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  Bocelli, Vigiano, Stallone e Sorrentino: le sale cinematografiche statunitensi raccontano l'Itaila in America Con l'avvicinarsi del Columbus Day riprendono gli attacchi a Colombo Un nuovo inizio per Casa Italia a Chicago, in Illinois L'emigrazione degli scalpellini italiani nel Maine viene celebrata con una mostra fotografica a Portland New York...

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Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grazia, widely hailed as a return to form for the 2013 Oscar winner, has locked down its theatrical release date in North American cinemas. Mubi will open La Grazia in theaters on Dec. 5, teeing up a potential Oscars campaign for its inimitable Italian star, Toni Servillo. La Grazia opened the 82nd Venice Film...

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Get ready for an onslaught of Italian movies on the post-Venice fall festival circuit. Seven Italian titles are set launch into North America from Toronto. Seven will be bowing into Asia from Busan. Four will screen at the New York Film festival, and six in London. The most significant aspect of these numbers is probably the fact that the New York...

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Let’s take a look back at Italy’s journey at the world’s most prestigious film event. From legendary directors like Benigni, Fellini, De Sica, and Sorrentino walking up to collect their trophies, to the country’s long-standing tradition of excellence in cinema, Italy has firmly cemented its place in Hollywood history. With a total of 14 Oscar statu...

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In 1950, in the bay of Naples Italy, beautiful Parthenope (Celeste Dalla Porta) is born in the ocean itself. A princess (well not literally) who will live her youth in the crumbling castle her family’s life of privilege has afforded them. As she grows into her teenage years and beyond, she becomes a gorgeous, statuesque beauty drawing the attention...

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A24 knows sex sells, so it’s no surprise that the first U.S. trailer for Parthenope is full of seduction. Newcomer Celeste Dalla Porta, playing the titular Parthenope, appears in various stages of undress throughout, emerging dripping from the sea in a bikini, draped in religious jewelry that barely covers her modesty, tangled up in what looks like...

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When director Paolo Sorrentino’s hit series “The Young Pope” debuted in 2016, it took the Vatican a year to grudgingly bless his imagined and occasionally blasphemous portrayal of the pope. Not so for Sorrentino’s latest film “Parthenope,” which has gotten an early thumbs down from Italy’s Catholic Church. That has only seemed to pique interest in...

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What a world Paolo Sorrentino creates. The Italian director called one of his movies – the one that won the Oscar for Best International Film – “The Great Beauty,” but that could have been the title of lots of them, definitely including “Parthenope,” which premiered on Tuesday in the Main Competition section of the Cannes Film Festival. In this cas...

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Roughly two years after his return to Naples for “The Hand of God,” Paolo Sorrentino is heading back to his hometown for another movie steeped in the lore of his native southern port city. The still untitled film is about a woman named Partenope “who bears the name of her city but is neither siren nor myth,” the Oscar-winning auteur has revealed to...

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Apple TV+ has picked up a drama from Peaky Blinders‘ scribe Steven Knight that tracks the life of driver and entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari. The drama, to be titled Ferrari, is being directed by Suburra’s Stefano Sollima and is being produced by Lorenzo Mieli for Fremantle’s The Apartment Pictures, in co-production with Nicola Giuliano for Indigo Film....

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