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Call for Papers on Modern and Contemporary Italian Cinema for the Seventh Film Symposium, April 20-23, 2016, on New Trends in Modern and Contemporary Italian Cinema Presented by The Department of French and Italian at Indiana University. Submissions are being accepted for original research on new directors and trends in Italian cine...

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11/3/2015 Start Time: 2:30 PM. Center for Italian Studies - West Campus - Harriman Hall - 100 Nicolls Road - Main Entrance - Stony Brook, NY 11794. Presentation by Fred Kuwornu, Ghanaian/Italian activist-producer-writer-director, who will comment on and screen his documentary, Blaxploitalian 100 years of Blackness in the It...

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By Mauro Battocchi   Italian film enthusiasts across the Bay are bracing for the 2013 Italian Film Festival, which kicks off its 37th iteration this weekend in Marin County at the Marin Showcase Theater. The festival is a labor of love by film director Lido Cantarutti, who is a Cavaliere Ufficiale of the Italian Government. We're honored by...

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Tony Musante, who took down drug dealers in his portrayal of a real-life New Jersey detective in the 1970s ABC series Toma, died Tuesday at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York following surgery. He was 77.   Often playing a tough guy on either side of the law, Musante also sparkled as one of two menacing hoodlums (Martin Sheen was the other) who...

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Per la prima volta in un club della Grande Mela ci sarà una serata speciale in cui la musica, il cinema, la televisione e la radio si divideranno il palco.   Atlas Social Club e PanaePanico factory presentano Kiss me I'm Italian, una notte con la migliore musica italiana degli anni 80 (Mina, Raffaella Carrà, Loredana Bertè, Rettore, Marcella...

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by Alessia Gargiulo   The cinematographic era of Italian Neorealism marked a revolutionary turning point. Director Otto Preminger said that the history of cinema is divided into two parts, before Rome Open City, and after it.    A new language was created by a handful of directors and screenwriters in Italy in the immediate post-...

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by Peter Helman Sam Smith and his songwriting partner Jimmy Napes received the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song tonight for "Writing's On The Wall," their theme for the final Daniel Craig James Bond film Spectre. The award was presented by Katy Perry, and the other nominees were Ellie Goulding's "Love Me Like You Do" from 50 Shades Of Gre...

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Il cinema, quella macchina meravigliosa e un po' magica che ha cambiato, influenzato, educato e diseducato intere generazioni nel corso dell'ultimo secolo.   Come tutti i media, il cinema nasconde delle insidie, specie per lo spettatore pigro o ingenuo: informazioni romanzate, parziali, unilaterali, a volte dolosamente scorrette, sono state...

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  WTI Magazine #24    2014 Apr, 04Author : Simone doc Bracci      Translation by:   Looking for a unique prospective in the deep American film market, we found an italian talent that fights every single day to establish in the independent ndustry. Hollywood has no mercy? Well, maybe this time we can support something which deserves real promotio...

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Directed by Dino Risi, Il Sorpasso follows Roberto, a shy law student and Bruno (Vittorio Gassman), a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man during the summer of 1962.   The time they spend together in Rome and Tuscany is a hilarious, but sometimes an emotionally merciless accelerated maturation process. While Bruno's easy going "l'usage d...

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