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We’re still in the depths of winter in most of the U.S., but thanks to the new teaser trailer from Disney and Pixar for Luca, we’re getting a gorgeous blast of summer. But just a sweet summer of friendship doesn’t seem like enough story for a full animated feature. Cue the twist … That’s right, Luca and his bestie Alberto are … merpeople?! Or, appa...

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Ally, is that you? Lady Gaga looks more like her movie star alter ego these days, because she's a brunette once again! The "Shallow" singer was spotted out in Rome on Wednesday, Feb. 24, with a brand new bellissimo look ahead of her next movie Gucci. She certainty had the perfect designer ensemble for the occasion, as she was all dressed up in a st...

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Join the filmmakers behind this year's Golden Globe nominees for Best Foreign Language Film. Online | Sat, February 27, 2021 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST. Journalist, producer and member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Silvia Bizio will moderate the panel. RSVP here for the FREE panel. The American Cinematheque and the Hollywood Foreign Pre...

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When you hear the name Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a few things spring to mind—and none of them are likely to involve Italian poet Dante Alighieri or opera. Of course there’s good reason for this, with Lecter’s exotic cooking ingredients superseding his gentler affectations. But even so, when author Thomas Harris first imagined how the character might mov...

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The official English-language title is “The Best Years.” The opening movie in the Italian Film Festival, which begins this Thursday (Feb. 25), spans 40 years in the lives of four people. This is such a long time, and so much happens, that the movie could have been a miniseries, an Italian “Dance to the Music of Time.” But it runs just over two hour...

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Steven Vincent Buscemi was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, to John Buscemi, a sanitation worker and Korean War veteran, and Dorothy Buscemi, a hostess at Howard Johnson’s. Buscemi’s father was of Italian descent; his ancestors were from the town of Menfi in Sicily.  The family moved to Valley Stream in Nassau County and Buscemi gradu...

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Giancarlo Esposito is one of those actors that can look like someone you’d want to sit and just chew the fat with for a while on matters of life, politics, or anything he’d like to talk about since it feels as though he might be a knowledgable individual. But thinking that he’s been in movies that people don’t remember him in is pretty easy since h...

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Last year, we celebrated the centennials of Alberto Sordi, Federico Fellini and Franca Valeri. This year, it's Giulietta Masina's turn to shine. Born on February 22, 1921 in San Giorgio di Piano, a commune north of Bologna, Masina was the oldest of four children born to a father who was a music professor and violinist and a mother who was a grade-s...

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By the end of the year Pixar will land in Liguria with Luca, the new animated film directed by Enrico Casarosa, which will allow animators to create for Italy what Ratatouille did for Paris. Today the studio has released a new promotional image of the film with the images of the protagonists for the insert The Friday of the Republic. According to E...

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A day like today 1943, born in Newark, New Jersey the mythical actor U.S, Joe Pesci, who has been known throughout his career for his multifaceted characters and musical projects. The race of Pesci has been marked by roles around the Italian-American community, highlighting its long and continuous collaboration with Martin Scorsese. To celebrate th...

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