Bombolini (Anthony Quinn) is a wine merchant but known to be the boozy fool/sot in the small Italian town of Santa Vittoria in the closing days of World War II. When Fabio (Giancarlo Giannini) shouts the news of Benito Mussolini’s death and the surrender of the Fascist government in the summer of 1943, Bombolini climbs [...]

The first shot of “A Good Year” looks like a Monet painting – all lily pads, aging architecture and lemon sunsets – and the sights only get better from there. With Freddie Highmore playing Max as a boy in flashbacks, Maximillian Skinner spent his summers in France with his eccentric bachelor uncle (Albert Finney), playing [...]

The 1995 film, “A Walk in the Clouds”, is done in the old-fashioned Romantic Melodramatic style of the 1940s and 1950s – set on a beautiful Napa Valley vineyard. “A Walk in the Clouds” is based upon Alessandro Blasetti’s 1942 Italian Neorealism drama film “Quattro Passi Fra le Nuvole” (“Four Steps in the Clouds”), and [...]