Fast X (2023) Review
Fast X (2023) rates 2 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The tenth entry in a series that began with a film about stealing DVD players, costing around three hundred and forty million dollars, ending on a cliffhanger, and…
Filming Location: Rome
Films in this library shot in Rome, a city and a studio system, Cinecitta included. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.
ItalyCleopatra (1963) Review
Cleopatra (1963) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. It was budgeted at around two million dollars and cost forty-four, was the highest grossing film of its year and still did not break even, and Fox sold off…
ItalyThe Life Aquatic (2004) Review
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Anderson's least loved film and his saddest. A failing documentarian on a converted research vessel, hunting a shark that may not exist, and the…
ItalyLeviathan (1989) Review
Leviathan (1989) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. An underwater Alien with a good cast and a wrecked Soviet ship. One of three deep-sea monster films released in 1989, and the middle one.
GermanySuspiria (1977)
Dario Argento directs the giallo horror about an American dance student who discovers her German ballet academy is run by witches. Suspiria is Dario Argento's 1977 Italian horror film depicting an American ballet student who arrives at a prestigious German…
GermanyThe Name of the Rose (1986)
Jean-Jacques Annaud's 1986 Eco adaptation. Sean Connery as Franciscan monk investigating monastery murders.
Georgia
AustriaSpectre (2015)
2015 Sam Mendes Bond film with Craig. Christoph Waltz as Oberhauser-Blofeld, attempted retroactive franchise unification.
GeorgiaLa Dolce Vita (1960)
Fellini's 1960 Rome decadence drama. Three hours of Marcello Mastroianni drifting through high society.
ArizonaOnce Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Leone's 1968 spaghetti western. Bronson, Fonda as the villain, Cardinale.
GeorgiaBen-Hur (1959) Review
Ben-Hur is one of the great American historical epics and the production that established the commercial and creative ceiling for biblical-era cinema. He had directed Wuthering Heights, Mrs. Miniver, The Best Years of Our Lives, and various other major productions.
AtlantaBlack Widow (2021) Review
Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova carries a film that arrived too late to matter. The Phase Four opener that established the pattern of decorative empowerment.