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The golden years of Italian cinema
The dream of the legendary years of the Roman «dolce vita», one of the most active periods of Italian cinema, the years during which Cinecittà was defined by the American magazine «Times» the «Hollywood on the Tevere bank», are relived through the exhibition «Ritratti di cinema - L'arte dell'illustrazione di Carlantonio Longi» (...) |
Benigni’s Pinocchio
The set, even in the open country side, is scattered with blasted environmental microphones. The final result is glaringly obvious: «… Aho! Ma che stai a ‘ffa? ...» (Hey, what are you up to?). One of our journalists, accompanied by a photographer, managed to penetrate the barred area and take some pictures (...) |
Harold Pinter in Fiesole
It was one of the XX century's most important dramaturges who received the "Premio Fiesole Maestri del cinema" 2001 edition: Harold Pinter. Thoroughly English, imperturbable and laconic, Pinter was honoured with the honoris causa degree of the Florentine University (...) |
Bertolucci and "L'amore probabilmente"
"My latest film is called "L'amore probabilmente" and my name is Bertolucci. Giuseppe Bertolucci". Specifying is a must for someone who shares his surname with Attilio, the father, and Bernardo, the brother. A poet the former, magniloquent director the latter (...) |
Benigni's Tuscany set
'There was once upon a time… "A king!" my little readers will instantly, exclaim. No, children, you are wrong. There was once upon a time a piece of wood'. These are the words with which the most widely read educational novel in the world starts. It is a book narrating the story of a wooden child: Collodi's Pinocchio (...) |
Toscana Film Commission
A land of history and culture, nature and an enviable artistic patrimony. From these and others conditions arises the "Toscana Film Commission". The public structure designed and created by Regione Toscana to make the most of places and resources becoming a connection between local institutions and the film industry and television and advertising productions (...) |
Lucca disembarks in Venice
Lucca's gates, the historical entrances to the powerful and huge fortified walls of the city in the heart of Tuscany; the desolate and fascinating Garfagnana; the over three hundred villas pin scattered over the hills, the monuments and the historical palaces. Places chosen by directors and script writers for films and television fictions, as ideal cinema sets (...) |
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