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The Young Italian Artist Behind the Last Ice Age Movie

Federico Ghelli

From Super Mario drawings to the production of a blockbuster movie. Riccardo Renna offers yet another example of the young Italians who succeed in the United States.

70th Venice Film Festival - An Overview

Simone Spoladori

The 70th edition of the Venice Film Festival opens today: fewer films than in past editions, a lower media profile but many possible surprises

Open Roads, the Leading North American Showcase for Contemporary Italian Cinema

Natasha Lardera

This year’s lineup includes impressive debuts, a return of favorite filmmakers as well as several award winners. Italian cinema regularly takes on the most divisive issues and...

La Vita è Cinema: the Films of Nanni Moretti at IFC

Natasha Lardera

A comprehensive retrospective of the acclaimed Italian auteur, including all 12 of his feature films on 35mm, plus 2 shorts.

Hollywood, Italian Americans, and the Golden Coast

Laura E. Ruberto

John Fante’s and Richard Quine’s 1956 film, "Full of Life," constructs California Italian culture, one brick at a time.

My Big Break Was a Humble Job in Hollywood.

Darrell Fusaro

People often ask, "How do you break into show biz?" I think I've discovered the answer.

Photographs of Jack Salvatori, the British Valentino

Laura E. Ruberto

On having received an envelope mailed to Berkeley, California from Cornwall, England with photographs of the Italo-British filmmaker and actor, Giovanni “Jack” Salvatori.

The Film Festival of Positive Italian-American Images

Joey Skee

Positive images of Italian-Americans that aren’t.

Plato and Mafia Movies

Tom Verso

“...there is an old quarrel between philosophy and poetry” Plato

Uncredited Extras: Cinecittà’s Refugees and the Italian American Who Filmed Them

Laura E. Ruberto

Jack Salvatori, an almost-forgotten Italian American director, made a film about Cinecittà’s role as a camp for WWII refugees.

Italian American Romance in the Era Before Roe v. Wade

Laura E. Ruberto

The 1963 film Love with the Proper Stranger dealt with the limited choices faced by an Italian American woman a decade before abortion was legalized in the U.S.

Of Miracles and Men

Stanislao Pugliese*

Spike Lee's controversial movie "The Miracle at St. Anna"

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