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Luca Guadagnino is heading to Utah. The Bones and All filmmaker has been confirmed to receive an International Icon Award from the Sundance Institute during the film festival’s Opening Night:
Trieste 2023 – WEMW Country Focus: Italy When East Meets West offers “something for everyone” by Vassilis Economou
Shooting on Netflix’s “The Decameron” has kicked off at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios, where the lavish period soap will be based for the next six months. The U.S. show, which is being made entirely in Italy, marks one of the biggest international productions lured by the storied studios in recent years, hailing from executive producer Jenji Kohan (“Weeds,” “Orange Is the New Black”).
Sky has unveiled its Italian “ Call My Agent ” adaptation set in Rome featuring high-caliber Italian guest stars such as Paolo Sorrentino – in a side-splitting turn – and actor Matilda De Angelis (“The Undoing,” “Citadel”). The six-episode season is produced by Palomar
Gina Lollobrigida, Legendary Italian Screen Siren, Dies at 95
Gina Lollobrigida, the Italian film sensation whose exotic charms made her an international sex symbol of postwar cinema, has died, Italian news agency ANSA reported Monday. She was 95.
The Calamitous Lies of Adulthood
In Elena Ferrante’s The Lying Life of Adults , the narrator—an adolescent girl named Giovanna—begins her story by recounting the time she heard her father tell her mother “that I was very ugly.”
“My need to work on monologues originates from my love of literature. I usually pick novels that have little or no dialogue, so that I perceive the book as a very long monologue. Since I make films where plot twists are rare, if not entirely absent, monologues help me to have something masquerade as a plot twist that is just not there,” says Paolo Sorrentino
Italian twins Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo, who made a splash in Berlin last year with “Bad Tales,” are back on set with dark thriller “America Latina” toplining Elio Germano , who was at Berlin 2020 with two pics: “Bad Tales” and “Hidden Away,” for which he scored a Silver Bear.
Visitors to the Rome Film Festival and MIA Market last month couldn’t have avoided them. They were everywhere in the eternal city: bright red billboards celebrating Cinecittà, the city’s legendary film studio.
