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Era l'estate del 2005 quando Tullio Pinelli, una delle penne più raffinate del cinema italiano, ma si potrebbe dire del cinema del '900 tout court, affidava un baule ricolmo di scartoffie allo studioso e critico Augusto Sainati.   Lo sceneggiatore di "La dolce vita", ormai 97enne, confessò in quella circostanza di non ricordare il contenuto...

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A special performance by the Italian Surf Academy, who will present The American Dream: an audio-visual journey into the movie culture of 1960s Italy! Featuring music from Spaghetti western, noir and crime movies originally composed by Ennio Morricone, Luis Bacalov, Carlo Rustichelli, Riz Ortolani, Piero Umiliani, Armando Trovajoli, and more. &nbs...

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​October 23, Friday / Movie Times: 3 pm, 5 pm, 7 pm; October 24, Saturday / Movie Times: 2 pm, ​4 pm, 6 pm ​​(formerly scheduled as a November event). Screening of recently produced Italian films (English sub-titles) Four Feature Films and Two Documentaries. ​Program and Screening Schedule are noted below (subject to c...

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The upcoming 56th San Francisco International Film Festival will feature a wide selection of diverse and innovative cinema from all over the world to the Bay Area audience. The SFIFF is the longest-running film festival in the Americas. The Festival will run from April 25 to May 9 at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, the Castro Theatre and New People C...

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Paolo Virzì's Oscar-nominated film "Human Capital" was shown at the Middleburg Film Festival in the State of Virginia, where Italo-American soundtrack composer and two-time Oscar nominee Marco Beltrami also gave a concert.   Italian Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero to Washington was on hand with other esteemed guests. Read more, in Italian &nb...

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Commissioned by San Francisco Opera, the world premiere of Two Women / La Ciociara (2015) raises enduring and complex questions about love, loyalty, and the legacy of war.   This opera takes its name from the eponymous Italian novel by Alberto Moravia that was adapted for the screen by Vittorio De Sica, thus making cinematic history when Sop...

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  WTI Magazine #45    2014 October, 15Author : Giuseppina Salzano e Giovanni Verde      Translation by:   The historical "enemy" of Sofia Loren shares with the latter the ability of being a worldwide and european movies icon of the 1950's and 1960's. Gina Lollobrigida was born in Subiaco, in the Rome province, on July 4, 1927. Her family moves t...

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By Michael J. Agovino   Italy has won more foreign film Oscars than any other country, and it's not hard to see why. From the rubble of World War II came neo-realism—movies like Rome, Open City and The Bicycle Thief that, for all their simplicity, revolutionized the art form.   The decades that followed produced monumental, diverse wo...

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di Eva Elisabetta Zuccari   Da Roma alla California. Tra i nomi premiati nel corso dell'ultima Los Angeles Horror Competition spicca quello di Daniele Pace, giovane regista romano alle prese con l'opera prima Beyond Us. La sua è la scommessa vinta di un cinema indipendente girato "a casa di un amico" e oggi proiettato sugli schermi di alcuni...

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di Beatrice Bondi   Venerdì si è tenuta una tavola rotonda con i rappresentanti della delegazione artistica di Open Roads alla Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò della NYU. L'evento è stato moderato dal direttore della Casa Italiana Stefano Albertini e dallo scrittore e docente della NYU Antonio Monda. Presenti sul palco: Marco Bellocchio, r...

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