Cinema Italia

For a Few Dollars More confirmed the arrival of the Spaghetti Western as a new genre. Further enshrining Clint Eastwood's Man with no Name, it added also Lee Van Cleef to the mix. There is a real maturation of how Ennio Morricone's music is used and an increased confidence in the filmmaking of Leone.

Alasdair Satchel is a theatre and filmmaker based on the Isle of Mull, Scotland.

He is the host of the podcast What We do in the Winter, available here.

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Ettore Scola's 1976 comedy is an exercise is grotesque humour about a family living in a Roman slum within sight of the Vatican. Trailer here.

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Massimo Benvegnù is an artistic director at the Biografilm Festival in Bologna as well as working as a film critic, programmer and teacher. He has written on Peter Weir and Peter Bogdonavich as well as many others. We talk aboutn La Moglie del Prete (The Priest's Wife), Dino Risi's 1970 satire starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.

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Paolo & Vittorio Taviani are arguably the geniuses of Italian Cinema you've never heard of. Night of the Falling Stars and Caesar Must Die are only two works of imaginative and groundbreaking work.

Adrian Wootton (OBE) is the Chief Executive of Film London and the British FIlm Commission and is the curator of the largest retrospective of the Taviani Brothers in the English speaking world. It's currently taking place at the BFI and you can check it out at this link.

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I talk to Felix Van Groeningen about his new film The Eight Mountains, which he, along with his partner Charlotte Vandermeersch, wrote and directed from Paolo Cognetti's novel, as well as Italian cinema generally.

Felix is also the director of The Misfortunates (2009), The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012) and Belgica (2016). He made his English-language debut with the biographical drama Beautiful Boy (2018).

My review of The Eight Mountains for Sight and Sound can be read here.

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Bernardo Bertolucci's adaptation of Alberto Moravia's novel The Conformist is a visual feast while at the same time an intricate portrait of the soulessness of fascism. Neil Fox is an academic and broadcaster. Catch the Cinematologists podcast here.

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Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 masterpiece The Battle of Algiers is the subject of this episode. With its cinema verité style and emotional impact, it is as relevant today as it was on its release. A stirring examination of resistance, oppression and the price that the innocent often pay. Add to this a stand out score by - who else? - Ennio Morricone.

Lee Freeman is a film academic and teacher.

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Film critic and paparazzo Kaleem Aftab joins John Bleasdale to talk about Federico Fellini's 1960 classic La Dolce Vita, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg.

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Chief film critic of The Hollywood Reporter David Rooney joins John Bleasdale to talk about Federico Fellini's 1957 masterpiece Le Notti di Cabiria, Nights of Cabiria, starring Giulietta Masina as a sex worker in a Rome on the edge of La Dolce Vita. Massina won Best Actress at Cannes and the film was the second Oscar in a row for Fellini.

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