Italian Industry Revenues Hit $19B, Annual Industry Report Shows – MIA Market
Italian Industry Revenues Hit $19B, Annual Industry Report Shows – MIA Market
Onslaught of Italian Movies Set to Hit Fall Festival Circuit, Signaling ‘Great Resurgence’ of Cinema Italiano
Onslaught of Italian Movies Set to Hit Fall Festival Circuit, Signaling ‘Great Resurgence’ of Cinema Italiano
Seven Italian titles are set launch into North America from Toronto. Seven will be bowing into Asia from Busan. Four will screen at the New York Film festival, and six in London.
Julia Roberts Calls ‘After The Hunt’ NY Film Festival Opening A “Top 3 Great Achievement Of My New York Life”
Julia Roberts Calls ‘After The Hunt’ NY Film Festival Opening A “Top 3 Great Achievement Of My New York Life”
NYFF: Nonfiction in the Main Slate – Below The Clouds
NYFF: Nonfiction in the Main Slate – Below The Clouds
“For the most part,” writes Michael Sicinski at In Review Online, “the documentaries that have made Gianfranco Rosi’s reputation have a firm basis in geography.” Sacro GRA “explored life in Rome as circumscribed by the city’s major beltway.” Fire at Sea (2016), the winner of the Golden Bear in Berlin, “considered the refugee crisis by focusing on life on the island of Lampedusa, a nexus of Italian and indeed European asylum immigration. Rosi left Italy to make Notturno (2020), a film about life along the borders of Iraq, Kurdistan, and Syria, an area plagued with the presence of Daesh terrorists. And now, with Below the Clouds, Rosi has made his most complex, most poetic film, based in and around Naples, a city that exists in the shadow of Mt. Vesuvius.”
“Shot in black and white, with sweeping landscapes so spectrally luminous as to resemble silver gelatin prints, Below the Clouds brims with gloomy beauty,” writes José Teodoro for Film Comment. “Behold plumes of cinders, colossal cones of Ukrainian grain, Japanese archeologists brushing dirt from bone, films projected in an empty cinema, archivists exploring vast rooms of fractured statuary with only a single flashlight.”
Cinematic Riches Spanning the Globe Converge at the New York Film Festival
Cinematic Riches Spanning the Globe Converge at the New York Film Festival
This year’s highlights include Jim Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother,” the Italian documentary “Below the Clouds” and the epic “Magellan.”
Luca Marinelli, Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch Re-Team for ‘Let Love In’
Luca Marinelli, Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch Re-Team for ‘Let Love In’
Vandermeersch and Marinelli co-star in the love story from the team behind ‘The Eight Mountains.’
Renato Casaro Dies: The Italian Maestro Behind Posters For ‘Fistful Of Dollars’, ‘Conan The Barbarian’ & Thousands More Was 89
Renato Casaro Dies: The Italian Maestro Behind Posters For ‘Fistful Of Dollars’, ‘Conan The Barbarian’ & Thousands More Was 89
Renowned film poster artist Renato Casaro died on September 30, 2025, at age 89. Considered one of the most influential and innovative Italian poster designers, Casaro leaves behind a legacy of hand-painted artwork for thousands of films, including such classics as Conan the Barbarian, Octopussy, and A Fistful of Dollars.
Claudia Cardinale, ‘The Pink Panther’ and ‘Once Upon a Time in the West’ actress, dead at 87
Claudia Cardinale, ‘The Pink Panther’ and ‘Once Upon a Time in the West’ actress, dead at 87
Claudia Cardinale, Enchantress of Italian Cinema, Dies at 87
Claudia Cardinale, Enchantress of Italian Cinema, Dies at 87
She shuttled between sets in 1963 to make Visconti’s ‘The Leopard’ and Fellini’s ‘8 1/2,’ then starred for Leone in ‘Once Upon a Time in the West.’
Claudia Cardinale, Italian Film Star Who Appeared in ‘The Leopard’ and ‘8½,’ Dead at 87
Claudia Cardinale, Italian Film Star Who Appeared in ‘The Leopard’ and ‘8½,’ Dead at 87
Cardinale enchanted 1960s cinema and featured in more than 150 movies throughout her prolific career