This fantastical drama is about a young, good-hearted sharecropper (Lazarro) living in rural Italy. The story takes off when Lazarro meets a nobleman, Tancredi, who asks him for help faking his own ...

New York, N.Y. — Fourteen contemporary Italian films are set to take center stage at the 24th annual Open Roads: New Italian Cinema series, hosted by Film at Lincoln Center and Cinecittà from May 29 ...

CHARLESTON — Bringing a few films from the old country, the Nuovo Cinema Italiano Film Festival recently announced the schedule for its 19th annual fete celebrating contemporary Italian cinema and ...

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 19 - Four Italian films are in competition at this year's 20th Rome Cinema Festival from October 15 to 26, organisers said Friday. They are: Vincenzo Alfieri's 40 Secondi, about the ...

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 ...

SUNY Cortland will commemorate the 70th anniversary of a pivotal moment for Italy during World War II with a four-part Italian film series in September. Hosted by the College’s Modern Languages ...

Life Is Beautiful,” a melodrama by Italian filmmaker and comedian Robert Benigni, follows an Italian Jewish father and his ...

The 1970s proved to be a very entertaining decade in the film industry for a number of reasons. Aside from the New Hollywood era giving rise to many of the greatest directors of all time and featuring ...