47 years ago:
One Way or Another (IT,FR)
Original title: Todo modo
Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.
1976-04-30
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/47096
#OneWayorAnother #ElioPetri #GianMariaVolonté #MarcelloMastroianni #MariangelaMelato #ClassicMovies

61 years ago:
His Days Are Numbered (IT)
Original title: I giorni contati
A middle-aged plumber quits his job and questions his life after seeing somebody his own age suddenly die from a heart attack on his way to work.
1962-04-05
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/62243
#HisDaysAreNumbered #ElioPetri #SalvoRandone #VittorioCaprioli #AngelaMinervini #ClassicFilm

Latest addition to my blu-ray collection: "Investigtion of A Citizen Above Suspicion" directed by Elio Petri. Also recommended is "The Working Class Goes To Heaven", also from Petri, and available on blu-ray from those fine folks at Radiance Films.
#ElioPetri #Film

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
Elio Petri

A police investigator murders his girlfriend and is put in charge of investigating the crime. As his underlings offer up various innocent scapegoats he keeps rejecting their suggestions The great ambiguity of the film is it's never clear that he's doing this out of guilt or malicious bullying of his colleagues.

Though paranoia is an intoxicating celebration of politics my taste leans towards farce, and this is very brilliant and dark.

#film #ElioPetri #InvestigationOfACitizenAboveSuspicion #farce #politics #police #criminalInvestigation #CrimeFiction

8Hertz – Ascolti Cinematografici. Podcast della puntata del 27/09/2018 https://wombat.noblogs.org/2018/09/28/8hertz-ascolti-cinematografici-podcast-della-puntata-del-27-09-2018/ #thetexaschainsawmassacre #harrydeanstenton #antoniosanchez #experimental #soundtrack #tobehooper #eliopetri #podcast #8Hertz #8hertz #8hertz #music #film #ost