Alberto Barbera, Artistic Director of the Venice Film Festival, has outlined some of the coronavirus preventative measures that the event could employ for its next edition in September, if the fest does go ahead. Quoted in Italian outlet ANSA, Babera said that Venice would likely take place in a “necessarily experimental” form for 2020. “There will...

An undeniable Hollywood great, Al Pacino has brought an indefatigable sense of simmering intensity to numerous roles across a 50-year career. The actor, who celebrated his 80th birthday on Saturday, is among the few performers to have received the triple crown of acting – winning a competitive Oscar, Emmy and Tony award. He has also had success beh...

Have the weeks of quarantine got you a little stir crazy?  Well, it’s time to… SNAP OUT OF IT, because the Italian American Podcast is bringing you a little something extra this week! Welcome to our inaugural Italian American Podcast Movie Watch-Along! In this new offering, we’ll take the classics of Italian American film and present them to you wi...

Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro are offering fans the opportunity to win a walk-on role in their upcoming film "Killers of the Flower Moon" if they donate funds through the "All in Challenge," which supports DiCaprio's "America's Food Fund," "Meals on Wheels" and "No Kid Hungry." "Bob (De Niro) and I are going to be starring in a film called '...

Italy looks at new ways of sharing Italian culture with the world. Italy's culture minister Dario Franceschini said his ministry is discussing the creation of an Italian online platform that gives paid access to Italian culture, describing it as "a sort of Netflix of culture", according to news agency ANSA. Franceschini said the proposed platform c...

With Cannes and Venice both up in the air due to the coronavirus pandemic, Italy’s film promotion org. Filmitalia has teamed up with festival streaming platform Festival Scope Pro to launch its annual Italian Screenings market online in July. Filmitalia, a unit of Italian national film entity Luce-Cinecittà, “is the first of Europe’s roughly 30 fil...

Attore, cantante, sceneggiatore, regista e doppiatore italiano, dopo avere esordito in varie trasmissioni radiofoniche, in riviste di varietà nei teatri, Alberto Sordi nei suoi films ha fatto conoscere l’Italia e gli Italiani nel mondo, la loro cultura, il loro carattere, la loro cucina, raccontando storie di vita quotidiana nei quartieri di belle...

During these enervating hours of isolation, where uncertainty toward the future seems to be the unwanted companion of us all, we are called to make ethical choices to protect our own and other people’s safety and health. In this regard, major crises have always turned out to be the most significant opportunities to grow by practicing the fundamenta...

A Support Fund for TV and Film during the COVID-19 Crisis, aimed at providing urgent, short-term support to workers and crews in the Italian audiovisual industry who are directly affected by the nationwide shutdown of production due to Coronavirus, has been announced by the online streaming and entertainment giant Netflix and the Italian Film Commi...

Growing up in an Italian family means that there is a very specific set of films we have on repeat through holidays. From my mother continually saying she won’t rewatch movies and yet always sitting down when The Godfather was on to my brother quoting Joe Pesci’s lines from Goodfellas, there were plenty of iconic films in our rotation. But the one...