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Oedipus Rex [Edipo Re] ***** (1967, Franco Citti, Silvana Mangano, Alida Valli, Ahmed Belhachmi, Luciano Bartoli) – Classic Movie Review 3,273

Writer-director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s thrilling 1967 Italian movie Oedipus Rex [Edipo Re] is Oedipus complex. The star of Pasolini’s first film, Accattone (1961), Franco Citti takes the title role of Oedipus in this beautiful filming […]

Jan, 16

The Decameron **** (1970, Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Angela Luce, Silvana Mangano, Vincenzo Amato, Guido Alberti, Monique van Vooren) – Classic Movie Review 3201

Director Pier Paolo Pasolini kicks off his Trilogy of Life movies with this bawdy and entertaining 1970 film consisting of a series of eight tales from Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio’s classic 14th century book collection […]

Dec, 31

Conversation Piece [Gruppo di Famiglia in un Interno] **** (1974, Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano) – Classic Movie Review 3190

Luchino Visconti’s 1974 penultimate film Conversation Piece is a stately, elegant and affecting fable, reuniting him with his longtime companion Helmut Berger and Burt Lancaster.  Co-writer/director Luchino Visconti’s penultimate conversation piece movie from 1974 is […]

Dec, 28

Barabbas **** (1961, Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano, Arthur Kennedy, Harry Andrews, Ernest Borgnine, Vittorio Gassman, Jack Palance, Valentina Cortese, Katy Jurado) – Classic Movie Review 2,291

The exciting and inspirational 1961 biblical epic film Barabbas stars Anthony Quinn in a sterling performance as the robber-killer Barabbas, who is replaced on the cross by Jesus Christ and is spared crucifixion. Director Richard […]

Mar, 21

Theorem [Teorema] ***½ (1968, Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp, Massimo Girotti, Laura Betti, Anne Wiazemsky, Ninetto Davoli) – Classic Movie Review 2,269

Pier Paolo Pasolini casts young Terence Stamp effectively as a good-looking stranger who satisfies all the members of a wealthy Milan family in his 1968 Italian poetic drama film Theorem [Teorema]. Director Pier Paolo Pasolini […]

Mar, 15

Ludwig **** (1972, Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano, Helmut Griem, Gert Frobe, John Moulder-Brown) – Classic Movie Review 2234

Luchino Visconti’s masterly 1972 romantic historical film Ludwig is a gorgeous, extravagant, stirring toast to the mad 19th-century Bavarian king Ludwig II and to the handsome and magnetic star Helmut Berger. Co-writer/director Luchino Visconti’s masterly […]

Mar, 04

Death in Venice [Morte a Venezia] ***** (1971, Dirk Bogarde, Björn Andrésen, Silvana Mangano, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns, Marisa Berenson) – Classic Film Review 607

Dirk Bogarde’s tour-de-force as ageing composer Gustav von Aschenbach is the jewel in the crown of Luchino Visconti’s masterly 1971 film Death in Venice. Björn Andrésen attracted worldwide attention as Tadzio. Dirk Bogarde’s extraordinary tour-de-force […]

Jan, 02

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