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Saint Philip Neri: I Prefer Heaven (Italian: Preferisco il Paradiso) is a 2010 Italian television movie written and directed by Giacomo Campiotti. The film is based on real life events of Roman Catholic priest and then Saint Philip Neri .
The film was made for the Italian TV station RAI with an agreement that it would be released simultaneously as a cinema feature. [2] RAI and co-producer Leone Film compromised on its release, with RAI broadcasting it on Christmas Day, 1970, and Leone Film releasing it theatrically in Italy the following day, December 26, 1970.
The Cursed Medallion was released in Italy as Il medaglione insanguinato (Perché?!) on 22 May 1975 where it was distributed by Italian International Film. [1] It was released in the United States in March 1976. [1] The film has had the English-language titles The Night Child and The Cursed Medallion. [1]
The original version of the movie is spoken in Lombard (the Bergamasque variety, an Eastern Lombard dialect). In 2008, the film was included in the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage 's 100 Italian Films to be Saved , recognising it as one of the films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."
The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist (Italian: Il cinico, l'infame, il violento, lit. 'The Cynic, the Infamous, the Violent') is an Italian poliziotteschi film directed in 1977 by Umberto Lenzi and third entry into the Tanzi/Moretto/Monnezza shared universe [2] [time needed] as well as serving as a direct sequel to The Tough Ones.
Il bell'Antonio ("Handsome Antonio") is a 1960 Italian-French drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini and starring Marcello Mastroianni and Claudia Cardinale. [1] It is based on the novel of the same name by Vitaliano Brancati and was adapted for the screen by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Gino Visentini, moving the novel's setting during Italy's fascist era to the present.
In 1986, Kim Newman (Monthly Film Bulletin) described the film as an "ill-advised imitation of Tinto Brass' already soporific and offensive La Chiave ()" [4] Newman noted that D'Amato's cinematography was "more careful than usual even attempting some genuine artiness" but that his "porno style hasn't changed since the days when he would churn out ten Em(m)anuelle films a year."
Uccidete il vitello grasso e arrostitelo (internationally released as Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It) is a 1970 Italian giallo film directed by Salvatore Samperi. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Plot