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Ninety years ago, on April 9, 1933, one of the brightest stars of Italian cinema was born: Gian Maria Volontè. His legacy lives not only through his incredible performances, but also thanks to the artistic contributions he left to his successors, in particular the prestigious film and acting school in Rome that bears his name which to this day nurt...

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Just a little over a month ago, a new star has been added to the sidewalk of Hollywood Boulevard: it's the one dedicated to the multi-award winner and Oscar nominated Italian actor and screenwriter Giancarlo Giannini who has also lent his voice to Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino, as an established voice actor. Winner also of four David di Donatello Aw...

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Few films can convey the authentic experience of what it means to be unfortunate heroes in one own’s land like I 100 Passi – Hundred Steps, with the unmatched expressive power of an auteur with an unflinching gaze focused on representing the forgotten small voices of a generation such as Marco Tullio Giordana. Nominated for the Golden Lion at Venic...

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Maestro Bernardo Bertolucci's timeless masterpiece, Il Conformista, in the new version restored in 4K by the Cineteca di Bologna with Minerva Pictures and the Bertolucci Foundation, made its debut in New York on January 6th at the iconic Film Forum. After the presentation earlier in 2022 at the opening of the 36th edition of the renowned Cinema Rit...

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All those who have experienced the honor and the adventure of meeting him, said that his English was, actually, its own English. For the first ten minutes, the largest U.S. producers looked at him and thought how strange was the accent of that Italian man from Rome who wanted to reinvent cinema. They stared at him, then at his eyes, listening to hi...

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  WTI Magazine #57    2015 April, 3Author : Edoardo Peretti      Translation by:   In a country like Italy, whose culture and imagination were and are directly or indirectly strongly characterized by Catholicism, some way also present in writers and directors who do not believe in God, Easter, the most important Christian holiday, has not had th...

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  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...

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  WTI Magazine #63    2015 June, 27Author : Edoardo Peretti      Translation by:   In these days takes place one of the most important and internationally known Italian film festivals, at least among the movie enthusiasts: the Bologna "Cinema Ritrovato" (from 29 June to 4 July). It is not the dear old Venice Film Festival, or the Festival of Cin...

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  WTI Magazine #31    2014 May, 22Author : Simone doc Bracci      Translation by:   Sunday is finally the Day we're expecting. Film 4 Meeting 2014 – Los Angeles Convention, the event is entirely that finally reveals its aces is promoted by the online magazine Film 4 Life directed by Simone Bracci who's gonna host the night together with the youn...

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  WTI Magazine #80    2016 June 17Author : Edoardo Peretti      Translation by:   If the Italian cinema has almost always been part of the "G8" of world cinema, we can enlighten two particular moments when it was able to exceptionally influence the worldwide development of the seventh art. The first dates back to the origins, to the second decad...

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