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Our contemporary film series features recent Italian movies with English subtitles. The series will run from January to May, with one film being shown per month. Come enjoy modern Italian cinema with us throughout the first months of 2018! First screening: Detective Montalbano double feature. Wednesday, January 17, 2018 at 7:00 pm. Doors open at 6:...

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The Italian animated feature film Gatta Cenerentola - Cinderella the Cat was screened at the TLC Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on November 27th. The movie was chosen by the Academy for the category of Best Animated Feature (a first, for Italy, notwithstanding her long and successful tradition in the production of animated movies) and, therefore, it...

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From the family gatherings in the kitchen to the kooky nicknames and Drama Queen reactions to just about everything, "Moonstruck" hits the Italian-American personality out of the park. As fans celebrate the 30th anniversary of the film that brought Cher, Olympia Dukakis and screenwriter John Patrick Shanley Academy Awards and producer/director Norm...

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An Enderby connection to the Hollywood movie industry continues to generate economic benefits for the Okanagan Valley. Producer Rick Dugdale has returned home to the Okanagan to film another movie, this time a World War II morality tale Peace. Based on the best selling novel by Richard Bausch, Academy Award winning director Robert Port is both the...

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What links the opening of Martin Scorsese’s 1980 film Raging Bull and the climax of Francis Ford Coppola’s classic Godfather film trilogy? The answer is music – specifically Italian opera. Both film sequences use the orchestral Intermezzo from the 1890 hit opera Cavalleria rusticana, by Pietro Mascagni. The misty, atmospheric, slow-motion opening c...

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Sulle musiche di Alessandro Cicognini e Carlo Savina, i titoli di testa creati dal color co-ordinator e fotografo Hoyningen-Huene, tratti dai dipinti della pittrice caprese Carmelina Alberino, con le sue vedute naif dell'isola, ha inizio la serie Roman Hollywood (American Movies Go To Italy), al Film Forum di New York fino al 21 dicembre. La progra...

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A man recreated the famous disco in "Saturday Night Fever" for the movie's 40th anniversary Wednesday. The iconic film was released in December of 1977. Gianluca Mech put on the event at the original location of the 2001 Space Odyssey Nightclub in Bay Ridge. The location is now a Chinese restaurant. Mech, who is from Italy, says he spent more than...

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Barbara Klein, president of the Italian Film Festival USA and long-time resident of the metro St. Louis area, has been acknowledged by the President of the Republic of Italy with the conferral of the title of Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d'Italia (Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy). The award recognizes her thirteen years as president...

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Tiramisu for Two, the Texan Italian independent full length comedy, will be screened at Cinema Apollo 11 on Tuesday 19 December at 21.00. Described as a "must see Texan-Italian cult comedy", the movie was filmed in Rome and San Marcos, Texas, and is in both English and Italian. The Rome screening on 19 December is the final stage of a US tour which...

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Luca Guadagnino’s films are so tangible, you could live inside of them, and you’d be happy to stay there. In Call Me by Your Name, music from a car-stereo echoes off a cobblestone street; lips make smacking noises against a moist peach; sunlight bounces off the mildly-roiling water of a rock pool. These sights and sounds alone don’t make a movie, b...

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