Would you like to discover the sets of the Oscar-winning movies? Now you can, walking through Rome and get surprised by the terraces, gardens and fountains. And what about Lazio? Italian and foreign directors could not resist the charm of a western-like nature and romantic lakes.
From Fontana Liri to the Trevi Fountain, “Marcello, come here!” it’s your 100th birthday! Let us follow the indelible footsteps of Marcello Mastroianni through his movie locations in Lazio, an extraordinary journey in the history of Italian Cinema. Marcello...
On September 20, Sophia Loren will blow out 90 candles. Ranked 21st among the most renowned actresses according to the American Film Institute, she became, in 2021, the oldest woman in the whole history of cinema to have ever won the Davide di Donatello for best lead...
“Roman Holiday” is a film of 1953 directed by William Wyler, starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn and filmed entirely in Rome. The beautiful Princess Ann, heir to the throne of a mysterious and influential kingdom, sets off on a diplomatic trip to the main...
“Marcello come here,” called Anita Ekberg, inviting Mastroianni to enter the Trevi Fountain with her, in Federico Fellini's “La Dolce Vita” (1960); Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn on a Vespa scooter in William Wyler’s “Roman Holiday” (1953) against the backdrop of...
"I’m having a relationship with my pizza… let's say it's a form of 'bread and love and carbohydrates’.” With these words, Julia Roberts begins the praise of food that becomes the true protagonist of the scenes filmed in Rome. It is here in Rome that the pleasures of...
Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film, The Great Beauty directed by Paolo Sorrentino was filmed entirely in the palazzos, terraces, famous and secret gardens of a decadent Rome, incapable of surprise and exquisitely beautiful. To retrace a few sequences of the...
An incredible trip amid the sculptures of Bernini on Ponte Sant’Angelo and the works by Galileo, discovering an unknown Rome, where pagan symbology and sacredness blend together, revealing shocking messages. This is the Rome of Angels & Demons, a 2009 film,...
Sabaudia, 90 km from Rome, with its 15 km of dunes and golden beach in Circeo Park, is considered an Italian California where you can see surfers riding the waves in a sea more similar to the ocean than the Mediterranean. This enchanting location has hosted many film...
The film is an absolute masterpiece by director Mario Monicelli, as well as the official debut of a new film genre, later renamed Commedia all’italiana (Italian-style comedy). The treatment of dramatic themes with popular settings is inherited from neorealism, but...
«On my command unleash hell» in this way Maximus Decimus Meridius, (the actor Russell Crowe), urged the Roman army on to victory over the German population of Marcomanni. These images pay tribute to Imperial Rome, bringing back to life the story of the grandeur of...
The dramatic events that occurred in the spring of 1944 provide the background to the personal and social drama of a mother and daughter in Alberto Moravia’s novel, “La ciociara (Two Women)”. The story is about Cesira, a young woman from the Frosinone area who, having...
Pasolini’s passion for cinema, always alternated with that of literature, began at a young age: already a student at the University of Bologna at age seventeen, he was a zealous member of the local film club and was very taken by the cycle of films dedicated to Renè...
The “dolce vita” years in Rome, between the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s, before the protests, were the exclusive salon of an unprecedented cultural and artistic ferment. One historic memory of that period was Via Veneto and its cafes, crowded every...
Turn off your mobile phones and start munching on popcorn, but don't make too much noise... in Gaeta, the cameras are rolling for Bloodmoon, the prequel to Game of Thrones, the most popular American TV series in the world! It’s impossible not to identify with the...
The Name of the Rose, from a literary bestseller by Umberto Eco, has been turned into an eight-episode TV series on Rai1. It drags us into the Middle Ages and recalls the other film by the same title released thirty years ago. But how many know that many of the most...