TORONTO – Considering Clint Eastwood’s legacy starring in Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns, it wasn’t a surprise that his 2008 film Gran Torino landed with Italian audiences. Eastwood’s growly and reclusive Korean War Vet resonated – in particular – with filmgoers who grew up with parents or grandparents disaffected by the horrors of WWII. Now, Paolo Virzi’s Cinque Secondi is striking a similar chord with Italian audiences…
TORONTO – Considerando l’eredità di Clint Eastwood come protagonista negli Spaghetti Western di Sergio Leone, non è stata una sorpresa che il suo film del 2008 Gran Torino ha avuto successo tra il pubblico italiano…
TORONTO – The recent success of Italy’s Tennis program is feeling a lot like a force majeure, arriving seemingly from nowhere…
TORONTO – Il recente successo del programma di tennis italiano sembra una forza maggiore, arrivato apparentemente dal nulla…
TORONTO – It wasn’t too long ago that the Romantic Comedy genre or “Rom-Coms” were major studio productions which enjoyed massive marketing pushes and wide releases. From the 1990s to the mid 2000s, the genre drew audiences using classic meet-cute encounters and feel-good romance tropes. But the hopeful optimism of those 90s Rom-Coms reflected a time period still unaffected by the Internet, and its diabolical offspring – “social media”…
