Un ottobre con i fiocchi per l'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di New York (686 Park Avenue), completamente dedicato a cinema e documentari italiani. Si inizia il primo ottobre con la proiezione di "Cesare Deve Morire", il film dei fratelli Taviani che ha vinto il prestigioso Orso di Berlino, affrontando un tema particolarmente duro: la vita nel carc...
READ MOREIl Consolato Generale d'Italia, il Consolato dello Sri Lanka a Houston e la St. Thomas University presentano la proiezione di "Into Paradiso" di Paola Randi (con sottotitoli in inglese). Napoli. Il ricercatore universitario Alfonso d'Onofrio, timido e goffo, viene licenziato. Gayan e' un affascinante ma squattrinato ex campione di cricket di Sri L...
READ MOREby Michael Traversa With Fantastic Four currently in theatres actress Kate Mara, who plays Susan Storm, the Invisible Woman, is finally getting her spot in the sun among Hollywood stars, after years of supporting roles. Despite the heavy criticism the movie has received and the production troubles splattered over every industry pu...
READ MOREIn collaboration with Luce Cinecittà, Rome, Centro Studi-Archivio Pier Paolo Pasolini/Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles, UCLA Film & Television Archive is pleased to present a retrospective of films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, one of the most iconoclastic and influential figures in Italian cinema in the ge...
READ MOREAs the envelope was opened at the 86th Academy Awards on March 2nd, announcing the winner of the Best Foreign Language Film – "The Great Beauty" – it was Toni Servillo who was the lead actor in the movie. His long career as a an actor and director has culminated with this honor, to go along being named Best Actor at the 26th European Film...
READ MORENew Italian Cinema Events is heading back to New York City to launch its 24th annual traveling film series dedicated to bringing Italy's newest directors and films to the US audiences and celebrating the country's rich cinematic tradition. Once again, the Italian Cultural Institute, New York will host the presentation of this year's selection, whic...
READ MOREOn Friday, April 24, the Department of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota, and the Italian Cultural Center of Minneapolis/St. Paul, will bring to Minneapolis, Professor Noa Steimatsky, of the University of Chicago, for a screening and discussion of her film, "Refugees in Cinecitta". Professor Steimatsky completed the film in collabor...
READ MOREPresenting a virtually unknown history that begins with silent films through the Italian neorealism movement, sword-and-sandal films of the 1970's and cop/action movies to contemporary films, this work-in-progress will show interviews with and highlight the achievements of classic Afro-Italian actors like Ines Pelligrini ("Arabian Knights" - 1974)...
READ MOREWhen Pierette Simpson was nine years old, hergrandparents sold everything in their native Italy to bring her to America. But along the way, The Andrea Doria luxury liner collided with another ship, The Stockholm, and sank. A lifeboat saved Simpson and her family. But 51 people died, and the captain was unjustly blamed f...
READ MOREJoin us for a very special screening of Andrea Segre's highly acclaimed film, IL SONO LI, an engaging and heart-warming study between two distinctly different immigrants whose relationship evolves via the feeling of loneliness and a need for a close friendship that respects self-imposed limits - an intimacy that is nothing less than pure as neither...
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