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 [...]

A lot has been written about Italy’s prominent, yet controversial film director, poet and journalist Pier Paolo Pasolini. This documentary film by Philo Bregstein offers a rare glimpse into the tumultuous life of Pasolini until his still unresolved murder circumstances in 1975.
Rare, because the film was made six years after Pasolini’s death and so his [...]

Where have you been during winter 1946?
Since some of us would likely say – nowhere, here is a time capsule from that period in Rome, right after WW2 is over. The American GI’s are still in town and the people wake up into the rough realities of making a living in a battered economy.

The film [...]

This is the last film of Fellini’s second triliogy that started with La Strada (1954) and Il Bidone (1955). A trilogy dedicated to themes of people living on the margins of society (street dancer, swindler and a prostitute) that despite their rough lives eventually experience radical life change, call it redemption.
In this film, Fellini brings [...]