Today we celebrate a “splendid” fifty-year-old: in October 1975, a film hit Italian theaters that would soon become a true cult classic—Fantozzi, directed by Luciano Salce and starring Genoese comedian Paolo Villaggio, the creator of the character who, before hitting the big screen, had already been brought to life on television and in a series of...

From April 03 2025 To April 13 2025. Coral Gables Art Cinema + other movie theatres in Miami. The Miami Film Festival, now in its 42nd edition, presents a rich program of U.S. and international movies. Among the festival sections for the first time, through a collaboration between the Festival and the Italian Cultural Institute in Miami, a Spotligh...

When Stanley Tucci, the star of The Devil Wears Prada, Spotlight and The Hunger Games, was approached to take part in Conclave – an adaptation of Robert Harris’ eponymous novel, directed by Edward Berger and starring Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow, and Isabella Rossellini – it seemed like a no brainer. “It’s a really, really interesting story with a m...

The Leopard, a new series on streaming platform Netflix, is entrancing viewers with its sultry scenes of political and personal upheaval in 1860s Sicily. But alongside the swoon-worthy storylines, it’s the sumptuous settings that are dazzling fans. If there was ever an onscreen drama readymade for set-jetting, it’s this one. From an iconic Baroque...

Ralph Macchio has starred in a number of enduringly beloved films, but he knows exactly what fans want a reboot of most: My Cousin Vinny. "Yeah, I've had conversations with other writers about that," he told PEOPLE at PaleyFest on Saturday, referring to the classic 1992 comedy. Macchio starred in the screwball-indebted courtroom comedy as the cousi...

2025 marks the 18th year of CWRU and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures Program in Italian collaborating with Italian Film Festival USA (IFFUSA), the CWRU Film Society, and the campus student organization for Italian, La Dolce Vita, to host Italian Film Festival USA - Cleveland in Strosacker Auditorium.  This year we also thank the...

On March 25th 2025, exactly 80 years after the first staging of Eduardo’s comedy at the Neapolitan San Carlo theater, the film will be screened, with the De Filippo family attending the event: it will be the beginning of the celebrations to mark the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the city of Naples. The program, organized by the committee se...

The Gold Rush of 1849 caused thousands of people to flee the Eastern part of the United States and head west to seek easy money, dug up out of the ground. A lot of the lands Americans were infiltrating weren't being overseen by any kind of widely recognized law, and the boomtowns that hastily formed kind of had to make up their infrastructure as th...

The announcement of the new film “The Devil in the White City,” which will once again feature Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese working together, has put the spotlight back on one of the most iconic couples in contemporary cinema. But for car enthusiasts, their artistic partnership immediately conjures up a specific image: the white 1991 Ferrar...

Italy has produced many of the most celebrated films of all time, and the history of Italian cinema has influenced directors and actors worldwide. However, knowing where to start with Italian films can be hard. Many of the greatest Italian movies have long run times and are connected to larger artistic movements, which can make them feel daunting....