Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Selected for the Berlinale Specials sidebar, the documentary plays at a sold-out screening on Saturday, on the eve of what would ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Veteran auteur Mario Martone, whose Naples-set drama “Nostalgia” launched last year from Cannes, has quite a lot in common with ...

On the day he would have turned 73, the legend of Massimo Troisi comes alive again in the heart of his Naples through a narrative that goes beyond the icon of cinema and theater. On Thursday, February ...

The centerpiece of the American Cinematheque’s Nothing Left to Do but Cry: The Films of Massimo Troisi is inevitably the 1995 Oscar-nominated “The Postman” (Il Postino), which will be shown Saturday ...

The upcoming June 4th marks thirty years since the disappearance of Massimo Troisi. The weekly magazine Oggi on newsstands has interviewed his historic partner, Anna Pavignano, screenwriter of all the ...

Big heart, passion for his Neapolitan identity, and pure feelings; marked mimicry, gestures, and a genuine Neapolitan dialect, which brought him closer to the people, characterized Massimo Troisi, an ...

Exactly one year ago, on March 20, the historic Cinema Metropolitan in Via Chiaia reopened, boasting a renewed structure and management. To mark the occasion, Cinema Metropolitan decided to dedicate a ...

Italian auteur Mario Martone, who was recently in Cannes with “Nostalgia,” is set to direct a high-profile doc about the late Massimo Troisi, one of Italy’s most beloved comic actors who starred in ...

When edgy, groundbreaking comedians die young, they often achieve a sort of posthumous sainthood. Think of John Belushi or Andy Kaufman in the US, Tony Hancock in Britain, Coluche in France. Or ...

It is almost 17 years since the death of Massimo Troisi, the star of my film Il Postino, yet he is as present in my life as he was when he lived. There was nothing overtly Neapolitan about him, except ...

EXCLUSIVE: Italian director Mario Martone, who has been on the festival and awards circuit over the past year with Oscar submission and Cannes title Nostalgia, is at the Berlinale with his passion ...