The American Backyard (L’orto Americano) had its UK première 8 March at the Glasgow Film Festival for FrightFest Pupi Avati’s The American Backyard (L’orto Americano) opens with monochrome file footage of the Allied liberation of Rome amid cheering crowds, and of Allied tanks entering the streets of Bologna. “During the war, my mother cut my…
The House With Laughing Windows (La casa dalle finestre che ridono) first published by EyeforFilm, 24 Sept, 2006 Although Italy’s homegrown film genre of sensationalist thrills and masked kills has always been painted deep red, its collective name, giallo, is the Italian for ‘yellow’, from the distinctive colour of the sleeves that bound popular editions…