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One can practically feel oneself “Getting strong now.” Decades after the iconic underdog movie was released, a new shop outside of the Philadelphia Museum of Art is now officially selling “Rocky” merchandise. According to Billy Penn, a tourism outpost (officially called the Parkway Outpost) was constructed and launched last year near the museum’s s...

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OCTOBER 13th and 14th 2023 at the O Cinema South Beach. Cinema Italy is pleased to announce this Special Event in Miami that is brought to you by The Italian Directorate General for Cinema and Audiovisual of the Italian Ministry of Culture, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Cinecittà, The Academy of Italian Cinema - Dav...

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The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, designed by Renzo Piano, celebrated Italian Cinema in collaboration with Cinecittà. Italy has won more Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film than any other country, with 14 wins. The program, which ran from September 6 to October 4, focused on Italian Cinema/Nuovo Cinema Italiano of the last five...

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Francis Ford Coppola has decided to reveal how often he thinks about the Roman Empire. The filmmaker took to Instagram Friday to join the TikTok trend by asking himself the viral question: “How often do you think about the Roman Empire?” “Quite a lot,” Coppola wrote in response. “As the Roman Republic served as the example for my country America an...

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“It’s the greatest love story—that movie is emblazoned on us. It romanticizes the decadence and excess that is hip-hop,” DJ Quik says from the Zoom rectangle, holding up a photo of himself wearing a T-shirt featuring the image of one of Al Pacino’s most famous roles, Scarface’s Tony Montana. Though Scarface centers on the rise and fall of a fictiti...

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Italian star Luisa Ranieri, who played the emotionally troubled Aunt Patrizia in Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God,” has joined the cast of the Johnny Depp-directed film “Modì,” about Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. The film has started shooting in Budapest. Ranieri is starring in “Modì” alongside fellow Italian Riccardo Scamarcio, who plays th...

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The San Diego Italian Film Festival returns Tuesday with in-person and online screenings of movies, many of which are making their San Diego debuts. This year’s fest, which runs through Oct. 14, will show films at the Museum of Photographic Arts and San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park, as well as La Paloma in Encinitas and Digital Gym at UC San...

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It’s one of the most iconic scenes in one of the greatest movies in American history, and it has almost nothing to do with the rest of the plot. It’s mob capo Paulie Cicero, played by the late Paul Sorvino. He’s in a minimum-security prison with the rest of the wise guys. They’ve bribed the guards so they can have all the stuff they need for a prop...

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It’s sometimes the fate of a single city to epitomise an era: Berlin in the 1920s, perhaps, or London in the 1960s. So which one would represent our own period of ecological anxiety, true crime and fake news? I’d wager it’s one you might not suspect: Naples. In terms of cultural clout, the place is booming. The city’s famous bay, flanked by Mount V...

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Potentially Dangerous exposes the unknown story of how 600,000 Italians living in the U.S. during WWII were surveilled, stripped of their livelihoods and native language, and were forced to leave their homes; some were even sent to internment camps — all while one million of their sons were fighting and dying in Europe and the South Pacific to keep...

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