Vittorio de Sica

Italian classic films directed by masters of cinema Federico Fellini, Vittorio de Sica and Michelangelo Antonioni will be vying for viewers' attention Thursday evening. The American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood presents Fellini's...

This sounds fun: a special dinner next Monday with a menu inspired by classic Italian films. Sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, the dinner will be prepared by chef Simone Santopietro at Obika Mozzarella Bar and Ristorante in...

Vittorio De Sica may be known to more Americans as an actor than as a director, but from 1947 through 1972 his directing efforts received more acclaim in the U.S. than any other Italian filmmaker save Fellini. “Shoeshine” and “Bicycle...

Harvey Weinstein’s PR blitzkrieg for "Bully" may turn out to be a pivotal chapter in the battle to overhaul the Motion Picture Assn. of America's ratings system....

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Oct. 16 - 22 in PDF format TV listings for the week of Oct. 16 - 22 in PDF format (from latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv) Weekly TV Listings and more can be found......

Silen flicks, Italian masterworks and a chat with Clint Eastwood and an evening with long-time Times film critic Kevin Thomas are on tap this week....

Nina (Isa Pola), Prico (Luciano De Ambrosis) and Andrea (Emilio Cigoli) in “The Children Are Watching Us.” If we met Nina and Andrea with their young son, Prico, at the beach, we might assume that they were just another family......

Dino De Laurentiis, the flamboyant Italian movie producer who helped resurrect his nation's film industry after World War II and for more than six decades produced films as diverse as the 1954 Federico Fellini classic "La Strada" and the 1976 remake of...

Award-winning veteran photographer Douglas Kirkland has an exhibit of his 'Homage to Classic Italian Cinema' portfolio, created for Vanity Fair Italia, on display at the Instituto Italiano di Cultura in Westwood until Nov. 27. The photographs are “...

Luigi Comencini, a postwar filmmaker known as the "children's director" for his films examining childhood, has died. He was 90. The director died Friday, April 6, after a long illness, says his family, according to international news sources....

Charles Teitel, who operated one of the first foreign art houses in Chicago, screening such seminal films as "The Bicycle Thief" and "Z" as well as movies that city censors tried to ban for racy content, died of congestive heart failure April 4 at his...