The Seventh Art

For many people who grew up in the eighties Robert Davi will always be one of the Fratelli brothers, the family of crooks terrorizing The Goonies in the eponymous 1985 film; others may remember him as one of the best …

Roberto Rossellin was an Italian film director who was part of the Neorealist movement. Born May 8 in 1906 and was able to bring to filmmaking a documentary-like authenticity, like in Rome, Open City movie. He is still considered one of the …

One of Italy’s most popular movements in cinema is now on display in Turin thanks to the exhibition called “Roma, Citta Aperta: 70 years of Neorealism. The splendor of truth in post-war Italy.” The exhibition will go on at the National …

Three Italian films will run at the Cannes Film Festival next month: they are Nanni Moretti’s Mia Madre (My Mother), Oscar-winner Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth and Matteo Garrone’s Il Racconto dei Racconti (Tale of the Tales).      Moretti’s film Mia …

Black Souls is the tragedy of three brothers who are close to the ’Ndrangheta, a Mafia-style criminal organization similar to the Cosa Nostra. The story of this Calabrian criminal family unfolds like a western set in our own day, where …

As any Italian living in US and traveling back and forth would know, there is always the question on what can and can’t be brought back to the States in terms of food. There’s always that dairy product, that delicious …

Ask any actor, they will always say that theatre is their first love. There is nothing like doing a play in front of a live audience. Seeing Annabella Sciorra on stage Off-Broaway in A Month in the Country alongside Anthony …

Celebrated as one of the leading film festivals in the United States, the Newport Beach Film Festival has evolved into a prestigious multicultural event, attracting over 55,000 attendees to Southern California. Committed to enlightening the public with a first-class international …

Amarcord is the 1973 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini, considered a semi-autobiographical tale about Titta, a teeneager growing up among an eccentric cast of characters in the village of Borgo San Giuliano, close to Rimini, in 1930s Fascist …

  According to ANSA, Hollywood director Ron Howard, who is now filming the latest of a series of blockbuster murder mysteries in Florence, has received the keys to the city.   Indeed, Dario Nardella gave Howard the keys during a ceremony …