Restored masterpieces of world cinema were brought to life last week at the University of Maryland’s third edition of the Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival. The festival, hosted at this university by the languages, literatures and cultures school and the cinema and media studies program, features films that have been restored by the Cineteca di Bol...
READ MOREA €1.2 million ($1.27 million) Italian fund established to boost theatrical distribution of feature films around the world is set to double to more than €2 million and expand its scope to cover streaming and television. “What we would like to do is increase the distribution of Italian movies all around the world,” Roberto Stabile, head of special p...
READ MOREFriday, March 24th at 2:30 - 5:30 pm. Learning Commons 107 - University of San Diego Campus (5998 Alcalá Park, San Diego, CA). Beatrice Basso is going to USD to speak about the Italian language and cultural work she did for Pixar’s film LUCA which takes place in a fictional Italian town inspired by the coastal town of Cinque Terre. She will discuss...
READ MOREWhenever the Academy Awards call us, the memory of the iconic scene with Ferrari as the protagonist emerges. Within the framework of the 2023 Oscar Awards, I present below to bring to life a shoot that had none other than Al Pacino in front of the cameras and led to a nomination for Film Choice for the nostalgic film The Woman of the West. The mus...
READ MOREJoe and Anthony Russo, along with Mike Larocca, founded the film company, AGBO, in 2017, in Los Angeles. A number of independent feature films, popular among critics and audiences, alike, have been produced by the company, most notably "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once." The science fiction drama to depict a Chinese immigrant's travels through m...
READ MOREBack in September, Italy presented Mario Martone’s Nostalgia for consideration as a nominee for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards, which will air this Sunday, March 12. Nostalgia ultimately didn’t make the cut for candidacy, but Italy — Rome in particular — remains a cinematic stronghold in Hollywood’s eyes; just yesterday,...
READ MOREOn the occasion of International Women’s Day, March 8, 2023, the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan celebrated with pizza and an Italian film. The film was Scusate se Esisto! (Do You See Me?) with Paola Cortellesi and Raul Bova, directed by Riccardo Milani. International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating women’s social, economic, cultural,...
READ MOREItalian producer Andrea Iervolino is planning to bring to the big screen “Maserati: a Racing Life,” an English-language biopic about the family behind the high-performance automobiles that, along with Ferrari and Lamborghini, Italy is known for. Iervolino’s ILBE Group – in which he is partnered with Monika Bacardi – previously produced the Bobby Mo...
READ MOREThe only thing that’s better than the perfect acting performance? The perfect Oscars win. It happens less often than you’d think—as in, almost never. In fact, it’s so rare that, in one of the only cases of it happening, decades of conspiracy theories and industry legend surround it. Marisa Tomei’s performance as Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny is...
READ MOREA star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled Monday honoring Giancarlo Giannini for a career which included a best actor Oscar nomination, part of an extensive collaboration with legendary Italian director Lina Wertmuller. “This is a wonderful moment, and I’m very happy to be here,” Giannini told the crowd during the unveiling ceremony. “I wan...
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