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BR: Most Beautiful Wife, The / Moglie Più Bella, La (1970)

BR: Most Beautiful Wife, The / Moglie Più Bella, La (1970)

November 18, 2016 | By

The initial impression from the poster art and compacted summaries is that The Most Beautiful Wife is a sleazy tale of a child bride or an illicit relationship between a teen and an older man, but Damiano Damiani’s film is a thinly veiled bio-drama of Franca Viola…

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BR: What Have You Done to Solange? / Cosa avete fatto a Solange? (1972)

BR: What Have You Done to Solange? / Cosa avete fatto a Solange? (1972)

March 17, 2016 | By

Branded a schoolgirl-in-peril entry, the genre isn’t new nor unique to Italian cinema – one can find traces (emphasizing terror and implied / potential violation over murder) in the kidnapped teen thriller Union Station (1950) and the psycho-sexual blackmailer / bank robber / teen molester Experiment in Terror (1961) – but Massimo Dallamano’s What have You Done to Solange…

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BR: U-Turn (1997)

BR: U-Turn (1997)

November 25, 2015 | By

A gamble for Mike Medavoy’s fledgling Phoenix Films and ultimately a box office and critical dud upon its theatrical release, U-Turn’s evolved into an undiscovered classic of modern noir if not a cult film, and one of Oliver Stone’s best films of the 1990s where every instinct almost yields a perfect result…

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BR: Big Gundown, The  / La resa dei conti (1968)

BR: Big Gundown, The / La resa dei conti (1968)

July 24, 2014 | By

Regarded by some as the greatest spaghetti western few have ever seen (genre connoisseurs excepted), Grindhouse Releasing’s 4-disc set is another landmark release featuring the original, rarely seen longer Italian cut, the shorter Columbia edit for the U.S. market augmented with 3 previously cut scenes, and a multitude of extras…

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Film: Quiet Place in the Country, A / Un tranquillo posto di campagna (1968)

Film: Quiet Place in the Country, A / Un tranquillo posto di campagna (1968)

January 27, 2014 | By

Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / P to R . Film: Excellent / DVD Transfer: n/a / DVD Extras:  n/a Label:  n/a / Region: n/a  / Released: n/a Genre: Psychological Thriller / Horror Synopsis:  A celebrated painter headed for an epic burnout retreats to a crumbling country villa, and slowly loses grasp of reality. […]

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