http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IysSd5CIDJI/UdlPCAJoZDI/AAAAAAAAA9I/xQCKwBVLLaY/s1600/amore_cover1.png Cineteca di Bologna has just released this 1913 "Diva film" on English-friendly DVD. http://cinestore.cinetecadibologna.it/bookshop/dettaglio/63 Bonus: * Tinted fragment (9 minutes) * Photogalleries * 2...

On December Ripley's Home Video (RHV) will release an Alida Valli collection, focusing on her early films (1935-1943). RHV is one of Italian most distinguished quality labels, and they often include English subtitles for their discs, but I am not sure whether they are going to subtitle an entire box...

A nice 460 page dossier on Dwan's films.
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/presenti ... -a-dossier" target="_blank

Did Ingmar Bergman enjoy "This Is Cinerama"? Here a screenshot from Kvinnodröm (1955)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31EwhDTNY-L.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Modotti Italian photographer/model/actress (1896-1942), she also starred in three American films between 1920 and 1922. Only the first, The Tiger's Coat (1920), survived in a 16mm reduction print, restored by La...

Saimo wrote:L'illustre attrice Cicala Formica (1920) by Lucio D'Ambra (the so-called "Italian Lubitsch")
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0356728/

Available on Youtube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry9XKCBJLas

L'illustre attrice Cicala Formica (1920) by Lucio D'Ambra (the so-called "Italian Lubitsch")
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0356728/

By the way, according to McCarey's interviews, most of this scene was actually shot in a real house, not on a studio set...

I have only seen How the West Was Won on BD (smilebox) and that was a fascinating experience. I especially enjoyed John Ford segment, watched and re-watched many times since my first viewing. David Bordwell has a very nice essay on Cinerama at his blog . I particularly agree with his conclusion: "I ...

The closer Italian cinema ever came to Capra: L'onorevole Angelina (Angelina, 1947), starring/co-written by Anna Magnani. Trying to obtain better condition for her poor family, stormy housewife inadvertently starts a political movement... http://journeys-italy.blogspot.com/2013/03/lonorevole-angelin...

Is this the documentary you were talking about?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2693398/" target="_blank

But wouldn't it rather have been one of Mussolini's movie producer sons Roach would form a joint venture with than with Old Benito himself? Wasn't being dictator a full time job already? The story still sounds weird... Yes, it was a business venture with one of Mussolini's Sons, and indeed it was a...

I am curious if the scene where Anthony preaches, under divine inspiration, was an Italian equivalent of the "You ain't heard nothin" yet" moment, as suddenly the intertitles switch to.... subtitles. The film (financially supported by Vatican and Mussolini) was originally shot silent and later sync...

Seen this at Il Cinema Ritrovato 2011 and instantly loved it.
I am tempted to buy the DVD only to grab a screenshot of Howard Hawks' cameo as a German pilot.