Tag: Raf Vallone

Bitter Rice (Blu-ray) (Criterion Collection)

Exciting, sexy and voyeuristic, 1949’s Bitter Rice (aka Risa Amoro) was a clear move away from the neorealism movement in post war Italy. Just 32 when the film was released, director Giuseppe De Santis gave viewers something to thinking about,

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Blu-ray Review: Harlow

Released in 1964, Harlow: An Intimate Biography, co-written by Irving Shulman and Jean Harlow’s one-time agent Arthur Landau, hit the best seller lists and became one of the hottest books of the year. Critically panned and the subject of several

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