Most great female actors get to play a nun at some point in their career: a kind of thespian rite of passage that comes to many in their grande dame years. Isabella Rossellini, however, checked off that box in her very first screen appearance, aged 24: in 1976’s little-remembered Vincente Minnelli musical A Matter of Time, in a bit part opposite he...
READ MOREItalian 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...
READ MORE“Sharks have two dicks,” actor Isabella Rossellini tells me in a tone so casual, you’d think she was directing me towards the nearest bathroom. We’re in the bed and breakfast attached to her 28-acre estate, Mama Farm, located in Brookhaven, New York—a small Long Island town that is something of a hideaway for untouchable New Yorkers such as Anna Wi...
READ MOREAlice Rohrwacher, 41, represents the new guard with her third film "La Chimera" that premiered Friday, a comic tale of corruption that also explores deeper themes. "I wanted to make a film about connections... I show these links and explore important issues like death and the afterlife but in the lightest, most fun and stupid way possible," she tol...
READ MOREItalian-American actress Isabella Rossellini is to receive the Special David di Donatello 2023 award, President and Artistic Director of the Academy of Italian Cinema - Premi David di Donatello awards Piera Detassis said on Wednesday. The award ceremony will be on May 10 and will be broadcast live on public service broadcaster Rai Uno. Rossellini,...
READ MOREIt’s reductive to consider Sicilian carts as mere vehicles. These carts are so rich in color and decorations that, according to Marianna Gatto of the Italian American Museum in Los Angeles, they’re best described as “walking books”. For the painter from Palermo, Gianfranco Fiore (who decorates these carts), they represent the most popular, creative...
READ MOREAt 69, Isabella Rossellini is loving life. In fact, the beloved actress says she's happier than ever. In a new interview with The Sunday Times, the star of stage and screen, who portrays cookbook author Simca Beck in the new series Julia, reminisced about the ups and downs of life as she moves toward age 70. “I’m happy to have lived a long life, bu...
READ MORE“The current tragic situation in Ukraine makes this year’s International Women’s Day even more meaningful” said Italian Ambassador to the U.S. Mariangela Zappia at the March 8 premiere of the documentary film One of Us – East Coast, with special guest the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Hon. Nancy Pelosi. “We honor this important date...
READ MOREIsabella Rossellini first saw “The Truffle Hunters” while serving on the 2020 Sundance jury, where Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw’s doc — now considered among the frontrunners in the race for the best documentary feature Oscar — first launched. Their unique cinéma vérité depiction of a vanishing Italian world in the forests of Piedmont, where ol...
READ MOREMore than 30 celebrities will join the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) in celebrating NIAF’s 45th Anniversary Gala virtually and honoring Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on Saturday, October 31, 2020. Dr. Fauci will be presented NIAF’s 2020 Leonardo da Vinci Award for Leadersh...
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