Recent Feeds + Reads

Here’s the list of films:

• L’avventura (1960)
• La Dolce Vita (1960)
• Blood and Black Lace aka Sei donne per l’assassino (1964)
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
• The Leopard (1963)
• Bicycle Thieves (1948)
• Divorce Italian Style (1961)
• The Conformist (1970)
• Caro diario (1993)
• 8½ (1963)

Maybe I’m biased, but arguably there are more than ten essential Italian films. Here are some of my picks to add:

• L’eclisse (1962)
• I Vitelloni (1953)
• Cinema Paradiso (1988)
• Malèna (2000)
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
• Rome, Open City (1945)
• Ossessione (1943)
• Umberto D. (1952)
• The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
• Life Is Beautiful (1997)