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Featured Article: Classic Italian Film

9 November 2009 4:45 PM, PST | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »

With its silent superspectacles, postwar neo-realism and 1960s new wave, the Italian film industry has enjoyed three major periods of international influence. In between times, it has assimilated the technological advances and dramatic styles of foreign competitors and used them to shape such local trends as the `white telephone' film, calligraphism, giallo, the `sword and sandal' epic, the `spaghetti' Western and the dialect comedy.

Over the years, the unexpected has become commonplace. Therefore, it's no surprise to see Gianni di Gregorio, the screenwriter of the uncompromising crime saga Gomorrah, making his directorial debut with Mid-August Lunch, a charming comedy of bourgeois manners, whose unforced naturalism, social insight and deceptive wit hark back to a golden age that is recalled here by MovieMail - the best place to buy classic movies and world cinema on DVD.

After two decades of propaganda and pictorialism, Italian film went back to basics after the Second World War. »

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The "Dollars Trilogy" Free on Hulu

5 November 2009 10:27 AM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

A quick heads-up for Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood fans. All three of their "Man with No Name" westerns are now up on Hulu for free viewing. Hulu is only going to have these movies up until the end of November, so don't waste time, pilgrim. You can watch all three films right here.

A Fistful of Dollars originally followed the trend of remaking Akira Kurosawa's samurai films as westerns. I say trend, but really there was only, what, The Magnificent Seven? Fistful uses the plot of Kurosawa's Yojimbo as its premise, then reshapes it into Leone's own signature style. Then came the pseudo-sequel, For a Few Dollars More. Leone never meant for the three films to be a trilogy, but it just turned out that way due to Eastwood's same look and acting style in all three.  The Good, The Bad and the Ugly is a prequel of sorts, »

- Arya Ponto

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Cjamango

15 August 2009 3:36 AM, PDT | Latemag.com/film | See recent LateFilmFull news »

Sergio Corbucci's Django revolutionised the Spaghetti Western genre in many ways. The low-budget retelling of Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars – itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo – ramped up the violence, the amorality, the bloodletting and the insanity factor to an unprecedented scale, spawning a glut of rip-offs, cash-ins and unofficial sequels of varying degrees of quality. It also, quite unintentionally, began a trend for titular heroes whose names ended in the letter 'o' and when said quickly enough could possibly be mistaken for Django.

There was Anthony Steffen - the Spaghetti Western standard-bearer, himself no stranger to playing Django - starring as the main man in both Garringo and Shango. 'Sword and Sandal' star Brad Harris as the fast gun in Durango is Coming, Pay or Die. Montgomery Clark (Dante Posani) as the gambling gunslinger in Djurado and Ivan Rassimov in this, 1967's Cjamango. »

- Nick

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1.9 million see naked Angel on Bb

18 June 2009 3:15 AM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Last night's Big Brother highlights show drew an average of 1.88m (11.5%) for Channel 4, early figures suggest. The programme, which featured a clip of Angel skinny dipping in the pool, is down around 1.15m on the equivalent show from last year. It drew 3.03m (17.5%) on June 18, 2008. Earlier on the channel, at 9pm, the final episode of Embarrassing Bodies pulled in 3.06m (14.1%). The second installment of BBC One's Occupation, starring James Nesbitt and Stephen Graham, managed 3.23m (14.9%), down 1.16m on the opening episode. BBC Two documentary The Price Of Life took 810k (3.7%), while Spain: Paradise Lost had 4.28m (19.8%) for ITV1, putting the channel in first place for the hour. Five's Clint Eastwood Western A Fistful Of Dollars averaged 1.58m (8.2%) between 9pm and 11.15pm. The Bill came (more) »

- By Dan French

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Spielberg & Scorsese Mark Kurosawa's 99th Birthday With Special Messages

19 March 2009 6:25 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese will toast what would have been late moviemaker Akira Kurosawa's 99th birthday at a gala in his honour on Monday.

The two directors have recorded emotional video messages which will be shown at the Cherry Blossom Gala in Los Angeles.

The event will serve as the official launch of the Akira Kurosawa Film School at California's Anaheim University and various members of Kurosawa's family are expected to be at the tribute.

The revered Japanese filmmaker's movies, like Red Beard and Seven Samurai, inspired moviemakers like Spielberg, Scorsese and George Lucas - and films like Star Wars, The Magnificent Seven and A Fistful of Dollars.

The director died in 1998. »

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