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19 May 2012 11:11 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »

Romeo and Juliet: Hailee Steinfeld, Douglas Booth Starring Lol‘s Douglas Booth and True Grit‘s Hailee Steinfeld, a new version of Romeo and Juliet is currently being shopped around at the Cannes Film Festival. Partly financed by Austrian design house Swarovski, this latest adaptation of Shakespeare’s love story was written by Academy Award winner Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park) and directed by Carlo Carlei. A Best New Director David di Donatello nominee for The Flight of the Innocent (1993), Carlei’s previous English-language foray, the Matthew Modine vehicle Fluke, was a major box-office flop in 1995. In recent years, Carlei has worked on Italian television; his most recent TV movie was a remake of Roberto Rossellini’s Il General della Rovere (2011), starring Pierfrancesco Favino in the old Vittorio De Sica role. According to the Los Angeles Times blog 24 Frames, producer Ileen Maisel wants “every teenager in the world to come see” Romeo and Juliet. »

- Andre Soares

26 January 2012 6:05 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

2011 was a banner year for Vittorio De Sica fans.  Kino International released four Blu-rays of his '60s work and Arrow Academy released Bicycle Thieves on Blu-ray and Il Generale Della Rovere & The Garden of the Finzi-Continis on DVD, and now they're starting off 2012 right with more De Sica.  Miracle In Milan is the first post-Bicycle Thieves film from De Sica, and one that has never been available on Us DVD, but Arrow Academy are preparing a fantastic edition on Blu-ray for the UK.  The film will be presented in HD with some great extras, including De Sica's 1956 feature Il Tetto (The Roof) which has also never made it to Us or UK DVD.  What a great way to celebrate the master! »

9 January 2012 10:21 AM, PST | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »

Her Private Hell is a cautionary tale of an innocent girl abroad caught up in London’s sleazy world of modelling, and was Britain’s first narrative sex film. Previously unreleased, it finally comes to DVD and Blu-ray for the first time on 20th February 2012 in a Dual Format Edition on the BFI’s celebrated Flipside label. The new, director-approved High Definition transfer is accompanied by a wealth of rare and fascinating extra features and a comprehensive booklet.

Starring the Italian actress Lucia Modugno (Il generale Della Rovere, Danger: Diabolik), and directed by Norman J. Warren (Satan’s Slave, Prey, Terror), Her Private Hell put Britain on the map in the realm of home- grown adult features. The storyline features beautiful but naïve Marisa who arrives from the continent for a job as a fashion model, but soon discovers she’s being groomed for a different purpose.

By the late 1960s, »

- Phil

3 items from 2012