100+ YEARS OF THE GREAT ITALIAN MOVIEMAKERS
'The Traitor' is now available to stream on Amazon. Pierfrancesco Favino talks with us about his starring role.
'Pasolini Roma' provides a virtual tour of sites relevant to Pier Paolo Pasolini’s filmmaking and writing.
Stay entertained at home with a new app by Bardeum offering detailed tours of places like Pompeii & Ancient Rome.
Actor Giancarlo Giannini makes the Hollywood Walk of Fame Class of 2021 and will receive his much-deserved star. Watch the official announcement.
Explore the powerful works of photographer Arturo Zavattini who captured some of the most memorable images of cinema and culture.
Actress Chiara Mastroianni talks about her latest role and her father's films during a live stream Q&A with Film at Lincoln Center.
Women in Film
The Trailblazers
From the silent era to today, women of Italian origin have stepped behind the camera to tell their stories. We've partnered with Directed By Women to keep those stories alive by featuring women who gave and continue to give voice to the female experience through cinema.
Mo Scarpelli
Rome-based filmmaker Mo Scarpelli shot her latest documentary about the making of a narrative film in the Amazon rainforest in Venezuela. The tumultuous film set and emotional journey of getting the film shot proved to be no small feat.
Happy 100th Birthday Federico Fellini!
Felliniana - Ferretti dreams Fellini
Curated by his production designer Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo,
Cinecittà marks Fellini's 100th birthday with a permanent exhibit dedicated to the Maestro.
Stream Classic & Contemporary Italian Cinema
The Wonders, Alice Rohrwacher
Ginger and Fred, Federico Fellini
Ginger and Fred, Federico Fellini
Alice Rohrwacher’s Le meraviglie (The Wonders) centers on a family of beekeepers living in stark isolation in the Tuscan countryside. The dynamic of their overcrowded household is disrupted by a troubled teenage boy who is taken in as a farmhand while a reality TV show is intent on profiling them.
Ginger and Fred, Federico Fellini
Ginger and Fred, Federico Fellini
Ginger and Fred, Federico Fellini
Set in Fellini’s Rome of the bizarre and misfits, this 1986 gem is a tender satire about two dancers, played by Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni, who made careers imitating Rogers and Astaire and are reunited on a tacky variety show. Mastroianni and Masina absolutely shine together.
Bitter Rice, Giuseppe De Santis
The Man Without Gravity, Marco Bonfanti
The Man Without Gravity, Marco Bonfanti
One of the first films of the Neorealism film movement, Bitter Rice is a multi-layered story, which called on star Silvana Mangano's talent and sex appeal to portray a peasant girl who could manipulate anyone with her beauty. The story is set during the rice-planting season in northern Italy in the midst of Italy's economic challenges.
The Man Without Gravity, Marco Bonfanti
The Man Without Gravity, Marco Bonfanti
The Man Without Gravity, Marco Bonfanti
A modern fairy tale about a weightless man, Oscar comes to into the world on a stormy night, in the hospital of a small town and immediately we understand that there is something extraordinary about him. He floats in the air, hovers in the lightest room of a balloon as his mother and grandmother look on in amazement.
On Exhibit
Museo Italiano Audiovisivo and Cinema
Italy’s 120 years of cinema has been made into an interactive museum
nestled in Rome’s iconic Cinecittà Studios.