Life Is Beautiful,” a melodrama by Italian filmmaker and comedian Robert Benigni, follows an Italian Jewish father and his ...

Italian insiders also wondered why Italian productions do well in Cannes and Berlin, but not in Venice. By Eric J. Lyman It won director and actor prizes at Venice, though some in Toronto found the ...

ROME, NOV 11 - Postwar Italian films put workers at the centre and helped Ken Loach do the same in his many award-winning ...

More importantly, the Venice chief pointed out that he presently sees Cinema Italiano at a particularly favorable juncture largely thanks to the fact that Italians are making movies with bigger ...

Monica Vitti is survived by husband Roberto Russo, whom she's been with since 1975 Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at PEOPLE. He has written about entertainment and breaking ...

ROME -- This year continues to be an exceptional one for Italian cinema, with total ticket sales for the year surpassing a 21-year-old record with two weeks left in the year. By Eric J. Lyman, The ...

Join the celebration of 25 years of cultural exchange between Italy and South Africa as the Italian Film Focus presents the ...

The music of 13 Italian films spanning the 1960s to 1980s is performed by the New York Philharmonic in La Dolce Vita: The Music of Italian Cinema. Five films are by Federico Fellini, one is a ...

As much as I love my job, I love film programming even more. There is nothing that gives me greater joy than programming films to share with audiences and to provide a context and an opportunity for ...

Italian screen legend Gina Lollobrigida has died at the age of 95, news agency ANSA reported, citing members of her family. Her grandnephew, Italian Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida, ...

Monica Vitti in a sultry shower scene from "Kill Me Quick, I'm Cold" in 1967. The screen legend died at 90 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. Everett Collection Monica Vitti, hailed as the ...