film
film
Capturing Italy’s encounter with California in Frank Capra’s documentary "La visita dell’ Incrociatore Italiano Libia a San Francisco, Calif., 6-29 Novembre 1921"
Positive images of Italian-Americans that aren’t.
Jack Salvatori, an almost-forgotten Italian American director, made a film about Cinecittà’s role as a camp for WWII refugees.
Several years ago, in a writing group at the Calandra Institute, I got to know a young film director named Justin Ambrosino. Below is a conversation that Justin and I recently had...
Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960 film "L’avventura" provides a cinematic voyage back to Italy.
The 1963 film Love with the Proper Stranger dealt with the limited choices faced by an Italian American woman a decade before abortion was legalized in the U.S.
While not as great as people say, Darren Aronofsky's latest film has a lot in it that speaks to Italian-Americans. At least, some my age from NY and NJ, that is.
Giuseppe Gagliardi’s film La vera leggenda di Tony Vilar is a musical journey tracing the circuitous routes of the Italian diaspora.
Italian-American naming traditions of abandonment, reclamation, nicknaming, and forgetting.
My random encounter with a Hollywood Italian American labor activist.