italian movies

An "instinctive dreamer," a true Sicilian ("While I wrote a scene, I realized that I keep seeing myself in it more and more"), a director that loves his film as if it were his own child ("For this reason, I...

The streaming television series "Master of None" is about the personal and professional life story of Dev, a 30 something actor in New York. He’s Indian American, a foodie who after a break up relocates temporarily to Italy to learn...

After many awards for the documentary on Andrea Doria’s sinking, Luca Guardabascio flies to Los Angeles for the showing of “Are the Passengers Saved?” In this extended interview, the director tells about himself and analyzes the relationship between Italian movies...

The Museum of Modern Art screens 15 movies by Italian film-director Dino Risi, the master of Commedia all’italiana. The retrospective opened with the screening of a brand new 4k restoration of his "Il sorpasso", a movie that grasps the duality...

She travelled by ocean liner to New York in May 1953 to present “Bellissima” and from that became an international Diva. What ensued was her friendship with Tennesse Williams, an Oscar, meeting Marilyn Monroe at the Italian Cultural Institute, and...

The only Italian film competing at the Tribeca Film Festival, Paolo Genovese’s “Perfect Strangers,” was a box office success and was awarded best film at the David di Donatello awards (the Italian Oscars). We interviewed director Paolo Genovese in New...

The Italian movies of the first years of the last century were all about sensuality. Thanks to beautiful women who became internationally known as Italian divas, cinema turned modernity into a spectacle ... and made a deal with the devil (Leggi in italiano)

An almost cruel representation of a series of characters one more egotistical, spoiled, arrogant, and vulgar than the other. The film is an intense sensorial experience that involves touch, sight and hearing. The view of two American professors on Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty which just...