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Tag Archives: Mafia
At the Cinema | A Prophet – French prison drama is the new crime movie kingpin
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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Tagged A Prophet, Gomorrah, Jacques Audiard, Mafia, Mesrine, Michael Mann, Niels Arestrup, prison movie, Public Enemies, Tahar Rahim
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The Best view | Il Divo: The Spectacular Life of Giulio Andreotti – Out on DVD
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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Tagged expenses scandal, Giulio Andreotti, Il Divo, Mafia, Martin Scorsese, Masonic lodge, MPs, P2, Paolo Sorrentino, Silvio Berlusconi, Toni Servillo
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The Best view | Il Divo – Surreal portrait of Giulio Andreotti, Italy’s puppet master
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
Out on DVD | Gomorrah
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
Couch Potato Pickings – From Here to Eternity
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
The Best view | Gomorrah – Fear and violence in the heartland of the Naples Mafia
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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Tagged Al Pacino, Alan Clarke, Camorra, City of God, Elephant, Fernando Meireilles, Francis Coppola, Godfather, Gomorrah, Goodfellas, Mafia, Oscars, Roberto Saviano
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