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Through a series of interviews with cooks, farmers, fishermen and peasants from all over the World, Ermanno Olmi shows the importance of Slow Food, the movement that began in Italy and is now recognized worldwide as an alternative to destructive agriculture in the age of globalization.   Part of a series of events dedicated to EXPO Milan 201...

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One of Little Italy's more popular events, sponsored by the Original Little Italy Restaurant Association, the Open Air Film Fest has thrived since 1999. Movies are projected onto the outside wall of Ciao Bella Restaurant in the Da Mimmo Ristorante parking lot from a row home across the street.   Folks arrive early to set up lawn chairs, list...

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by Victoria Guerra   Over twenty years after he passed away in 1993, Federico Fellini is still considered one of the best film directors of all time, and a few of his films have remained classics for decades, including arguably his most iconic movie, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Eckberg - and now, the "La Dolce Vita" remake is a r...

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by Serena Perfetto   Vittorio De Sica's works come to San Francisco this month thanks to the Cinema Italia SF, a project of collaboration between Luce Cinecitta and the Italian Cultural Institute created by Amelia Antonucci. De Sica is considered the "maestro del cinema" who has been able to depict Italy in all its beauty as well as its...

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Are we living a new Italian cultural Spring in San Francisco? A friend of mine asked me that question a few days ago. She noticed that there are many signs of renewed cultural vitality among Italians in the Bay. In Berkeley a new Italian Society has been created, spearheaded by bright scientists in their late twenties and early thirties.   A...

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This month the Wexner Center for the Arts, in collaboration with Luce Cinecittà Roma, is presenting a nine-film retrospective of Anna Magnani performances. The 35mm prints span 1941 through 1950 and include some of her most notable classics like "Roma città aperta". Many of the great Italian directors are represented: Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Vi...

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The Italian American ONE VOICE Coalition—the nation's largest Italian American anti-bias organization -- is taking "Don Jon" Director-Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt—ironically the son of parents who founded a once-famous Jewish national social justice organization—to task for stereotyping and denigrating Italian Americans and Jews in his new movie. "H...

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Hollywood rende omaggio a una delle personalità artistiche italiane più famose del secolo scorso: Eduardo De Filippo.    Ciò avverrà in occasione del Los Angeles, Italia Festival, in programma dal prossimo 21 febbraio al 1 marzo: al Chinese Theatre verranno presentati alcuni film tratti dalle opere del grande autore napoletano, oltre ch...

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Italian American Museum Presents SPECIAL DOUBLE FEATURE Divorzio all'Italiana (Divorce Italian Style) - Film Screening (Italian with English Subtitles) - Directed by Pietro Germi - Starring Marcello Mastroianni   and L'Uomo del Sud (The Man From the South) "Man From the South" "Because I'm m...

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Fellini paints a portrait of Rome and of his relationship with the city in a documentary/fantasy.   A fluid, unconnected procession of scenes detail the arrival of the young Fellini in the capital and illustrate, even grotesquely, the Rome of today and yesterday. Free and open to the public.   Read more   Source: http://ww...

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