Bernardo Bertolluci's 1970 film "The Conformist, based on a novel of the same title by Alberto Moravia and available to rent on YouTube..

Having discovered the Italian actress Stefania Sandrelli over my lockdown viewing I was curious to seek out other films she has starred in..

Mario Bava's 1965 Italian-Spanish film "Planet of The Vampires" seems to have generated a considerable cult following..

Produced in 1968, "Spirits of The Dead", (alternately entitled "Tales of Mystery and Imagination"...

For a long time Alain Delon was a name I associated with the Romanian Olympic gymnast Nadia Comăneci...

"Il Bell'Antonio" (Eng: "Handsome Antonio") is included in a line-up of films either written /adapted by or directed by Pier Paulo Pasolini.

Vitti was able to demonstrate her range as an actress in the preceding trilogy and her role in "The Red Desert" is no exception..

"Love In The City" (Italian: "Amore in Citta") uses a similar faux-documentary style broken down into chapters...

However, this is really Sophia Loren's film and she is placed center-stage as a street smart young woman...

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

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

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"..

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...

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..