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“The Big Bang Theory” aired on CBS for over 12 years, accumulating around 11,700 minutes of runtime or 195 hours. That’s the equivalent of over eight full days of straight footage. Even if you didn’t sleep for a week, you could not finish the entirety of “The Big Bang Theory.”  The series ran on CBS starting in 2007. The sitcom revolved around a gr...

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I am very happy to participate to the Filming Italy Los Angeles Festival, which has brought me so much luck.” With these words Claudia Gerini, godmother for the second consecutive year of the well-known film festival, sends her personal wishes to the event, which will be held from March 18 to 21, 2021 in Los Angeles. The festival will be 90% in vir...

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‘Seven insights into Italian cinema’ offers an unprecedented look at Italian film production, with a specific focus. Seven prestigious partners have enthusiastically joined this initiative, selecting a range of Italian films and documentaries that have been particularly popular with the public and praised by critics in recent years, making them ava...

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Regarding the Dr. Seuss controversy, the impulse to remove racial, ethnic or sexual imagery aimed at impressionable young children is a noble one; however, and I ask this question with the utmost sincerity: Why did none of this concern materialize in 2004 with the animated film “Shark Tale”? In that cartoon, aimed at children, the villains ar...

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It was the movie that added sex appeal to the gritty neorealist film period and made a star out of actress Silvana Mangano. "Riso Amaro" ("Bitter Rice"), featured women wearing daring shorts with ripped stockings tramping through water, girl-on-girl mud-wrestling, and Mangano's ample cleavage in everything from tight t-shirts to a negligee. The fil...

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Being tasked with re-creating Billie Holiday’s iconic looks in “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” was a challenge for costume designer Paolo Nieddu, both because director Lee Daniels’ biopic required so many costume changes and because there was a pressure to get the history right. Ultimately, Nieddu, who previously collaborated with Daniels on...

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John Turturro was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Katherine Incerella and Nicholas Turturro. His mother was born in the U.S., to Italian parents with roots in Sicily, and was an amateur jazz singer, who had worked in a naval yard during World War II. His father had immigrated to the United States from Giovinazzo, Italy, at age six and later...

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The sixth edition of Filming Italy - Los Angeles, presented with the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles, will take place from March 18th to 21st, 2021 in Los Angeles with 90% streaming, in collaboration with APA (Audiovisual Producers Association) and under the auspices of the Consulate General of Italy in Los Angeles. Created and organized...

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Italian singer Laura Pausini is celebrating after winning a Golden Globe award for Best Original Song - Motion Picture during a ceremony streamed from Los Angeles last night. Pausini's song Io sì (Seen), written with Diane Warren and Niccolò Agliardi, is from the movie The Life Ahead, or La vita davanti a sé, directed by Edoardo Ponti whose mother...

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Family drama! Fame and fortune! Forgotten stories of World War II! This year’s Cinema Ritrovato on Tour in New Hampshire presents a dazzling international lineup of comedies, beautifully restored cinematic masterpieces, and documentaries sourced from Italian archives, including a U.S. premier and one very special engagement. All films are in their...

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