA Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB. Italy/West Germany/Spain/USA, 1973. Leone International. Screenplay by Mario Bava, Alfredo Leone. Cinematography by Cecilio Paniagua. Produced by Alfredo Leone. Music by Carlo Savina. Production Design by Nedo Azzini. Film Editing by Carlo Reali. Elke Sommer is terrific as a tourist visiting Spain who is distracted from her walking tour after seeing a fresco depicting the…
Ossessione (1943)
LUCHINO VISCONTI Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB. Italy, 1943. Industrie Cinematografiche Italiane. Screenplay by Luchino Visconti, Mario Alicata, Giuseppe De Santis, Gianni Puccini, based on the novel The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain. Cinematography by Domenico Scala, Aldo Tonti. Produced by Libero Solaroli. Music by Giuseppe Rosati. Production Design by Gino Franzi. Costume Design by Maria De Matteis. Film Editing…
Hercules Unchained (Ercole e la regina di Lidia) (1959)
PIETRO FRANCISCI Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB.5. Italy/France/Spain, 1959. Galatea Film, Lux Film, Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France, Urania Film. Story by Pietro Francisci, Screenplay by Ennio De Concini, Pietro Francisci, based on the play Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles and The Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus. Cinematography by Mario Bava. Produced by Bruno Vailati. Music by Enzo Masetti. Production Design by…
Son of the Pink Panther (1993)
BLAKE EDWARDS Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB. Italy/USA, 1993. Filmauro, International Traders, United Artists. Story by Blake Edwards, Screenplay by Blake Edwards, Madeline Sunshine, Steven Sunshine, based on characters created by Maurice Richlin, Blake Edwards. Cinematography by Dick Bush. Produced by Tony Adams, Friend Michael Wells. Music by Henry Mancini. Production Design by Peter Mullins. Costume Design by Annie Crawford. Film Editing…
Bread And Roses (2000)
KEN LOACH Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB. United Kingdom/France/Germany/Spain/Italy/Switzerland, 2000. Parallax Pictures, Alta Films, Alta Produccion, ARTE, BIM Distribuzione, Bac Films, British Screen Productions, British Sky Broadcasting, Cinart, Degeto Film, FilmFour, Filmcoopi Zürich, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, La Sept-Arte, , Road Movies Filmproduktion, Tornasol Films, Westdeutscher Rundfunk. Screenplay by Paul Laverty. Cinematography by Barry Ackroyd. Produced by Rebecca O’Brien. Music by George Fenton. Production Design by Martin Johnson. Costume Design…
5 Dolls for an August Moon (5 bambole per la luna d’agosto) (1970)
MARIO BAVA Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB. Italy, 1970. Produzioni Atlas Consorziate. Story and Screenplay by Mario di Nardo, based on the novel And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. Cinematography by Antonio Rinaldi. Produced by Luigi Alessi. Music by Piero Umiliani. Production Design by Giuseppe Aldrovandi. Costume Design by Giulia Mafai. Film Editing by Mario Bava. A wealthy industrialist…
