Paris-based Italian director Tommaso Usberti's romance "Before the War," a reflection on racism and toxic masculinity set in the Northern Italian plains, is the big winner of the Venice Critics' Week ...

Mostly made on budgets that would make the most hardened Director cry into his megaphone. Italian horror movies never cease to astound, baffle and disgust in equal measure. Here are my personal pick ...

Giovanna Taviani, a celebrated Italian film director, will be an artist-in-residence at Rochester Institute of Technology, which sponsored her visit to Rochester to show her film, “Ritorni ...

SDIFF kicks off its 20th anniversary with a launch party Saturday. Films screen Sept. 30-Oct. 10 under the theme "Legacy." ...

The world of cinema was in mourning Saturday after Italian film and opera legend Franco Zeffirelli, feted for his lavish productions, died at home in Rome aged 96. The Oscar-nominated director of ...

Guido Chiesa’s movie For the Love of a Woman, which is playing in theaters throughout Israel as well as in New York, Los Angeles and several other US cities, is an unusual movie on several counts.

The director’s 1951 movie, at Film Forum in a new 4K restoration, satirizes the Italian film industry via Anna Magnani’s over-the-top stage mother. By J. Hoberman Anna Magnani, who died in 1973, was ...