Francis Ford Coppola’s filming in Savoca lasted only a few weeks in the summer of 1971, but remains a defining memory for ...

As Vespa turns 80 next week, the Italian scooter remains a design classic that refuses to go out of fashion. Not bad for a ...

As director of the FBI, Robert S. Mueller III transformed the agency into a terrorism-fighting force after the Sept. 11, 2001 ...

The heroine of Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany’s knew war and poverty, riches and fame, love and betrayal – yet claimed to have lived a ‘terribly boring’ life. Sean Hepburn Ferrer paints a very ...

WASHINGTON — Chuck Norris, who has been a defining American figure in martial arts movies since the 1970s, has died, his family confirmed on Friday. He was 86. If you're searching for a way to look ...

Since Italy became a country in 1861, there has been a surefire way to know who is and isn’t an Italian citizen: look at their parents. The first page of the civil code, published in 1865 as the ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The 1970s was an incredible era for cinema, especially science fiction. Rising anxiety over the direction in which the world was headed ...

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 ...

Pope Leo XIV included the 1997 Holocaust movie “Life Is Beautiful” among his four favorite films of all time. “Life Is Beautiful,” a melodrama by Italian filmmaker and comedian Robert Benigni, follows ...

CHARLESTON — Bringing a few films from the old country, the Nuovo Cinema Italiano Film Festival recently announced the schedule for its 19th annual fete celebrating contemporary Italian cinema and ...

A comedy about a DINK couple who become obsessed with their annoying neighbors doubles as a warning about the comfortable emptiness that can hit us in our thirties. Boasting a cast of faces you’ll ...