On Tuesday, April 28th 2015 the 16th annual Newport Beach Film Festival will present its Italian Spotlight, an evening celebration of Italian cinema and culture. The event will feature the Orange County premiere of the highly acclaimed film, Do You Remember Me? (Ti Ricordi Di Me) (2014), followed by a festive post-screening gala. Director Rolando...

Presented by Salvatore J. Turchio, M.S.Ed., State Historian - Grand Lodge of New Jersey  - Order Sons of Italy in America. You are cordially invited to attend an interactive PowerPoint presentation on the life and legacy of Frank Sinatra, and the cultural impact of his music, philanthropy, social activism, and patrioti...

Lunedì sera New York ha ricordato Federico Fellini in una serata tributo al Pershing Square Signature Center organizzata dalla Venetian Heritage Foundation e sponsorizzata da Fendi. Gli attori Diane Lane e Edward Norton hanno messo in scena la vita di Federico Fellini interpretando dal vivo Caro Federico, una piece teatrale scritta da Ludovica Dami...

by George Dickie   Popular movie lore has it that director Francis Ford Coppola and/or Paramount originally wanted James Caan for Michael Corleone, the role that would become a career-making turn for Al Pacino, in the 1972 mob classic "The Godfather."   But the now-73-year-old Caan, who begins a four-episode arc on Starz's "Magic City...

by Michael Traversa   He became a teen idol while on the popular show Gilmore Girls, he has been a promising movie star, he has reached world wide recognition with the series Heroes, yet actor Milo Ventimiglia never subscribed to the ways of young Hollywood, partying hard and hitting every red carpet for exposure.   Instead he chose t...

Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 Hours: 6pm Venue: NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimo', 24 West 12th Street Organized by: Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimo' In collaboration with: ICI, Consulate general of Italy in New York, Centro Primo Levi, Italian Academy, CUNY's John Calandra Italian American Institute.Film Screening: Oro Macht Frei (2013) by Jeff...

by Scott Roxborough When famous actors take a stab at directing, the results tend to be a vanity project or a self-indulgent mess. So Honey, the directorial debut of Italian star Valeria Golino, is both a surprise and an unexpected delight. The drama, about a dedicated activist for assisted suicide, is mature and startlingly cinematic.   Th...

  WTI Magazine #60    2015 May, 15Author : Edoardo Peretti      Translation by:   This year the 69th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has selected three Italians in the official competition: "Il racconto dei racconti" (Tale of tales) by Matteo Garrone, "Youth" by Paolo Sorrentino, "Mia madre" by Nanni Moretti. Garrone, Sorrentino and Moretti...

Saturday, July 25 at 2 p.m.Garibaldi-Meucci Museum | 420 Tompkins Avenue | Staten Island, NY 10305 Movies return to GMM with "Unbroken" Academy Award(R) winner Angelina Jolie directed and produced this epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louis "Louie" Zamperini (Jack O'Connell) who, along with two other crewmen, su...

August 8, 2015. The renowned production house Titanus, founded in Rome in 1904 by Gustavo Lombardo, is still operating today under grandson Guido Lombardo. During the golden age of cinema-going in the mid-twentieth century, Titanus embraced melodrama, epic, mystery, and comedy; their famous logo on the screen signified a quality production was abou...