“For me, Cinecittà has replaced the world” Federico Fellini
“This year, great titles are expected to light up the Lido’s theaters.”
“Do not disunite, do not ever disunite! […] I didn’t immediately give myself a rational explanation for that line, but I grabbed it and put it in my pocket.”
“More than anything else, more than literature, more than painting, more than theater, Commedia all’Italiana changed the character of Italians”
“Troisi is universal. We are all, in some way, a little Troisi.”
Milan l’è on gran Milan
“If the Spaghetti Western defined the 1960s, Giallo ruled the following decade.”
The two faces of Italy
“In recent years, a gifted cohort of twenty- and thirty-somethings has emerged on Italy’s cinematic stage, their talent and style rivaling that of their silver-haired predecessors on the silver screen.”
“Wertmüller wrote a fundamental page in the history of the culture of Italy, portraying memorable characters and unforgettable stories.”
“Not long ago, leaving me in front of my house, a taxi driver told me: ‘I know this place, years ago I took a beautiful lady here.’ That lady was my mother, but with that strange grace that the Romans unexpectedly carry, he did not name her.” –Luca Dotti, Audrey in Rome (2011)
Totò might single handedly be the most influential Italian not fully appreciated outside Italy
“What he found was a country starved for intimacy.”
“What more suitable place than Italy, the home of beauty, to set a story with such an elegant theme?”
