Kino Lorber is having a spring sale on action movies, and it includes many of the films of Italian director Fernando Di Leo.
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Kino Lorber is having a spring sale on action movies, and it includes many of the films of Italian director Fernando Di Leo. If you're not familiar with Di Leo you should be, because his movies are -- how do I say this -- COMPLETELY FUCKING INSANE. And I mean this in the best possible way; they are wildly fun, a pure gas from start to finish, completely unbound from the constraints of logic or taste.
If you are interested in a place to start with Di Leo, his "Milieu Trilogy" (CALIBER 9, THE ITALIAN CONNECTION, THE BOSS) is what you are looking for.
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Kino Lorber is having a spring sale on action movies, and it includes many of the films of Italian director Fernando Di Leo. If you're not familiar with Di Leo you should be, because his movies are -- how do I say this -- COMPLETELY FUCKING INSANE. And I mean this in the best possible way; they are wildly fun, a pure gas from start to finish, completely unbound from the constraints of logic or taste.
If you are interested in a place to start with Di Leo, his "Milieu Trilogy" (CALIBER 9, THE ITALIAN CONNECTION, THE BOSS) is what you are looking for.
To show you what I mean, let me tell you about the first five minutes of Di Leo's THE BOSS (1973).
We see a bunch of Mafioso types pile into a movie theater. They have the place to themselves. Their dialogue tells us they are there to watch a porno movie.
Then we see B-movie stalwart Henry Silva. He is dressed in a workman's jumpsuit and carrying a big case. We watch him infiltrate the building.
He gets into the room where the projector is, and opens the case. Oh, we think, he's a hit man. He's gonna shoot those guys.
But that's not exactly what happens. Because inside the case is
A
GRENADE
LAUNCHER
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To show you what I mean, let me tell you about the first five minutes of Di Leo's THE BOSS (1973).
We see a bunch of Mafioso types pile into a movie theater. They have the place to themselves. Their dialogue tells us they are there to watch a porno movie.
Then we see B-movie stalwart Henry Silva. He is dressed in a workman's jumpsuit and carrying a big case. We watch him infiltrate the building.
He gets into the room where the projector is, and opens the case. Oh, we think, he's a hit man. He's gonna shoot those guys.
But that's not exactly what happens. Because inside the case is
A
GRENADE
LAUNCHER
(But you don't have to take my word for it, someone has put THE BOSS up on YouTube in its entirety)
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Kino Lorber is having a spring sale on action movies, and it includes many of the films of Italian director Fernando Di Leo. If you're not familiar with Di Leo you should be, because his movies are -- how do I say this -- COMPLETELY FUCKING INSANE. And I mean this in the best possible way; they are wildly fun, a pure gas from start to finish, completely unbound from the constraints of logic or taste.
If you are interested in a place to start with Di Leo, his "Milieu Trilogy" (CALIBER 9, THE ITALIAN CONNECTION, THE BOSS) is what you are looking for.
@jalefkowit
Thanks, I've added it to my wish list -
Kino Lorber is having a spring sale on action movies, and it includes many of the films of Italian director Fernando Di Leo. If you're not familiar with Di Leo you should be, because his movies are -- how do I say this -- COMPLETELY FUCKING INSANE. And I mean this in the best possible way; they are wildly fun, a pure gas from start to finish, completely unbound from the constraints of logic or taste.
If you are interested in a place to start with Di Leo, his "Milieu Trilogy" (CALIBER 9, THE ITALIAN CONNECTION, THE BOSS) is what you are looking for.
@jalefkowit i think early exposure to Di Leo gave me unrealistic expectations for how good the average bad italian film could be
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