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Un volto bellissimo di Sophia Loren, di uno straordinario colore blu, è stato realizzato sulla facciata di un palazzo su via Quarantola, nel centro di Gragnano e celebra sia la grande artista campana che l’ottima pasta di Gragnano. A vederla di fronte questa grande e bella opera dell’artista internazionale Leticia Mandragola sembra solo celebrare l...

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2020 marks the 100th year since the birth of Italian Director Federico Fellini. He will be celebrated by Cinema Italia San Francisco through his movies at the Castro theatre on March 7th. Through a series of centennial tributes co-presented by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive from January 16, 2020 through May 17, 2020, Luce Cinecitt...

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“Gabriele Salvatores is the ideal artist to preside over the current edition of this festival. His love for our country, his support and his important contribution to our culture knows no boundaries.” With these words, blue-eyed and well-built Italian actor Franco Nero, introduced Italian Academy Award-winning film director and screenwriter, Gabrie...

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Among the appealing lineup of films set to screen at 13th Annual NM Italian Film and Culture Festival, a full-length documentary stands out as the Special Feature Film for its historical, socio-political and cultural significance. The Innocents of Florence: the quest to save 600,000 children will be introduced by its maker, David Battistella, who w...

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Whether its the old-school charm of the locals, the mouth-watering food or the beautiful scenery, Americans have long had a fascination with Italy. It’s a place where they can either find themselves or forge a new identity; a place ripe with stunning people and opportunities, as well as a different, more relaxed way of life. The country’s charm has...

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On Epix’s upcoming gangster sequence Godfather of Harlem, Vincent D’Onofrio performs Vincent “The Chin” Gigante, and Giancarlo Esposito performs Adam Clayton Powell Jr. They’re two rising titans at cross functions. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was New York’s first elected Congressman of African-American descent and was instrumental in pushing social and...

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Naples in the 1950s: Lenù e Lila are two girls who become friends in a poor neighborhood in the extreme eastern outskirts of the port city. Life was hard and they grew up together as best friends. At times they grew apart to then reunite and become even closer. Their story is told in four books written between 2011 and 2014 by Elena Ferrante: the f...

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The First King, The Traitor, Piranhas, Martin Eden and Pinocchio are the five films running for Best Picture at the David di Donatello Awards 2020.  Nominations for Best Director are Matteo Rovere, Marco Bellocchio, Claudio Giovannesi, Pietro Marcello and Matteo Garrone. The Traitor got 18 nominations, The First King and Pinocchio follows with 15, ...

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Netflix has acquired the worldwide rights to Sophia Loren’s return to the screen and her first feature film in over a decade, a drama called “The Life Ahead,” the streaming service announced Monday. Edoardo Ponti directed Loren in the film, and Netflix will debut it later this year. Loren plays a Holocaust survivor named Madame Rosa who runs a dayc...

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The cinema world is marking the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Federico Fellini (b. January 20,1920-d. October 31, 1993) in Rimini on the shores of the Adriatic Sea on the east coast of Italy. Exhibits of his films and his life are being shown all over Italy, while a major show, “Fellini 100”, is open in Palazzo Venezia, the very center...

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