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As every March 9th, today in the United States is National Meatball Day: in Italy, we don’t have this holiday, perhaps because here every day could be National Meatball Day! There’s no perfect recipe for meatballs: the most common ingredients include ground meat, egg, parmigiano reggiano cheese, milk, parsley, bread, and salt, but in the countless...

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From Isabella Rossellini to Léa Seydoux, from Alfonso Cuaron to Olivier Assayas, a long list of renowned directors and actors have signed an appeal launched by Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Jane Campion, Wes Anderson and Ari Aster urging President Sergio Mattarella and Premier Giorgia Meloni to prevent movie theatres that have been shut do...

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Francis Ford Coppola has revealed the unexpected reason he believes The Godfather became one of the most successful films of all time – and it has nothing to do with mobsters, violence, or even Marlon Brando. The 85-year-old director, whose 1972 gangster epic won three Academy Awards and is widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, cr...

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Francis Ford Coppola, the visionary director behind "The Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now," was named a 2024 Kennedy Center honoree earlier this year, celebrating his lifetime of artistic achievements. Over a career spanning more than half a century, the 85-year-old filmmaker has earned five Oscars, six Golden Globes, two Palme d'Or awards and a BAFT...

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In 1989, The Walt Disney Company produced an anthology film that banded together two of the most celebrated filmmakers in history. New York Stories, featuring two shorts by Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, is meant as a love letter to the Big Apple, but in reality, it's more or less an experiment to allow these master filmmakers to team up...

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In 2001, My Voyage to Italy, a 1999 documentary directed by Martin Scorsese about Italian cinema, was presented out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival. The documentary, which lasts over four hours, features Scorsese’s deep and thoughtful critique alongside carefully selected clips from 24 of Italy’s greatest filmmakers. These include iconic...

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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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Francis Ford Coppola has been working on his epic sci-fi fantasy drama Megalopolis since the early 1980s. Fresh off the success of Apocalypse Now, Coppola became fascinated by the story of Lucius Sergius Catiline, who in 63 B.C. sought to forcibly overthrow the consuls of the Roman Republic, co-led by Marcus Tullius Cicero. This attempted coup d’et...

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Love pizza? Love Wine? Dreaming of a trip to Italy? Then this cooking competition may be your thing. Just as you start feeling the FOMO of everyone and their friends and family and everyone in between posting pics of their summertime jaunts to Italy, you can try and turn that Italian vacation envy into a legit trip. Francis Ford Coppola Winery just...

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On 14 March 1972, the iconic crime epic The Godfather premiered in New York. With its haunting score, its subtle, evocative cinematography, its endlessly quotable dialogue and its powerhouse performances – which served to revive Marlon Brando's career and make a star of a young Al Pacino – it is now widely regarded as one of the greatest films of...

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