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Nel giorno di Halloween, Il Graduate Center della City University of New York ha offerto alla sua città un evento eccezionale per la serata di apertura della seconda edizione dell’Academic Festival IC-CUNY (Italian Cinema CUNY): l’università ha presentato una master class intitolata The Crafts of Cinema (I mestieri del cinema), portando sul palcosc...

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There’s a moment in the 1976 movie Rocky where the film we’re watching stops being a product of the American new wave and where it transforms before our eyes into the future of cinema. That moment is the training montage. Up until the training montage, Rocky belongs within the ranks of the ’70s dramas that clearly inspired it. It’s a grey, ugly, sl...

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Everyone knows Mario Cantone as Charlotte York's fast-talking, Italian-stallion GBF Anthony, who marries Carrie Bradshaw's mild-mannered GBF Stanford, RIGHT? Well, Mario Cantone (Anthony) will star in the world premiere production of Bliss, an "original musical fantasy that flips the traditional princess narrative upside down." Here's a further syn...

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La prima edizione di Cinema Italian Style SF, il festival organizzato dalla leggendaria casa cinematografica italiana Luce Cinecittà in collaborazione con l'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di San Francisco e con il patrocinio del Consolato Generale d'Italia a San Francisco, si terrà al Vogue Theatre dal 22 al 24 novembre 2019. La manifestazione sarà i...

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The bond between American and Italian costumers has been a strong and long-lasting one that has contributed to some of the best-looking movies ever made, says acclaimed Italian costume designer Carlo Poggioli. “We are the country that has won the most Oscars, both for set design and costumes, after the Americans,” says Poggioli, head of Italy’s cos...

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Lou Ferrigno may be best known for the title role in the hit television series, The Incredible Hulk, but before that, he was a world-class body builder and more recently, he’s been involved with law enforcement. I had the opportunity to interview him this past weekend at the Wizard World Comic Convention in Tulsa. Ferrigno said he turned to body bu...

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As she's quick to remind, Lady Gaga is just an Italian-American girl from New York, but for her next movie part she'll play one of the most infamous Italian criminal heiresses. According to *Deadline*, she'll take on the role of Patrizia Gucci (né Patrizia Reggiani) in a Ridley Scott-directed film based on the rise and fall of the Gucci family. It...

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Let’s take a look at Martin Scorsese’s documentary My Voyage To Italy – the legendary director’s love letter to Italian cinema. Although Scorsese is best known for his gangster movies like Goodfellas and Gangs Of New York,  his documentaries are some of his best work. Scorsese has directed many documentaries over his career, with a few of them focu...

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Join members of ICC and SDIFF for a night revolving around the world of Elena Ferrante. SDIFF Executive Director Diana Agostini and SDIFF Artistic Director Antonio Iannotta will hold a workshop on Elena Ferrante's first two novels: L'amore molesto and I giorni dell'abbandono. The workshop will be taught in English, with references to the original t...

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For years, Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci was saddled with a less-than-complimentary nickname – “The Other Sergio” – because his own Spaghetti Westerns often (well, to be more precise, just about always) were overshadowed by those of his contemporary, the great Sergio Leone. But critics, academics and diehard movie buffs have long championed Cor...

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