Versatile Italian director and screenwriter Alberto Lattuada, who poignantly depicted changing social and sexual customs in postwar Italy, died in Rome July 3 after a long illness. He was 90. Milan ...

The restoration of “Mafioso” is more than the return of an enjoyable, not-quite-classic movie from a great era in Italian film. This restoration also pays tribute to two major talents who deserve more ...

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The early 1960s were exceptionally rich for Italian cinema. Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Luchino Visconti were almost routinely turning out masterpieces, while Marcello Mastroianni was ...

The film, based on the novel by Emilio De Marchi, tells the story of Giacomo (Massimo Serato) who is the pivot between his own family of humble means and the aristocratic Magnenzio family. A veteran ...

'Mafioso' Comedy. Starring Alberto Sordi, Norma Bengell. Directed by Alberto Lattuada. In Italian with subtitles. (Not rated. 105 minutes. At the Lumiere and Berkeley Shattuck.) If you crossed "Meet ...

I went to the Times Cinema on Saturday to see Alberto Lattuada’s 1962 film “Mafioso,” which is as unlike any Hollywood mob flick you’ve ever seen. Sadly, I was one of seven people who made that choice ...