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220 articles available in total starting from 25/07/2002. Last article published on 27/12/2018.

Argentero and Cortellesi say no to favouritism

Italian comedies are getting more and more topical. Following Massimiliano Bruno’s Nessuno mi può giudicare (“No One Can Judge Me”), on a woman who becomes an escort to support her family...  

06/04/2011 | Films | Italy

Hit satirical sitcom Boris jumps to the big screen

Lousy neurotic actresses, an Oscar winner who loses his statuette in a poker game, screenwriters who don’t know how to conjugate verbs, the head of an important broadcaster who is “demoted” to...  

29/03/2011 | Films | Italy

Terzani recounts his life in The End Is My Beginning

A man on his deathbed recounts his life and experiences to his son in what should be a film teeming with flashbacks, seeing as how the man is Tiziano Terzani and the theatre of his adventures are...  

25/03/2011 | Films | 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

The consequences of greed: Servillo and Il Gioiellino

After his brilliant 2007 debut with the multiple award-winning The Girl by the Lake, Andrea Molaioli is back with Il gioiellino (“The Little Gem”, out on March on 170 screens through BIM), a...  

01/03/2011 | Films | Italy

Desire meets decline in Salt of Life

While The Salt of Life comes out February 11 in Italy on 150 screens through 01 Distribution and will screen the following day in the Berlinale Special section, Fandango Portobello has already...  

08/02/2011 | Films | Italy

A rematch of the sexes in Femmine contro maschi

More than a war of the sexes, it could be called a match, given one of the character’s football obsession. Hence, Maschi contro femmine (Males vs. Females, released October 27, 2010), is followed...  

28/01/2011 | Films | Italy

Qualunquemente: When reality and fantasy are equally repellent

Once upon a time Italian cinema was ahead of the times, and could read the clues of the present to predict the immediate future. Things have changed, and the “blame” lies (not only) in cinema but,...  

18/01/2011 | Films | Italy

Immaturi: Six characters in search of meaning

It’s a recurring nightmare that haunts millions of students: repeating graduation exams [called “maturity exams” in Italian]. For many, it’s the ideal plot for a horror film (or at least a...  

12/01/2011 | Films | Italy

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