Barry Forshaw's Guide to Italian Cinema
Cinema Italia3 Aug 2025

Barry Forshaw's Guide to Italian Cinema

Barry Forshaw is the author of the Guide to Italian Cinema: Arthouse to Exploitation.

Available here.

Italian cinema is one of the most glorious and energetic celebrations of the medium that any nation has ever offered. For many years, this astonishing legacy was largely unseen, but the DVD revolution is making virtually everything available, from Steve Reeves' muscle epics to long-unseen Italian art house movies. The one characteristic that most of the great (and not so great) Italian movies have in common is the sheer individualism of the directors. This applies to populist moviemakers and the giants of serious cinema. While Fellini, Visconti and Antonioni have rightly assumed their places in the pantheon, so have such talented popular auteurs as Sergio Leone, who was doing something with the Western that no American director would dare do. All the glory of Italian cinema is celebrated here in comprehensive essays, along with every key film in an easy-to-use reference format.


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Fistful of Dynamite or Duck You Sucker (1971)

Fistful of Dynamite or Duck You Sucker (1971)

Duck, You Sucker! (Italian: Giù la testa, lit. "Duck Your Head", "Get Down"), also known as A Fistful of Dynamite and Once Upon a Time ... the Revolution, is a 1971 epic Zapata Western film directed a...

1 Juni 47min

The Seduction of Mimi (1972)

The Seduction of Mimi (1972)

The Seduction of Mimi (or as the Italian title has it: 'Mimi the Metalworker, Wounded in Honor') is a 1972 Italian comedy drama film written and directed by Lina Wertmüller, starring Giancarlo Giannin...

11 Maj 55min

Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)

Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)

Big Deal on Madonna Street (I soliti ignoti) is a 1958 Italian comedy caper film directed by Mario Monicelli and one of the masterpieces of Italian cinema. Starring Totò, Claudia Cardinale, Vittorio G...

4 Maj 46min

The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971)

The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971)

The Working Class Goes to Heaven (Italian: La classe operaia va in paradiso), released in the US as Lulu the Tool, is a 1971 Italian satirical political drama film directed by Elio Petri. It depicts a...

27 Apr 39min

Salvatore Giuliano (1962)

Salvatore Giuliano (1962)

Salvatore Giuliano is a 1962 Italian drama film directed by Francesco Rosi. Using techniques of the documentary film, it recounts the criminal career of famous Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano betwe...

20 Apr 44min

The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)

The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)

Ermanno Olmi's Tree of Wooden Clogs won the Palme d'Or at Cannes on its release in 1978 and tells the tale of a year in the life of a small village of peasant at the turn of the century in Bergamo. We...

11 Apr 43min

The Skin (1981)

The Skin (1981)

The Skin (La pelle) is a 1981 Italian war film directed by Liliana Cavani and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Burt Lancaster, Ken Marshall, Carlo Giuffrè and Claudia Cardinale from Curzio Malaparte's 1...

4 Apr 1h 3min

The Great Beauty (2013) with Shawn Levy

The Great Beauty (2013) with Shawn Levy

Oscar winning 2013 film The Great Beauty by Paolo Sorrentino and starring Tony Servillo is the subject of my conversation with Shawn Levy, the author of Dolce Vita Confidential and Clint, among many o...

28 Mars 1h 3min

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