This year’s Festival di Sanremo’s winner is songwriter Diodato, with his Fai Rumore, a song dedicated to a couple’s communication problems. Contrarily to last year’s winning song, Mahmood’s rap tune Soldi, Fai Rumore fits well into the more traditional verse-chorus-verse, love-centered trend typical of the Festival di Sanremo. Antonio Diodato […]
MEDIA
Italian Media: Movies, Music, TV, Radio
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 mélanged 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 Films that won an Oscar
Historically, Italy 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 craftsmanship unique and inspiring. Of course, the Academy has also been very receptive to the films produced in Italy and indeed, as of 2014, Italy is […]
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
Cinema Paradiso is the story of a young boy that after WWII grows a love for movies and helps the local projectionist in his cinema.
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 […]
Italian American Singers
Italian-American singers that still impact the music world today.
Best Italian movies
The Best Italian Movies that Italian like to watch: Excellent movies but not so slow and boring like the Italian Movies liked by critics but not so liked by most Italians.
Malena
Malena is a poignant film that deals with many issues. All are done so eloquently although our main character, Malena, barely speaks a word.
Ettore Scola
Ettore Scola is one of the most appreciated names in Italian cinema. He directed many movies that left a sign in Italian cinema.
Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren is one of Italy’s treasures for more than one reason: because of her work, for her enticing beauty and for her elegance throughout the decades.