Inspector Montalbano - Volume 1
[ HiGloss DVD / 3 DVD - released 12/Apr/2018 ] Set in a fictitious Sicilian seaside town called Vigata, Inspector Montalbano is a series of feature length films based on the writings of Andrea Camilleri. Salvo Montalbano is a brilliant character who stands alone in the history of detective... |
Inspector Montalbano - Volume 3
[ HiGloss DVD / 2 DVD - released 12/Oct/2017 ] Based in the Sicilian town of Vigata, Montalbano is a character developed by writer Andrea Camilleri. 4 brand new feature length episodes. There's no-one else quite like Montalbano - he's a gourmand, he's terrified of flying, he dresses elegantly,... |
Loro
[ Palace Films DVD / DVD - released 5/Dec/2019 ] Seduction, glamour, corruption, drugs and raucous poolside parties: the life and times of scandal-plagued Silvio Berlusconi have long-demanded a screen depiction, and who else to deliver it than Paolo Sorrentino, the Academy Award-winning director of... |
Mia Madre (My Mother)
[ Palace Films DVD / DVD - released 13/Oct/2016 ] Margherita (Buy) is directing a new social drama, set against the backdrop of an industrial dispute. Try as she may to remain professional, the emotional turmoil of her private life is taking a toll: an affair with one of her actors (Enrico... |
My Big Gay Italian Wedding
[ Palace Films / DVD - released 7/Nov/2019 ] When baby-faced Antonio (Cristiano Caccamo) pops the question to his boyfriend Paolo (Salvatore Esposito) in their Berlin apartment just before Easter, things take an awkward turn... it becomes apparent that Antonio hasn't come out to his parents.... |
Where Am I Going?
[ Palace Films / DVD - released 13/Apr/2017 ] Not many films can boast the near equivalent of Star Wars: The Force Awakens' three-week ticket sales in its first weekend, but that's exactly what WHERE AM I GOING? achieved when it opened in Italy earlier this year. Indeed, this hilarious comedy... |
ENNIO MORRICONE / NINO ROTA / PAOLO SILVESTRI / GATO BARBIERI
Postcards From Italy: Italian Music For Film Marco Albonetti (saxophone), Roma Sinfonietta, Paolo Silvestri [ Chandos / CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] For his third album for Chandos, the saxophonist Marco Albonetti turns to the rich tradition of film music from his native Italy. Marco writes: 'Film music has been described as the defining new genre of classical music in the twentieth century. It... |
Agatha and the Storm
[ Palace Films / DVD - released 21/Aug/2008 ] As the proprietor of a bookstore in Genoa, the warm and intelligent Agatha (Licia Maglietta) dispenses literary wisdom to her adoring customers. When a younger man heeds her advice on books and falls madly in love with her, Agatha revels in the... |
Angela
[ Palace Films Collection / DVD - released 13/Nov/2008 ] "I already knew the story: I like the world of delinquents, for me they were like heroes... Maybe because I came from a world of respectable people, who had steady jobs. I wanted to see the violence... I wanted to see what was behind it all..."... |
Angels Of Evil
[ Madman / DVD - released 13/Jun/2013 ] In the tradition of GOMORRAH and THE GODFATHER comes ANGELS OF EVIL, the true story of Italy's most notorious gangsters. Renato Vallanzasca graduated from petty larceny as a teenager growing up in the 70s and 80s to become one of Milan's most... |