The Man Who Made Films Nonstop

An Interview with Ciro Ippolito

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Keywords:

b-movies, pop culture, Italian genre cinema

Abstract

On the occasion of the return to Italian cinemas of Arrapaho, his trashiest and most cult film, distributed by the Cineteca di Bologna in a restored version, BLACKOUT met with director Ciro Ippolito, a cult auteur of the Italian B-movie scene, for a long interview about all his cinema and more.

Author Biography

  • Ettore Bucciero, Naples Academy of Fine Arts

    Ettore Bucciero was born in 2001 in Pozzuoli, where he lives. He graduated in Cinema and Audiovisual from the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples with a thesis on Italian sexy comedies of the 1970s and 1980s, entitled All Naked, All Hot. Phenomenology of Italian Sexy Comedy. In 2023, he published an interview with Sergio Martino in the scientific journal Cinemasud. He is currently completing a two-year master's degree in Animated Cinema at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples.

References

Film di Ciro Ippolito citati nell'intervista

Sceneggiatore:

L’ultimo guappo, regia di Alfonso Brescia (1978),

Napoli... serenata calibro 9, regia di Alfonso Brescia (1978),

Il mammasantissima, regia di Alfonso Brescia (1979),

Lo scugnizzo, regia di Alfonso Brescia (1979),

I contrabbandieri di Santa Lucia, regia di Alfonso Brescia (1979),

Napoli... la camorra sfida, la città risponde, regia di Alfonso Brescia (1979).

Regista:

Alien 2 – Sulla Terra (1980),

Lacrime napulitane (1981),

Arrapaho (1984),

Uccelli d’Italia (1985).

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Published

27-05-2026

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 00 (2026): The new frontiers of cinema and audiovisuals

Section

Conversations

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Copyright (c) 2026 Ettore Bucciero (Author)

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How to Cite

The Man Who Made Films Nonstop: An Interview with Ciro Ippolito. (2026). BLACKOUT. Cinema and Other Visions, 1(00). https://blackout.abana.it/index.php/blackout/article/view/8

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