Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “italian movies”
Our December 2014/January 2015 issue featured the best of Lake Como. The lake is so beautiful and enticing that at least 26 directors have set at least part of their films in Lake Como and 82 movie stars have performed in these scenes. Here are some of the best known: Casino Royale with Daniel Craig, filmed at Villa La Gaeta in San Siro and …
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 …
One of my favorite Italian movies of all time is Pranzo di Ferragosto (or Mid-August Lunch). The charming and funny tale of a Roman man who gets stuck caring for three elderly women (his mother, the mothers of two friends and an aunt of a friend thrown in for good measure) on the most important of Italian holidays (when Italians …
I didn’t even know Elizabeth Montana of DreamItalia and her husband the famous Denver sushi master Yasu Kizaki were longtime readers of Dream of Italy when I attended the Italian Wine and Movie Night they co-organized last summer at Balistreri Vineyards in Denver. It was simply the best event I have been to in the two years I have lived …
