The Occupy Wall Street movement may have fizzled around the world, but that hasn’t stopped workers at Italy’s famed Cinecitta movie studios from staging a protest of their own, complete with round-the-clock camping at the production company’s main entrance, for the past two months. At issue: the fate of their jobs, should Cinecitta restructure. With the unemployment rate in Italy …
Cinecittà Bar: Another Francis Ford Coppola Production
Even if you can’t afford a night at Italian-American film director Francis Ford Coppola’s new hotel Palazzo Margherita in the southern Italian region of Basilicata, a visit to his ancestral hometown of Bernalda is will worth a visit. Bernalda is like a town out of the 1950s and there is plenty to see in this area of Basilicata. Plus, nearly anyone can afford a …