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…
Tag: Italy
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…
The Stranger (Lo straniero) (1967)
LUCHINO VISCONTI Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB. Italy/France/Algeria, 1967. Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica, Master Film, Marianne Productions, Casbah Film. Screenplay by Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Georges Conchon, Luchino Visconti, script revisions by Emmanuel Roblès, based on the novel by Albert Camus. Cinematography by Giuseppe Rotunno. Produced by Alfredo De Laurentiis. Music by Piero Piccioni. Production Design by Mario Garbuglia. Costume Design by Piero…
Naked Violence (I ragazzi del massacro) (1969)
FERNANDO DI LEO Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB.5. Italy, 1969. Cineproduzioni Daunia 70, Belfagor Cinematografica. Story and Screenplay by Fernando Di Leo, Nino Latino, Andrea Maggiore, based on the novel by Giorgio Scerbaneco. Cinematography by Franco Villa. Produced by Tiziano Longo. Music by Silvano Spadaccino. Production Design by Franco Bottari. Costume Design by Loredana Longo. Film Editing by Amedeo Giomini. A teacher is…
Senso (1954)
LUCHINO VISCONTI Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB.5. Italy, 1954. Lux Film. Story and Screenplay by Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Luchino Visconti, with the collaboration of Carlo Alianello, Giorgio Bassani, Giorgio Prosperi, and dialogue collaboration by Tennessee Williams, Paul Bowles, based on the novel by Camillo Boito. Cinematography by G.R. Aldo, Robert Krasker. Produced by Domenico Forges Davanzati. Production Design by Ottavio…
The Bay of Blood (Reazione a catena) (1971)
MARIO BAVA Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB.5. Italy, 1971. Nuova Linea Cinematografica. Story by Dardano Sacchetti, Franco Barberi, Screenplay by Mario Bava, Giuseppe Zaccariello, Filippo Ottoni, English dialogue by Gene Luotto. Cinematography by Mario Bava. Produced by Giuseppe Zaccariello. Music by Stelvio Cipriani. Production Design by Sergio Canevari. Costume Design by Enrico Sabbatini. Film Editing by Carlo Reali. After a wealthy older woman (Isa…
Bel Ami (2012)
DECLAN DONNELLAN, NICK ORMEROD Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB.5. United Kingdom/Italy, 2012. Redwave Films, 19 Entertainment, Protagonist Pictures, Rai Cinema. Screenplay by Rachel Bennette, based on the novel by Guy de Maupassant. Cinematography by Stefano Falivene. Produced by Ceri Hughes, Uberto Pasolini. Music by Lakshman Joseph De Saram, Rachel Portman. Production Design by Attila Kovacs. Costume Design by Odile Dicks-Mireaux. Film Editing by Gavin Buckley,…
A Matter of Time (1976)
VINCENTE MINNELLI Bil’s rating (out of 5): B. Italy, 1976. American International Pictures, Coralta Cinematografica, Deux Femmes Service Company, General International Film Company. Screenplay by John Gay, based on the novel by Maurice Druon. Cinematography by Geoffrey Unsworth. Produced by Edmund Grainger, Jack H. Skirball. Music by Nino Oliveiro. Production Design by Veniero Colasanti, John Moore. Costume Design by Andretta Ferrero. Film Editing by Peter…
