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New York’s MoMA To Fete Italy’s Rai Cinema, Matteo Garrone’s ‘Tale of Tales’...
ROME – New York’s Museum of Modern Art will celebrate Italy’s Rai Cinema with a screening series set to kick off on December 4 with the U.S. bow of Matteo Garrone’s English-language fantasy/horror film...
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Italian Actor Gabriele Ferzetti, Co-Star Of Antonioni’s ‘L’Avventura,’ Dies...
ROME – Gabriele Ferzetti, the silently seductive Italian actor who rose to international prominence during the 1950’s and 60’s, when he played a dissolute playboy opposite Monica Vitti in Michelangelo...
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Silvana Pampanini, Postwar Italian Diva, Dies at 90
ROME – Actress Silvana Pampanini, the voluptuous postwar Italian diva who starred in more than fifty films and reigned as Italy’s sex symbol in the 1950’s when she worked with Vittorio De Sica,...
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Cult Italo Helmer Fernando Di Leo, A Tarantino Fave, Set For First Remake...
ROME – Fernando Di Leo, the late Italian exploitation-pic maestro exhumed from oblivion after Quentin Tarantino started citing his works as inspiration, is getting a first remake with plans underway...
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Italy’s Taviani Brothers On Selected Works And What A Gentleman Ettore Scola...
Italy’s revered filmmaking duo, the Taviani Brothers, Paolo and Vittorio, emerged way before the Coens, the Hugheses and the Wachowskis and are amazingly still active, well in their 80’s. They spoke,...
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Italian Auteur Gianni Amelio Shooting Naples-Based Drama Inspired by...
ROME – Pluriprized Italo auteur Gianni Amelio is back behind camera on an adaptation of “The Temptation to Be Happy,” a hot Naples-set novel about a cynical old widower whose life is changed by a woman...
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Sky Poised to Enter Theatrical Distribution Market for Local Titles in Italy
ROME — Murdoch-owned paybox Sky is poised to enter the theatrical distribution market in Italy as a distributor of local movies in a bold move likely to shake up the country’s evolving theatrical...
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Italian Film Industry Taking Cannes Snub in Stride
ROME — Italy’s film industry is reacting rather nonchalantly to the surprising absence of Italian movies in the Cannes competition for the first time in a decade and taking consolation in the expected...
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Bud Spencer, Italian Spaghetti Westerns Star, Dies at 86
ROME — Bud Spencer, the burly Italian actor who starred in dozens of genre movies including many widely exported Spaghetti Westerns such as “Trinity Is Still My Name,” which is among Italy’s all-time...
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Cuban-American Actor Tomas Milian, Italian Genre Movies Star, Dies at 84
ROME – Versatile Cuban-American-Italian actor Tomas Milian, known for the intensity he brought to disparate roles, whether in dramas by directors like Bernardo Bertolucci and Steven Soderbergh or as...
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Warner Bros. Axes Italian Director From Promotional Materials Following...
ROME – Sexual harassment allegations against Italian director Fausto Brizzi have prompted Warner Bros. Entertainment Italia to remove the hit-making helmer from all promotional material for his...
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Italian Box Office Drops 12.5% in 2017; Local Movies Suffer, While Hollywood...
ROME – Box office returns in Italy plunged 12.5% to €544 million ($645 million) through mid-December 2017 as Italian movies lost theatrical traction while Hollywood titles remained generally strong....
View Article‘Daughter of Mine’ Director Laura Bispuri on Motherhood, Modernity and #MeToo
Italian director Laura Bispuri made a splash in the 2015 Berlin Film Festival competition with her first feature, transgender-themed “Sworn Virgin.” She’s back at the Berlinale this year with “Daughter...
View Article‘Indivisible’ Director Edoardo De Angelis Starts Shooting ‘The Vice of Hope’...
Italian director Edoardo De Angelis (“Indivisible”) has started shooting “The Vice of Hope,” a drama involving a difficult birth set against the backdrop of child trafficking in Castel Volturno, an...
View Article‘Love and Bullets,’‘A Ciambra’ Split Top Honors at David Awards as Italy...
Naples-set mob musical “Love and Bullets,” directed by Marco and Antonio Manetti, and Jonas Carpignano’s slice-of-life drama “A Ciambra,” split top honors Wednesday night at Italy’s 62nd David di...
View ArticleCannes: Matteo Garrone’s ‘Dogman’ Sells Widely Prior to Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)
ROME — Italy’s Rai Com has scored a slew of sales on director Matteo Garrone’s revenge drama “Dogman” ahead of its Cannes competition world premiere. Dubbed an “urban Western,” Garrone’s return to...
View ArticleItalian Movie Channel to Launch in U.S. via Amazon (EXCLUSIVE)
Italy’s Minerva Pictures is launching an SVOD channel dedicated to Italian cinema for the North American market using the Amazon Prime Video Direct program, in a move that breaks new ground and could...
View ArticleMatteo Garrone’s ‘Dogman’ Is Italy’s Oscar Contender
Matteo Garrone’s gritty revenge drama “Dogman,” which won the best actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival, is Italy’s candidate for the foreign-language Oscar. Dubbed an “urban Western,” the movie is...
View ArticleCinephil Takes ‘The Rossellinis’ Doc On Film Icon’s Uneasy Family Legacy...
Tel Aviv-based sales agent Cinephil has taken international sales rights to high-concept doc “The Rossellinis,” which will provide a tongue-in-cheek autobiographical look at the descendants living...
View ArticleNew Italian Cinema Standouts Comprise Female-Led Western ‘My Body Will Bury...
Four female Italian bandits known as “Le Drude” are the protagonists of “My Body Will Bury You” a Sicily-set revenge drama/Western set in 1860 that is among standout titles presented to prospective...
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