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22nd Edition of “Open Roads: New Italian Cinema”
Italians comprise one of the largest immigrant groups in New York City. Italian cinema is also among the most internationally awarded industries.
No wonder then that Italy has become the center of a film festival at the Lincoln Center of New York City for more than two decades: “Open Roads: New Italian Cinema”, with a clear mission: “to offer North American audiences a diverse and extensive lineup of contemporary Italian films.” …
Emanuele Crialese on ‘L’Immensità,’ Penelope Cruz and Transgender Politics
Emanuele Crialese, 58, director of the cult film Respiro (Critics’ Week Award at Cannes in 2002) was born in Rome to Sicilian parents, studied at NYU and made his debut with Once We Were Strangers in 1997. Before that, he had already transitioned from female to male, from Emanuela to Emanuele.
Oscar-Winner Gabriele Salvatores Shooting ‘Napoli – New York’ From a Federico Fellini Treatment – First Look Image
Oscar-winning director Gabriele Salvatores (“Mediterraneo”) is back behind camera on “Napoli – New York” a period immigration drama based on a story written for the screen by Federico Fellini. Felllini co-wrote this tale of two Neapolitan kids who embark on a ship to New York city to escape Italy’s early postwar poverty with his frequent…
A Conversation with Alessandro Borghi (THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS)
Alessandro’s latest endeavor, The Eight Mountains , finds him teaming up with masterful writer directors Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix Van Groeningen .
Renzo Rossellini to Be Honored With Locarno Lifetime Achievement Award
Italian producer, director, and film and TV industry pioneer Renzo Rossellini is being honored with the Locarno Film Festival’s lifetime achievement award. The Swiss fest dedicated to indie cinema will pay tribute to the consummate filmmaker and renaissance man – who as a producer shepherded works by master directors such as Federico Fellini, Lina Wertmüller…
Vatican Comments on Marco Bellocchio’s ‘Kidnapped’ About a Jewish Boy Forced to Convert to Christianity as Film Opens Strongly in Italy
Marco Bellocchio ’s drama “Kidnapped” that reconstructs the true tale of a Jewish boy who was kidnapped and forcibly raised as a Christian in 19th century Rome, has opened strongly in Italy following its Cannes launch. The revered Italian auteur’s film about Edgardo Mortara, who in 1858 was taken away from his family in Bologna to live in the Vatican…
La Chimera review – Alice Rohrwacher’s uproarious adventure teems with life
Set in 1980s Tuscany, Rohrwacher’s captivating film follows a lovelorn Englishman plundering Italy’s historical artefacts with a bizarre gang Alice Rohrwacher’s new film is a beguiling fantasy-comedy of lost love: garrulous, uproarious and celebratory in her absolutely distinctive style. It’s a movie bustling and teeming with life…
‘The Eight Mountains’ soars as tale of friendship, discovery
“The Eight Mountains” Not Rated.
Alice Rohrwacher & Nanni Moretti On State Of Italian Box Office: “The Public Is Always Less And Less” – Cannes Studio
For all the headlines about the U.S. box office’s erosion from streaming post pandemic, Italy has it far worse. The homeland of De Sica, Bertolucci, Leone and Fellini has seen its cinemagoing struggle well into the 1980s and 1990s. Moviegoing has always been in the big cities, not the coastal towns. Summer box office season? Nah, Italians go to the beach.
‘La Chimera’ Review: Josh O’Connor is a Grave Robber Seeking More Elusive Treasure in Alice Rohrwacher’s Enchanting New Film
In “ La Chimera ,” the ancient past nestles mere inches below the surface of the present, eventually breaking above ground and disrupting, if not the space-time continuum, the more mundane order of things. The borders between life and death feel similarly frictious and permeable, as if we could merely visit one from the other, as easily as sleeping and waking.