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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 rowhome across the street, at the kindness of its owner. Ray Lancelotta, nephew of t...

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University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Department of Italian: L'ITALIA E I DOCUMENTARI/ ITALY AND DOCUMENTARIES - Graduate Student Conference - January 15-16, 2016 Keynote Speakers: Alina Marazzi (Film Director), Paola Bonifazio (University of Texas, Austin). Since the early 20th century, documentary films, rang...

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Martin Charles Scorsese is 72 years young today, and since he belongs to the Mt. Rushmore of all time Hollywood filmmakers, I thought I would share my list of his best narrative films. In 1990, he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation. He is a recipi...

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di Debora Pioli   Le cascine disperse nella pianura dell'Emilia e certi mattoni rossi sotto il cielo che ha cancellato ogni traccia di Appenino. In uno di quei borghi di campagna trovi una ragazza dagli occhi grandi, a cui piace disegnare visi con occhi grandi.   E immagini tutti i sogni che ci possono stare dentro, quegli occhi, e ch...

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What comes to mind when you hear the words "New Mexico?" Perhaps it's Mexican food, or chili ristras, or Southwest adobe style – in short, something to do with Hispanic heritage. But not for Rosalba Maniaci who, since 2009, has served as Corrispondente Consolare for the Italian Consulate of Los Angeles. Instead when Rosalba thinks "New Mexico," she...

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by Dave McNaryJeremy Renner will star in a biopic about boxer Rocky Marciano. "Undefeated: The Rocky Marciano Story" is produced by Morris S. Levy, and written by Samuel Franco and Evan Kilgore. Levy is seeking a director. His Mega Films own the rights to the life story, as told by his younger brother Lou Marciano.   "Undefeated: T...

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A lyrical portrait of a rural Southern California family's inner lives, their relationship to their ever-shifting landscape, and their growing alienation with each other, "Medeas" is the acclaimed debut feature of Italian-born filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro.   Offering a contemporary variation from the pov of an Italian art filmmaker, on the time...

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by Michael Traversa   There's a saying that goes "when life gives you lemons", we've all heard it. Most of the times it comes as some sort of consolation or encouragement into turning things our way, stay positive through adversity. Finding somebody who really lives with that positive attitude is a whole other matter.   Academy Award...

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Scrivere la nuova Europa: editoria italiana, autori e lettori nell'era digitale.Writing the New Europe: Italian Publishing, Authors and Readers in the Digital Era.   October 22, 2014: Presentation by Sandra Celli Harris of Novel and Film: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (1980). Film: Il Nome della Rosa (126 minutes, 1986) in Italian with...

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by Claudia Baroncelli   As one of the three Italian movies competing at the Cannes Film Festival 2015, The Tale of Tales by Italian Matteo Garrone (two-time winner of the Cannes Grand Prix for "Gomorra" in 2008 and "Reality" in 2011) is a "fantasy movie with horror elements" in the director's words, interpreted by Salma Hayek, John C. R...

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