The Seduction of Mimi (or as the Italian title has it: 'Mimi the Metalworker, Wounded in Honor') is a 1972 Italian comedy drama film written and directed by Lina Wertmüller, starring Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Agostina Belli, Luigi Diberti, Elena Fiore, Tuccio Musumeci, Ignazio Pappalardo and Turi Ferro. It's a masterpiece and we talk about it.

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Big Deal on Madonna Street (I soliti ignoti) is a 1958 Italian comedy caper film directed by Mario Monicelli and one of the masterpieces of Italian cinema. Starring Totò, Claudia Cardinale, Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Carlo Pisacane, Tiberio Murgia, and Marcello Mastroianni.

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The Working Class Goes to Heaven (Italian: La classe operaia va in paradiso), released in the US as Lulu the Tool, is a 1971 Italian satirical political drama film directed by Elio Petri. It depicts a factory worker's realisation of his own condition as a simple tool in the process of production. The film was awarded the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film at the 25th Cannes Film Festival, sharing it with Francesco Rosi's The Mattei Affair.

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Salvatore Giuliano is a 1962 Italian drama film directed by Francesco Rosi. Using techniques of the documentary film, it recounts the criminal career of famous Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano between 1943 and 1950, his death. Nicholas Bell and John Bleasdale discuss the film.

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Ermanno Olmi's Tree of Wooden Clogs won the Palme d'Or at Cannes on its release in 1978 and tells the tale of a year in the life of a small village of peasant at the turn of the century in Bergamo. We discuss the masterpiece and its influence on world cinema.

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The Skin (La pelle) is a 1981 Italian war film directed by Liliana Cavani and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Burt Lancaster, Ken Marshall, Carlo Giuffrè and Claudia Cardinale from Curzio Malaparte's 1949 novel The Skin. It was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. And it is nuts.

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Oscar winning 2013 film The Great Beauty by Paolo Sorrentino and starring Tony Servillo is the subject of my conversation with Shawn Levy, the author of Dolce Vita Confidential and Clint, among many other great books.

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Spasmo is a 1974 Italian giallo film directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring Robert Hoffmann and Suzy Kendall. John Bleasdale and Nicholas Bell delve into its deeper mysteries and discover madness.

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