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Vittoria Scarpa


1920 articles available in total starting from 01/03/2007. Last article published on 17/07/2025.

Mario Martone • Director of Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me

Interview: Mario Martone • Director of Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me

“Massimo and I are both restless children of our city”

BERLINALE 2023: The director spoke to us about his documentary on Massimo Troisi, an homage to the great Neapolitan filmmaker’s work “from one director to another”  

21/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Berlinale Special

Review: Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me

Review: Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me

BERLINALE 2023: Mario Martone pays an affectionate and sincere tribute to the Neapolitan actor-director Massimo Troisi, who died prematurely in 1994 and is still a source of inspiration today  

17/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Berlinale Special

The 9th Seeyousound International Music Film Festival pays tribute to Kirill Serebrennikov

The 9th Seeyousound International Music Film Festival pays tribute to Kirill Serebrennikov

The music-centric film festival, unspooling in Turin from 24 February to 2 March, will open with a tribute to the dissident Russian director, exactly one year on from the start of the war in Ukraine  

14/02/2023 | Festivals | Awards | Italy

Shooting kicks off on Miss Fallaci for Paramount+, starring Miriam Leone

Shooting kicks off on Miss Fallaci for Paramount+, starring Miriam Leone

The 8-episode series dedicated to iconic journalist Oriana Fallaci is produced by Paramount and Minerva Pictures, and will debut on the streaming platform very soon  

06/02/2023 | Production | Funding | Italy

Review: The First Day of My Life

Review: The First Day of My Life

Paolo Genovese returns to plumb the human soul with a tale between the real and the metaphysical about second chances  

26/01/2023 | Films | Reviews | Italy

Review: What A Life!

Review: What A Life!

Giuseppe Battiston steps behind the camera to offer up this feel-good movie loosely based on Flaubert’s far more acerbic story Bouvard and Pécuchet  

19/01/2023 | Films | Reviews | Italy/Slovenia

Revenue and admissions rose by 81% and 79.6% in Italy between 2021 and 2022

Revenue and admissions rose by 81% and 79.6% in Italy between 2021 and 2022

We’re still a far cry from pre-Covid figures, given the 48.2% drop in revenue and 51.6% fall in admissions vis-à-vis the average statistics in the period running 2017-2019  

12/01/2023 | Box Office | Italy

Filming wraps on Lubo by Giorgio Diritti

Filming wraps on Lubo by Giorgio Diritti

The director behind Hidden Away offers up this Italian-Swiss co-production set in 1939 and starring Frank Rogowski, Christophe Sermet and Valentina Bellè in lead roles  

09/01/2023 | Production | Funding | Italy

Lidia Vitale • Actress and member of the Women in Film association

Interview: Lidia Vitale • Actress and member of the Women in Film association

"Patriarchism divides women; now it’s our time to get connected"

We spoke to the Italian actress about gender gaps in the film world, about #MeToo and about the Women in Film association, which she is a member of  

16/12/2022 | /Italy

Antonio Romagnoli • Director of Polvere

Interview: Antonio Romagnoli • Director of Polvere

“The question is: with prosperity, do we eliminate psychological violence or do we just give it another form?”

At the Balkan Film Festival in Rome, we talked to the director about his film which details the gradual evolution of a love affair into a sick relationship from which it is difficult to escape  

09/12/2022 | /Italy

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