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di Roberto Natalini   C'e' un'epoca d'oro nella storia del cinema italiano la quale non sembra mai tramontare. Questa considerazione e' quantomai attuale negli Stati Uniti dove si guarda ancora con grande ammirazione ai capolavori del cinema neorealista del secondo dopoguerra. Tra i protagonisti di questa fase, considerata come il Rinas...

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It's too bad we can't take a hit out on "The Family."This unexciting, unfunny would-be action satire is filled with Italian-American stereotypes, decades-old TV-style Mafia cliches, bits of business that never amount to anything and actors so much better than the hoary, one-joke material. The trigger for the movie's plot is basically "American mob...

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Jep Gambardella, the aging Roman journalist played by the great Toni Servillo in Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's tour de force "The Great Beauty," tells us that when he was young his friends always had the same answer to the big question: "pussy." His answer was different: "The smell of old people's houses." The question was, "What do you value...

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Movies are a wonderful way to tell stories, and in the US many millions of people – either of Italian heritage or not – love to be told stories about and from Italy. That is why cinema is one of the most important tool of the promotion of our culture in America. Every year, hundreds of events involve the showing of an Italian movie somewhere in th...

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The second season of CLU's International Film Festival continues with the Italian film "Cesare deve morire" ("Caesar Must Die"), directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, screening at 7 p.m. Wed., Nov. 12 at Carmike Thousand Oaks 14 (formerly Muvico) at The Oaks mall, 166 W. Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks.   A drama-within-a-drama, the film wa...

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Please join an international gathering of cultural organizations for a multimedia, multilingual evening of poetry, music, film, and theater in celebration of Valentine's Day.   Suzanne Petri will emcee and provide English language love poems amidst performances co-presented by multiple Chicago cultural institutions.   Read more  ...

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by Silvia Simonetti   American actor Robert De Niro's next big screen role is all over the news. Last week he announced in an interview with the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero that he signed to play Enzo Ferrari in a new biopic movie, and both his fans and Ferrari enthusiasts worldwide are looking forward to watching it.   "Ferrari,"...

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OCTOBER 08, 2015 - 03:30 PM - Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011On the occasion of the publication of Lessico del cinema italiano: forme di rappresentazione e forme di vita (Mimesis, 2014) edited by Roberto De Gaetano. As stated by authors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Martin Scorsese and Quentin Taran...

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by Matt Stieb Most genre titles suck, serving as meaningless shorthand for nerds in the field. Vaporwave? Gaslamp Fantasy? But, the Spaghetti Western moniker so perfectly nails the phenomenon of Italian directors setting movies in the American West that it gives worth to the entire operation of genre.   In the early '60s, American filmmaker...

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Di Silvia Bulckaen   E' successo ieri notte. Nella sua casa in Florida è morto Manlio Rocchetti, il truccatore delle star. Un professionista dalla grande capacità, un talento che lo porta nel 1980 a vincere il premio Emmy per il lavoro di make up per Lonesome Dove. Ma è solo l'inizio.   La sua fama è destinata infatti a crescere ineso...

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