Paolo Ricci Movies
This convoluted actioner is set in beautiful Cancun, Mexico and centers upon a voracious gigantic one-eyed shark, stolen diamonds, a sunken ship, a murdered brother and corporate villains. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1987
Here's one for the ecologists of the world. The Dolphin is nothing more or less than the story of a libidinous sea mammal! Walter Lima Jr., former Brazilian journalist and "auteur" of Brasil Anno 2000 (1969) and Xico Rei (1982), has cooked up the weird tale of a dolphin who, by the light of the full moon, transforms into a man. In this guise, he wriggles his way through a fishing village, mystically arousing the libido of every human female in sight. Normally, the other men in the village wouldn't mind -- except that every time the dolphin-man arrives, he scares away the fish. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Carlos Alberto Riccelli, Cassia Kiss, (more)
- 1985
Filmed in 1982 and never released theatrically in the U.S., this fantasy-adventure film revolves around an epic battle between the forces of good and evil, culminating in the struggle for a legendary throne. Good is personified by Siegfried (Peter McCoy, aka Pietro Torrisi), who has been granted the temporary power of invisibility and whose sorcerer-father makes him about as invulnerable as Superman. Siegfried's enemy is the evil Morak (Harrison Muller), offspring of Satan's messenger Belial (Muller again) and an evil witch. If Morak is not able to marry Princess Valkari (Sabrina Siani) before he gains the throne, it will become a literal hot seat and consume him in flames. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sabrina Siani, Peter McCoy, (more)
- 1983
In a confusing plot that seems to skip a few vital points, three men fight together to rescue children in a region near the Lao-Thai-Cambodian border. Then Paolo (Woody Strode) turns against his two buddies and sets up shop running arms for the KGB and drugs for the Mafia. Eventually, one of the three buddies comes hunting for Strode to offer him a better deal: the U.S. government will give him even more money for what he is selling. Before a huge question mark can be raised over this twist, the three former buddies are back together again and out on another mission. Logic might have been a good ingredient to add here, anywhere. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Henry Silva, Harrison Muller, (more)
- 1983
Nostalghia is Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky's enigmatic work about a writer (Oleg Yankovsky) who, trapped by his fame and an unhappy marriage, seeks out his cultural past in Italy. Here he meets Erland Josephson, a local pariah who declares that the world is coming to an end. The writer finds this prophecy curiously more alluring than the possibility of a dead-end future. Nostalghia won the Grand Prix de Creation and the International Critics Prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano, (more)
- 1983
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Cult filmmaker Sergio Martino directed this violent sci-fi actioner, one of many to pour out of Italy in the wake of Mad Max (1979). Michael Sopkiw stars as Parsifal, who travels to New York in order to rescue the last fertile woman on Earth following a nuclear holocaust. Graphic scenes of rape and murder await the viewer, as well as rats, midgets, and subway-riding revolutionaries. Edmund Purdom and Luigi Montefiori (aka "George Eastman") are among the familiar supporting cast. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Michael Sopkiw, Valentine Monnier, (more)
- 1982
The time is the late 1920s, and Angelo (Massimo Ranieri) and Tonino (Paolo Ricci) are two brothers traveling around the country in a rattle-trap truck, showing moving pictures to any group of people willing to pay. When they arrive in the region of Emilia-Romagna, Angelo strikes up a relationship with a wealthy marchesa connected to the fascist movement. Tonino, on the other hand, starts to follow the rebellious Giovanni (William Berger), locked up for his anti-fascist stance, and the farmers who have joined in the anti-fascist forces. As the rebels are either murdered or put in prison, Tonino becomes more and more commited to their cause - especially after Giovanni is killed. When a silent movie on the condemned and dying Christ is shown on the brothers' screen, Tonino stops the action to project some slides he has taken that show who murdered Giovanni - in an action that calls for his brother and the rest of the bystanders to finally make a decision on where to place their loyalties. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Massimo Ranieri, Monica Guerritore, (more)
Italian goremeister Lucio Fulci applies his characteristic touch to the Edgar Allan Poe tale (of which very little remains intact) to tell the story of a deranged, wheelchair-bound English psychic (Patrick Magee) who can record the voices of the dead on tape, and apparently possesses the ability to channel evil spirits into the body of his cat -- which he then commands to take vengeance on his enemies. When a freelance crime photographer (Mimsy Farmer) notices traces of feline claw-marks on the bodies of accident victims, her own investigations eventually lead her to Magee's naughty kitty... leading to a confusing climax wherein it is learned (sort of) who's really in charge. Remarkably restrained horror from the man behind such flesh-rending epics as Zombie and The Gates of Hell, this is also nearly incomprehensible, possessing a nightmarish lack of cohesion that is more irritating than frightening. In fact, the most horrifying thing about this film is Fulci's aggressive tendency to shoot super-tight widescreen close-ups of Magee's eyes and nose. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Patrick Magee, Mimsy Farmer, (more)
A courageous mercenary journeys to the New Guinea jungle to find a missing young woman. He brings with him an expert on the terrain and with only a rotting, super-8 film to guide them, they try to figure out where she is. As they make the dangerous journey, they must deal with hungry cannibals and a crazed religious zealot. This Italian horror adventure is filled with blood, gore, and violence that includes the killing of real animals. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Janet Agren, Mel Ferrer, (more)
- 1966
Stuck in a dream world of his own, Italian sculptor Albert Saporito (Marcello Mastroianni) sometimes has difficulty separating truth from fiction. When he dreams that his gangster neighbor has been murdered, he reports the crime to the police, only to involve himself in a complicated situation. This film is in Italian with English subtitles. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marcello Mastroianni, Raquel Welch, (more)
