The future of Italian Photography
Photography has never been so widespread as in these days when everyone with a camera (or a smartphone) and an Instagram account can consider…
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Obsession, a tale of passion and disruption at Barbican Theatre
You might know that Obsession (Ossessione), Luchino Visconti‘s first feature film released in 1943, is based on the novel The Postman Always Rings Twice,…
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Sebastiano and Michelangelo at the National Gallery
Sebastiano del Piombo vs Michelangelo. Were they friends or rivals? Everybody knows Michelangelo. He carved the David and the Pietà, painted the ceiling of…
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Fabrizio Gifuni, a quiet man behind the actor’s mask
There aren’t mobs or paparazzi lying in ambush for him while Fabrizio Gifuni quietly treads the stage of the Italian Cultural Institute in Belgravia….
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‘Piuma’, parenthood in the wrong time
Dont’ mess with your future. That’s the message of ‘Piuma‘, that will be screened on Sunday 26 February at Genesis Cinema by CinemaItaliaUK, find…
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‘Babylon Sisters’, the world saved by (immigrant) women
The world saved by women. That is, briefly, the synopsis of Babylon Sisters directed by Gigi Roccati, that will be screened on 23rd February…
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From Afterhours to Salmo. All the Italian music coming to London
Has the horoscope told you that one of the best ways to start the New Year is going to a concert? If you are…
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Battle in the sunshine: the British forces in Italy during the Great War
The New Year starts with a great reopening: the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art in Highbury, London, reopens to the public on 13 January…
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Why listening to Vivaldi can do you good
A Ted Lesson tells you everything about the music of one of the greatest composers of all times (and Italian, by the way).
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‘A Kiss’ to fight homophobia
It’s time to premiere again for CinemaItaliaUK with Un bacio (One Kiss) by Ivan Cotroneo, an adaptation from Cotroneo’s novel published in 2010 by…
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Drinking bitter coffee brings passion and love
With 15 books published since 2002, Simonetta Agnello Horby brought her Sicily and its stories all over the world. Born in Palermo, she moved…
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Sara Serraiocco, a ‘worldly girl’
Sara Serraiocco, 26 year old, plays Giulia in Worldly girl, the brilliant debut film by Marco Danieli. The film was presented at Giornate degli Autori-Venice…
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