formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
Italy’s iconic film industry faces a perfect storm of funding cuts, tax credit challenges and dwindling audiences, putting its cultural legacy at risk. Source: Art of cinema under threat: Italy grapples with industry crisis | Daily Sabah
The Frattini Bivouac is part of a Bergamo gallery’s experiment to ‘think like a mountain’. But in the thin air of the Italian alps, curatorial ideas are challenged in more ways than one. Source: High art: the museum that is … Continued
After a couple of years in which few Italian films were shown at the British Film Institute’s London Film Festival, this one, which recently finished and which broke all attendance records, screened several, including films by great Italian directors bringing … Continued
Netflix is marking ten years in Italy today in Rome with co-CEO Ted Sarandos in town to announce a new venture with the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) national film school. This will see the pair refurbish and reopen Rome’s … Continued
He played lots of mafia bosses during his five-decade career, including one in Ben Affleck’s ‘Live by Night.’ Source: Remo Girone Dead: ‘La Piovra,’ ‘Ford v Ferrari’ Actor Was 76
Shot on the streets of the Italian capital at the end of the Second World War, Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City was made under precarious conditions but created an earthquake in film history with its unvarnished realism. Eighty years on, … Continued