POP! SIX! SQUISH! CICERO! LIPSCHITZ!

JULIET OF THE SPIRITS (FEDERICO FELLINI, 1965)

L’Inferno (Italy 1911)

L'Inferno is a 1911 Italian silent film, loosely adapted from Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. L'Inferno took over three years to make, and was the first full-length Italian feature film.[2] (The Story of the Kelly Gang, released in Australia in 1906, is the first full-length film).

L'Inferno was first screened in Naples in the Teatro Mercadante on March 10, 1911.[2] An international success, it took in more than $2 million in the United States, where its length gave theater owners an excuse for raising ticket prices.[3]For this reason, L'Inferno was arguably the first true blockbuster in all of cinema. Today it is regarded by many scholars as the finest film adaptation of any of Dante’s works to date.

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L'inferno (1911) Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe de Liguoro

Le Rempart des béguines - Guy Casaril - 1972 - France/Italy

Un pò di Giappone  1992 Enrica and Michelangelo Antonioni

Some of my favorite Giallo final girls (the ones that didn’t end up secretly being the killer or dying at the end of their film)

Deborah (Carroll Baker) - The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)

Julie Wardh (Edwige Fenech) - The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1970)

Cleo DuPont (Anita Strindberg) - The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail (1971)

Julie/Mary Harrison (Carroll Baker) - The Devil with Seven Faces (1971)

Greta Franklin (Barbara Bouchet) - Amuck! (1971)

Giulia Torresi (Uschi Glas) - Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972)

Jane Harrison (Edwige Fenech) - All the Colors of the Dark (1972)

Eleanor Lorraine (Anne Heywood) - The Killer is on the Telephone (1972)

Valentina (Nieves Navarro) - Death Walks at Midnight (1972)

Kitty Wildenbrück (Barbara Bouchet) - The Red Queen Kills 7 Times (1972)

Jennifer Lansbury (Edwige Fenech) - The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972)

Jane (Suzy Kendall) - Torso (1973)

Sara Grimaldi (Senta Berger) - Puzzle (1974)

Simona Sanna (Mimsy Farmer) - Autopsy (1975)

Virginia Ducci (Jennifer O’Neill) - The Psychic (1977)

Satan’s Rhapsody (1917, Italy) Dir. Nino Oxilia

Satan’s Rhapsody (1917, Italy) Dir. Nino Oxilia

Spirits of the Dead, “Toby Dammit” (1968)

by Federico Fellini

SUBLIME CINEMA #428 - BLOOD AND BLACK LACE

Mario Bava knew how to spend a few bucks wisely- his giallo movies were visually tripped out, and lots of fun. He started out as a cinematographer, so he focused his efforts on design flair and dispensing with bodies creatively, almost always at the expense of narrative. 

SUBLIME CINEMA #434 - JULIET OF THE SPIRITS

Dio, come ti amo 

Barbara Jefford and Pasquale Zito in And the Ship Sails On (1983) dir. Federico Fellini

Cinematography by Giuseppe Rotunno

Juliet of the Spirits (1965)

Anna Magnani in Filmfare magazine.

Federico Fellini and Marcello Mastroianni playing themselves in Ettore Scola’s C'eravamo Tanti Amati (1974)

Escalation (1968)