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Italian actress Isabella Rossellini will receive the European Achievement in World Cinema award, a lifetime achievement honor, at this year’s European Film Awards. The Italian-American star, daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and Italian film director Roberto Rossellini, was a successful fashion model — famously for French cosmetics brand L...

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Italy will send Maura Delpero’s World War 2 drama Vermiglio into the 2025 Oscar race for Best International Feature. Vermiglio premiered at the Venice Film Festival last month, where it scooped up the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize. Sideshow and Janus Films acquired domestic rights for the movie shortly after its North American premiere in Toronto. S...

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Cinema with a Social Conscience: Italian Neorealism is coming to Villanova University. According to information provided by Alessandra Seggi, the creator of the event, “the series aims to screen films by or about Neorealist filmmakers with relevant U.S. counterparts. For each film, I envision a screening, plus a lively conversation between a filmma...

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Director Luca Guardabsascio returns to America and will be awarded of the Premio Colombo 2024 in Brooklyn by the Federation of Campania Associations chaired by Cav. Nicola Trombetta on October 11, 2024 at the San Cono Society of Teggiano located at 231 Ainslie Street, Brooklyn, NY 11121. Luca Guardabascio is known in the United States for several w...

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Compared by some to Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton, the most followed TikToker in the world, Khaby Lame, is preparing to launch a film career in Hollywood following his dizzying global success on social media."Now I'm dedicating myself to cinema. I hope this will be my job for life. It's something I've dreamt of since I was a child," said Lame, a...

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Legendary Italian actress Sophia Loren, one of the last stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, will celebrate her 90th birthday in Rome on Friday 20 September. The Italian culture ministry and Cinecittà film studios will mark the milestone by hosting a private party for the Oscar-winning actress and her family, with guests from all over the world expecte...

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Fernando Di Leo is getting a retrospective screening of his most notable films at the Metrograph in New York City. The late Italian filmmaker is known for his kenetic crime and poliziotteschi (police procedural) films, has been repeatedly hailed by modern pulp master Quentin Tarantino as a major influencer on not only his style, but also in inspiri...

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The 18 Italian films vying to compete for the Best International Feature Film nomination at the 2024 Oscars have been officially selected. These titles aspire to represent Italy at the 97th Academy Awards, in the prestigious International Feature Film Award category. The nominated films had their first distribution in Italy or abroad (excluding the...

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I’m going to keep beating this drum until I’m blue in the face. Prime Video’s big-budget Citadel spy series that reportedly cost $300 million may have flopped with critics as well as fans when it hit the streamer back in 2023, but the glossy, futuristic franchise is nevertheless moving forward with multiple international spinoffs, including the Ita...

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Italy is celebrating the centenary of the birth of legendary Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni whose career spanned more than five decades, up to his death in 1996. This year's Rome Film Fest, taking place from 16-27 October, will be dedicated to Mastroianni, one of Italy's most iconic and internationally recognised actors. Rome's Casa del Cinema,...

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