Cinema Italiano

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Italian Actors

Alberto Sordi

Alberto Sordi in “Un giorno in pretura” “Maccarone, m’hai provocato e io ti distruggo adesso, maccarone! Io me te magno, ahmm!”. (Said in a Roman accent: “Pasta, you provoked me and I鈥檒l destroy you now, pasta! I’m going to eat you, ahmm!”) When faced with a plate of pasta, many […]

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Italian-movies, Movie Directors

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Death

Pier Paolo Pasolini is undoubtedly one of Italy’s most representative artists of the 20th century: a writer, a poet, a movie director, Pasolini’s work m茅langed protest with tradition, freedom of expression with a profound respect for the very roots of Italian culture, all the while maintaining a controversial approach to many […]

Italian-movies

Italian Films that won an Oscar

Historically, Italy聽has given a lot to the art of filmmaking and Americans have always been fascinated by “Cinema Italiano” and by Italian films finding it and its聽craftsmanship unique and inspiring.聽Of course, the Academy has also been very receptive to the films produced in聽Italy and indeed, as of 2014, Italy is […]

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Italian-movies

Italian Cinema

The essential A-Z of Italian Cinema Anita Ekberg in the most iconic scene of La Dolce Vita (Giac83/wikimedia) Antonioni to Zavattini: Antonioni, Michelangelo: Antonioni was born in Ferrara in 1912, and became a fashionable director in the 60s. He is also celebrated as an author, a screenwriter and painter and […]