Category: TV

Blazing Magnum

It is perhaps emblematic of the international cross-pollination which gave rise to director Alberto De Martino’s 1976 police thriller that it is known under so many titles, Una
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The Antichrist

A tragedy which overshadowed the life of Ippolita Oderisi, she was twelve years old when, driving at night, her father’s inattention to the road ahead of them resulted
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Cross of Iron

If war is chaos, then so is filmmaking, particularly when the director is the already notorious Sam Peckinpah whose films were as known for their violence and nihilism
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Golgo 13

In Tehran, the man in the white suit is jumped, surrounded, overpowered; taken to another location where he is beaten and interrogated, his employers in Beirut are reluctantly
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Le Mépris

It is a film about film, about the creation of artifice which pretends to be reality, a depiction scripted, staged and rehearsed before the camera is loaded in
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Fists in the Pocket

The sixties were a time of change and possibility, but opportunities depend on circumstance and are not open to everyone; the eldest of four siblings Augusto splits his
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Samurai Reincarnation

The year 1638 time of bloody upheaval, the Shimabar Rebellion has been put down, Amakusa Shirō and his Christian followers whom he led against the Tokugawa Shogunate defeated
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Burning Paradise

The circumstances of the marketing and distribution of any film and its subsequent reception by an audience are never predictable, yet it seems odd that almost thirty years
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