The celebrated director of neoreliast masterpieces including Bicycle Thieves and Shoeshine Vittorio De Sica once again stuck gold in 1970. After ten years of trying he finally adapted Giorgio Bassani's celebrated novel to great acclaim and an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Set at the outbreak of War De Sica's film tells the story of the Finzi-Continis an aristocratic Jewish family protected by the walls of their idyllic estate. Whilst outside Mussolini bans Jews from tennis courts the Finzi-Continis are not worried as they rally on their own living in their dreamland. Giorgio (Lino Capolicchio) is the middle-class Jew in love with his childhood friend Micol (Dominique Sanda) of the Finzi-Contini family but she is in love with a gentile and wanting of experiences outlawed by the new government. With Giorgio's separation of Micol De Sica tracks the loss of an idyllic way of life from the tennis courts to the waiting rooms where Jews await transportation to the concentration camps. Arrow Academy presents Vittorio De Sica's autumnal masterpiece The Garden of the Finzi Contini on DVD for the first time in the UK.
Often mentioned yet rarely seen, director Pupi Avati's legendary cult horror masterpiece finally gets the release it deserves: restored and remastered under the director's supervision, it is presented with new audio, new improved subtitles plus a new exclusive interview with Avati - making this the definitive release of this exquisite masterpiece. Stefano, a young artist, arrives in a tranquil Italian village to restore the local church's fresco of the St. Sebastian martyr - depicting the s...
Luigi is on his way to Tuscany to attempt a reconciliation with his estranged father. En route he recounts to his children the history of their family and how it has been cursed ever since a French soldier fell in love with a beautiful peasant girl named Fiorile initiating a chain of events which changed the lives of all those around them.
When a young college professor (Lino Capolicchio of THE HOUSE WITH LAUGHING WINDOWS) returns home to visit his Catholic priest brother (Craig Hill of DRACULA VS FRANKENSTEIN) prominent members of the community begin to be stalked and slaughtered by an unknown killer. Can the brothers uncover the identity of this deranged fiend even while they are being tortured by their own nightmares of an unspeakable childhood trauma? Directed by Antonio Bido (WATCH ME WHEN I KILL) and known in Italy as SOLAMENTE NERO this suspenseful giallo co-stars Stefania Casini (SUSPIRIA) and Massimo Serato (KILLER NUN) and features one of the last scores arranged and performed by the legendary band Goblin (DEEP RED SUSPIRIA).
The canals of Venice might have been the basis for a red-coated killer in the classic ˜Don't Look Now' but that feels like a mere warm-up for the knife-play of ˜Bloodstained Shadow', a certified giallo masterpiece! Directed by Antonio Bido (Watch Me When I Kill), and starring the sensational Stefania Casini (Suspiria), the story focuses on a slew of slayings that all point towards someone harbouring some particularly horrifying past secrets. With all of the stylish black-gloved mayhem that the Italians specialise in, Bloodstained Shadow is a crimson-caked crime-thriller in the tradition of Dario Argento.
A remote Italian village harbours unspeakable secrets as young Stefano (Lino Capolicchio) discovers when he arrives to restore a local church's decaying painted fresco depicting the slaughter of St. Sebastian. Townspeople whisper that the original artist painted directly from real life with models tortured and murdered all in the name of art. Suddenly a new terrifying chain of murders begins and Stefano finds himself caught in a chilling web of madness and unspeakable horror from which he may never escape! This exquisite masterpiece of Italian horror seethes with menacing atmosphere and diabolical plot twists guaranteed to haunt your dreams.
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