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Joe Pesci became famous in 1990 with one of the shortest sentences that have ever written film history. “Funny how?” was his increasingly angry question in Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas” to the fellow gangster played by Ray Liotta, who had described him as a funny guy. The false outburst of rage of the choleric, pathologically brutal mobster Tommy...

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“RUDOLPH VALENTINO - THE GREAT LOVER" - Sunday, February 12 at 1:30 pm at the Italian Center (6821 Fair Oaks Blvd, Carmichael, CA). Admission $10 / Refreshments Included / Doors Open at 1:00p From St. Valentine in 200 AD and Giacomo Casanova in the 1700s, through Marcello Mastroianni, Gina Lollabrigida, Rosano Brazzi, and Sophia Loren to Fabio, the...

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Announced a few months ago, “Someone Down There Loves Me” a new homage docu-film on Massimo Troisi, will be presented at Berlinale. Troisi, who played the simple postman who rides his bicycle on the sandy terrain of an Italian island to deliver mail to his sole client, the Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda, died tragically of congenital heart f...

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Fellini, Antonioni, Visconti: Italian cinema has its own Holy Trinity. Together, these three directors managed to represent and interpret Italian society through a crucial time in our history–from the desolation left by WWII to the economic miracle and beyond. If Fellini blended memories and dream-like atmospheres into the everyday and Antonioni ex...

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The Italian Film Festival of Minneapolis / St. Paul (IFF) is the premier event of the Italian Cultural Center of Minneapolis / St. Paul. Organized in partnership with the Film Society, the 14th edition of the festival will be offered in person from March 2 to March 5, 2023 at the Main Cinema in Minneapolis. The IFF will offer an exciting lineup of...

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1862, the American frontier: A ruggedly handsome man in a poncho and Cattleman cowboy hat slowly enters a cobble-stoned circle, surrounded by tilted gravestones, immersed in the dusty wild west. He is followed by two other men, who eye each other suspiciously. Two hundred thousand dollars in gold lay hidden under one of the gravestones around them....

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MoMA (11 West 53 Street, Manhattan, NY) Floor T2/T1. The Debra and Leon Black Family Film Center. Through Feb 21. In collaboration with Cinecittà, Rome, MoMA celebrates the Tunisian-born Italian actress and women’s rights activist Claudia Cardinale with a retrospective that spans her nearly 70-year career, featuring 23 films, including 17 restorati...

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Stage and film director, producer, set designer, painter, wartime partisan, politician, and gourmet chef Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli was one of the world’s most significant opera and theater directors during the second half of the 20th century. Particularly renowned for his lavish stage sets and film adaptations of Christian biblical stories and l...

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Cinema has always made us dream, transporting us to different worlds and immersing us in stories that are a unique blend of characters, plot and location. The latter requires decisive collaboration among every director, set designer and scenographer–creator of a story that must unfold in harmony with the world in which it is inserted.  But to bring...

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Rome. Italy’s capital city is not just Eternal, nor just one of the world’s most beautiful urban centers, but the capital of Italian cinema. The link between the Eternal City and the seventh art is undeniable, deep and indissoluble. This chaotic city has been a muse for directors like Sorrentino, Pasolini and Fellini; the home of Cinecittà studios;...

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