Suso Cecchi D’Amico
Suso Cecchi D’Amico was one of the early pioneers who set the foundations for Italian cinema. She started her career right after World War II and played a key role in what is known as Neorealism genre and in the 60’s as part of Age & Scarpelli invented commedia all’italiana (Italian-style comedy).
Some of [...]
Posted by Shlomi Ron on 08.07.2010 at 9:26 am// Tagged: Classic Italian Cinema, Italian Cinema, News
Just arrived yesterday to charming Taormina, aptly named because it’s perched royally on mount Tauro overlooking mount Etna. The town is not packed as I was initially afraid of but contains a healthy dose of tourists that happily savor the holy trinity: pasta-espresso-ice cream.
I decided to kick off the festival with the short films contest [...]
Posted by Shlomi Ron on 06.13.2010 at 2:50 am// Tagged: Festival, Italian Cinema, News, Regional Cinema, Short , Short, Taormina Film Fest
June 10-12 starts the famous Taormina Film Fest. Antonioni’s L’avventura (The Adventure – 1960) was shot there. If you have other plans for the summer, cafe Pellicola can really take you there now…
Ready? To start your journey in Taormina, simply follow these instructions:
TO LAUNCH: Click on icon on upper right corner of the image [...]
Posted by Shlomi Ron on 05.01.2010 at 11:15 am// Tagged: Classic Italian Cinema, Italian Cinema
This Oscar-winning masterpiece was originally titled “La Bella Confusione” (The Nice Confusion) and was made in six months against the backdrop of the early 60’s Economic Miracle (Boom Economico) in which Italy experienced substantial economic growth. This period of prosperity on one hand also added confusion and identity crisis as Italian society transformed from [...]
Posted by Shlomi Ron on 04.25.2010 at 12:19 pm// Tagged: Classic Italian Cinema, Drama, Italian Cinema , Anouk Aimee, Economic Boom, Federico Fellini
Have you ever been impressed by someone’s accomplishment and rationalized it by instinctively pulling out the usual excuses such as oh that most likely takes lots of experience, money, contacts and anything else that you can come up with to sooth your ego and inaction?
The reality is that we’re all doing it all the time [...]
Posted by Shlomi Ron on 09.23.2009 at 8:48 pm// Tagged: Drama, Independent, Italian Cinema, Modern Italian Cinema , authentic song, indpendent film, sicily