With a mysteriously enchanting soundtrack by Nicola Piovani and a black raven donned with a chiming bell flying over the timeless medieval villages perched defiantly on the mountains of Girgenti on the southern coast of Sicily – the brothers Taviani weave together five tales based on novels by 1934 Nobel prize in Literature laureate, Luigi [...]

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It’s that great excitement you get when you come across a truly rewarding film by a director you have never seen much of his work, when everything seems to work exactly how you’d want it to be. And Mafioso by Neorealist director, Alberto Lattuada is simply that perfectly fun film. It’s the same [...]

On one hand you can look at this film and say it’s all about men camaraderie in effort to solve an economical problem, and indeed the relationships among the protagonists run the gamut from support, anger, humor, and compassion.
And yet, this film is known as the first to usher the Italian Comedy (Commedia All’Italiana) genre [...]

You better leave now if you want to catch this train.
If we do a good job for this worldwide company, we’ll be on the gravy train for more projects.
Sorry, for this class the train has already left the station – registration is over.

Thanks, but you’ve just interrupted my train of thoughts.
Trains offer a rich [...]

Is Italian cinema dead?
Not by a long shot. Yes, current Italian filmmakers have been facing this incredible challenge of reinventing Italian cinema in the face of its grand history. No matter how you slice it, it could definitely be tough surpassing the Fellinis or the De Sicas of the world. Yet, different times with different [...]