"Audiences need to see violence in certain movies," the Italian director Fernando Di Leo said of his work. "It's a way to de-stress." Di Leo should know. As a scriptwriter, he helped bring us the spaghetti western classics "For a Few Dollars" and "For a Few Dollars More," seminal works in the strain of brutal-yet-stylized violence that fills our … [Read more...]
‘The Passenger’: Antonioni’s rocky road movie
Jack Nicholson says the making of Michelangelo Antonioni's "The Passenger" was "the biggest adventure in filming I ever had in my life." That's saying plenty and probably explains why the actor did his first solo commentary for the DVD. "It's very hard for me to separate the experience of making the movie from the movie itself," he says. For the … [Read more...]
