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Turin, 1931. A few feet from where Antonio Carpano was said to have invented vermouth nearly 150 years prior, the Taverna del Santopalato  — that’s the “Tavern of the Holy Palate” — opened with a braggadocious bang. If we’re to believe the contemporaneous report from Italian daily La Stampa, March 8, 1931 would remain “impressed in the history of t...

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What counts as "cool" exactly? It's not easy to pin down: as a notion, "coolness" is both frustratingly intangible and constantly in flux. In fashion, music and cinema, the genesis of "cool" feels heavily tied to the emergence of popular culture in the 20th Century – from the US jazz scene that first popularised the term, to the fashion world's pos...

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Submarine Entertainment is launching sales at Berlin’s European Film Market on high-profile doc “Milano — The Inside Story of Italian Fashion,”  directed by John Maggio (“The Perfect Weapon”). Billed as the definitive story of the explosion of Italian fashion in the 1970s and 80s, as told by the insiders, the star-studded doc extensively features G...

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The Russo Brothers Italian American Film Forum 2023 is coming soon! Usually at this time of year, AGBO and the Italian Sons and Daughters of America (ISDA) would be accepting applications. This year, they are reimagining the opportunity and working together to continue this tradition in a new, enhanced, and more appealing format. Stay tuned and fol...

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Named by Vogue Italy as the most versatile performer in the history of Italian cinema, Toni Servillo has earned a reputation as a masterful character actor with the ability to hauntingly transform himself into dark, troubled protagonists who seem indifferent to the dubious methods they employ to get what they want.  Born in 1958 in Afragola, a town...

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Thursday, February 23th. Doors open at 5:30 pm Eastern Time – Film starts at 6pm. African-American Museum in Philadelphia 701 Arch St., Philadelphia 19106. Admission to the museum and exhibition: $5. Film screening FREE of charge. Light refreshment will be served. Click here to watch the Trailer. PI-Philly is happy to present, together with the Afr...

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Dear Albertone,  The sound of laughter, the way one’s eyes move, but also those hand gestures that are worth more than a thousand words: it takes little to feel at home. These are all unmistakable elements that belong to us and that we find in everyday life, because maybe they characterize an uncle, a neighbor or that guy who is yelling in traffic....

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Thursday March 2 | 6:30 PM. FIVE SHORTS AT THE NEW PARKWAY THEATER (474 24th St, Oakland, CA 94612). Introduction by Dr. Cristina Farronato, Lecturer and Language Program Coordinator, Department of Italian Studies, UC Berkeley. All shorts are subtitled in English. Free Admission | Registration required here. LA MIA MILANO by Nadia Ali (24 min). IDR...

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Joe Pesci became famous in 1990 with one of the shortest sentences that have ever written film history. “Funny how?” was his increasingly angry question in Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas” to the fellow gangster played by Ray Liotta, who had described him as a funny guy. The false outburst of rage of the choleric, pathologically brutal mobster Tommy...

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“RUDOLPH VALENTINO - THE GREAT LOVER" - Sunday, February 12 at 1:30 pm at the Italian Center (6821 Fair Oaks Blvd, Carmichael, CA). Admission $10 / Refreshments Included / Doors Open at 1:00p From St. Valentine in 200 AD and Giacomo Casanova in the 1700s, through Marcello Mastroianni, Gina Lollabrigida, Rosano Brazzi, and Sophia Loren to Fabio, the...

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