- In the titillating Italian sex comedy Cugini carnali (1974), there isn't much to do in the sleepy rural hamlet that Nico (Alfredo Pea) calls home. As a result, there's a lot of sleeping around to stave off the boredom. Unfortunately the bashful Nico doesn't get nearly as much action as he'd like. Enter Sonja: The beaut…
- Straub-Huillet’s first color film, Othon (Les yeux ne veulent pas en tout temps se fermer, ou Peut-être qu’un jour Rome se permettra de choisir à son tour) adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an e…
- Set during the Mussolini years, Open Doors stars Gian Maria Volonte as an old-line judge. Volonte tries to remain faithful to the letter of the law, despite the "improvements" made by the Fascists. His insistence upon justice over dogma results in government reprimands, and ultimately poses a threat to Volont…