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Kelly Reichardt has a thing about losers. You often see them in her films. It's the failure of American individualism that ...

A varied bunch, the latter include Mario Monicelli, Pietro Germi, Mauro Bolognini, Abel Gance, Luchino Visconti, Valerio Zurlini, Philippe de Broca, Federico Fellini ...

Anna Magnani's captivating performance in the masterpiece Rome, Open City, which is 80 this year, is a standout role that made her one of the country's finest talents. If you asked the average person ...

The funeral of Claudia Cardinale, widely regarded as a leading lady of 1960s Italian cinema, was held in Paris on September 30, a week after she died. Family and fans gathered at the Church of ...

SDIFF began because of a wonderful man named Victor Laruccia. He imagined it not just as a festival to showcase Italian films but what he liked to call an Italian perspective. Another element of the ...

Italian film star Claudia Cardinale has died. She was 87. Italian actor Claudia Cardinale, best known for starring in some of the biggest European films of the 1960s and 1970s, has died, her agent ...