Colin Edwards·Aug 26‘Lipstick’ or — Altering Appearances?A 13 year old girl’s innocent crush on her older neighbour takes a decidedly more sinister tone when the body of a prostitute is discovered…
Colin Edwards·Oct 11, 2024‘A Man on His Knees’ or — Kafkaesque Neorealism?The dynamic energy of Damiano Damiani’s ‘A Man on His Knees’ (1979) is immediately apparent from the get-go as two frantic figures emerge…
Colin Edwards·Jan 30, 2024‘Goodbye and Amen’ or — A Hidden Gem of Hidden Games?Damiano Damiani’s ‘Goodbye and Amen’ (1978) opens in suitably deceptive fashion for a film about the secret services as we initially…
Colin Edwards·Aug 27, 2023‘How to Kill a Judge’ or — Deliberately Infuriating?It doesn’t take long for Damiano Damiani’s ‘How to Kill a Judge’ (1975) to get all ‘meta’ on our asses as it opens with Franco Nero…
Colin Edwards·Jul 31, 2023‘The Case is Closed: Forget It’ or — Nero’s Finest Hour?It wasn’t until I was halfway through Damiano Damiani’s ‘The Case is Closed: Forget It’ (1971) that I finally felt I had somewhat of a…
Colin Edwards·Jul 9, 2023‘The Day of the Owl’ or — Engagement Over Action?It opens with the killing of a truck driver for a construction site, his body left by the side of the road in the stark Sicilian…
