EXCLUSIVE interview with Monica Bellucci
Monica Bellucci by Manfred Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0 ©
She walked the catwalk for Dolce & Gabbana and made Vogue covers in the 1980s and 1990s, she was a testimonial for Dior in the 2000s and worked in films w...
Interview with Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film movie director Bruno Bozzetto
Bruno Bozzetto © to the owners
The demanding and time-consuming research carried out to put together the long-form feature La Rosa di Bagdad vs Cinderella, cartoon mystery & similarities: was Walt Disney ...
La Rosa di Bagdad vs Cinderella, cartoon mystery & similarities: was Walt Disney inspired by an Italian movie you never heard of?
The Singing Princess / La Rosa di Bagdad film poster
First released in 1949 and distributed in English-speaking territories under the title The Singing Princess across the version dubbed by the then-17-year-o...
Il Volo sings Ennio Morricone: exclusive interview with the Italian trio
Il Volo: Gianluca Ginoble, Ignazio Boschetto and Piero Barone - © to the owners
The Britons, who are notoriously proud to be British at any given moment in their days and lives - even when their Royals run aw...
Interview with Ludovico Einaudi on writing music scores for Academy Award-winning films
Ludovico Einaudi by Cesare Cicardini ©
Italian pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi has penned music for successful films in many countries, from the United States to Japan; his cinematic scores are found in...
Andrea Bocelli: an EXCLUSIVE interview
Andrea Bocelli by Giovanni De Sandre ©
The first time I heard Andrea Bocelli's singing was in the late 1990s at my cousin's holiday place in Southern Italy. We are 16 years apart, I was a teenager and the cou...
The first woman nominated for Best Director in 1977: interview with Academy Honorary Award winner Lina Wertmüller
Lina Wertmüller died in December 2021, aged 93.
This interview dates back to June 2020, and we chose not to alter it.
May this legendary artist rest in peace. Lina Wertmüller © to the owners
Ciao, Prof...
Interview with Zucchero ‘Sugar’ Fornaciari
Zucchero by Daniele Barraco ©️
Italian blues legend Zucchero 'Sugar' Fornaciari is a man who has done plenty of extraordinary things in music and life, composed marvellous melodies like Miserere and Senza una...
Interview with Giorgio Armani
The first time I bumped into something labelled Armani I was about eleven or twelve.
At that age, any kid is into collections.
It was the late 1990s and, as far as I can remember, I was accumulating a whole l...
Interview with Nicolas Vaporidis: from waiter to mainstream star
Nicolas Vaporidis is an Italian actor who got famous nationwide in 2006 after shooting Notte prima degli esami , a film about high school that quickly became a cult movie in Italy.
Many years on, he has grown ...