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Cinema Italiano Podcast

The podcast dedicated to the Italian experience, as told by film.

Category: Writing

Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)

Posted on April 6, 2020 by Steven

The film presents characters with agency, privilege, and power, and the question ultimately is how (or whether) they choose to exercise that.

Ferdinando & Carolina (1999)

Posted on March 4, 2020 by Steven

The story of a love bound by circumstance and empowered through destiny.

Summer Night (1986)

Posted on February 28, 2020 by Steven

A complicated tale of gender roles, both modern and archaic.

All Screwed Up (1974)

Posted on February 27, 2020 by Steven

Pointed and sharp as always, Lina Wertmüller exposes economic, social, and cultural power structures of inequality and exploitation.

Throwback: Excerpt on “The White Sheik” (1952)

Posted on January 21, 2020February 11, 2020 by Steven

The White Sheik is an excellent example of the balance between hyperbolic comedic situations, and moments of intense human drama.

Il campione (The Champion) (2019)

Posted on January 13, 2020February 11, 2020 by Steven

The feel-good story about a successful, though reckless, young athlete whose life is turned around when he is assigned a tutor by his soccer club.

Simple Women (2019)

Posted on January 13, 2020February 11, 2020 by Steven

Simple Women is a very imaginative original film whose name betrays its complex, metafictional narrative.

Storia di B. – La scomparsa di mia madre (The Disappearance of My Mother) (2019)

Posted on January 13, 2020February 11, 2020 by Steven

The inherently exploitative nature of the documentary is explored through a most personal subject: the director’s mother.

Il traditore (The Traitor) (2019)

Posted on January 13, 2020February 11, 2020 by Steven

Veteran director Marco Bellochio, decades into his career, is still grappling with questions of existentialism: building a sense of order in a world of disorder, through one’s own moral code and logic, however twisted.

Sole (2019)

Posted on January 13, 2020February 11, 2020 by Steven

Sole has a cold, detached feel which fits its somber narrative, though its overall joyless nature makes it a difficult film to engage and connect with.

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