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When: Oct 24, 2024, 6:30 PM - Where: Westchester Italian Cultural Center, 1 Generoso Pope Pl, Tuckahoe, NY 10707, USA  *This is a 4 part Italian Film Study Course (October 24, November 7, November 21, December 5). Registration fee includes all four films/classes, Tasting of regional foods, wine and coffee. Classes MAY NOT be purchased separately. I...

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“The Goonies” star Robert Davi is coming to Syracuse for a special Columbus Day event. The Italian-American actor and singer will speak at this year’s Columbus Day Luncheon on Monday, Oct. 14, at 12 p.m. in the Oncenter Nicholas J. Pirro Convention Center Ballroom. The event will also honor Syracuse Police Chief Joseph Cecile and the neighborhood h...

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Antonio Vivaldi, the Italian Baroque composer and violinist who penned “The Four Seasons,” will be portrayed in “Primavera,” the feature debut of Damiano Michieletto, a leading opera director. Memento International has boarded the film which begins shooting this month in Rome and Venice.  “Primavera” was penned by Ludovica Rampoldi, the award-winni...

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No 1970s car exudes more Hollywood allure than the Ferrari 365 GTB/4, known colloquially as the “Daytona.” Not only was it coveted by movie stars and rock gods, but it had several memorable screen appearances itself. One played a significant role in Robert Altman’s Elliott Gould-starring ode to Film Noir, The Long Goodbye. Perhaps most famously, a...

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This week marks a full century since the actor Marcello Mastroianni entered our world on September 28, 1924. Now, nearly 30 years on since he exited, it remains quasi-illegal to write anything about him without using the two words he detested most of all: “Latin Lover.” Dating back to at least 1960, when his performance in Federico Fellini’s La dol...

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Francis Ford Coppola has been working on his epic sci-fi fantasy drama Megalopolis since the early 1980s. Fresh off the success of Apocalypse Now, Coppola became fascinated by the story of Lucius Sergius Catiline, who in 63 B.C. sought to forcibly overthrow the consuls of the Roman Republic, co-led by Marcus Tullius Cicero. This attempted coup d’et...

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Martin Scorsese is set to be honored with a life achievement award by Italy’s National Cinema Museum in the northern city of Turin. The director will receive the museum’s Stella della Mole Award on October 7 in a gala ceremony in the 85-meter-high atrium of its home, the Mole Antonelliana, which was originally conceived as a synagogue. The followin...

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Italian actress Isabella Rossellini will receive the European Achievement in World Cinema award, a lifetime achievement honor, at this year’s European Film Awards. The Italian-American star, daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and Italian film director Roberto Rossellini, was a successful fashion model — famously for French cosmetics brand L...

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Italy will send Maura Delpero’s World War 2 drama Vermiglio into the 2025 Oscar race for Best International Feature. Vermiglio premiered at the Venice Film Festival last month, where it scooped up the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize. Sideshow and Janus Films acquired domestic rights for the movie shortly after its North American premiere in Toronto. S...

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Cinema with a Social Conscience: Italian Neorealism is coming to Villanova University. According to information provided by Alessandra Seggi, the creator of the event, “the series aims to screen films by or about Neorealist filmmakers with relevant U.S. counterparts. For each film, I envision a screening, plus a lively conversation between a filmma...

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