I would put it alongside "Lovers and Lollipops" and "The Thief" as examples of films that use the locations of late 1940's and 1950's N.Y..

I watched Marco Ferrari's 1973 film "La Grande Bouffe" (Eng: "The Blow-Out", though it translates more accurately as "The Big Feast")..

Plot-wise the film follows the same general trajectory as the 1954 film - Godzilla rises from the ocean depths...

As per usual, I watched these three films - all first-time viewings - out of chronological order...

The film opens with shots of modernist buildings in New York as a woman (Ursula Andress in a brown wig) is being pursued...

"Visions Of Eight" on Criterion Channel, is a film made up of 8 very individual films by noted directors.

I stumbled on this film by chance and was instantly hooked by the preview featuring two men in an open-topped sports car..

John Carpenter's 1986 film "Big Trouble In Little China" falls into that latter category of "seen before, I'll watch it again"...

As promised in Part #1 of a review of "Boccaccio 70", and since I felt each film in the portmanteau deserved a separate review..

With a running time of over 3 hours, I would normally have given "Boccaccio 70" a wide berth..

I've reviewed Pietro Germi's "Divorce Italian Style" in an earlier post and it makes sense to check out "Marriage Italian Style"..

Criterion Channel includes a number of Godzilla / Giant Monster - or "Kaiju" - films, along with documentary extras..

Anyone stumbling on my lockdown cinema blog will be immediately aware of the film posters that feature prominently...

Giuseppe Tornatore's much lauded and garlanded film about a love affair with cinema, "Cinema Paradiso"..

"La Visita" stars Sandra Milo as "Pina" - by this point a regular in Pietrangelo's films - with the French actor François Périer as "Adolfo"

I came across his 1955 "Commedia All'Italiana" film starring Alberto Sordi, an actor most associated with the genre...

Available to view on Amazon Prime, "The Invisible Man v The Human Fly", directed by Mitsuo Murayama and produced by the Daiei company...

There's nothing particularly thematic to connect these two films that I watched recently, one on BFI Player and the other via Amazon Prime..

It's probably fair to say that I've become a little addicted to "Commedia Al'Italiana" as I discover the vast output of the genre..

All becomes a little clearer with the English title of "Hands Off The Loot", which is a loose translation...