Get ready for an onslaught of Italian movies on the post-Venice fall festival circuit. Seven Italian titles are set launch into North America from Toronto. Seven will be bowing into Asia from Busan.
Pope Leo XIV included the 1997 Holocaust movie “Life Is Beautiful” among his four favorite films of all time. “Life Is Beautiful,” a melodrama by Italian filmmaker and comedian Robert Benigni, follows ...
SDIFF began because of a wonderful man named Victor Laruccia. He imagined it not just as a festival to showcase Italian films but what he liked to call an Italian perspective. Another element of the ...
In truly atmospheric movies, cities can actually feel like characters in the film, which perfectly represent the place in which they are set. From iconic releases of Italian neorealism to iconic works ...
Director Mario Martone ('Nostalgia') returns to competition in Cannes with a movie about Italian author Goliarda Sapienza, played by Valeria Golino. By Jordan Mintzer It’s not generally a good sign ...
Playing in Venice's Horizons section, Carolina Cavalli's film centers on the relationship between a troubled young woman and a girl who runs away to get revenge on her father. By Leslie Felperin ...