Cinema Italia

Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1964 film The Gospel According to St. Matthew was a surprise when it came out. How had this Marxist, atheist, homosexual made a film which many found devout? Matthew Page - the author of 100 Bible Films - talks to John Bleasdale about one of Pasolini's most surprising films and certainly his most accessible.

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John Bleasdale talks to the director, Abel Ferrara, on Italian cinema, his collaboration with Willem Dafoe and the influence of Pasolini.

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John Bleasdale talks briefly to John Landis about his favorite Italian comedy: Mario Monicelli's Big Deal on Madonna Street (Italian: I soliti ignoti; released in the UK as Persons Unknown) from 1958.

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Crime novelist Philip Gwynne Jones joins John Bleasdale to talk about Dario Argento's 1975 masterpiece Profondo Rosso or Deep Red.

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John Bleasdale and Matthew Asprey Gear talk Vittorio De Sica's Umberto D. A 1952 Italian neorealist classic starring Carlo Battisti in the role of Umberto Domenico Ferrari, a poor elderly man in Rome who is desperately trying to keep his rented room. His landlady (Lina Gennari) is evicting him and his only true friends, the housemaid (Maria-Pia Casilio) and his dog Flike are of no help.

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Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom was released in 1975 and became an instant milestone in the cinema of transgression. A political fable, it tells the story of four men who in the waning days of Fascist Italy retire to a villa to enjoy their perversions and sadism at the expense of the young people they have captured. Torture, rape, murder and degradation are explicitly depicted in a way that remains shocking to this day. I talk with Jason Wood, author and film programmer for the BFI, about this electrifying, challenging film.

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Peter Birro is one of Scandinavia’s most admired and prolific screenwriters. The three-time Prix Italia-winner’s groundbreaking TV-series Hammarkullen, Det nya landet, and How Soon Is Now?! are sweeping visions of Swedish society, marginalized people, political dramas and deeply human, emotional stories.

For cinema Birro has written the hugely successful biopic Monica Z about the internationally acclaimed jazz singer Monica Zetterlund, one of Sweden’s most talented and tragic artists. Monica Z became the biggest commercial success of 2013 in Swedish theaters and went on to be nominated for several awards, including a ‘Grand Prix des Amériques’ at the Montréal World Film Festival and no less than 11 Guldbagge Awards, of which it won four.

Birro’s most recent feature title is an adaptation of the nonfiction title 438 Days. The dramatic story of the kidnapping of two Swedish journalists in 2011 in Ethiopia premiered in 2019 and was promptly nominated for six Guldbagge Awards.

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Film director Laura Samani talks to John Bleasdale about Claudio Caligari's 2017 film Don't Be Bad (Non Essere Cattivo).

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Cinema Italia is a new podcast dedicated to exploring the glories of Italian film.

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