Dear Friends, New York Italians in collaboration with Fordham University, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and Italian Honor Society C.I.A.O. is very happy to invite you to presentation and discussion of the film: "C'eravamo tanto amati" by Ettore Scola Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus113 W 60th street, NY,...
READ MOREby Michael Traversa One of the objects of this column is to explore the Italian ethnicity of actors and filmmakers when their heritage doesn't appear obvious at a first glance. An Italian last name is always a giveaway but there are often cases of stars who don't carry an Italian name or don't play an Italian character on the screen,...
READ MOREBernardo Bertolucci's first Italian-language feature in 32 years and first feature in9 years - ME AND YOU (Io e Te), a sensual coming of age picture, opens in NewYork City on July 4th and will then expand to more theaters across the US. ME AND YOU (IO E TE) stars Jacopo Olmo Antinori and Tea Falco and is basedon a novel by Niccolo Ammaniti's novel...
READ MOREby Lorna Sheridan The Italian class at Vintage House is presenting an Italian Film Festival, starting this Tuesday at 6 p.m. and running for the next six Tuesday nights through Feb. 16. The films are all in Italian, with English subtitles. The festival is themed, "Let's explore Italy together, as it was, then and now." Each film...
READ MOREE' Antonio Morabito con Il venditore di medicine ad aggiudicarsi il premio del pubblico americano Premio N.I.C.E. Città di Firenze 2014 nella 24° edizione del festival del cinema italiano emergente N.I.C.E. USA 2014. A San Francisco per la presentazione del film, Morabito è stato il primo ad essere sorpreso dal risultato ottenuto da un fim...
READ MOREBy Cookie Curci In my opinion, the most romantic and dynamic pairing of a leading man and woman in the world of film was Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren. Just saying and hearing their names titillated American audiences in the 1950s and 60s ... and when these actors emoted on the big screen ... well, it was like every adult in the au...
READ MOREThe New Mexico Italian Film & Culture Festival prepares to roll out in Albuquerque on February 8 for an 8-day run celebrating Italian cinematic excellence and iconic Italian cuisine, and with some new, first-time-ever features. The big news in the films lineup will be the screening of Il Capitale Umano (Human Captal), awarded the 2014...
READ MOREChe il primo impatto con una megalopoli come Los Angeles possa rivelarsi indigesto è un fatto pacifico. Capita. Il tempo aiuta a digerire i bocconi troppo amari. Pochissime "prime volte" con la città californiana, però, possono dirsi altrettanto dure come quelle di Alessandra Pasquino, 54 anni, regista. Era la metà degli anni '80 e Pasquin...
READ MOREOn the occasion of Earth Day, a documentary of the 2008 Terra Madre conference, an international gathering hosted every two years in Turin by Slow Food to bring together a network of food communities committed to preserve taste and biodiversity by producing quality food in a responsible, sustainable way. The film carries this message with...
READ MOREThe Italian Film Festival returns to Indianapolis for a fourth year April 24 with a slate of six films running through May 3. Indianapolis is one of 12 cities around the nation hosting the Italian Film Festival USA. The festival is a collaboration between the IU School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and the De...
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