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Directed by Dino Risi, Il Sorpasso follows Roberto, a shy law student and Bruno (Vittorio Gassman), a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man during the summer of 1962.   The time they spend together in Rome and Tuscany is a hilarious, but sometimes an emotionally merciless accelerated maturation process. While Bruno's easy going "l'usage d...

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Celebrating its 18th edition, the New Italian Cinema festival is back at Vogue Theatre in San Francisco, from November 19 until November 23. The festival is part of the San Francisco Film Society's Fall Season and will bring together enthusiastic movie lovers, especially interested in the Italian young directors.   As the Film Society's prog...

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Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - Hours: 6:00 p.m. Site: Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago - 500 N Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60611   Four women in the same family make ends meet in a small town in Salento during the crippling economic crisis of our times. The failure of a family business and the foreclosure of their house seems t...

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La 57^ edizione del San Francisco International Film Festival è alle porte, e come ogni anno in primavera questo evento presenta per quindici giorni una straordinaria selezione di opere cinematografiche provenienti da tutto il mondo.   Fra gli oltre duecento film ed eventi live in programma e cento registi in persona, anche l'Italia avrà la...

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Join us on Sunday, August 17th, 5.30 pm at the ICCC for the fourth annual Festa di Ferragosto!   Italian Film & Pizza. Complimentary refreshments. Bring your friends and a favorite bottle of wine! Projected film: "Che bella giornata!" In Italian with English subtitles.  

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Abel Ferrara&rsquos new film Pasolini has picked up an Italian distributor, the Rome-based Europictures. The company was smitten on the film after seeing only a short promo in Cannes. Pasolini, clocking in at 86 minutes, is Ferrara&rsquos look at the controversial Italian director and writer&rsquos last day on earth: Nov. 2, 1975. &nbs...

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U.S. premiere of Il giovane favoloso. Alessandra Mirra, University of Pennsylvania, will introduce the film with a short presentation of its subject, Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi, and his portrait by director Mario Martone. After the screening, Prof. Gaetana Marrone Puglia, Princeton University, will offer a technical analysis of the film and will...

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Are you the next Fellini? Are you a video-maker or director in love with Italy and the Italian-American culture? Do you want to showcase your work at the heart of NY's Little Italy?   We are preparing our August-December 2014 Calendar, and we are looking for independent and opinionated artists, who want to showcase their work! We need videos...

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Warner Bros Pictures & Pearl Street Films & Appian Way are seeking an actor for the leading role of "Maso Pescatore" an Italian man age 55 - 75. Written and to be directed by Ben Affleck, "Live By Night" will be filming in Los Angeles, Boston and Savannah from November 2015 through February 2016.   'Maso Pescatore...

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  WTI Magazine #14    2014 Jan, 24Author : Simone doc Bracci      Translation by:   There was a time when Italian cinema, our cinema, used to win hands-down a lot of international success. That media hype has been turned off for thirty years now, except for some small flame of honor that occasionally shakes the Olympus of the great, as happened...

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