Italian Retrospective #2: I Cento Passi (The Hundred Steps)
cutprintreview.com 4/5/2009 — The true story of Peppino Impastato remains one of modern Italy’s most important. Now considered a key historical figure from the 1970’s, his legacy was further entrenched in the hearts and minds of Italians with the biographical tale I Cento Passi ( The Hundred Steps ). The anti-mafia ...

Italian Retrospective #4: La Finestra di Fronte (Facing Windows)
cutprintreview.com 5/6/2009 — If Italian culture is to help create a new national identity in the wake of the country’s history, then within that the idea of the ‘Other’ must come to the front. Those not considered to be ‘normal’ have faced prejudice from their own and have been outcast from society, as with ...

Italian Retrospective #6: La Stanza Del Figlio (The Son’s Room)
cutprintreview.com 5/29/2009 — The history of a national cinema often reflects the history of the country itself. Right now we can argue that Italy’s (general) media is almost monopolised through former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi’s Finnivest empire, but cinema as a separate entity has passed through powers such as ...