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14 Jan 2015 Hollywood comes to Florence, Rome and Matera

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While waiting for the sets to arrive for the remake of "Ben Hur" and the new 007 movie, scheduled to be filmed in Italy in February, the crew of the NBC TV series "Hannibal", starring Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, considered by American critics to be the “best television horror of all time”, is coming to Florence. Starring alongside Mikkelsen is Gillian Anderson, who plays his psychoanalyst who has become his accomplice in a murder and is now hiding out with him under a false name in the birthplace of the Renaissance.

01 Aug 2014 L’Amore Corto, a short-film produced entirely by Italians in NY

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Following up its debut on the 14 of May, L’Amore Corto, an Italian short film about love, has quickly attracted the attention of experts in the movie field and gained important honors and awards.

Let’s explore more about it with an interview to Laura Gasperini, the assistant director, and one of the producers, of this short film.

05 Mar 2014 A “great beauty” has invaded Hollywood – Paolo Sorrentino’s movie

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“The Great Beauty” (in Italian “La Grande Bellezza”) by Paolo Sorrentino won the Oscar for best foreign film.

The coveted statuette has fulfilled a path that has quickly collected other major international awards such as the Golden Globe, a prestigious award of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the English British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).

30 Mar 2011 A Tourist in Venice

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“It was impossible to recreate the places, the smells, the sounds and the flavors of the city in a studio, so the whole movie was filmed on location in the streets and along the canals of Venice”. These are the words of the director, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, who won an Oscar for “The Lives of Others”.

15 Mar 2011 Italy in 7 movies

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Baaria”, “Basilicata Coast to Coast”, “Loose Cannons”, “Focaccia Blues”, “The First Beautiful Thing”, “The Man Who will Come”, “Il Figlio più Piccolo”: we create a tour map of some of the most beautiful places in Italy that were used as sets for the winners of the Globo D’Oro 2010 – the awards assigned to Italian movies every year by the foreign press in Rome