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5897 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 21/11/2025.

Tax credit on for 6 months, no word on ticket hike yet

With the so-called Milleproroghe ("Thousand extensions") decree law, the government extended tax benefits – the tax credit and tax shelter – to film companies for only six months. In a press...  

22/12/2010 | Legislation | Italy

AgCom fights piracy with notice and take down strategy

Computer piracy, which is seriously damaging the film and music industries, will soon be thwarted by new measures. Communications authorities AgCom have approved a draft law regarding copyright,...  

22/12/2010 | Industry | Italy

Silvio Muccino explores Another World

Twenty-eight year-old Andrea (Silvio Muccino) has a wealthy and aloof mother (Greta Scacchi) who finances his aimless life; a girlfriend, Livia (Isabella Ragonese), with eating disorders; and a...  

20/12/2010 | Films | Italy

Cinema! Italia! in Germania: vince Questione di cuore

Vivissimi applausi e una calorosa partecipazione di pubblico hanno accompagnato a Berlino la consegna a Questione di cuore di Francesca Archibugi del premio come film vincitore della XIII°...  

20/12/2010 | Films | Reviews

Ponti creates a sophisticated commedia all’italiana

A sophisticated commedia all’italiana. Is this the rise of a new genre? According to Marco Ponti, yes. The director of Santa Maradona returns behind the camera eight years after A/R Andata e...  

17/12/2010 | Production | Italy

What’s under the Christmas tree

Gone are the times in which the Christmas blockbuster dominated the year’s box office. After the extraordinary success of Benvenuti al sud, most probably Natale in Sudafrica (“Christmas in South...  

17/12/2010 | Releases | Italy

La bellezza del somaro, un “vaudeville à coups de pied”

La bellezza del somaro, troisième film en tant que réalisateur de l'acteur Sergio Castellitto (qui y joue aussi un des premiers rôles), n'est pas la comédie de Noël classique. À partir d'un récit...  

13/12/2010 | Films | Reviews

Winter’s Bone wins Turin, Henry gets Audience Award

US title Winter’s Bone by Debra Granik unanimously won the 28th Turin Film Festival, which closed Saturday with the European premiere of Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter (presented by co-star Cécile De...  

06/12/2010 | Festivals | Italy

From Sorrentino to Oliviero: Turin offers 24 visions of Naples

It was a true Neapolitan paradox. “The film was commissioned,” says producer Angelo Curti, “then not supported by those who commissioned it. The Campania Region asked us to make a film to help...  

06/12/2010 | Festivals | Italy

Piva returns with Henry, at Turin

Alessandro Piva’s career path has been an odd one. After debuting with the ultra-indie Lacapagira in 2000 and eight years after his sophomore effort My Brother-in-Law, one of Italy’s authentic...  

06/12/2010 | Festivals | Italy

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