Author: Cinema Made In Italy

“We Go from 16mm to Super 16 to 35mm”: Alice Rohrwacher on La Chimera

Italian filmmaker Alice Rorhwacher’s puckish and scintillatingly tactile fourth feature is her most ambitious to date. Once again dramatizing the conflicting ideals of modernity and tradition, past and present, Rohrwacher continues to pay debt to forebears of Italian cinema like Ermanno Olmi while also infusing her film with a symbolic surrealism and neo-realist class consciousness reminiscent of the respective likes of Pier Paolo Pasolini Roberto Rossellini.

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Josh O’Connor reveals why he felt ‘lost’ after The Crown — and how that helped him connect with his latest role

The Emmy winner stars in “La Chimera,” about a man on a quest to reconnect with his lost love in the afterlife.

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In Alice Rohrwacher’s hauntingly whimsical film, an archaeologist turned grave robber in 1980s Tuscany finds that some losses are buried
too deeply to be excavated.

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Vue to Release Italy’s ‘Barbie’-Beating Smash Hit ‘There’s Still Tomorrow’ in U.K. (EXCLUSIVE)

“There’s Still Tomorrow,” the Italian dramedy that last year became a box office sensation on home soil, is to be released in the U.K. and Ireland by exhibition giant Vue . The directorial debut of popular Italian actor Paola Cortellesi, the black-and-white film — “C’é Ancora Domania” in Italian an…

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How to Grow Old Like Isabella Rossellini

“How do I fulfill the rest of my life? That question came to me very clearly at 45, and I didn’t have an answer.”

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LA, Italia Film Fest: Richard Dreyfuss, Diane Warren and Matteo Garrone Set for Honors on Sunday Night

The Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss, the songwriter and perennial Oscar bridesmaid Diane Warren and Matteo Garrone, the director of this year’s best international feature Oscar-nominated Italian film Io Capitano, will all be honored on Sunday night during the opening ceremony of the 19th Los Angeles, Italia Film, Fashion and Art Festival at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese…

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Italy’s Oscar Nominee Is a Great Film, but It Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story

“Io Capitano” ends where many would have wanted it to continue.

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Italian Filmmaker Stefano Sollima on His Upcoming Netflix Serial-Killer Drama ‘Il Mostro’

The crime-genre specialist behind the likes of ‘Gomorra’ and ‘Sicario: Day of the Soldado’ discusses the challenges of chronicling the “Monster of Florence” and the series of grizzly, unsolved murders that terrorized Italy for nearly 20 years: “I started from a true story and therefore owed it special attention, care and respect.”

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Two African Migrants’ fantastical, harrowing odyssey in “Io Capitano”

Matteo Garrone’s epic about two young Senegalese cousins attempting to reach Italy is his finest film since “Gomorrah”.

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