Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-17 of 17
- A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
- Paola is a young, beautiful woman married to a wealthy entrepreneur. She meets her former lover Guido after seven years, but their relationship is marked by tragic events.
- A captivating look behind the scenes of the remarkable life of a young Swedish girl who became one of the most celebrated actresses of American and World cinema.
- A series of vignettes depicting the lives of the original Franciscan monks, including their leader and the bumbling Ginepro.
- A fantastic yarn about a plot to conquer the world with an army of zombies!
- The film tells the misadventures of a company of players who are oppressed by a tyrannical director. At the same time, his friend Michele is living with the failure of his marriage to Silvia.
- The story of the Ricordi family, the most prestigious music publishers in all of Italy.
- Paternicillina is past and present. Paternicillina is the story of a friendship and a cinematographic vocation. Paternicillina is the story of a man with three lives.
- As the war drew to an end, or immediately after it, several Italian filmmakers like Rossellini and De Sica attempted all by themselves to present a new face of Italy in the eyes of the world. When, twenty-five months after the end of the war, Andreotti was placed in charge of the government department of the performing arts, the Italian movie industry was already threatened with extinction. Not just because of the destruction of the war, not just because Italy was the most tempting market in Europe, but because the Americans had had the terrible idea of putting it in the hands of quarrelsome figures of Italian extraction. The ratio between foreign movies and homemade ones was 4 to 1. Andreotti was able to rebuild the industry, hold the Vatican to some extent in check, bring the Festival back to the Venice Lido and make things easier for new producers, as well as defend "Anni difficili", the most courageous and original film on the transition from Fascism to post-Fascism. He organized a newsreel for national distribution, mitigated the greed and obtuseness of the operators, fought against a number of ridiculous movies and made it obligatory to show the ones that were made in the country. After leaving the post, in 1953, he got the blame for all the idiocies of his highly incompetent successors. More than sixty years later he is still remembered as the public enemy number one of our cinema. This film shows that it wasn't like that at all.
- Of all the great directors, Rossellini was arguably the most eloquent and articulate in talking about his life work and how it related to the larger aspirations of humanity in general.In this documentary, scholar Adriano Apra combines footage taken from different sources of Rossellini being interviewed, with clips, posters, photos, and behind the scenes making of material to create a full and moving portrait.
- As the war drew to an end, or immediately after it, several Italian filmmakers like Rossellini and De Sica attempted all by themselves to present a new face of Italy in the eyes of the world. When, twenty-five months after the end of the war, Andreotti was placed in charge of the government department of the performing arts, the Italian movie industry was already threatened with extinction. Not just because of the destruction of the war, not just because Italy was the most tempting market in Europe, but because the Americans had had the terrible idea of putting it in the hands of quarrelsome figures of Italian extraction. The ratio between foreign movies and homemade ones was 4 to 1. Andreotti was able to rebuild the industry, hold the Vatican to some extent in check, bring the Festival back to the Venice Lido and make things easier for new producers, as well as defend Anni difficili, the most courageous and original film on the transition from Fascism to post-Fascism. He organized a newsreel for national distribution, mitigated the greed and obtuseness of the operators, fought against a number of ridiculous movies and made it obligatory to show the ones that were made in the country. After leaving the post, in 1953, he got the blame for all the idiocies of his highly incompetent successors. More than sixty years later he is still remembered as the public enemy number one of our cinema. This film shows that it wasn't like that at all.
- Eighty years of life and activity of the Experimental Center of Cinematography (Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia) through the eyes of those who attended the school over the years. From Fascism to the Second World War, from the Economic Miracle to the Protests of 1968, from the 80s till today, the documentary passes though the imaginary of a whole country, Italy, thanks to the exclusive use of archive materials from Cineteca Nazionale and Istituto Luce.
- What is it like to live in Via dei Cappellari, a poor street of Rome. Documentarist Gian Vittorio asks the question to a sample of people living there. While following more particularly little Luciano, a merry brat but already a petty thief, he obtains filmed testimonies from Maria, a prostitute, Er Pagnotta, the local bar owner, Angelo, a modest employee and from two tough men, Er Cagnara and Zizzi.