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April 6 (Thursday)   5:30 pm. Richard Nasti Lecture Series Event. Presentation by Professor Chiara De Santi, State University of New York at Fredonia. Topic: Eat First: Italian American Gastronomy and Family Values in the Films of Martin Scorsese. Several films by Italian American director, Martin Scorsese, are explored through the lens of gastrono...

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Martin Scorsese si aggira per i corridoi del MoMA con la puntigliosità d'un guardiano. E' al primo piano del Museum of Modern Art di New York. C'è la luna piena. C'è buio e silenzio. Cammina a lungo, mai un passo esitante, frac araldico e occhialini infilati in un volto dal biancore iridescente. Le pareti del MoMA sono le stesse di sempre, ma Scors...

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by Ronan Breathnach While filming The Godfather Part II Robert de Niro began reading the autobiography of an Italian American middleweight boxer from the Bronx. Captivated by the story of Jake LaMotta, de Niro began the long process that would eventually see Raging Bull brought to cinematic life.   The first stop was to de Niro's close fr...

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By Bill Tonelli   "The Italians of my parents' generation are held together by the notion of the family," wrote Martin Scorsese in his introduction to Italianamerican: The Scorsese Family Cookbook.* "That is why the pasta sauce is so sacred to the Italian family."   See, now right away we have a problem. Because as pretty as Scorsese'...

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Che gli uomini d'affari di Manhattan tra gli anni '80 e '90 indossassero splendidi completi gessati firmati Giorgio Armani è storia.   Nessun altro stilista, infatti, poteva competere con le famose giacche dello stilista italiano che aveva conquistato gli Stati Uniti realizzando gli abiti di scena di Richard Gere per il cult movie American G...

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With the exception of Louis Zamperini in 2014 "Unbroken", it has been almost impossible to find Italian American positive characters in the Hollywood storytelling of last decades. While Italian Americans have proved their talent and their hardworking attitude with an exceptional positive contribution to American society, economy, culture in any pos...

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by David McCormack   The stars of Martin Scorsese's classic 1990 gangster film Goodfellas reunited in New York on Saturday night for a very special 25th anniversary screening of the movie which brought the 14th annual Tribeca Film Festival to a close. Stars Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino were all in attendance...

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by Alex Morris   A couple of years back, Bobby Cannavale went to see Mick Jagger about a job. The Emmy-winning actor had been tapped by Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter to play the lead in a show that was being kicked around at HBO, but the project was really Jagger's idea – conceived two decades ago as a film that pulled the curtain back...

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In un personalissimo testo, Martin Scorsese rievoca la New York e l'America della sua infanzia: feste, rituali e cibo in arrivo dal Sud Italia, il matrimonio dei genitori combinato per unire le famiglie provenienti dai paesini di Polizzi Generosa e Cimmina, la scelta/necessità del giovane Martin di varcare "il confine di Houston Street" per raccont...

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Martin Charles Scorsese is 72 years young today, and since he belongs to the Mt. Rushmore of all time Hollywood filmmakers, I thought I would share my list of his best narrative films. In 1990, he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation. He is a recipi...

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