Tag: 1964
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#34: Blood and Black Lace (Mario Bava, 1964)
A Roman fashion house is terrorized by a faceless killer in this endlessly stylish, thrilling midcentury mystery.
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#28: Two Sicilian Love Stories by Pietro Germi
Pietro Germi goes to Sicily with “Divorce Italian Style” and “Seduced and Abandoned,” critiquing law & society against the backdrop of decaying aristocracy and the rise of the mafia.
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#05: The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964)
Buona Pasqua! This is a special Easter edition of Cinema Italiano, with an audio essay on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Gospel According to St. Matthew, exploring this excitingly anachronistic tale of Christ with themes and motifs that recur throughout Pasolini’s filmography. Links: The Gospel According to Film – April 2018 essay comparing three films about the…