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Mobster biopic Gotti is getting a second life.   Veteran filmmaker Joe Johnston (Captain America: The First Avenger) has come aboard to direct the film for Fiore Films' Marc Fiore and Radar Pictures' Ted Field, while Relativity Media has snapped up U.S. distribution rights. Gotti also will be heading to Cannes, where IM Global will shop the...

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Vincenzo Cerami, who died this July, was a novelist, an associate of Pier Paolo Pasolini, and the screenwriter for over 40 Italian films, including several starring Roberto Benigni. Among these are La Vita è Bella, Il Mostro, and La Tigre e la Neve.   This is our tribute to him. Please join us for screenings of these three films, and see for...

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by Kaleem Aftab   Al Pacino has so much chutzpah that he commands every room, every film set, and every theatre stage on or in which he appears. "I am a movie star," he spouts at one moment, and he doesn't want us to forget it. Even at 75, he has the brash confidence of youth, and yet his escapades of yesteryear provides the chorus to his or...

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  WTI Magazine #66    2015 August, 21Author : italia.it      Translation by:   Let's take a different journey through Italy's beautiful cities, villages and unspoiled nature and discover those places which have become part of our subconscious because they were locations for famous Italian and foreign films. We begin in Abruzzo whose breath-takin...

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Italytime torna sul palcoscenico con uno dei suoi originali progetti, CINEMA & THEATER, questa volta in coabitazione con l'importante ed esclusivo John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, Cuny. Invitato proprio dal Calandra, il 9 febbraio il regista Bob Giraldi sarà presente alla proiezione di "Dinner Rush", pellicola c...

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The star, who has for decades represented the image of voluptuousness and eroticism in Hollywood, enters her fifties with the serenity provided by maturity, but without losing any of her trademark sensuality. Bellucci, born Sept. 30, 1964, in Citta del Castello, in the Italian region of Umbria, uses her generous curves and Mediterranean features a...

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The Center for Italian Culture at Fitchburg State University launches Affari di Famiglia, an exploration of Italian-American families and their foray into commerce, with a screening of the film "Big Night" (1996) at 3:30 and 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5 at Ellis White Lecture Hall in Hammond Hall, 160 Pearl St. Admission is $7 for adults and $5 for stude...

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Robert De Niro, who has wowed filmgoers since the 1960s, turns 70 years old on Saturday (August 17). The Italian-American actor, known for his Oscar winning roles as mob boss Vito Corleone in "The Godfather, Part II" (1974) and boxer Jake LaMotta in "Raging Bull" (1980), has become a staple of cinema and is considered an archetype of the class...

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Men of the Cloth is an inspiring portrait of three Italian master tailors who confront the decline of the apprentice system in the twilight of their career.   The film features U.S. tailors Nino Corvato and Joe Centofanti (who both work as traditional custom tailors) and Checchino Fonticoli, who spends his entire career at Brioni, the luxury...

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This year's New Italian Cinema offers several distinct elements in the competition section, including the first-ever animated feature, an Italian production entirely in Arabic and a suspense-oriented film in the giallo tradition, among other extremely impressive first or second features.   Opening Night features a very special evening with E...

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