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Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is a heavy contender for a prestigious world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. It’s still too early for it to be a lock, but it’s looking promising enough that Scorsese has reserved a suite at one of the posh hotels along the Croisette, sources tell Variety.  Thierry Fr...

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In the delightfully mischievous short film Le Pupille, which earned Italian writer-director Alice Rohrwacher her first Oscar nomination, a rebellion is brewing within the confines of a Catholic girls’ school in Italy on a chilly Christmas Eve in the midst of World War II. Young Serafina (Melissa Falasconi) attracts the ire of Sister Fioralba (Alba...

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Gina Lollobrigida’s death on January 16, 2023, inspired us to look back and reflect on an extraordinary era of Italian cinema that spans the neorealism of the 1940s to the early 1970s. During that time, numerous directors with different styles brought Italy to life on the big screen, and the actresses became as well-known around the world as any Ho...

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The history of cinema is a tapestry woven with black and white masterpieces long before color film was even a glimmer in the eye of the film industry. Though it may be hard to believe today, for reasons both economic and moralistic, images in color were considered out of proportion, eccentric, almost obscene. As such, until the mid-1930s, cinema wa...

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No one can embarrass you like your parents. They often mean well, but it’s difficult not to dread every word out of their mouths, especially when they’re interacting with members of your extended circle. In Lionsgate‘s About My Father trailer, stand-up comic Sebastian Maniscalco and Robert De Niro play a father and son duo who venture outside their...

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Italian auteur Vittorio De Sica triumphed at the Berlin Film Festival when his 1971 masterpiece “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis” claimed the Golden Bear, on its way to the best foreign-language Oscar in 1972. “Finzi” also earned Italian film and TV star Fabio Testi an Italian Golden Globe for best breakthrough actor. A half-century later, with ov...

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The downtown arts venue Epsilon Spires will host an evening of Italian wine and film on Sunday, Feb. 26, featuring a tasting of four selected wines sommelier Rob Forman describes as “non-conforming” and a screening of Bernardo Bertolucci’s early film The Conformist. “The Conformist is the one Bertolucci film you shouldn’t miss,” writes film critic...

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Cinema Paradiso (1988) begins with a soaring opening score in stark contrast with the languid beauty of a clear blue sea and sky, visible through the gossamer curtains. This sonorific arc swiftly cuts to a darkened scene of suspended intimacy, where a lovers’ night is interrupted by an element of foreboding. Suddenly we’re inside a church, where ou...

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One of Naples' favourite sons, the late great comic and film director Massimo Troisi, on Monday received a posthumous honorary degree from his home town university. Troisi, who died at 41 in 1994 a few days after wrapping his last great film Il Postino, for which he got two Oscar nominations, graduated in "Discipline of Music and Entertainment, His...

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Jaw-dropping chases in Aston Martins, perfectly-tailored Savile Row suits, iconic soundtracks, cruel villains and mysterious femme fatales: these are just some of the ingredients, obviously shaken and never stirred, of every James Bond movie, the most famous secret agent in the world. But if we had to pinpoint the one characteristic that ties all t...

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