Italian

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Sep 1313 min

INTERVIEW with Virginia Jewiss, who internationalizes Italian cinema, or “How I Made Sean Penn Cry”

Would Sean Penn cry – the aim of Virginia Jewiss, adapter of Italian scripts into English, here in an interview on film internationalization

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May 14 min

Challengers ★★★1/2

One man is driven by Tashi’s (Zendaya) dream, the other is living his own - in Guadagnino's latest. It almost makes you want to play tennis.

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Apr 274 min

La Chimera ★★1/2

Italian director Alice Rohrwacher has given us a morally ungrounded protagonist (played by Josh O'Connor), arguably a man for our times.

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Mar 214 min

Io Capitano ★★★1/2

An excruciating Odyssey of 2 Senegalese teens across Africa with a goal of "Europe." Director Garrone's film is in service to empathy.

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Oct 25, 20234 min

Scarlet ★★

Pietro Marcello's ("Martin Eden") latest is from a 1923 Russian romantic novel. A post-Great War fairy tale, it is barely rooted in reality.

To Dub or Not To Dub: Rethinking the cineaste's aversion to dubbing

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Jun 23, 20239 min

To Dub or Not To Dub: Rethinking the cineaste's aversion to dubbing

Should we re-think dubbed films? Might they hold some value? Italians have lessons to teach us.

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Mar 6, 20234 min

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio ★★★

“Pinocchio” is a study in authority, set in Fascist Italy, with director del Toro at center. Like the puppet, he is the “other."

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May 26, 20223 min

A Chiara ★★★

In his "Nancy-Drew-meets-the-Mafia film," Carpignano draws a narrative from the fun-loving, sometimes mean-girl teen to a sadly wise adult,

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Jul 26, 20214 min

The Truffle Hunters ★★★

These intimate scenes of man and dog capture a world that sharply contrasts with, and that is being lost to, modernity.

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May 15, 20213 min

Syndrome K ★★

In German-occupied Rome in 1943, a trio of doctors at a Vatican-owned hospital invented malatia K, a ferociously contagious, deadly disease.

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Oct 24, 20205 min

Martin Eden ★★★1/2

It's standard film-making—a familiar tale, told chronologically—with some significant departures from the norm, esp. the change in setting.

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Jun 14, 20203 min

“Tommaso” ★★

As a whole, “Tommaso” is not captivating, not seductive, barely worth watching. Ferrara’s latest suffers from an overdose of causation.

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Jun 9, 20203 min

L'Innocente ("The Innocent") ★★1/2

"L'Innocente" wallows in excesses of decadent aristocrats: a surfeit of wealth, of hedonism, of moralizing, of color, and of over-acting.

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May 1, 20203 min

The Two Popes ★★★

Powerful performances by Anthony Hopkins Jonathan Pryce make it an entertaining film but one that skims the surface of moral issues.

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Feb 12, 20203 min

The Traitor (Il Traditore) ★★★1/2

A nuanced psychological portrait of Italy's most famous Mafia informant - he's proud, vain, and claims to have dignity.

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Jul 30, 20182 min

A Ciambra ★★★

Exposes the dyads of an expanding world and tribalism, of self-identity and the group, of friendship and family.

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Jun 16, 20184 min

Piazza Vittorio ★★★ 1/2

Veteran American director Abel Ferrara gives a movie about a lesser-known side of Rome a broader appeal.

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May 9, 20183 min

Loro 1 ★★★

In the film's second hour, Sorrentino's Berlusconi is more pathetic than crude.

Indiscretion of an American Wife ★★1/2 (Stazione Termini)

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Feb 10, 20182 min

Indiscretion of an American Wife ★★1/2 (Stazione Termini)

The moralistic social and legal system of the early 1950s cultivates shame, if only for women.

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Dec 3, 20172 min

Rome Adventure ★★1/2

A luscious portrait of Rome.

Megalopolis

My Old Ass

Red Rooms

Good One

Between the Temples

Alien: Romulus

Kneecap

Totem

Longlegs

A Quiet Place: Day One

Memory

Hit Man

Inside Out 2

Kinds of Kindness

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

The Fall Guy

Civil War

Challengers

La Chimera

Housekeeping for Beginners

The Beast La Be te)

All of Us Strangers

Io Capitano

The Teachers' Lounge

Perfect Days

Rustin

American Fiction

The Zone of Interest

Poor Things

The Holdovers

Maestro

Fallen Leaves

Eileen

May December

Saltburn

Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d'une chute)

Killers of the Flower Moon

Scarlet

The Royal Hotel

Showing Up

Past Lives

Bottoms

Frances Ha

Damsels in Distress

You Hurt My Feelings

Barbie

Oppenheimer

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Asteroid City

To Dub or Not To Dub: Rethinking the cineaste's aversion to dubbing

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Master Gardener

Saint Omer

Hannah Ha Ha

The Whale

Ghost Tropic

Argentina, 1985

Linoleum

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Triangle of Sadness

All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues)

The Quiet Girl

Women Talking

White Noise

After Yang

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Aftersun

The Fabelmans

Living

The Banshees of Inisherin

Till

Decision to Leave

Tár

In Our Prime

God's Country

Barbarian

Funny Pages

Resurrection

Bad Luck Banging

Nope

Cha Cha Real Smooth

Kimi

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Mass

The Outfit

Top Gun: Maverick

A Chiara

Happening (L'Événement)

The Northman

King Richard

A Hero (Ghahreman)

CODA

Flee (Flugt)

Parallel Mothers (Madres paraleles)

Nightmare Alley

The Worst Person in the World

Drive My Car

Spencer

Licorice Pizza

Petite Maman

INTERVIEW with Warren Beatty’s Reds historical consultant, Robert A. Rosenstone

Bergman Island

Passing

The Lost Daughter

Belfast

tick, tick...BOOM!

The Power of the Dog

Pig

The French Dispatch

Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez

The Souvenir (Part One)

Dune

Black Bear

No Time to Die

Acasă, My Home (“Acasă”)

No Sudden Move

Quo Vadis, Aida?

Shiva Baby

The Green Knight

White on White

The Truffle Hunters

Zola

In the Heights

Riders of Justice

A Quiet Place Part II

There Is No Evil

Syndrome K

The Forty-Year-Old Version

Judas and the Black Messiah

Crip Camp

The Father

Promising Young Woman

News of the World

Nomadland

Minari

Another Round ("Druk")

Some Kind of Heaven

The White Tiger

One Night in Miami

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Mangrove

Mank

You Never Had It: An Evening with Bukowski

The True Adventures of Wolfboy

The Vast of Night

Martin Eden

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful

The Wild Goose Lake

Cuties ("Mignonnes")

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

The Assistant

Palm Springs

Sorry We Missed You

The Painted Bird

The Truth

Bacurau

Da 5 Bloods

Beanpole

Tommaso

L'Innocente ("The Innocent")

The Painter and the Thief

Bad Education

Until the Birds Return

The Two Popes

The Lighthouse

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Midsommar

Ford v Ferrari

American Factory

First Cow

Seberg

Ordinary Love

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

The Traitor/Il Traditore

Uncut Gems

Les Misérables

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Bombshell

1917

Knives Out

Little Women

Marriage Story

Queen & Slim

The Irishman

Cold Brook

Jojo Rabbit

Parasite

Joker

Ad Astra

Pain and Glory

First Love

Downton Abbey

Monos

The Goldfinch

Late Night

Good Boys

The Farewell

Yesterday

Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood

They Shall Not Grow Old

Toy Story 4

Bad Times at the El Royale

Bob Wilson's Life and
Death of Marina
Abramovic

The Sisters Brothers

Gloria Bell

Us

Won't You Be My
Neighbor

Never Look Away

Capernaum

Everybody Knows

Shoplifters

Three Identical Strangers

Minding the Gap

Cold War

The Favourite

Creed II

If Beale Street Could Talk

Roma

Can You Ever Forgive Me

Green Book

The House with a Clock in its Walls

Wildlife

The Kindergarten Teacher

Free Solo

A Star is Born

Museo

Eighth Grade

BlacKkKlansman

Sorry to Bother You

A Ciambra

The First Purge

Piazza Vittorio

Loro 1

My Cousin Rachel

Black Panther

Marshall

Call Me By Your Name

I, Tonya

Mudbound

The Darkest Hour

The Post

The Shape of Water

Indiscretion of an American Wife (Stazione Termini)

Downsizing

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

INTERVIEW with "Blade Runner" Screenwriter Hampton Fancher

Lady Bird

Rome Adventure

Last Flag Flying

Mother!

Blade Runner 2049

Logan Lucky

Wonder Woman

Dunkirk

The Beguiled

Berlin Syndrome

Facing Windows

Baby Driver

Personal Shopper

INTERVIEW with "John Wick" Screenwriter Derek Kolstad

I Am Not Your Negro

Sing

Get Out

The Salesman

Toni Erdmann

Hacksaw Ridge

Hidden Figures

Fences

Arrival

Elle

Lion

La La Land

Hell or High Water

Manchester by the Sea

Moonlight

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Doctor Strange

Florence Foster Jenkins

Demon

Mia Madre

Indignation

Captain Fantastic

Weiner

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Bill and Dianne's Excellent Adventure

Reviewing Films, Together

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