Former President Ronald Reagan was the only movie star to ever become President of the United States. For some odd reason, there has never been a biopic film about Ronald Reagan, until now. Italian-American and ex-Disney Channel star, David Henrie will be cast to play a young Ronald Reagan in an upcoming biopic for about the former President of the...

giovedì 6 giugno 201319.00 Film Society of Lincoln Center165 West 65th Street, New York, NY (map) Prezzo: USD 13,00/per persona The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today the lineup for Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, which will take place from June 6-12, 2013. This year's lineup includes impressive debuts, a return of favorite filmmaker...

The UC Berkeley Department of Italian Studies is pleased to announce Summer 2013 Italian Studies Course OfferingsOPEN TO ALL — NOT JUST BERKELEY STUDENTS!MAY 28-JULY 3:Italian Studies 160: Studies in the History, Society, and Politics of the Italian Peninsula Scoundrels, Saints, and Poets: Italian Character(s) in European CultureMeets M,T,W,Th 2-...

Da Roma a Houston in una Big Night all'insegna del Cinema e del Gusto. Un evento dai sapori e profumi tutti italiani. Condito dai racconti delle star che svelano i segreti del loro successo anche in cucina, e dalle immagini in mostra di un grande Paparazzo come Rino Barillari.   Un evento preparato con ingredienti scelti, sequenze e costumi...

Thursday, August 7th @ 8 PM - Summer Italian Film Festival Week 5 - Otto e Mezzo (1963)This classic Fellini film stars Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi, a famous film director. Guido Anselmi is suffering from the dreaded "directors block" while working on a science fiction film with autobiographical references.   As Guido stru...

Francesco Rosi's films occupy a unique place in postwar Italian, indeed postwar world cinema. His seventeen feature films are known for their extraordinarily consistent formal balance and their unflinching look at the historical events and cultural traditions that have shaped the Italian national character. They thus represent a body of work o...

Join us this THURSDAY, February 11, for a special screening, in 101 Morgan Hall. Fred Kuwornu presents his 2016 documentary Blaxploitalian, 100 years of blackness in the Italian cinema.   BLAXPLOITALIAN follows the different waves of pioneers of African descent who have contributed to Italian Cinema. The documentary covers more than a centur...

  WTI Magazine #78    2016 April 15Author : Edoardo Peretti      Translation by:   Over the past two decades one of the most often accusations addressed to Italian cinema was that of being provincial, self-referential and not exportable abroad; among other causes, there was also the right criticism that ours was a little diverse cinema, almost n...

by Muyen Peng   Monica Bellucci has been cast as the next Bond Girl for the upcoming 007 film Spectre. At 50, Bellucci, will officially be the oldest Bond girl in the franchise's 24 installments. The title for oldest Bond girl previously belonged to Honor Blackman, 39, who appears in the third 007 film Goldfinger.   Spectre will featu...

by Cookie Curci   During the dark decade of the 1930s, Frank Capra's films brought light where there was darkness and hope where there was despair to a nation in desperate need of an uplifting message. If only for a few minutes, in a darkened theatre, Capra's films inspired irrepressible optimism in American audiences, and when they left the...