My favorite film from this course would have to be At War with Love or In Guerra per Amore. At War with Love is an Italian comedy set in the middle of World War II. Arturo is in love with Flora, but to marry her he requires her father’s permission. Her father lives in...

There were a large amount of films throughout the semester that we watched, and quite frankly I remember very few of them. Not due to them being terrible films, except for Tano da Morire  that movie was utter garbage and never deserved to be made, but because of my...

Women have been easily outnumbered by men throughout cinema, and films focused on organized crime are no different. While we've seen multiple women in the various films we have watched throughout the semester, very few were in main  or even prominent supporting roles....

I would say that of all the movies that we watched this semester, Placido Rizzotto was my favorite movie. The way in which the story is told through the old man storyteller, which I believe is Placido’s father but the details of his identity is irrelevant. What is...

After watching various films throughout the course, I have witnessed the role of women come change relatively a small amount. The primary role that women played was that as a mother or as a girlfriend to someone in the mafia and she typically has no power and no say....

I thoroughly enjoyed the variety of films we watched in class this semester making it difficult to pick my favorite. However, I had never previously watched The Godfather, but by the end of the semester I had re-watched the trilogy twice. The variety and depth of the...