Italian Media: Movies, Music, TV, Radio
Biography: Margherita Buy – A Celebrated Actress Margherita Buy Margherita Buy is the face of the GASBI’s (Genitori Associati Spina Bifida) folic acid campaign to prevent spina bifida. She’s a mother of a little girl – her only child was born in 2001. She’s the former wife of actor/director Sergio […]
This section will review sevaral Italian movies that will be available in the United States You can find the following Italian film titles in the US: I Soliti Ignoti – big deal on Madonna street : A classic Johnny Stecchino – Benigni Il Mostro – Benigni slapstick but funny La […]
Giuletta Masina in La Strada Wide eyed and snub nosed, actress Giuletta Masina was no great beauty. But her face held an innocence and compelling wistfulness that could reach out from the cinema screen and touch the hardest of hearts. La strada movie Masina was married to Federico Fellini, and […]
Italian Television Like in North America and other parts of the industrialized world television in Italy has been a cultural phenomenon since its inception. Since the beginning of broadcasting on January 3rd, 1954, television has been a fundamental part of the public and private lives of Italians. At the time Filiberto […]
Gina Lollobrigida “A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot,” Italian actress, Gina Lollobrigida once said. (Thinkexist.com) Most men would think that the ‘Italian Sex Goddess’, famous for her sultry looks and curvaceous figure was hot at any age. The […]
Born in Rome on September 20, 1975, Asia Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento’s life has never been without controversy or drama. The local registry office would not acknowledge her as Asia due to a law remaining from Mussolini’s Fascist Italy in which no child could be named after a foreign country or […]
Demoni: A Review of Lamberto Bava’s Film Demoni poster Demons (Demoni), which was released in 1985, is a rip-roaring good horror movie for those of us who like blood, gore and not a whole lot more. Lamberto Bava, the son of famed horror film director, Mario Bava, directed co-wrote this […]
In Italy, as in North America, the 1990s saw a huge jump in popularity for two types of programs: information shows and reality shows. In the 90s Mediaset launched their own newscasts and both RAI and Mediaset added socio-political talk shows and informational programming to their daily schedules with the […]
Daria Nicolodi – Italian Scream Queen Extraordinaire Daria Nicolodi and Dario Argento Daria Nicolodi was born on June 19, 1950. She is the daughter of a lawyer and philologist. (A philologist is a person who studies ancient languages.) Her younger sister became a university professor. That’s not the usual […]
A Review of this theatrical black and white film Edoardo de Filippo in Questi Fantasmi This is a film featuring fascinating pieces of magic! It is classified as theatrical, and was put into black and white film by Eduardo de Filippo in 1954. The production of “The Ghosts” leads its […]