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5896 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 21/11/2025.

Desplechin: "Deneuve's the top, the most bodacious of them all"

"I cast Catherine Deneuve because she's the best French actress, and the most bodacious". Arnaud Desplechin smiles as he says this about the French diva per excellence, who walked away with the...  

03/12/2008 | Releases | Italy

Salvatores: "My bad father, who teaches hate with love"

A rainy, desolate landscape in the North of Italy is the setting for Gabriele Salvatores‘ hotly-awaited new film, As God Commands, based on the 495-page novel of the same name by Niccolò Ammaniti,...  

02/12/2008 | Production | Italy

VAT doubles on Pay TV subscriptions, Sky disagrees

Sky Italia is harshly contesting the decision of the Italian government to double (to 20%) the VAT on Pay TV subscriptions. The satellite broadcaster belonging to Rupert Murdoch is the leader in...  

02/12/2008 | Television | Italy

Boyle's Mumbai a “city of love and violence”

“Mumbai is essentially a very calm city, but like all of India it is full of extremes and unexpected and cruel things like this happen. It was a shock seeing places where we shot, like Victoria...  

01/12/2008 | Releases | Italy

Professional Days begin, Medusa prima nel 2008

As Medusa Film celebrates its second consecutive season as top Italian distributor – 2006-2007 and now 2007-2008, the latter which they ended yesterday with a revenue of nearly €106m and 17.8 % of...  

01/12/2008 | Distribution | Italy

Manero, Devos and Napoli win at Turin FF

In a competition marked by optimism, and moreover dominated by dysfunctional families, the jury of the 26th Turin Film Festival (comprising Jonathan Lethem, Dito Montiel, Alba Rohrwacher, Jerzy...  

30/11/2008 | Awards | Italy

W. finds Italian distributor at Turin FF

After an appeal from the artistic director of the Turin Film Festival, Nanni Moretti, Oliver Stone’s W., which opened the event, has been picked up for Italy. A “full rights” agreements was...  

28/11/2008 | Distribution | Italy

Argentero out in Lucini’s Solo un padre

A young father struggles to raise a 10-month-old daughter in Luca Lucini’s Solo un padre (“Just a Father”), “a difficult blend of drama and comedy,” according to the director, who is grateful to...  

28/11/2008 | Releases | Italy

Revenues drop but local production remains steady

It is difficult to match two golden years such as 2006 and 2007, considered a true "renaissance", but Italian production remained steady in 2008, despite a drop in box office and admissions...  

25/11/2008 | Box Office | Italy

Fact and fiction meet at Turin

Demonstrating against the tragedies in Rivoli, a town near Turin where Saturday a student was killed when a school collapsed, and Thyssen, the Turin factory where seven workers were killed last...  

24/11/2008 | Festivals | Italy

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