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Culture
by Pat Eggleton | Mon, 07/12/2010 - 11:22
William Wyler’s 1953 romantic comedy, “Roman Holiday” is a delightful film starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn in her first major American screen role. It…
Culture
by Pat Eggleton | Fri, 07/02/2010 - 05:38
In Verona, home, of course, of star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet, a voluntary group of men and women answer over 5,000 letters a year addressed to Juliet.…
Culture
by Pat Eggleton | Thu, 06/24/2010 - 09:28
In our series about romantic films set in Italy, we’d like to remind you of a “golden oldie” today. This is the film in which Katherine Hepburn really did take…
Culture
by Pat Eggleton | Wed, 06/16/2010 - 10:44
All the world loves a romantic movie and Italy Magazine especially loves a romantic movie set in Italy. In a new series, we look at romantic movies old and new…
Lifestyle
by ITALY | Mon, 06/07/2010 - 03:45
Around one thousand people turned out, many of them dressed in mourning, for a funeral procession with a difference in Florence yesterday. The occasion was a “…
Culture
by ITALY | Wed, 05/26/2010 - 04:32
Italian actor Elio Germano has won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his role in Daniele Luchetti’s “La Nostra Vita”. He shares the award…
Culture
by Pat Eggleton | Mon, 05/10/2010 - 06:21
This week sees the release in the USA of Letters to Juliet, a romance set in Verona and starring Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave, Chris Egan and Gael Garcia…
Culture
by Pat Eggleton | Thu, 04/29/2010 - 06:48
Furio Scarpelli, “father of Italian comedy” and screenwriter of over 120 films, died in Rome at the age of 90 yesterday. Scarpelli enjoyed a working…
Culture
by Pat Eggleton | Fri, 04/09/2010 - 04:50
Today sees the release in Italy of the film “Basilicata Coast to Coast”, a road movie which is also a bittersweet comedy and a musical. It marks the directing…
Culture
by Jennifer Clair… | Wed, 02/24/2010 - 11:46
Like every masterpiece, Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (“The Sweet Life”) is the ongoing subject of critique, praise, study, and obsession. But unlike most, La Dolce…