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by Carlotta Magnanini   Sometimes it just takes a couple of hours—the duration of a movie—to understand how mysterious mechanisms work, in this case, we mean Italian. In the history of Italian cinema, both past and present (not much has changed anyway), there are a few movies that can offer us a real identikit to give us more insight into th...

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After Paolo Sorrentino's "The Great Beauty" won the Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film last year, Italy is hoping to take home more Hollywood honors. Director Paolo Virzi's "Human Capital" is the country's Oscar submission this year, and it has American roots: The "neo-noir thriller" is based on a US novel by Stephen Amidon — the 2004 bo...

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Little Studio Films, a Los Angeles based production, distribution and representation company owned by Alexandra Yacovlef and Alexia Melocchi, have signed the accomplished Italian directing and producing team of Luca Boni and Marco Ristori for representation and a series of Hollywood projects. Little Studio Films will introduce Boni and Ristori and...

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di Andrea Indiano   È stato il film più atteso dell'anno, se non del decennio: Star Wars VII - Il risveglio della forza non ha attirato solo i fanatici di Guerre stellari, ma è diventato un fenomeno cinematografico mondiale apprezzato dagli spettatori di ogni dove.   A una settimana dall'uscita primeggia stabile nei botteghini di tutt...

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I first discovered the cinema of Italian auteur Paolo Sorrentino in 2008 when I saw "Il Divo" at Cannes, which stars the incandescent Toni Servillo as former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti. Even though the biopic did a deep dive into decades of arcane Machiavellian politics in Italy, the movie was utterly accessible because Servillo carried you th...

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"The Slow Food Story" MOVIE SCREENING @ THE ROTUNDA WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29TH, 2015. 6:30 – 9:30 PM; $5 ADMISSION4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1428728.   This historical documentary walks you through the evolution of the Slow Food Movement, started in Italy by Carlo Petrini. Launched from...

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  WTI Magazine #84    2016 October 17Author : Edoardo Peretti      Translation by:   "Fuocoammare" (Fire at Sea) by Gianfranco Rosi is the Italian candidate for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. This does not mean that it will be among the five shortlisted movies that will actually run for the Oscar: if the Rosi film will be in t...

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By Geoff Edgers   I've had some e-mails after our "Why Sinatra Still Matters" piece asking for specific listening recommendations. Easy enough. You really can't go wrong, unless perhaps you pop on the future section of "Trilogy." But let's not restrict ourselves to music. Sinatra was an entertainer who crossed media lines. And his life story...

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John Turturro will receive the John Cassavetes Award while Nanni Moretti is to be presented the Maria & Tommaso Maglione Italian Filmmaker Award at the 38th edition of the Denver Film Festival (DFF), which runs November 4-15. DFF attracts nearly 58,000 filmgoers and is widely recognized as the Rocky Mountain Region's premier film event.  ...

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By Olivia Armstrong   In 1992, Leonardo DiCaprio was preparing to say goodbye to his yearlong gig as dreamy teen heartthrob, Luke Brower, on ABC's Growing Pains when Robert De Niro sought him out. During the casting call of This Boy's Life, Michael Calton-Jones' adaptation of Tobias Wolff's memoir of the same name, De Niro reportedly picked...

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