Your ‘I Love Italian Movies’ Checklist

You love Italian movies too? Here’s what you need to do RIGHT NOW.

1) See Paolo Virzì’s film that is Italy’s submission to the Oscar, Il Capitale Umano.

Become a fan of the film and watch for it in your town!

READ MY REVIEW OF IL CAPITALE UMANO, HUMAN CAPITAL

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2) See director Roberto Ando’s ‘Viva La Libertà’, in theaters around the country soon.

c_La-Mafia-Uccide-Solo-D-Estate_articolo2 — La Mafia Uccide Solo D’Estate

3) Watch for European film award comedy La Mafia Uccide Solo D’Estate (The Mafia Only Kills in the Summer) from director and Italian TV star Pif.

READ MY REVIEW OF LA MAFIA UCCIDE SOLO D’ESTATE

and LAST BUT NOT LEAST

4) Help Dario Argento make his movie, The Sandman, starring Iggy Pop, with crowdfunding.

I’m in, and I’m as almost excited about the perks for contributing as I am about the film! I’m getting a Fandor.com membership, the film production diary, the first 10 pages of the script autographed with anything I want (within reason and good taste), a digital download of the film, a special thank you credit, a crew and cast t-shirt a poster of THE SANDMAN, autographed by the Godfather of Punk, IGGY himself!

CONTRIBUTE NOW

From their website:

Friends! Romans! Countrymen! Lend us your… eyes — while you still have them, that is — and look over our Indiegogo campaign, to ensure that The Maestro (of Terror), Dario Argento, and The Godfather (of Punk) Iggy Pop have a free reign to make this next horror film a true masterpiece for the ages!

**Beware The Sandman!**

Going back to the dark, original German legend: the REAL Sandman was someone who stole the eyes of any children that wouldn’t just close them and go to sleep… he’d then go feed them to his hungry children on the moon. How’s that for a bedtime story? To share this tale in a contemporary way that only Dario Argento can offer, we’ve carefully crafted a script like none other.

Our film tells the story of Nathan, a young student in the city who struggles to forget his childhood trauma at the hands of the serial killer dubbed “The Sandman”: a masked killer who murders his victims with a lethally jagged melon spoon (yes, you read that right!), and claims their eyes as trophies. Nathan killed The Sandman years ago, on Christmas Eve, after he witnessed the murder of his mother, and the nightmare seems to be buried in the past … until he sees the beautiful woman who lives in the apartment across the way dying at the hands of that very same masked killer. This brutal murder plunges Nathan into an odyssey into the night country of his past, his dreams…and the buried secrets of… you guessed it!… The Sandman, who’s on the hunt again.

There have been few voices in film history as unique as Dario Argento, The Maestro of Suspense! He influenced directors such as John Carpenter, Tim Burton, Brian DePalma, David Lynch, and James Wan, to name only a few, but now it’s time to influence so many more.

The Sandman will be Giallo for a new millennium!

And this time, he’s bringing a very special guest along for the ride: none other than bonafide, card-carrying, officially-certified Rock Legend Iggy Pop.

Who better than The Godfather of Punk to give life and voice to The Maestro’s latest act of horror? During his extraordinary musical career, this Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, who gave the world such timeless songs as “Lust For Life,” “I Wanna Be Your Dog” “and The Passenger,” has previously collaborated as an actor with the likes of Jim Jarmusch and John Waters. Ah, but for Iggy to work with Dario — this a dream come true, courtesy of The Sandman!