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  • The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971)

    The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971)
    2026/04/27

    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.

    You can buy John's novel Connery here.


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    39 分
  • Salvatore Giuliano (1962)

    Salvatore Giuliano (1962)
    2026/04/20

    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.

    Connery a novel is available here.


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    44 分
  • The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)

    The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
    2026/04/11

    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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    44 分
  • The Skin (1981)

    The Skin (1981)
    2026/04/04

    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.

    Get your copy of Connery: A Novel by John Bleasdale here.

    Find Nicholas' review at Fish Jelly Films Here.


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    1 時間 4 分
  • The Great Beauty (2013) with Shawn Levy

    The Great Beauty (2013) with Shawn Levy
    2026/03/28

    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.

    John Bleasdale's Connery the Novel is available HERE.


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    1 時間 4 分
  • Spasmo (1974)

    Spasmo (1974)
    2026/03/22

    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.

    Music by Two Minute Noodles.

    Find Nicholas Bell and Joseph's Fish Jelly film review channel here.

    Connery: a Novel by John Bleasdale is available here.


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    37 分
  • All the Colors of the Dark (1972)

    All the Colors of the Dark (1972)
    2026/03/14

    Nicholas Bell and John Bleasdale pry into All the Colors of the Dark, a 1972 giallo film directed by Sergio Martino and starring George Hilton, Edwige Fenech, Ivan Rassimov, Julián Ugarte, George Rigaud, Susan Scott and Marina Malfatti.

    Music by Two Minute Noodles.

    Find Nicholas Bell and Joseph's Fish Jelly film review channel here.

    Connery: a Novel by John Bleasdale is available here.


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    28 分
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

    Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
    2025/12/24

    Another chance to hear one of the most popular episodes of Cinema Italia, recorded in 2023.

    Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom was released in 1975 and became an instant milestone in the cinema of transgression. A political fable, it tells the story of four men who in the waning days of Fascist Italy retire to a villa to enjoy their perversions and sadism at the expense of the young people they have captured. Torture, rape, murder and degradation are explicitly depicted in a way that remains shocking to this day. I talk with Jason Wood, author and film programmer for the BFI, about this electrifying, challenging film. The Music for the podcast is provided by Two Minute Noodles and more can be found here.


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    59 分