Raro VIdeo – Stream On Demand

Luc Merenda and James Mason star in Fernando di Leo's mob revenge thriller

‘Kidnap Syndicate’ – The business of crime on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Crime, Criterion Channel, DVD, International Cinema, Spaghetti Cinema, SVOD 01/29/2023 Sean Axmaker

Fernando di Leo’s 1975 Italian crime thriller reworks the premise of Kurosawa’s ‘High and Low’ as a brutal portrait of class, power, and vengeance.

Fernando Di Leo’s ‘Milieu Trilogy’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, gangsters, International Cinema, Spaghetti Cinema, SVOD 01/23/2023 Sean Axmaker

The crime films of Fernando di Leo are poliziotteschi (Italian crime thriller) at its best and these three films in particular dismantle the pulp glorification of the mafia.

Luc Merenda stars in Fernando di Leo's crime drama from Italy

‘Shoot First, Die Later’ – Revenge of the corrupted on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Crime, Criterion Channel, DVD, gangsters, International Cinema, Spaghetti Cinema 01/14/2023 Sean Axmaker

Fernando di Leo’s seventies Italian gangster thriller stars Luc Merenda as a hotshop young cop on the take and features some of the most impressive car chases of its era.

Dominique Sanda and Stefania Sandrelli in Bernardo Bertolucci's 'The Conformist' starring Jean-Louis Trintignant

Bernardo Bertolucci’s ‘The Conformist’ free on Kanopy

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, DVD, Essential Viewing, Free, historical, International Classics, Kanopy, Politics, SVOD 06/19/2022 Sean Axmaker

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.

‘The Long Hair of Death’ – Barbara Steele takes sweet revenge on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, horror, Spaghetti Cinema, suspense, SVOD 02/26/2020 Sean Axmaker

Antonio Margheriti is best known to modern audiences (if at all) thanks to Quentin Tarantino, who memorialized his name in Inglorious Basterds; it’s Brad Pitt’s cover name as he infiltrates a Nazi function and he can’t even pronounce it. The real Antonio Margheriti was a prolific director cranking out genre pictures through the 1960s and […]