Jean-Louis Trintignant is an Italian repressed bureaucrat who joins the Fascist party in 1930s Italy in Bertolucci’s brilliant study in sex, desire, politics, and personal responsibility.
Juliette Binoche stars in the first European feature by Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami, an impressionistic film that debates art and authenticity against an unusual romance that plays out a lifetime over one day in Italy.
Alberto Lattuada’s brilliant 1962 satire of Sicily’s “paternal” mafia became the cinematic rediscovery of 2006 when it was revived and shown at the New York Film Festival.
Clint Eastwood stars in Sergio Leone’s uncredited remake of Kurosawa’s ‘Yojimbo,’ which launched the spaghetti western into an international phenomenon.
Mario Bava’s elegant 1964 slasher picture as ballroom dance, bathed in intense, unreal sprays of red and purple and green, is where the distinctly Italian horror genre known as giallo was born.
Four women break out of their confined lives and roles when they rent a Italian villa in this romantic drama of reawakening. Josie Lawrence, Miranda Richardson, Polly Walker, and Joan Plowright costar with the beautiful Mediterranean landscape.
