The Birds and the Bees and the Italians
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (Italian: Signore & Signori, literally "Ladies and Gentlemen") is a 1966 italian film directed by Pietro Germi.It won the Grand Prix with A Man and a Woman at the ...
8 Apr 202448min
Assunta Spina with Pamela Hutchinson
Assunta Spina starring Francesca Bertini is a classic Diva silent from 1915. (View it here). Writer and critic and expert in silent cinema Pamela Hutchinson gives her insight into where to start with ...
29 Mar 202445min
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
John Bleasdale talks to film maker and writer James Peaty about Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Elio Petri's 1970 film, starring Gian Maria Volonté and Florinda Bolkan. A psychological, bl...
22 Mar 20241h 8min
For a Few Dollars More with Alisdair Satchel
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 matu...
15 Mar 20241h 21min
Brutti Sporchi Cattivi with Lino Meireles
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.The Music for the podcast is provided by Two Minute Noodle...
8 Mar 202458min
L'avventura with Dario Linares
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1 Mar 202456min
Massimo Benvegnù talks IFFR, and The Priest's Wife
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 a...
23 Feb 20241h 1min
Adrian Wootton (OBE) talks the Taviani Brothers
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.Adr...
16 Feb 202439min
