SDIFF began because of a wonderful man named Victor Laruccia. He imagined it not just as a festival to showcase Italian films but what he liked to call an Italian perspective. Another element of the ...

Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni in a scene from the film 'Marriage Italian Style.' Italy has produced many of the most celebrated films of all time, and the history of Italian cinema has ...

Prepare to crank those amps up to eleven.

Paolo Sorrentino is, and I apologize if I’m blowing your mind right now, Italian. Like, very Italian. My last name is “Bibbiani” and I will never be one-tenth as Italian as Paolo Sorrentino. His films ...

This is FRESH AIR. Our critic-at-large, John Powers, spends his time reading, watching and listening. And every year at this time, he offers a list of things he liked that he wished he had gotten a ...