Tag Archives: Mafia

At the Cinema | A Prophet – French prison drama is the new crime movie kingpin

Posted on 20 January 2010 by Jason Best

French director Jacques Audiard’s gripping prison drama A Prophet is a further sign that European cinema is currently giving Hollywood a hiding when it comes to making exciting and intelligent crime movies. In the last year or so, Italian Mafia … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Il Divo: The Spectacular Life of Giulio Andreotti – Out on DVD

Posted on 8 August 2009 by Jason Best

To Italians the British must appear rank amateurs when it comes to political corruption. While British MPs fall on their swords over piddling expenses claims, Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi remains serenely in power, impervious to reports of his buffoonish … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Il Divo – Surreal portrait of Giulio Andreotti, Italy’s puppet master

Posted on 20 March 2009 by Jason Best

With this surreal and sardonic, resolutely offbeat biopic of controversial Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, Paolo Sorrentino confirms his status as one of contemporary cinema’s most dazzling visual stylists. His subject is the sphinx-like figure who was at the heart of … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | Gomorrah

Posted on 9 February 2009 by Jason Best

  Young Italian journalist Roberto Saviano has been in hiding since his gripping exposé of the inner workings of the Naples Mafia, the Camorra, became a bestseller – and prompted the city’s gangsters to pass a death sentence on him. … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings – From Here to Eternity

Posted on 9 November 2008 by Beth Williams

On Five this afternoon at 2.25pm You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video The famous legend about this Oscar-winning film is that Frank Sinatra got his big movie role as Private Maggio because of his … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Gomorrah – Fear and violence in the heartland of the Naples Mafia

Posted on 10 October 2008 by Jason Best

Think of gangsters in the movies and you probably come up with images of the Mafia crime dynasty in the Godfather movies, of Al Pacino strutting in a flashy white suit in Scarface or of Scorsese’s brash mobsters in Goodfellas. … Continue reading →

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