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270 articles available in total starting from 20/03/2003. Last article published on 08/04/2016.

Laughter, tears and fear – European style

The percentage of European films arriving on Italian screens has never been so overwhelming: five of the six titles on release today are hoping to take on US animated films The Simpsons Movie and...  

21/09/2007 | Releases | Italy

Milani returns to cinema with moving biopic

Out September 21, Piano, solo marks Riccardo Milani’s return to cinema after numerous television projects that followed The Soul’s Place (2003). Having proven he is as comfortable with literary...  

19/09/2007 | Releases | Italy

Scarchilli designs his Italian Graffiti

Preceded by more than its fair share of controversy, Scrivilo sui muri (“Write it on the Walls”) is finally making it to cinemas. The debate, which took place over the summer in the newspaper...  

17/09/2007 | Releases | Italy

Molaioli takes on the Simpsons

The films released contemporaneously with the Venice Film Festival (Vincenzo Marra’s L’ora di punta, Andrea Porporati’s Il dolce e l’amaro and Sympathy for the Lobster by Sabina Guzzanti) could do...  

14/09/2007 | Releases | Italy

The boy emperor and the warrior

Romulus Augustus is not just any boy, but the last emperor of Rome. Little is known about him except that he ruled briefly, until he was captured by Odoacer the Goth and imprisoned on Capri. No...  

13/09/2007 | Releases | Italy

Most anticipated titles are European

Less than a week before the Venice Film Festival, 11 films are being released in Italy on August 24. Apart from Michael Moore’s documentary Sicko on the US health care system, the most anticipated...  

24/08/2007 | Releases | Italy

World distribution premiere for Palme d’Or winner Mungiu

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days by Romania’s Cristian Mungiu will have its world distribution premiere in Italy on August 24 on 120 screens, through Lucky Red. The release comes during a relatively...  

22/08/2007 | Releases | Italy/Romania

De Oliveira, two years later…

As the Venice Film Festival announces Manoel de Oliveira’s new film Cristovao Colombo – O enigma, hitting Italian screens today is his Espelho Magico, in competition on the Lido two years ago. The...  

27/07/2007 | Releases | Italy

Five Europeans in theatres

While Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix continues to break the box office bank, Italian distributors are offering eight new films, including five European titles. Richard Linklater’s Fast...  

19/07/2007 | Releases | Italy

Jacques Rivette side by side with Harry Potter

They share a common running time (137 minutes) and literary origins, even if one is a descendent of Honoré de Balzac and the other J.K. Rowling. They are Don’t Touch the Axe by Jacques Rivette and...  

13/07/2007 | Releases | Italy

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