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5772 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 28/08/2025.

Admissions down but von Donnersmarck surprises

There has been a drastic drop in admissions in the third weekend in April, due in part to the arrival of warm weather. The overall box office dropped approximately €5m, a 25% loss the previous...  

16/04/2007 | Box Office | Italy

Funding system overhauled, state becomes co-producer

There has been a change in the funding of films of cultural interest, for which (until December 31, 2006) allocated state funds had to be returned within three years. Minister of Culture Francesco...  

16/04/2007 | Legislation | Italy

Luchetti hits theatres April 20, looking towards Cannes

On April 20, Warner Bros Pictures Italia will release 500 prints of Daniele Luchetti’s new film, Mio fratello è figlio unico (lit. “My Brother is an Only Child”), which might participate in the...  

13/04/2007 | Production | Italy

Looking for father and son

The tone is that of a light comedy and vaguely reminiscent of Paolo Virzì, who, like director Francesco Falaschi, is also Tuscan. Although an apparently adolescent film – given the presence of...  

12/04/2007 | Production | Italy

Zampaglione: From pop to noir comedy

"Everyone thought I was crazy”, said musician Federico Zampaglione, leader of popular Italian band Tiromancino, referring to his directorial debut, Nero bifamiliare (lit. “Black Duplex”), a noir...  

06/04/2007 | Production | Italy

Director Luigi Comencini dies

Italian maestro Luigi Comencini died today in Rome at the age of 90. He was considered to be the father of the “Commedia Italiana”, along with Dino Risi, Mario Monicelli and Ettore Scola. His most...  

06/04/2007 | People | Italy

Vicari’s country, from theatres to the Web

In 1959, Dutch director Joris Ivens, one of the greatest documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, shot Italy is Not a Poor Country, a film commissioned by the president of state gas and oil...  

05/04/2007 | Production | Italy

Cristiano Lucarelli: Life in fast-forward

"There is something that unites Mohammed Alì, Tommie Smith, Maradona and....Cristiano Lucarelli: the notion of sport as being tied to ideals and the courage to stand up against the establishment...  

05/04/2007 | Production | Italy

Time for Greek cinema in Lecce

From April 17-22, Lecce will host the eighth edition of the European Cinema Festival, a showcase of the young directors and new forms of expression of European cinema that have trouble reaching...  

03/04/2007 | Festivals | Italy

An evening for Ermanno Olmi. And the others?

As with every year, at a little over a month before the opening of the Cannes Film Festival (May 16-27), the circle closes in on the possible Italian films that could make it to the Croisette....  

02/04/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Selection/Italy

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