In Memoriam: Ennio Morricone
Tribute to one of the greatest film composers, Italy’s Ennio Morricone, who passed away at 91.
Tag: Ennio Morricone
DVD: Bluebeard (1972)
It’s unsure whether director / co-writer Edward Dmytryk was aware of any thin connections to the violent & fetishistic giallo genre, whereas the film’s other co-writers, Maria Pia Fusco and Ennio De Concini…
BR: Hateful Eight, The (2015)
Branded as ‘the 8th film by Quentin Tarantino’ – a proclamation tied to the director’s subsequent 2016 statement in which he plans to “retire” after 10 films, and be confirmed as “one of the greatest film-makers that ever lived” – The Hateful Eight is both a fascinating creative experiment and proof again why his work can be so divisive among fans, critics, and his colleagues…
BR: Stay As You Are / Così come sei (1978)
Perhaps an obvious attempt to riff on Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Tango in Paris (1972), producer Giovanni Bertolucci and director Alberto Lattuada delivered this variant of a May-October fling that’s peppered with a dash of possible incest…
The Saga of Franca Viola: The Most Beautiful Wife (1970)
Review of Damiano Damiani’s docu-drama The Most Beautiful Wife / La Moglie Più Bella (1970), starring Ornella Muti and Alessio Orano, and released on Blu by Twilight Time.
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