February 2 (Friday) 7:00 pm. FashionSpeak Fridays: Sophia Loren. The National Arts Club. 15 Gramercy Park South, Manhattan. RSVP to: RSVPFashion@thenationalartsclub.org Contact: 212-475-3424. info@thenationalartsclub.org Visual presentation and book signing. Join Cindy De La Hoz, author of Sophia Loren: Movie Star Italian Style, for a journey throu...
READ MOREWhen: Tuesday, February 06, 2018 From 6:00 pm To 7:30 pm - Where: Embassy of Italy - Organized by : Italian Cultural Institute - Entrance : Free Join us on February 6th for a rare screening of Che cosa sono le nuvole? (What are clouds?), one of the six shorts featured in Capriccio all’italiana, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and starring Ninetto...
READ MORETra i grandi vincitori dell’edizione 2018 del Sundance Film Festival anche l'Italia: Sara Colangelo, da anni residente e attiva negli Stati Uniti, ha vinto il premio come migliore regista per il film "The Kindergarten Teacher" con Maggie Gyllenhaal e Gael García Bernal. Premio alla migliore sceneggiatura per "Time Share", la cui colonna sonora è op...
READ MOREL’American Dream, il sogno americano, da sempre iperbole di potenzialità di successo. attrae sforzi ed attenzioni di milioni di ragazzi da tutto il mondo, in qualsiasi campo. E noi italiani non se siamo esenti. Il mio ha avuto inizio Il 23 settembre del 1986 dopo aver comprato un biglietto di sola andata MILANO-LOS ANGELES, grazie alla voglia di po...
READ MOREWhile the novel Call Me by Your Name takes place at the height of the AIDS epidemic in 1987, for the film adaptation, director Luca Guadagnino shifted Elio and Oliver's summer romance to 1983, around the time HIV was discovered. The disease, however, will be tackled head-on in the sequel, says Guadagnino, who hopes the awards contender is the first...
READ MOREDear all, I am Luca Martera and I've been working as documentary filmmaker and mass-media historian between Italy and the United States since 20 years. Recently I created a video database that gathers the most relevant movies and documentaries from Silent Age to now about Italy and the United States.I am currently looking for a place to make availa...
READ MOREThis year's Los Angeles Italia Film Fest is to fete legendary director Bernardo Bertolucci on the 30th anniversary of his multi-Oscar triumph at the Oscars with The Last Emperor. "It will be a sincere and dutiful homage to the legendary maestro whom all of Hollywood still adores today," said fest founder Pascal Vicedomini.
READ MOREWith a muscle-bound hero and damsel in distress, mythological storylines and an abundance of good vs. evil drama, Mario Bava’s 1961 Italian film Hercules in the Haunted World has all the trappings of a good opera. That’s why composer Patrick Morganelli, who had been a fan of the film for many years, jumped at the chance to turn the cult-fantasy fli...
READ MOREWhen: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 At 6:30 pm - Where: Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles - Organized by : IIC - Entrance : Free Authors Gian Maria Annovi (winner of the Ennio Flaiano Internetional Prize for Italian Studies) and Christopher Domingues Micheal will discuss the work of Italian world-renowned writer and filmaker Pier Paolo Paso...
READ MORELuca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name on Tuesday obtained four Oscar nominations - best film, best actor for Timothée Chalamet, best adapted screenplay by James Ivory from André Aciman's novel, and best original song (Sufjan Stevens - Mistery of love). The film, a tale of male homosexual desire in an idyllic northern Italian setting, has generated...
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