Celluloid Apocalypse Release Eurocrime
The Celluloid Apocalypse is finally upon us! Mike Malloy’s documentary EUROCRIME! THE ITALIAN COP AND GANGSTER FILMS THAT RULED THE 70’s is coming to VHS, everyone’s favourite Home Entertainment format.
To celebrate the release of this fine film, Culloid Apocalypse like to invite you to a very special screening of the documentary at Loop Bar in Melbourne. It’s completely free and completely awesome.
Doors open at 6:30 for a 7:30 start.
The film will be available on VHS for purchase on the night!
But that’s not all folks! The following Wednesdays in June (the 22nd and the 29th) Celluloid Apocalypse will be screening some of the fantastic films mentioned in the doco. Check out the below links.
22/06/2016 – VIOLENT NAPLES with special introduction by EUROCRIME! producer, Monster Fest director and publisher Kier-La Janisse – https://www.facebook.com/
29/06/2016 – 29/06/2016 – THE ITALIAN CONNECTION (AKA MANHUNT) with special introduction by crime fiction author, journalist and Eurocrime enthusiast Andrew Nette –
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EUROCRIME! tells the story of the violent “poliziotteschi” cinematic movement of the 1970s which arose from Italy in the wake of the success of American crime films like DIRTY HARRY and THE GODFATHER. Hundreds of cheaply produced yet highly entertaining and fast paced films created a genre that found cult appeal in audiences outside of Italy. The rushed methods of production – stars performing their own risky stunts, the practice of “stealing shots” in public, filming without live sound – and with a dangerous bleed-over between real-life and on-screen crime, these movies offered a tough, gritty world of moustached, macho men killing each other brutally and racing their tiny cars down tiny alleyways…and as this documentary demonstrates, the behind-the-scenes stories were no less colourful!