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Robert De Niro may best be known as an Oscar-winning actor, but in a new documentary he takes on the role of a devoted son as he spotlights his own artist father, Robert Sr, for his influential but not well-known works in the New York City abstract expressionist art movement. De Niro, 70, who won Oscars for his lead role in "Raging Bull" and his s...

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by Mike Hughes   Over the past century or so, the U.S. has been energized by people from one small country. Or, actually, from a fraction of that country. PBS' "The Italian Americans" says most of the surge came from one piece of Italy.   It's "not the experience of Milan (or) Florence," said journalist Gay Talese. "It's not Rome...

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When: Thursday, May 12, 2016 – 5:30 pm – 7:05 pmWhere: Museum of Fine Arts Boston – Harry and Mildred Remis Auditorium (Auditorium 161), 465 Huntington Ave., Boston MA   The Venice Ghetto, 500 Years of Life by Emanuela Giordano (Italy/France, 2015, 54 min.). Italian & French with English subtitles. The rich story of the Jews of Veni...

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Today, Eataly New York and the Italian American Committee on Education (IACE) announced the launch of "Short Food Movie: The Oscars at Eataly," a contest to create a food-themed video less than one minute long using a smartphone, tablet, or video camera.   This initiative is an extension of the EXPO Milan 2015 "Short Food Movie" program them...

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by Dan Niemiec   The recent documentary "The Italian Americans" discussed the period at the beginning of World War II. The government decided for security reasons that certain foreign-born American residents would be classified as "enemy aliens".   These were people whose home countries were at war with us. Also, these people h...

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Premieres Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 7:30pm on WMHT-TV. "A tribute to the vanished world of Italian immigrant families that fostered culture and community in the South End of Albany, NY. Our original film, The Neighborhood That Disappeared, told the story of the South End of Albany, NY which contained over one-third of the City's ethnic popu...

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La sua parola preferita è 'noi', quella che lo fa reagire è 'legalità', "una parola sostenuta, abusata, celebrata, sulla bocca di tutti fino ad impoverirla. Legalità è diventata una bandiera che tutti usano e in quel nome si sono fatte leggi, penso alla Bossi-Fini sui migranti, che ne avevano ben poca. La chiamo cultura della legalità malleabile...

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"Little Italy: Past, Present and Future" è il titolo del documentario di Federica Martino che verrà proiettato domani, 23 agosto, alle 18.30 all'Italian American Museum di New York. Il lavoro della regista è un vero e proprio viaggio nel cuore di Little Italy e delle persone che la abitano o l'hanno popolata nel passato, contribuendo a farla diven...

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by Alessandra Turra   Giorgio Armani marked the official start of the "Films of City Frames" movie project, whose launch was revealed last month, with a video message available starting today at www.framesoflife.com. Linked with the brand's Frames of Life eyewear campaign, the project, developed in collaboration with Rai Cinema, will see a n...

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Il mistero della creatività dei grandi maestri sarti italiani, la loro passione e devozione per un'arte che rasenta la religiosità e che nei secoli ha insegnato lo stile italiano al mondo, sono gli ingredienti primari del documentario "Men of the Cloth" di Vicki Vasilopoulos, la cui prima newyorkese sarà tenuta giovedì 8 gennaio 2015 presso il Vill...

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