“Call Me By Your Name” won the big prize, Best Picture, at the 27th annual Gotham Independent Film Awards on Monday night. Luca Guadagnino‘s coming-of-age tale also won Breakthrough Performance for newcomer Timothee Chalamet. These awards bestowed by the Gotham Filmmaker Project were handed out in a star-filled ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street. (Se...

Italian-American director Jonas Carpignano will be honored with the Capri Hollywood Rising Star Award for his latest film A Ciambra, which is Italy’s submission for consideration for the best foreign-language film Oscar. Carpignano will present a special screening of the movie at the upcoming 22nd edition of the festival. A Ciambra won best Europea...

All the signs were there that Italian director Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name would have a robust opening, and the film, starring Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet and Michael Stuhlbarg came through fabulously this Thanksgiving weekend. The Sony Pictures Classics feature had the year’s highest per theater average opening at $101,219. Call Me...

When: Thursday, December 14, 2017 7:00 PM - Where: AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Rd, Silver Spring, MD As part of the 30th Edition of the AFI European Union Film Showcase, Italy presents the screening of Franca: Chaos and Creation. Intro and Q&A with filmmaker Francesco Carrozzini.

When: From Friday, December 08, 2017 to Monday, December 11, 2017 At 9:30 pm - Where: AFI Silver - Organized by : AFI Silver, IIC Washington - Entrance : Ticket Purchase Required As part of the 30th Edition of the AFI European Union Film Showcase, Italy presents the screening of A Ciambra.  Pio Amato is a canny 14-year-old growing up fast in an ext...

E' 'Gatta Cenerentola' il miglior film europeo di animazione dell'anno e sarà premiato alla 22.ma edizione di 'Capri, Hollywood'. Ad annunciarlo è il produttore Mark Canton chairman onorario dell'International film festival'(26 dicembre- 2 gennaio). Per l'opera di Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri e Dario Sansone, prodotta da Mad Ent...

When: From Thursday, December 07, 2017 to Sunday, January 07, 2018 - Where: The Museum of Modern Art NY - Organized by : Moma In collaboration with : Luce Cinecittà - Entrance : With fee The Museum of Modern Art organizes a retrospective of the late Italian world-famous director. Antonioni (1912–2007), whose fascination with mediated reality only d...

New Haven has always been a hub of Italian-American activity in Connecticut. So it's the perfect place to ring in the holiday, Italian-style. On Wednesday, Nov. 29, an Italian-language Christmas movie will be shown at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven. Marco Ponti's 2016 comedy "La Cena di Natale" ("The Christmas Dinner") tells abo...

Il Ministero Italiano degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione anche quest’anno ha voluto rendere omaggio all’arte culinaria italiana coinvolgendo le nostre sedi diplomatiche all’estero, oltre ad ICE, IIC , ENIT e la locale Camera di Commercio Italiana nell' organizzazione della “ Settimana della Cucina Italian nel Mondo “ prevista dal 20 al 26 Nov...

“Wikipedia is wrong!” Lucy DeVito says. “I was born in Los Angeles, not New York, but my parents and I would come here a lot, so I feel like a New Yorker.” The oldest of Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman’s three children finally made it official 10 years ago, when she moved here. Now 34, she’s starring in off-Broadway’s “Hot Mess.” From Brooklyn’s Clin...