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by Inkoo Kang   Italian director Laura Bispuri has won the third annual Nora Ephron prize at the Tribeca Film Festival. Awarded to female filmmakers "with a distinctive voice" since 2013, the recognition comes with a $25,000 cash prize. Bispuri earned the award with her transgender odyssey "Sworn Virgin," about an Albanian woman who bec...

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di Cristina Sivieri Tagliabue   "Quello che voi italiani intendete quando dite 'ho trovato l'America, io l'ho trovato Qua'". La perfetta sintesi di Ameriqua sta nelle parole del suo sceneggiatore e protagonista, Robert Kenney III. Ameriqua è un film nato da un sogno. Il sogno tutto italiano di un ragazzo americano che vive una rocambolesca a...

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by Nickolas Marinelli   Ask any average American who Ninetto Davoli is, and you'll likely get a blank stare. Even fans of vintage foreign films may have a hard time remembering where they've heard that name before. But ask an Italian or Italian film fan, and you'll get the kind of reaction usually reserved for superstars who began their care...

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by Ronan Breathnach While filming The Godfather Part II Robert de Niro began reading the autobiography of an Italian American middleweight boxer from the Bronx. Captivated by the story of Jake LaMotta, de Niro began the long process that would eventually see Raging Bull brought to cinematic life.   The first stop was to de Niro's close fr...

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1709:00 am Honoring an Italian Maestro of Cinematic ArtDoc Once Up a Time... Sergio Leone dir Giovanni Minoli (60') 10:15 am Eni - Culture by Energy -The Mattei Affair dir Francesco Rosi (116')Restored by Cineteca di Bologna at L'Immagine Ritrovata in association with The Film Foundation, Paramount Pictures, and Museo Nazionale de...

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Sabato 10 Novembre al Mopa in Balboa Park si è tenuta la serata di Gala del San Diego Italian Film Festival. Alla sua sesta edizione questa manifestazione è un'importante istituzione per la comunità italiana di San Diego ed offre la possibilità di condividere e vivere aspetti della cultura italiana tramite l'arte del cinema.Per 90 minuti o poco più...

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Ennio Morricone, the prolific Italian composer and conductor who has written many of the most recognizable film scores in history, says he will never again work with director Quentin Tarantino because he "places music in his films without coherence."Morricone's work most recently appeared in Tarantino's Django Unchained, the homage to the Spaghetti...

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di Beatrice Bondi Pomeriggio all'insegna del cultura cinematografica italiana alla Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò della NYU, dove sono stati proiettati tre cortometraggi di Ermanno Olmi: "L'Onda" basato sui testi di Gabriele D'Annunzio, "Dialogo tra un venditore d'almanacchi e un passeggere" basato sulle opere di Giacomo Leopardi e "Manon Finestra 2...

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by Moira Sullivan   Isabella Rossellini will be a featured guest at the San Francisco Int'l Film Festival (April 23-May 7) and the subject of a new documentary "Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno Live" by Judy Shapiro that screens April 26-27 in the presence of Isabella and the filmmaker.   Rossellini has had a long-term love affair wi...

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  WTI Magazine #80    2016 June 17Author : Edoardo Peretti      Translation by:   If the Italian cinema has almost always been part of the "G8" of world cinema, we can enlighten two particular moments when it was able to exceptionally influence the worldwide development of the seventh art. The first dates back to the origins, to the second decad...

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