Saturday, September 5th, 2009
Sydney Lumet becomes the fourth director to receive the Fellini Prize, an annual award presented in Rimini by the Fellini Foundation to both honour the world’s most important film directors, and at the same time comemorate the late great Federico Fellini. Lumet, who started his career as film director back in 1957 (with the classic […]
Tags: fellini foundation, fellini prize, sydney lumet
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Ferragosto, the 15th of August, is one of Italy’s most important and most cherished holidays. It has its origins in antiquity, and has changed and evolved over the centuries, but as Gianni Di Gregorio’s wonderful film Pranzo di Ferragosto illustrated so powerfully, the Italian who finds him/herself working or away from family on this summer […]
Tags: ancient festivals, ferragosto, ferragosto at rimini, italian folklore, italian holidays, pranzo di ferragosto, vittorio gassman
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
Cinema in Rimini, the birthplace of the late-great Federico Fellini, in terms of the physical buildings used to project films, has undergone much the same dramatic shift as seen in cities across the western world. Local cinemas with individual styles and idiosyncracies have been replaced by the big out-of-town multiplexes – giant anonymous screens where […]
Tags: amarcord, corso d'augusto, dante ferretti, federico fellini, fulgor cinema, rimini cinema, rimini film
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Saturday, August 1st, 2009
Italy’s hottest heart-throb, actor Riccardo Scamarcio takes some time off from the shooting of his latest film l’Uomo Nero – directed by Sergio Rubini, and co-starring Scamarcio’s partner Valeria Golino – to come to Rimini to dj for a night. Scamarcio will be taking to the decks in one of Rimini’s longest established and famous […]
Tags: altromondo, celebrity dj nights, james brown in rimini, ray charles in rimini, riccardo scamarcio, Sergio Rubini
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Saturday, July 25th, 2009
Last year’s Cannes film festival spotlighted Italian cinema with two big films in competition, Paolo Sorrentino’s biopic of Giulio Andreotti Il Divo and the international hit adaptation of Roberto Saviano’s crime book Gomorrah . Two great films that have hadsome of the  international success they deserve. Every year, though, there are plenty of top-notch Italian films that […]
Tags: Carlo Verdone, Da Dieci a Zero, Ferzan Özpetek, films in rimini, Gianni Di Gregorio, italian films, luciano ligabue, Margherita Buy, Sergio Rubini, Venice International Film Festival
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