After speaking with Giovanna De Luca about the upcoming Eighth Annual Nuovo Cinema Italiano Film Festival, I texted my mom lamenting the fact that I have no Italian genes in my very Anglo-Saxon heritage. This love of Italians stays true…
Italian film is back. After “The Great Beauty” took home the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film this year, the nation’s first win in 16 years, the eyes of the world have returned to the Mediterranean nation and its…
The College of Charleston’s Nuovo Cinema Italiano Film Festival will return for its 8th year with a packed schedule running from November 6th through the 9th. All showings will take place at the Sottile Theatre. The four-day festival, which celebrates contemporary Italian…
Filmmaker Roberto Ando is one of Italy’s most distinguished artists. A Sicilian by birth, his work, in both cinema and literature, is influenced by his associations with the great novelist Leonardo Sciascia and the movie director Francesco Rosi, among others.…