Since their heyday, comics (or fumetti as they are called in Italy) had a vital part in Italys culture and morality, even helping break boundaries. That was the case with the so-called fumetti neri, such as DIABOLIK, KRIMINAL, SATANIK, and many others...
In an eclectic career spanning four decades, Italian director Riccardo Freda (1909-1999) produced films of remarkable technical skill and powerful visual style, including the swashbuckler Black Eagle (1946), an adaptation of Les Miserables (1947), the...
Elio Petri (1929-1982) was one of the most commercially successful and critically revered Italian directors ever. A cultured intellectual and a politically committed filmmaker, Petri made award-winning movies that touched controversial social, religious,...
The ""Gothic"" style was a key trend in Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s because of its peculiar, often strikingly original approach to the horror genre. These films portrayed Gothic staples in a stylish and idiosyncratic way,...