Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni in a scene from the film 'Marriage Italian Style.' Italy has produced many of the most celebrated films of all time, and the history of Italian cinema has ...

In Olivia Laing’s arresting new “The Silver Book” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), their eighth book and second novel, historical fiction, and much else, is turned on its head. Its historical side is a ...

Moviemaking holds a storied place in Italy’s cultural life, an alluring combination that has played a supporting part in plenty of novels set in the Bel Paese, including William Styron’s “Set This ...

Claudia Cardinale, 87 years old, an actress who represented the golden age of 1960s and 1970s Italian cinema, died on the 23rd. AFP reported that Cardinale passed away in Nangis, near Paris, France, ...