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 offers its own perspectives on contemporary Italy.
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Anthology Film Archives present, April 26-29, a retrospective encompassing all five feature films (as well as a couple shorts) directed by the vanguard filmmaker, actor, and playwright Carmelo Bene, one of the greatest figures in Italian avant-garde culture.
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The poster of the movieThis 1963 historical drama by Mario Monicelli, brimming with humor and honesty, is a respectful and candid ode to the power of the people, and features engaging, naturalistic performances by the likes of Marcello Mastroianni and Renato Salvatori. It is a docudrama with a slight comedic edge that was “a box office failure and Monicelli blamed himself for it,” Professor Antonio Monda (NYU) said at the screening of the film at Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò.
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Galgano productions introduces a documentary of its own kind. Mystery Tuscany is a travel-drama that combines suspense movies techniques with the documentary for a very unusual journey through the beauties of Italy's most dreamt-about Region.
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The full program for the festival, to be held on February 19-25, has been unveiled. The event will focus on tributes to some of the greatest names in Italian cinema, including Sofia Loren, Pupi Avati, Sergio Corbucci and Marina Cicogna, and contemporary Italian comedies.
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What are the consequences of the cut of public funds on the national Cinema industry in Italy? We asked Mrs. Viviana del Bianco, the organizer of the NICE (New Italian Cinema Events) Festival, during the press conference inaugurating its 2009 edition. Find in the article information about the movies running this year. Among them, Viola di Mare by Donatella Maiorca was presented at the Italian Cultural Institute of NY on November 10th, 2009
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 The annual film festival Open Roads: New Italian Cinema is hosted by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and includes one of the most comprehensive collections of Italian cinema
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At the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, clips from this year's upcoming "Open Roads" film festival were presented. An engaging discussion followed with the directors of the films concerning the future of Italian cinema
