Italy's cinema runs from the silent era spectacles to the genre explosions of the 1970s and 80s, when directors like Lucio Fulci turned horror into something deliriously unhinged. Cemetery Man and Nightmare City both sit in that proud tradition of Italian genre filmmaking that valued atmosphere and excess in equal measure. Browse Macca's reviews below.
Rating: 3.0★
Grief is one of the hardest things to put on film. Not because emotion resists the camera, but because the temptation to sentimentalise, to over-explain, to reach for easy catharsis, is almost irresistible. Jean-Marie Straub resists all of that in Artemide's Knee, a short film made
Rating: 2.5★
Sometimes the best way into a director's work is through a side door. A documentary about Roberto Rossellini sent me digging back into his films, and that led me straight to Germany, Year Zero. I'm glad I watched it. I'm also not sure I&
Rating: 2.0★
There's something genuinely fascinating about the idea of San Marinese cinema. San Marino, for those keeping track, is a tiny landlocked republic nestled inside Italy with a population smaller than a mid-sized English market town. Its cinematic output is, as you might expect, not exactly vast. So
5th Cinecitta Italian Doc Season
Roberto Rossellini did as much as anyone to change what cinema could be. The father of Italian neorealism, he dragged the camera out of the studio and into the rubble of a real, wounded country with Rome, Open City and Paisan, and the films he made went on to shape
5th Cinecitta Italian Doc Season
The Italian documentary maker Gianluca Matarrese has built a name on pointing his camera at people who soon forget it is there. With I Want Her Dead he plants himself inside one feuding family in a remote Calabrian village, where a woman named Luisa is at war with her mother,
Rating: 4.0★
There's a moment watching Grand Prix where you stop thinking about cinema entirely and just grip the armrest. John Frankenheimer mounted cameras directly onto the cars, put you inside the cockpit, and suddenly you're not sitting in a darkened room anymore. You're hurtling around
Rating: 3.5★
That closing scene. You know the one. A father sits with his son and says, without judgement, without awkwardness, exactly what any young person in pain needs to hear. It's one of the finest scenes I've watched in a very long time, and it alone would
Rating: 3.5★
There's a moment watching No Dogs or Italians Allowed when you realise you've stopped thinking about the craft and started feeling the story. That's the trick Alain Ughetto pulls off here, and it's no small thing. The film announces itself immediately as
Genre Horror
★★½ — Nightmare City (1980)
Genre Comedy
★½ — Cemetery Man (1994)
Genre Drama
★★½ — One Way or Another (1975)
Genre Animation
★★★ — Chicken for Linda! (2023)
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