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Join us to cafe Pellicola Live Hangout on 8/11/14

Join us to cafe Pellicola Live Hangout on 8/11/14

Join us every month to cafe Pellicola Live: our live video hangouts as we “virtually” meet for coffee with special guests: ranging from filmmakers, festivals’ artistic directors to Italian Studies cinema scholars.

Enjoy a lively discussion to set you on an Italian cinema journey discovering new trends, festival programs, new as well as classic films that make a difference.

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Open Roads 2014: Via Castellana Bandiera – A Street in Palermo (Emma Dante – 2013)

Open Roads 2014: Via Castellana Bandiera – A Street in Palermo (Emma Dante – 2013)

It’s that time of the year, an absolute treat. I am obviously talking about the annual Italian Cinema festival, Open Roads, that takes place every June at Lincoln Film Center. It’s a rare opportunity to get access to some of the freshest voices in Italian cinemawith veteran as well as new surprises. This year, unfortunately, I was not able to attend all the films I had planned, part of the reason…

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ItalianDocsOnline 2014: i fantasmi di San Berillo - The Ghosts of San Berillo (Edoardo Morabito - 2013)

ItalianDocsOnline 2014: i fantasmi di San Berillo – The Ghosts of San Berillo (Edoardo Morabito – 2013)

Italian Cinema London has  launched today a week-long online festival dedicated to Italian documentaries, aptly called ItalianDocsOnline.  It’s a quite innovative program that exposes audiences around the world with some of the latest Italian documentaries. And what’s more it’s free with audience voting to add a bit of a sizzle to the event.

Irma, one of the ghosts of San Berillo – an authentic…

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Il magnifico cornuto - The Magnificent Cuckold (Antonio Pietrangeli – 1964)

In this classic Italian comedy director Antonio Pietrangelijuxtaposes extra indulgence with…

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Mediterraneo (Gabriele Salvatores – 1991)

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The magic of cinema as you know can sometimes inspire you to tell your own stories. Here is a short story I wrote a few years ago as a tribute, a tad

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It’s August in Rome and it seems like the whole town has a single mission – to go to the beach! You can watch this charming, time-capsule of a movie below (76 minutes, no English subtitles, though).

See more at: http://www.cafepellicola.com/2013/09/22/domenica-dagosto-sunday-in-august-luciano-emmer-1949/#sthash.EaRZ4Dzj.dpuf

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Guglielmo il dentone – William “Il Dentone” (Luigi Filippo D’Amico – 1965) -

See review and full film at: http://www.cafepellicola.com/2013/09/16/guglielmo-il-dentone-william-il-dentone-luigi-filippo-damico-1965/#sthash.yroHwA5B.dpuf 

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When was the last time you created something with your hands? Great screening of Guido Torlonia's Handmade Cinema @filmlinc #italiancinema

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Anna Magnani in an emotion explosion in Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini -1962)

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In this film Giuseppe Piccioni returns to familiar themes of alienation and the decline of modern family structures, the resulting need for companionship and our value system that wraps it all in good and bad labels.

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Le Notti di Cabiria, Milo Manara

eternal sunshine of the obsessed mind

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Soldini has a great knack for fine details that transform such simple and over told plot into a human believable experience. Check it out!

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