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Andrea Iervolino, the Italian producer of sports car biopics Ferrari, Lamborghini: The Man Behind The Legend and the upcoming Maserati movie, is revving up a biopic of Ettore Bugatti. Bugatti is slated to film late next year in Italy and France for Iervolino’s new banner, The Andrea Iervolino Company. The movie is set to tell the life story of Buga...

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Cinema Italian Style returns to SIFF Cinema Uptown November 7-14 to celebrate the best in Italian cinema with a broad selection of 15 films to celebrate its 16th year. Tickets for the festival, a celebration of the best Italian films of the year, are on sale now. “Cinema Italian Style is one of SIFF’s most beloved annual events, and we’re so gratef...

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“Marcello Mastroianni was known, all around the world, as the Latin lover, the Italian seducer, especially after he starred in La Dolce Vita, Federico Fellini’s masterpiece,” says Fabrizio Corallo, the director of the new documentary Ciao Marcello, Mastroianni l’antidivo.  “Mastroianni did not like this image. He didn’t want to be seen as an icon,...

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Luca Guadagnino, the Italian film-maker, will bring a new interpretation of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel American Psycho to the screen. The acclaimed director of Call Me by Your Name and Challengers will work with screenwriter Scott Z Burns to find an updated way into the material. Burns is known for his many collaborations with Steven Soderbergh incl...

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Ferrara has been welcoming a new space of cultural attraction since last spring: it is the Antonioni Space, a museum dedicated to Michelangelo Antonioni (Ferrara, 1912 - Rome, 2007), a great filmmaker and intellectual known for his ability to explore human emotions and social change through his refined cinematic language.  The opening of the Antoni...

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The value of Italian audiovisual productions crossed €2 billion for the first time in 2023, according to figures from the APA, Italy’s producers association. Production for TV, film and online platforms, including both scripted and unscripted, hit €2.04 billion, up from €1.8 billion in 2022 and nearly double the €1.06 billion recorded in 2017. Film...

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One day, we may look back and say it all began at the Palazzo del Cinema, when Vermiglio, written and directed by Maura Delpero, premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival. The film immediately won over the jury, led by Isabelle Huppert, earning the Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize. Just days after the festival’s conclusion, Vermiglio a...

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From October 24 2024 To October 26 2024. Loyola Marymount University - 1 Loyola Marymount University Dr, Los Angeles, CA. RSVP here. Loyola Marymount University is hosting Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour, a festival on rediscovered and restored films  that is a celebration of cinema’s history. This  8th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour at LMU boa...

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Renowned Italian-American filmmaker Martin Scorsese was presented with a special gift during his recent visit to Polizzi Generosa, Sicily. Nunzia Imburgia, president of the Sellaro Committee of Polizzi Generosa, donated a copy of Carmelo Cutuli's biography of Dr. Vincenzo Sellaro, the founder of the Sons of Italy in America. The book, which is also...

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Viale Francis Ford Coppola was unveiled yesterday ahead of Rome Film Festival. Francis Ford Coppola, the celebrated Italian-American director best known for The Godfather trilogy, was honoured at Rome's legendary Cinecittà film studios on Monday. Coppola, 85, received two special tributes: the naming of a street after him and the gift of the honora...

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