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Rocky Balboa fans are ready to go the distance — by bus, by ice skates, by 72 steps — to honor Philly’s favorite fictional fighter almost 50 years after the first movie launched the enduring series of an underdog boxer persevering despite the odds. Yo, Adrian, Philly finally did it! The city Rocky called home at last has a week dedicated to the box...

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AGBO and the Italian Sons and Daughters of America (ISDA) proudly announce “My Kind of People,” directed by Joe Picozzi, as the winner of the 2024 Russo Brothers Italian American Filmmaker Forum (RBIAFF). Earlier this year, five filmmakers received $10,000 production grants to create short films based on concepts exploring the Italian American expe...

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In 1989, The Walt Disney Company produced an anthology film that banded together two of the most celebrated filmmakers in history. New York Stories, featuring two shorts by Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, is meant as a love letter to the Big Apple, but in reality, it's more or less an experiment to allow these master filmmakers to team up...

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Sideshow and Janus Films have set a December 25 U.S. theatrical release date for Venice Silver Lion winner Vermiglio. The drama from writer, director and producer Maura Delpero is also Italy’s submission to the Best International Feature Film Oscar category. Delpero is the first woman to represent the country in 19 years. A portrait of a sprawling...

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More local film viewing options are emerging in Franklin! Quattro Eroi Lodge, the historic branch of the Sons and Daughters of Italy in America has announced that they are hosting a screening of the film "Cabrini," released earlier this year, on Friday, December 6, at 6:00 PM at the Franklin TV studio at 23 Hutchison Street (off of Union, near La C...

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Gladiator II, a historical film? No, pure science fiction. Released in Italy on Nov. 14, The Gladiator II, the sequel to the film that gave international notoriety to Russell Crowe, his “On my signal all hell breaks loose” having entered the common phrasebook, tests the judgment of historians as it did, on the other hand, with the first chapter.  N...

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Most great female actors get to play a nun at some point in their career: a kind of thespian rite of passage that comes to many in their grande dame years. Isabella Rossellini, however, checked off that box in her very first screen appearance, aged 24: in 1976’s little-remembered Vincente Minnelli musical A Matter of Time, in a bit part opposite he...

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A24 knows sex sells, so it’s no surprise that the first U.S. trailer for Parthenope is full of seduction. Newcomer Celeste Dalla Porta, playing the titular Parthenope, appears in various stages of undress throughout, emerging dripping from the sea in a bikini, draped in religious jewelry that barely covers her modesty, tangled up in what looks like...

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Each of our lives moves toward the same destination, but what distinguishes us is the path we take to get there. This journey defines us, and if there’s one mode of travel that stirs our imagination about where life might lead, it’s the train. With a steam train, in particular, we connect to a more human pace, reflecting the slow and steady rhythm...

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In what may be his final chapter, the legendary film-maker – who has drawn so often on his Catholic upbringing – turns his attention to the saints. Lucy Lethbridge sees his new series, and hears why he’s made it Martin Scorsese, now 81, was brought up in a poor area of Little Italy in New York. All the film director’s grandparents were Sicilian, an...

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