"Corto in Bra" the winners
Last Sunday the fourth edition of the International festival dedicated to short films "Corto in Bra" (Cn). 58 films competing, from 15 different nations and a prize of 7.000 euro plus production services for the best script competition (...)
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Imperfect love, absolute love
Sergio, who works in a supermarket, is in a relationship with Angela, a Spanish woman living in taly. They're expecting a baby, whom they know is destined to die, and decide to keep him. In a nutshell, the plot of «L'amore imperfetto» (...)
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A road for Sergio Leone
The Municipality of Rome has decided to dedicate a road to Sergio Leone, the father of Italian-style western. The road dedicated to the director of "Fistful of dollars", who died in 1989 and received a gold medal for renewing the western genre, will be in a central neighbourhood of the capital, the Parioli (...)
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Generations face to face
Of Neapolitan origin, with a degree from Bologna's Dams, Antonietta De Lillo is a figure that stands out in Neapolitan cinema. Already director of films such as "La casa in bilico", of 1985, Nastro d'argento at the Taormina festival (...)
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"Bischero" Leonardo returns
As punctual as Father Christmas, Leonardo Pieraccioni arrives in the Italian cinema halls with a new, cute and well packaged film to make young and old happy during the holidays: "Il principe e il pirata". A gift that was to arrive under the Florentine people's tree had to somehow deny its own origins (...)
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Giovanna Mezzogiorno Nobel winning actress
She was Stefano Accorsi's attentive, faithful and betrayed wife in L'ultimo bacio. Beautiful and proper in Muccino's film, Giovanna Mezzogiorno can also be an unwitting criminal (...)
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"My father's words" - Interview to Francesca Comencini
Le parole di mio padre (My father's words) by Francesca Comencini, presented at the last Cannes Festival in the section "Un certain regard" is vaguely inspired by the novel La Coscienza di Zeno by Italo Svevo (...)
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Antonio Capuano speaks of Luna Rossa
Luna Rossa is the title of Neapolitan director Antonio Capuano’s latest film. It is a very long flashback told by a penitent on the history of the Cammarano family whom from the early 70’s have been managing power with cruelty and no mercy in a Naples that is never seen. Among the “clan”’s actors are Toni Servillo, Licia Maglietta and Carlo Cecchi (...)
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Italian cinema in the country of wolves
In a remote corner of the French Lorraine, almost at the border with Luxembourg, there is a country called Villerupt. Tradition has it that this is the country of wolves, “because only wolves could choose to live in a place like this”. Villerupt is in fact a very peculiar town, deep in a land full of mines and furnaces and which for more than a century is destination for Italian immigration. For this reason, for the past twenty-four years the Italian Film Festival is held there (...)
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VAJONT, Renzo Martinelli's film
It is the 9th October 1963, people in Longarone are gathered in the bars because that evening the football game Rangers Glasgow-Real Madrid is on in Eurovision. A blinding flash and a tremendous bang suddenly burst into the Vajont valley and confining towns (...)
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Film commissions
Created in the United States during the 1940s', film commissions are organisations that are supported by a Public Board, and their aim is to attract cinema productions, providing services and assistance. For more information, here is a list of the structures operating in Italy and some brief explanatory notes (...)
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Laura Betti, Pasolini's favourite actress
Laura Betti was born in Bologna and started her career as a jazz singer in '58, with Walter Chiari in the musical review "I saltimbanchi". She tours Italy with the recital "Giro a vuoto" that enters the bill of the Biennale di Venezia. She approaches cinema in the sixties (...)
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Pier Paolo Pasolini e la ragione di un sogno
After the acclaimed passage through the Venice Film Festival, "Pier Paolo Pasolini e la ragione di un sogno" is out in all movie theatres of Italy, distributed by Mikado (...)
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Giancarlo Giannini, one of the most beautiful “voices” in cinema.
Giancarlo Giannini, great actor and splendid dubber – a warm voice with thousand nuances – was born in La Spezia in 1942. After studying Drama at the Academy "Silvio d'Amico" in Rome, he had his theatre debut. (...)
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Naples: cinema and words of Pappi Corsicato
"'Napule' is a thousand colours…". This is what Pino Daniele says about Naples, but it is also what Pappi Corsicato's cinema says. D.o.c. Neapolitan film director born 1960, who called one of his documentaries in 1998 "The colours of the celestial city " (...)
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