"Amarcord" roughly translates as "I remember" and the film is a semi-autobiographical recounting of life in an Italian village...

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..

"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...

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...

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..

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..

This time Sandrelli is cast as "Roberta", a young go-getter from a wealthy family with interests in agriculture and real estate...

That said, I watched "Il Bidone" - a film that could best be described as the least "Fellini-esque" of his work...

Outside of Italy, Sophia Loren tends to be more well-known for a number of blousy, big-budget Hollywood films..

I was expecting a comic romp along the lines of "Seduced and Abandoned"..

I'd been meaning to avoid watching "Seduced and Abandoned", directed by Piero Germi...