Vittorio de Sica

Award-winning Italian and French classics on tap this week

2013-03-21 06:00:00

Italian classic films directed by masters of cinema Federico Fellini, Vittorio de Sica and Michelangelo Antonioni will be vying for viewers' attention Thursday evening. The American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood presents Fellini's...

A dinner inspired by classic Italian films

2013-03-04 13:50:00

This sounds fun: a special dinner next Monday with a menu inspired by classic Italian films. Sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, the dinner will be prepared by chef Simone Santopietro at Obika Mozzarella Bar and Ristorante in...

Is ‘Bully’ a tipping point for the MPAA movie ratings system?

2012-04-04 16:38:38

Saturday's Highlights: 'How to Be a Gentleman' on CBS

2011-10-14 21:36:20

Around Town: Clint Eastwood and Italian classics

2011-11-03 16:36:14

Suso Cecchi D'Amico dies at 96; screenwriter worked with some of Italy's leading directors

2010-08-07 00:00:00

Screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico, who emerged from the male-dominated postwar Italian cinema to become a celebrated artist and contribute to such milestone films as "Bicycle Thieves" and "The Leopard," has died. She was 96. Cecchi D'Amico died July 31 in...

From the Vaults -- 'I Bambini Ci Guardano' ('The Children Are Watching Us') 1944

2011-05-13 16:33:23

Sophia Loren talks about her leading men

2011-05-04 00:00:00

Dino De Laurentiis, storied movie producer, dies at 91

2010-11-12 00:00:00

Dino De Laurentiis, the flamboyant Italian movie producer who helped resurrect his nation's film industry after World War II and for more than six decades produced films as diverse as the 1954 Federico Fellini classic "La Strada" and the 1976 remake of...

Cinema Italian Style film fest and photography exhibit

2009-11-10 16:34:57

Charles Teitel dies at 93; theater operator fought censors as he brought foreign art films to Chicago

2009-04-16 00:00:00

Charles Teitel, who operated one of the first foreign art houses in Chicago, screening such seminal films as "The Bicycle Thief" and "Z" as well as movies that city censors tried to ban for racy content, died of congestive heart failure April 4 at his...

Monty: An actor of fragile brilliance

2004-08-29 00:00:00

"Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor"-- Montgomery Clift Several of the recent Marlon Brando obituaries mentioned Montgomery Clift as one of the actor's contemporaries. But Clift was more than a contemporary. He,...

-directed episode of the four-episode anthology film about love. Loren's husband, Carlo Ponti, served as a producer on the film in which she played Zoe, a sexy shooting-gallery operator who against her will is offered up as a prize to the best shooter.

2011-05-03 14:01:55

Film producer Carlo Ponti, Jan. 9 Carlo Ponti, the Italian producer of films such as La Strada, Doctor Zhivago and Blowup and the longtime husband of Oscar-winning actress Sophia Loren, whom he discovered as a teenager, died in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2007. He was 94.

2007-01-10 00:00:00