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Exactly 50 years ago, Italian cinema once again proved its genius for creating unforgettable characters and stories that would become cultural landmarks - at least in Italy. Back then, few Italian films made it across the Atlantic, which means American audiences missed out on some remarkable masterpieces. While the 1990s gave the U.S. Friends, Ital...

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Alvaro Vitali, one of the most recognizable faces of Italy’s “commedia sexy all’italiana” in the 1970s and ’80s, has died at the age of 75. Best known for his iconic portrayal of Pierino, the mischievous schoolboy character from a series of risqué comedies, Vitali appeared in over 150 films during his career. It’s incredibly hard to explain the Pie...

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Neapolitan music has an extraordinary history, filled with melodies, lyrics, and masterpieces of the musical world. Naples is a city where emotions play a central role, and they have often been expressed through popular songs that are part of its history and are still sung and played today by both the young and the old. But this music dates back ma...

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"Ogni giorno la vita è una grande corrita, ma la notte no! Ogni giorno è una lotta, chi sta sopra e chi sotta. Ma la notte no!”. These fun and catchy lyrics have been sung by millions of Italians. They are from "Ma la notte no," the famous opening theme of the television program Quelli della notte, which first aired exactly 40 years ago, on April 2...

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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...

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Have you ever wondered if there is a proper way to interpret the Neapolitan song genre? If we did an interview, everyone would have a different idea because there isn't an answer. As Pino Daniele's song said: - "Napul'è mille culure" (Napoli is a thousand colors) and therefore, this will also be the way of interpreting its heritage of songs, brough...

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In the same years in which Broadway was already the Hollywood of Musicals and the big film production companies bought the rights to works such as " Singin 'in the Rain " and "An American in Paris", Italy too found its dimension of " musical theatre,” as a specific reflection of the spirit of a nation. Starting from the "revue" genre (the Italian c...

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Let's keep rolling in our journey through the lives of some "special" Christian people, some Italians who have responded 100% to The Call. As anticipated in the introduction to Part one, for their work in the world, Christians always identify themselves and act as sons and daughters of God the Father, who generates them in spiritual life (through B...

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A common saying goes, "Italy is home to poets, sailors and saints". Indeed, Italian television production about Saints, priests, nuns or lay Christian people is worldwide renown (think of the success of "Don Matteo"). This media thread can help us to perceive and understand the presence and personality of those who have followed Jesus Christ: throu...

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Last August 13th was not only the day on which Piero Angela passed away at the age of 93. That date will always be remembered as the end of an era, the one when the Italian television educated the Italians via its edutainment programs.  Piero Angela was not only a science journalist, a talented pianist, and a writer who sold millions of copies of h...

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