Italian directors Archives

2010 Venice Film Festival to start with the best in Italian cinema

25 April, 2020

The 2010 Venice Film Festival starts tomorrow and we will be seeing a number of wonderful Italian films, Italian celebrities and hopefully a few international stars as well. Whether or not Italy’s favourite adopted celebrity George Clooney makes an appearance…

Italian director Gabriele Salvatores' new film Happy Family

20 April, 2020

Famous Italian director and filmmaker Gabriele Salvatores has revealed in an interview that he was once given just five years to live. Now at 60 years of age, Salvatores has released a new film, Happy Family, and can safely say…

Italian actress Caterina Murino talks about her career in Italy and France

19 April, 2020

With this new interview, Caterina Murino tries to set the record straight. The Italian actress who became a household name in France thanks to such movies as L’enquête Corse and L’amour aux trousses laments the fact that Italian directors have…

Italian director Mario Monicelli dies at 95 years

16 April, 2020

Veteran Italian director and important figure in the history of Italian cinema, Mario Monicelli, has died by commiting suicide at the age of 95 years. In hospital for treatment for prostate cancer, Monicelli threw himself off the fifth floor balcony…

Italian films: After "I'm not scared" Gabriele Salvatores directs "Come Dio Comanda", based on Ammaniti novel

14 April, 2020

“Come Dio Comanda” or ‘God’s Will’ is a film by Italian filmmaker Gabriele Salvatores, with Elio Germano, Filippo Timi, Fabio De Luigi, Angelica Leo and Alvaro Caleca. The film is based on the book by Niccolò Ammaniti who is famous…

Robert De Niro Italian film confirmed: actor to join Manual of Love cast

12 April, 2020

Italian film director Giovanni Veronesi will deliver a hit to Italian audiences with his third Manual of Love film with Robert De Niro starring in his first Italian film for 35 years since he appeared in the film Novecento, or…

Italian director Gabriele Muccino on being a divorced dad

11 April, 2020

Gabriele Muccino’s latest movie Baciami ancora or Kiss me again, tells the story of a group of fortyish people who struggle to come to terms with divorce, failure and loneliness. The Italian director told reporters that he drew inspiration from…

Italian movies: Diari by Attilio Azzola

10 April, 2020

Diari or Diaries is a movie directed by Attilio Azzola which tells the story of a group of teenagers. As the film unfolds, viewers gradually become acquainted with their inner dramas. There’s Leonora who must cope with her father’s sudden…

New film by Pupi Avati

10 April, 2020

Pupi Avati will start filming his new work, Il cuore grande delle ragazze (Girls’ big hearts) in Ferbruary 2011, which is set to be another of those relating the lives of Italian families, couples and love. Hopefully the new film…

Dario Argento's Giallo: the trailer

9 April, 2020

Italian filmmaker Dario Argento is releasing his next thriller film, called Giallo. This is “yellow” in Italian and is the name given to the thriller genre. This Argento thriller tells the story of a serial killer who preys on models,…

Italian cinema drama: "Stare fuori" by Fabiomassimo Lozzi

8 April, 2020

Italian cinema is presenting its offerings for Christmas, and in December on screens in Italy is “Stare Fuori” by Fabiomassimo Lozzi (”Stay Outside”). Acting in this Italian film is Guia Jelo, Ivo Micioni, Federico Pacifici and Nausica Benedettini.The film tells…

Sean Penn snapped in Rome with his new Italian girlfriend

7 April, 2020

Like his Italian counterpart Riccardo Scamarcio, Sean Penn is famous for being a bad boy, but the American actor also knows how to show his romantic side. According to some gossip websites, he is now seeing Cristina Serafini, a young…

Giuseppe Tornatore to direct $100 million movie Leningrad

4 April, 2020

Giuseppe Tornatore’s latest movie Baarìa bombed at the box office, but the Italian director who won an Oscar in 1988 for Nuovo Cinema Paradiso is back on his feet and ready to direct a new movie called Leningrad. The announce…

Italian Cinema celebrates 100th birthday of actress Anna Magnani

3 April, 2020

Italian Cinema is celebrating the 100th birthday of Anna Magnani one of the greatest actresses of all time with a whole year of events. She was born in Rome on 7th March 1908 and had a very troubled childhood. Raised…

Catherine Zeta-Jones to star in Muccino's new film

29 March, 2020

Gabriele Muccino has just started shooting his new Movie Playing the Field in Louisiana. Well known in America for such movies as The Pursuit of Happyness and Seven Pounds, this time the Italian director focusses his attention on the relationship…

Dario Argento Suspiria remake

29 March, 2020

Rumours that a Dario Argento Suspiria remake is in the works, directed by David Gordon Green, have been confirmed, meaning that Argento’s masterpiece for Italian cinema and one of the greatest horror films of all time will undergo a revision.…

First photos from Paolo Sorrentino 's This must be the place

24 March, 2020

Paolo Sorrentino’s latest movie This Must Be The Place (his first in English) is almost certainly set for a Cannes premiere. Starring Sean Penn and Bono’s daughter Eve Hewson, the movie tells the story of a rich and bored rockstar…

Gabriele Muccino's 'Baciami Ancora' trailer and Jovanotti single

22 March, 2020

Here’s the official trailer to Baciami Ancora, the sequel to Italian director Gabriele Muccino’s first film, L’ultimo Bacio. The film picks up where the “Last Kiss” of 2001 left off, following the stories of the same people as they struggle…

No Amanda Knox story for Italy: new English film on Meredith on its way

15 March, 2020

The director of the television-film, The Amanda Knox Story, has revealed that no-one in Italy has bought the rights to screen the movie on Italian television. The controversial film is perhaps too delicate for Italy at the moment, especially as…