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Following its highly acclaimed debut in New York in March, the multimedia exhibit exploring the life and career of multiple GRAMMY Award winner Frank Sinatra will get its Los Angeles premiere at the GRAMMY Museum on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015.   As the official exhibit of the 2015 Frank Sinatra Centennial, Sinatra: An American Icon traces 100...

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di Cinzia Romani   Le star internazionali, da Brigitte Bardot a Sophia Loren, prima d'essere attrici erano donne sexy e attraenti. Fa eccezione Anna Magnani, che non era né glamour, né seducente, pur essendo arrivata in vetta, a Hollywood: fu la prima attrice italiana a vincere l'Oscar con La rosa tatuata (1955), film scritto per lei dal com...

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Torna anche quest'anno "Cinema Italian Style", rassegna ideata da Luce Cinecittà in programma all'American Cinematheque da oggi e fino al 20 novembre. Dopo il successo delle precedenti edizioni, la rassegna proporrà il meglio del cinema italiano contemporaneo attraverso una selezione dei titoli che hanno riscosso maggior successo nel 2012, aprendo...

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In Italy, fascism and cinema had always been in a strange relationship. After millions of deaths, years of war and violence; fascism left only two positive things behind: Venice Film Festival and Cinecitta. Fascism, as a consequence of WWII, left thousands of people homeless in Italy; and of course, filmmakers studioless.   Great Italian Stu...

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The Atlanta Film Festival will host the world premiere of Montedoro, Italian director Antonello Faretta's first feature film competing in the Narrative Features section at the 39th edition of the prestigious American festival. After a long period of preparation and field work - almost seven years of writing, filming and post-product...

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  WTI Magazine #63    2015 June, 27Author : Edoardo Peretti      Translation by:   In these days takes place one of the most important and internationally known Italian film festivals, at least among the movie enthusiasts: the Bologna "Cinema Ritrovato" (from 29 June to 4 July). It is not the dear old Venice Film Festival, or the Festival of Cin...

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by Jonathan Bazzi   Ennio Morricone (Rome, 1928) started out as a trumpeter, but became the composer of the most beautiful and memorable soundtracks in film history. From early on he was successful in the spaghetti western genre, writing the music for the great masterpieces of Sergio Leone.   As early as the 1960s he composed for nume...

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Paolo Virzi's thriller Human Capital will hit theaters in early 2015 after Film Movement acquired rights to the Italian pic that stars Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Valeria Golino, and Fabrizio Bentivoglio. It is having its North American premiere April 18 at the Tribeca Film Festival.   The movie begins at the end: a cyclist is run off the road b...

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Time: September 18, 2015 to March 6, 2016Location: Museo Italo Americano - Fort Mason Center -  2 Marina Blvd., Building C - San Francisco, CA 94123Italian American Cinema: From Capra to the Coppolas, an original, documentary exhibit by the Museo Italo Americano, written by Joseph McBride, will be on exhibit at the Museo from September 18...

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by Chris Jennewein   The ninth annual San Diego Italian Film Festival opens next Tuesday with 12 new films ranging from comedies to documentaries to dramas. All but one of films are San Diego premieres, and one is having its U.S. premiere.   Venues include the Museum of Photographic Arts, La Paloma Theatre and UltraStar at Hazard...

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