Cinema of Italy

The Cinema of Italy comprises the films made within Italy or by Italian directors. Since the development of the Italian film industry in the early 1900s, Italian filmmakers and performers have, at times, experienced both domestic and international success, and have influenced film movements throughout the world. As of 2014, Italian films have won 14 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, the most of any country, as well as 12 Palmes d'Or, the second-most of any country.

Early Italian films were typically adaptations of books or stage plays. By the 1910s, Italian filmmakers were utilizing complex set designs, lavish costumes, and record budgets, to produce pioneering films such as Enrico Guazzoni's Quo Vadis (1912) and Giovanni Pastrone's Cabiria (1914). One of the first cinematic avante-garde movements, Italian Futurism, took place in Italy in the late 1910s. After a period of decline in the 1920s, the Italian film industry was revitalized in the 1930s with the arrival of sound film. A popular Italian genre during this period, the Telefoni Bianchi, consisted of comedies with glamorous backgrounds.

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Here's a quick guide to 4 film festivals in Milwaukee in April

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 31 Mar 2025
Italian Film Festival USA ... A traveling sampler of eight recent Italian feature films, from wartime dramas (World War II action movie "Comandante") to inspirational comedies (teacher-and-students comedy "Un Mondo a Parte").
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Four Mothers review – remake of Mid-August lunch moves to Dublin and brings out queer subtext

The Guardian 31 Mar 2025
Irish-set remake of Italian film about a bachelor who cares for his elderly mum never quite matches the charm of the original, despite occasional shimmers ... the importance of food in the Italian film.
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The Daily Mail 31 Mar 2025
Speaking to host Fabio Fazio to promote new film Queer on Italian TV show Che Tempo Che Fa, he said ... Speaking to host Fabio Fazio to promote new film Queer on Italian TV show Che Tempo Che Fa, he said.
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Italian director looks forward to China's new generation of filmmakers

China Daily 31 Mar 2025
"I look forward to discovering the new generation of Chinese filmmakers and their ways of narrating stories at the Shanghai International Film Festival," says renowned Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore.
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What's soupy and why is Westerly obsessed with it? The story behind the tradition

The Providence Journal 31 Mar 2025
Soupy is the Westerly term, a short nickname really, for soppressata, a dry-cured, spicy Italian sausage ... Nunes is a Westerly native and, though not having Calabrian roots, his father made soupy with his Italian friends.
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Daniel Craig says filming gay scenes for Queer 'did not embarrass him' as he discusses ...

The Daily Mail 31 Mar 2025
Without that, the film would have been emptier.' ... Daniel Craig revealed to Italian TV show Che Tempo Che Fa on Sunday that filming gay sex scenes for his raunchy movie Queer 'did not embarrass' him whatsoever.
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Independent online (SA) 31 Mar 2025
From streaming their favourite movies to revisiting classic films that may even spark a bit of nostalgia, there's something for everyone! ... American animated adventure comedy film is based on Nintendo's "Mario" video game franchise.
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Revealed: Woman whose subway meltdown over 'uneducated' MAGA fan ended in instant karma face plant ...

The Daily Mail 30 Mar 2025
The Italian-American dual citizen was filmed shouting at the man and calling him 'racist' and 'uneducated' over his support for Donald Trump ... The Italian-American dual citizen was filmed shouting at ...
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Afdera Franchetti, fourth wife of Henry Fonda with admirers from Hemingway to Greta Garbo – obituary

The Daily Telegraph 29 Mar 2025
Baroness Afdera Franchetti, who has died aged 93, was an Italian ... I used to have parties all the time, so her poor father would come back, exhausted by a play or a film, to a house full of Italians.”.
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'Spring Breakers,' 'Beach Bum' director Harmony Korine to attend Sarasota Film Festival

Herald-Tribune Sarasota 28 Mar 2025
Korine will join previously announced festival guests including Victor and Giuliano Hazan, the respective widower and son of the late Italian cookbook author and Longboat Key resident Marcella Hazan ...
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Sebastian is a refreshingly authentic exploration of sex work

New Statesman 28 Mar 2025
It’s a high-risk strategy to take, casting a relative newcomer for such a critical part, but Mollica, Scottish-Italian, 24 at the time of filming, repays it handsomely ... The optimistic arc of the film is a little too pat and tidy.
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Rotten Tomatoes 28 Mar 2025
The Italian Job (2003) ... Despite some iffy plot elements, The Italian Job succeeds in delivering an entertaining modern take on the original 1969 heist film, thanks to a charismatic cast ... better films.
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‘At 60, the bulk of your life is lived. What’s left now?’ Ralph Fiennes and ...

The Guardian 28 Mar 2025
A nephew of the director Luchino Visconti, the 67-year-old Italian film-maker has lived in London for 50 years ... It was amazing.” Wearing glasses and with a distinguished-looking beard, he comes across like a voluble Italian academic.
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‘At 60, the bulk of your life is lived. What’s left now?’ Ralph Fiennes and Uberto Pasolini on their ripped and radical take on The Odyssey

The Observer 28 Mar 2025
A nephew of the director Luchino Visconti, the 67-year-old Italian film-maker has lived in London for 50 years ... Italian directors seem to have acted as midwives to the newfound physicality of Fiennes’s ...
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