by Shawn Lealos   What are the 10 best Italian American movies? The best Italian American movies are almost always gangster and mafia related. While some quality movies slip away from that genre, the better movies deal with the life and dangers involved in the mob. From Oscar winning masterpieces to smaller cult favorites, here are the best...

For most of his life, professional surfer Chris Del Moro has probably spent as much time in the water as on land. When he was just three, while most kids were learning how to swim, he was riding his boogie board on the shores of both the Pacific and the Mediterranean; by the time he was a teen, he began to surf around the world.   From Indon...

When Flavia Laviosa was a young woman in Bari, Italy, she had a front-row seat for a golden age of artistry in Italian cinema. “I grew up at a time when education became free and accessible to everyone, and I had easy access to film screenings,” says Laviosa, senior lecturer in Italian Studies.   “Those were the years, into the ’70s, when th...

Hollywood sells the American dream to the whole world, a clear example of that is the movie Pretty Woman, which ends the modern Cinderella fable with the line "This is Hollywood, the land of dreams. Some dreams come true, some don't, but keep on dreaming". If you were to ask all the people that come to Los Angeles, both from United States and from...

Fondazione Azzurra and Barbara Boyle, co-dean of the UCLA Department of Film, Television and Digital Media, welcomed the first group of young talents from Italy, winners of a four-month residency at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), with a typical Italian dinner. Alice Tomassetti, Emanuele Cidonelli, Alessandra Grassi, Barbara Ciriel...

La New York Philharmonic ha annunciato l'evento che inaugurerà la sua prossima stagione: 'La Dolce Vita: The Music of Italian Cinema'. Il concerto, nato da un'idea del Gruppo Sugar è in programma per il prossimo 16 settembre, in occasione dell'esclusiva serata di gala che ogni anno apre la stagione della New York Philharmonic. La serata verrà repli...

Three American thiefs arrive in Naples with the intention of stealing the treasure of San Gennaro. However the Americans do not know how to skillfully move about in the picturesque town. The customs of the natives are incomprehensible to them. So the thieves, two men and a woman , seek the advice of Don Vincenzo, the celebrated thief, who, even tho...

By Lara Lago Questa è la storia di un regista a cui nessuno dava fiducia, di un film senza budget, girato in 11 giorni per 8 ore al giorno, di attori pagati dal regista senza fiducia del film senza budget, perché "nonostante tutto noi volevamo così".   Questa è una favola che parla di successo, ma posa le sue radici su quella frustrazione c...

Call for Papers on Modern and Contemporary Italian Cinema For the Sixth Film Symposium - April 22-25, 2015 On New Trends in Modern and Contemporary Italian Cinema Presentedby The Department of French and Italian at Indiana University   Submissions are being accepted for original research on new directors and trends in Italian cin...

by Zoe Romanowsky   Actor and film maker, Joe Mantegna, spoke to Aleteia about how he became a spokesman for the Saint Pio Foundation, and about his connection to Padre Pio. As an Italian-American who still has many family members living close to San Giovanni Rotondo, the town where Saint Pio lived and died, Mantegna feels a sense of provide...