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For the last decade, Msgr. Paul Bochicchio of St. Francis Church in Hoboken has been advising as a spiritual consultant on the upcoming film “Cabrini,” produced by Angel Studios about the life and ministry of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, set to debut in theaters in March 2024. The highly anticipated movie, from the studio that produced “The Chosen”...

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December 20 2023, 18:00 (Local time) - Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago (500 Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL). Free with registration. Doors open at 5:30pm CT. Please register each participant individually, using the form on this page. September 1350. Giovanni Boccaccio was commissioned to bring ten gold florins as symbolic compensation to Sister Be...

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Sylvester Stallone will be outside the Philadelphia Museum Art for the grand opening of the new Rocky Shop and to declare Dec. 3 "Rocky Day" in the city this weekend. Rocky himself will be at the event at 11 a.m. Sunday at the Parkway Visitor Center, which sits adjacent to Eakins Oval near the museum. The grand opening event, hosted by the Visitor...

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Nearly 50 years ago, actor Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa was a down-on-his-luck club fighter who worked as a seedy collector on the docks. After six films and a Creed spin-off franchise, featuring three of its own installments, fans forget that the Italian Stallion originally served as a muscle-bound collector to the disreputable but likable To...

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Italian cinema lands in Los Angeles thanks to Italian Screens with four screenings of four movies that were nominated for the David di Donatello 2023: La Siccità (Dry) by Paolo Virzì, Settembre (September) by Giulia Louise Steigerwalt, Ti mangio il Cuore (Burning Hearts) by Pippo Mezzapesa, and La Stranezza (Strangeness) by Roberto Andò. ITALIAN SC...

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Marche is the only Italian region whose name is pronounced in the plural, where the Apennines and the Adriatic Sea seem to look at each other in the eyes: a region of a hundred theaters, with an infinity of natural, cultural and historical beauty. In addition, Marche has been the birthplace, in history, of as many as ten popes as well as some of th...

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Italian cinema is in the spotlight at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles where the screening series “Ennio Morricone: Essential Scores from a Movie Maestro,” programmed in partnership with Cinecittà, is currently playing to sold-out audiences. The Oct. 6-Nov. 25 event comprises 20 titles, including Sergio Leone’s “The Good the Bad and the Ugly” in a...

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Matteo Garrone, class 1968, from Rome, carved a significant place for himself in contemporary cinema. It all started almost 30 years ago, in 1996, when he won the Sacher d’Oro for his short Silhouette, which later became part of his first full-length feature, Terra di Mezzo (Land in Between) in 1997. Garrone’s filmmaking is often seen through a len...

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New Italian Cinema Events - is a cultural organization founded by Viviana Del Bianco in Florence. Its primary goal is to promote contemporary independent Italian cinema worldwide through film screenings and cultural events in Europe, the United States, and Asia. This Fall, N.I.C.E. returns to the United States, celebrating its 33rd edition dedicate...

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C’è ancora domani, the directorial debut of Rome actress Paola Cortellesi, has become the highest-grossing Italian film in Italy's cinemas since the start of the covid pandemic. The black and white movie, whose title in English is There's Still Tomorrow, premiered last month at the Rome Film Festival where it won three prizes including the audience...

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