Cinema Italia

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....

7 Jul 20238min

Crime novelist Philip Gwynne Jones joins John Bleasdale to talk about Dario Argento's 1975 masterpiece Profondo Rosso or Deep Red.The Music for the podcast is provided by Two Minute Noodles and more c...

16 Jun 202354min

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 ...

9 Jun 20231h 2min

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 wa...

2 Jun 202359min

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 sweepi...

26 Mai 20231h 1min

Film director Laura Samani talks to John Bleasdale about Claudio Caligari's 2017 film Don't Be Bad (Non Essere Cattivo). Music is by Two Minute Noodles, available here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...

5 Mai 202351min

Cinema Italia is a new podcast dedicated to exploring the glories of Italian film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswi...

26 Mar 20231min