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While this year marks the 75th anniversary of what has evolved into a holiday classic — “It’s a Wonderful Life” — a Rome native has co-produced and directed a documentary film that explores whether the fictional location in the movie — Bedford Falls — was in reality Seneca Falls, and that the beloved motion picture was in truth, influenced by a sma...

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NYU Tisch School of the Arts has received a major gift from the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation to establish the Martin Scorsese Institute of Global Cinematic Arts, an academic and production institute which will encompass the new, state-of-the-art Martin Scorsese Virtual Production Center, the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies, and suppo...

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Feeling like his most autobiographical outing to date, Academy Award-winning writer/director Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo, The Great Beauty) brings us The Hand of God, the story of Fabietto Schisa (Filippo Scotti), a young man growing up in Naples during the 1980s. The film begins rather casually, seemingly without any real stakes. The biggest drama i...

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Cinema Italian Style is known for being a dynamic film festival showcasing the top new Italian films from emerging filmmakers and seasoned masters alike. Seven narrative feature films—including dramas, comedies, and a mystery— were screened at this year’s festival, highlighting the extraordinary talent of Italy’s greatest actors. Cinema Italian Sty...

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There is also Italy in the Independent Spirit Awards 2022 nominations, revealed 24 hours after the Golden Globes nominations. In the nominations of the 37th edition of the Film Independent Spirit Awards, Jonas Carpignano's A Chiara is the title in the race with three nominations in the categories Best Film, Best Cinematography, Best Editing.  Prese...

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Back in the early 1970s when a story idea for a never-say-die protagonist was percolating in Sylvester Stallone's head, he decided to first visualize this character on canvas. However, he didn't want to use a brush because he felt that this man was forged by the hardships of life. So instead, he carved an image on the canvas using a screwdriver. "I...

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Lady Gaga’s sizzling awards season continued Monday when she received a Golden Globe nomination for best actress in a drama film for “House of Gucci.” The Manhattan-born actress-singer stars as Patrizia Reggiani in the film, which centers on a bitter power struggle that occurred within the Italian fashion brand Gucci — and a revenge-driven murder-f...

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Paolo Soorentino's The Hand of God has been nominated for the best foreign film Golden Globe, the president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Helen Hoehne, announced Monday. The 79th edition of the awards will be held on January 9. The semi-autobiographical coming of age tale in a Naples 'redeemed' by soccer great Diego Maradona has also...

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One of the top entertainers of the 20th century, Grammy-winning singer and Oscar-winning actor Frank Sinatra, is the subject of a high-profile drama series, written, directed and executive produced by Oscar winner Bill Condon, I have learned. The series, which will have access to Sinatra’s music catalogue, is executive produced by Sinatra’s daughte...

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Just as winter sets in, Rivertown Film Society will take audiences to somewhere a bit warmer: a 1985 Sicilian summer to meet the Macaluso sisters (Maria, Pinuccia, Lia, Katia, and Antonella). These five young, orphaned girls live in an impoverished Palermo rooftop apartment, subsisting on money earned by renting out doves for various ceremonies. On...

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