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  WTI Magazine #26    2014 Apr, 18Author : Simone doc Bracci      Translation by:   The most important event in North America entirely dedicated to contemporary Italian cinema takes place every year at the Lincoln Center in New York. We're talking about Open Roads Film Society, which has just unveiled the new calendar of the New Italian Cinema,...

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  WTI Magazine #84    2016 October 17Author : Edoardo Peretti      Translation by:   "Fuocoammare" (Fire at Sea) by Gianfranco Rosi is the Italian candidate for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. This does not mean that it will be among the five shortlisted movies that will actually run for the Oscar: if the Rosi film will be in t...

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  WTI Magazine #28    2014 May, 1Author : Simone doc Bracci      Translation by:   It was the set of "Ben Hur", "Elena di Troia" (Helen of Troy), "Francesco" (Francis of Assisi), "Cleopatra", "Il tormento e l'estasi " (The Agony and the Ecstasy) and most of the classic Federico Fellini movies, considered a prestigious location, with a high poten...

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  WTI Magazine #30    2014 May, 15Author : Simone doc Bracci      Translation by:   You think about it and think again, and in the end you realize that Italy's classic movies world has had so many big names, compared to the contemporary scene: talented actors recognized throughout the world, glorious icons that take us back in time and at the sa...

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  WTI Magazine #69    2015 October, 2Author : Edoardo Peretti      Translation by:   Today we celebrate a wonderful 40 years anniversary: in fact, it was October 1975 when the Italian cinemas saw for the first time a movie that would soon have become an absolute cult: "Fantozzi", directed by Luciano Salce and starring the comedian Paolo Villaggi...

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  WTI Magazine #23    2014 Mar, 28Author : Simone doc Bracci      Translation by:   Gone are the years when Cinecittà enthroned at the center of Italy as the focal point of European cinema, ideal locations and sets for the big American productions and for those of the Italian system that gave space and freedom of movement to great authors, now r...

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  WTI Magazine #81    2016 July 15Author : Edoardo Peretti      Translation by:   Last June 27 Bud Spencer passed away. Carlo Pedersoli, better known as Bud Spencer, was a man of many lives, and an absolute protagonist of the history of Italian cinema, especially the more popular. Born in Naples in 1929, his first life, before arriving on the bi...

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WTI Magazine #25    2014 Apr, 11Author : Simone doc Bracci      Translation by:   One of our most appreciated and important sense is taste, not in a metaphorical sense, but literally. The taste for food, for example, distinguishes us as men; the taste for art as educated men. If we combine the two things we have a lasting partnership that results...

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  WTI Magazine #77    2016 March 18Author : Edoardo Peretti      Translation by:   "Non essere cattivo" by Claudio Caligari, the beautiful Italian movie selected to represent our country for the Oscar as "Foreign Language Film", didn't get the nomination. Despite this, the Oscar ceremony spoke Italian: the Oscar for best soundtrack has been won...

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  WTI Magazine #75    2016 January 18Author : Edoardo Peretti      Translation by:   These days, a storm hit the Italian box office: we are talking about the film "Quo Vado" by Gennaro Nunziante and Checco Zalone, able to earn some 52 million euros (and counting) in about ten days, a monstrous figure for the Italian box office. To give an idea,...

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