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Vittoria Scarpa


1909 articles available in total starting from 01/03/2007. Last article published on 04/06/2025.

Three days of mobilization against culture cuts

This weekend will see a national mobilization against the cuts to culture and entertainment, with events held in movie theatres, theatres and all art centers in Italy. Promoted by AGIA, ANCI, UPI,...  

23/03/2011 | Funding | Italy

Silvio Forever: "Autobiography" of an over-the-top man

"Making a wicked film about Berlusconi would’ve been too easy. Instead, we wanted to show the arc of a over-the-top figure, who speaks to the gut of the country like no one else, through...  

22/03/2011 | Films | Italy

Vanzinas’ Sotto il vestito niente fights the "intoxication" of recent comedies

It’s not a remake, or a sequel. It has the same title as their 1985 film, but the filmmakers would rather it be considered a reboot, a rewrite. Sotto il vestito niente - L'ultima sfilata (“Nothing...  

21/03/2011 | Films | Italy

Independent cinema returns to the Rome Independent Film Fest

In the days in which the country is readying to celebrate 150 years of Italian unification, with some controversy, the RIFF - Rome Independent Film Festival is looking to a new crop of local...  

16/03/2011 | Festivals | Italy

Rossellini to help celebrate 150 years of Italian unification

As the fate of Cinecittà Luce still hangs in the balance – ''As of today, we don’t know if we’ll survive until the end of the year", the Managing Director Luciano Sovena said yesterday (see news)...  

16/03/2011 | Events | Italy

Protests surround Amici miei, Cortellesi plays an escort in Nessuno mi può giudicare

It comes out tomorrow, March 16, on 500 screens and, besides any possible critiques of the film itself, will an Internet petition manage to create a boycott of Amici miei - Come tutto ebbe inizio?...  

15/03/2011 | Releases | Italy

Salvatores to start Siberian Education in Lithuania

Based on the eponymous best-selling autobiography by Russian writer Nicolai Lilin Gabriele Salvatores’s new film Educazione Siberiana (Siberian Education) will be shot in part in the Lithuanian...  

14/03/2011 | Production | Italy

Film industry rallies behind Cinecittà Luce

"Cinecittà’s studios will not close". The news, which comes from Cinecittà Studios, only partially placates the unrest set off among film industry professionals after last week’s announcement of...  

14/03/2011 | Funding | Italy

The Poll Diaries

An intrepid young girl, a doctor exploring the brain and a pursued anarchist at the dawn of the First World War. The latest film by Germany's Chris Kraus after Four Minutes  

02/02/2011 | Films | Reviews

The Flowers of Kirkuk looks at genocide and one woman’s courage

The first film shot in Iraq since the beginning of the war in 2003, and also one of the dramatic ones produced in that region, The Flowers of Kirkuk – an Italian/Swiss/Iraqi co-production by...  

03/11/2010 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/CH-IT-IQ

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