Author Archive
Drama
Malèna (Giuseppe Tornatore – 2000)
The key ingredients of this film include: Academy award winner director Giuseppe Tornatore; international debut of bombshell Monica Belluci; coming of age story of a young boy in a small Sicilian village during World War II; an...
Drama
The Escort – La Scorta (Ricky Tognazzi – 1993)
Ricky Tognazzi’s classic anti-mafia thriller is deeply grounded in reality. The film was made a year after judge Giovanni Falcone was murdered as he was on his way to Palermo airport. The judge, his wife, and three police bodyg...
Drama
The Fiancés – I Fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi – 1963)
Do your memories carry a soundtrack? Ermanno Olmi in a genuine masterpiece believes they sure do. And why not? We all tend to associate old songs to places and people we used to know and this way create more vivid and richer “m...
Neorealism
Hands over the City – Le Mani Sulla Città (Francesco Rosi – 1963)
The characters and events shown are imaginary The social and environmental context is real Fracesco Rosi‘s outrageously bold social realism film ends with the above condemning statement. The film offers a unique over the ...
Drama
Miracle in Milan – Miracolo a Milano (Vittorio de Sica – 1951)
Take a close look at the this picture. What do you think is happening? A lot has been written about this neorealist modern fairy tale from Vittorio de Sica – the director of ‘The Bicycle Thief’. If you haven’t seen this m...
Films Shown at Recent Italian Film Festivals
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Open Roads 2014: Via Castellana Bandiera – A Street in Palermo (Emma Dante – 2013)
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ItalianDocsOnline 2014: i fantasmi di San Berillo – The Ghosts of San Berillo (Edoardo Morabito – 2013)
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Open Roads 2013: Handmade Cinema (Guido Torlonia – 2012)
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Open Roads 2013: Il Riscatto – The Redemption (Giovanna Taviani – 2013)
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Open Roads 2013: E’ stato il figlio – It was the Son (Daniele Cipri – 2012)
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From 2012 Rome’s International Film Festival: L’insolito ignoto – Vita acrobatica di Tiberio Murgia (Sergio Naitza – 2012)
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From 2012 Rome’s International Film Festival: L’Isola Dell’Angello Caduto – The Island of the Fallen Angel (Carlo Lucarelli – 2012)
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Open Roads 2011: Il mio domani – My Tomorrow (Marina Spada – 2011)
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Open Roads 2010: Passione (John Turturro – 2010)
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Open Roads 2011: Fughe e approdi – Return to the Aeolian Islands (Giovanna Taviani – 2010)
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Open Roads 2011: 1860 I Mille di Garibaldi (Alessandro Blasetti – 1934)
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Master Class with Marco Bellocchio – Taormina Film Festival
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Open Roads 2014: Via Castellana Bandiera – A Street in Palermo (Emma Dante – 2013)
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ItalianDocsOnline 2014: i fantasmi di San Berillo – The Ghosts of San Berillo (Edoardo Morabito – 2013)
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Open Roads 2013: Handmade Cinema (Guido Torlonia – 2012)
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Open Roads 2013: Il Riscatto – The Redemption (Giovanna Taviani – 2013)
