Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2025
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2025
Film at Lincoln Center and Cinecittà to Host First-Ever American Festival Dedicated to Monica Vitti
Film at Lincoln Center and Cinecittà to Host First-Ever American Festival Dedicated to Monica Vitti
Titled “Monica Vitti: La Modernista,” the program will celebrate the 4K restorations of the late actress’ collaborations with auteur Michelangelo Antonioni.
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Women Dominate Italy’s David di Donatello Awards: ‘Vermiglio’ Sweeps, ‘Art of Joy’ and ‘Gloria!’ Emerge as Big Winners
Women Dominate Italy’s David di Donatello Awards: ‘Vermiglio’ Sweeps, ‘Art of Joy’ and ‘Gloria!’ Emerge as Big Winners
Women dominated Italy’s David di Donatello Awards with Maura Delpero’s Venice Silver Lion winner “Vermiglio” taking top honors and Valeria Golino’s female empowerment drama “The Art of Joy” and Margherita Vicario’s directorial debut “Gloria!” also scoring multiple statuettes.
David di Donatello Awards: Maura Delpero’s War Drama ‘Vermiglio’ Wins Best Film
David di Donatello Awards: Maura Delpero’s War Drama ‘Vermiglio’ Wins Best Film
‘Anora’ won best international film, and Timothée Chalamet was honored at the 70th edition of the Italian equivalent of the Oscars in Rome Wednesday night.
‘Vermiglio’ to Make Streaming Premiere on the Criterion Channel
‘Vermiglio’ to Make Streaming Premiere on the Criterion Channel
Exclusive: Maura Delpero will also appear during Criterion’s “Meet the Filmmakers” series.
Timothée Chalamet to Receive Italian Award for “Cinematic Excellence”
Timothée Chalamet to Receive Italian Award for “Cinematic Excellence”
The Italian cinema academy will honor the ‘Dune’ and ‘A Complete Unknown’ star at the 70th David di Donatello Awards on May 7.
Timothée Chalamet To Be Honored At Italy’s David Di Donatello Awards
Timothée Chalamet To Be Honored At Italy’s David Di Donatello Awards
Timothée Chalamet will receive the David for Cinematic Excellence honorary award at this year’s David di Donatello film awards.
The Donatellos are Italy’s premier film event and take place on May 7. The event will be hosted by Elena Sofia Ricci and Mika.
Discussing the honor, Piera Detassis, President and Artistic Director of The Academy of Italian Cinema, described Chalamet as “one of the most unpredictable and talented protagonists of international cinema today.”
Pope Francis The Film Buff: Pontiff Cited Federico Fellini’s ‘La Strada’ As Favorite Movie
Pope Francis The Film Buff: Pontiff Cited Federico Fellini’s ‘La Strada’ As Favorite Movie
Pope Francis, who died at the age of 88 on Easter Monday, had a special relationship with cinema going back to his childhood in Buenos Aires.
“I owe my cinema culture above all to my parents who took us to the cinema a lot,” the pontiff said in a 2013 interview, a few months after his election as head of the Roman Catholic Church.
Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in the Argentinian capital in 1936 to parents with roots in northern Italy, Italian cinema figured highly in his early cinema-going.
In the same 2013 interview, Pope Francis named Federico Fellini’s 1954 Oscar-winning work La Strada, starring Giulietta Masina as fragile protagonist Gelsomina who is abused by brutish circus strongman Zampanò, played by Anthony Quinn, as the film he loved the most.
Alice Rohrwacher to lead Cannes Caméra d’Or jury
Alice Rohrwacher to lead Cannes Caméra d’Or jury
Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher has been selected to preside over the Caméra d’Or jury at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, running May 13-24.
The Caméra d’Or (golden camera) is awarded to the best first feature film in Cannes’ Official Selection, or in the parallel Critics’ Week or Directors’ Fortnight sections.
Last year’s prize went to Norwegian director Halfdan Ullmann Tøondel for his Un Certain Regard premiere Armand.
Rohrwacher is a Cannes regular whose own debut feature Heavenly Body premiered in Directors’ Fortnight in 2011 and her follow-up film The Wonders won the Grand Prix in Competition in 2014.
Alice Rohrwacher, President of the Caméra d’or Jury
Alice Rohrwacher, President of the Caméra d’or Jury
After last year’s duo with Emmanuelle Béart and Baloji, this year Italian director and screenwriter Alice Rohrwacher has been chosen to chair the Jury of the Caméra d’or. This award honors a first feature film presented in the Official Selection, at the Critics’ Week or the Directors’ Fortnight.
Alice Rohrwacher, whose delicate work blossomed in Cannes, will in turn recognize a filmmaker’s debut at the Closing Ceremony of the 78th Festival de Cannes on Saturday May 24. In 2024, the Caméra d’or went to Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel for Armand, which premiered at Un Certain Regard.