The Bronx was the setting for the 1983 film Fuga dal Bronx, also known as Bronx Warriors 2 and Escape 2000, an Italian B-movie best known for its appearance on the television series Mystery Science Theatre 3000.

* The film Carlo Goldoni – Venice, Grand Theatre of the World, directed by Alessandro Bettero, was released in 2007 and is available in English, Italian, French, and Japanese.

Influenced by the Italian feature film Cabiria ( 1914 ), Griffith was convinced that feature films were commercially viable.

* 1912 – Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer ( d. 2007 )

Though initially skeptical, De Laurentiis agreed after being presented with the extremely high Italian grosses for the first film.

According to Robert Evans, head of Paramount Pictures at the time, Coppola also did not initially want to direct the film because he feared it would glorify the Mafia and violence, and thus reflect poorly on his Sicilian and Italian heritage ; on the other hand, Evans specifically wanted an Italian-American to direct the film because his research had shown that previous films about the Mafia that were directed by non-Italians had fared dismally at the box office, and he wanted to, in his own words, " smell the spaghetti ".

Lighting from a low angle was used more strongly in the Italian epic film Quo Vadis?

In the Italian Ambrosio companies film La mala planta ( The Evil Plant ), directed by Mario Caserini, which involves a case of poisoning, there is an Insert shot of a snake slithering over the ‘ Evil Plant ’.

Italian film production held up during the war, with long features already established as the main form.

The Italian film industry took shape between 1903 and 1908, led by three major organizations-Cines, based in Rome ; and the Turin-based companies ' Ambrosio ' and ' Itala Film '.

The term Neorealism was used for the first time for Luchino Visconti ’ s Ossessione ( 1943 ): it is considered by many to be the first Italian neorealist film.

With the release of 1958's Hercules, starring American bodybuilder Steve Reeves, the Italian film industry gained entree to the American film market.

Due to the success of the James Bond film series the Italian film industry made large amounts of imitations and spoofs in the Eurospy genre from 1964-1967.

Poliziotteschi ( Italian pronunciation: ) films constitute a sub-genre of crime and action film that emerged in Italy in the late 1960s and reached the height of their popularity in the 1970s.

* 1909 – Riccardo Freda, Italian film director ( d. 1999 )

Agfa began to produce motion picture film in 1913, but remained a largely local supplier until World War I boycotts of popular French, American and Italian film stocks allowed the UFA film studio to flourish, boosting Agfa's orders.

Federico Fellini (; January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993 ) was an Italian film director and scriptwriter.

The Vatican's official press organ, l ' Osservatore Romano, lobbied for censorship while the Board of Roman Parish Priests and the Genealogical Board of Italian Nobility attacked the film.

Category: Italian film directors

The film The Big Blue, directed by Luc Besson in 1988, was inspired by his life story ( and the life story of the Italian diver Enzo Maiorca ); Mayol was one of the screenwriters.

However, the considerable box office success of Enzo Barboni's They Call Me Trinity and the pyramidal one of its follow-up Trinity Is Still My Name gave the Italian filmmakers a new model to emulate.

and the produced and co-directed My Name is Nobody in 1968 did very well at the Italian box-office but did not inspire the industry to imitations like his first three did.

Madonna ( Italian: My Lady ) may refer to:

In 2010, Loren played her own mother in a two-part Italian television miniseries about her early life, directed by Vittorio Sindoni, entitled La Mia Casa È Piena di Specchi ( translated My House Is Full of Mirrors ), based on the memoir written by her sister Maria.

* Italian — Bandabardò: " La fine di Pierrot " (" The End of Pierrot "), from Tre passi avanti ( 2004 ); Gigi Finizio: " Pierrot ", from A te donna ( 1984 ); Litfiba: " Pierrot e la luna " (" Pierrot and the Moon "), from 17 RE ( 1987 ); Matia Bazar: " Mio bel Pierrot " (" My Lovely Pierrot "), from Il tempo del sole ( 1980 ); Novembre: " Come Pierrot " (" Like Pierrot "), from Novembrine Waltz ( 2001 ); Patty Pravo: " Come un Pierrot " (" Like a Pierrot " ).

She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit " Come On-a My House " written by William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian ( better known as David Seville, the father figure of Alvin and the Chipmunks ), which was followed by other pop numbers such as " Botch-a-Me " ( a cover version of the Italian song Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina by Alberto Rabagliati ), " Mambo Italiano ", " Tenderly ", " Half as Much ", " Hey There " and " This Ole House ", although she had success as a jazz vocalist.

Numerous films have been made at Twickenham since the end of Hagen's tenure including Carol Reed's The Stars Look Down in 1939, In the 1960s classic films such as Alfie starring Michael Caine, The Italian Job in 1969 with Noël Coward, Roman Polanski's first English language film in 1965 Repulsion ; Be My Guest in 1965, featured Jerry Lee Lewis an early appearance by the young actor Steve Marriott and The Nashville Teens.

Sachs wrote that an Italian journalist, Raffaele Calzini, said Toscanini told him, " My son Walter sent me the test pressing of the Ninth from America ; I want to hear and check how it came out, and possibly to correct it.

Her second UK No. 1 success, " You're My World ", was an English language rendition of the Italian popular song, " Il Mio Mondo ".

They Call Me Trinity () also known as My Name Is Trinity, is a 1970 Italian spaghetti western film starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer.

* Every Man Is My Enemy ( 1967 ; Italian: Qualcuno ha tradito )

From 1961 to 1981 it provisionally replaced (" When You Call, My Country ", French ; Italian, Romansh ) the anthem by Johann Rudolf Wyss ( 1743 – 1818 ) which was set to the melody of God Save the Queen.

Next to numerous translated poems and some prose texts of other writers published in journals, she translated into Slovene language a book of poetry of Italian poet Michele Obit ( Leta na oknu, ZTT EST, Trieste, 2001, ISBN 88-7174-054-8 ), a selection of poetry of Argentinian poet Roberto Juarroz for a book Vertikalna poezija ( Vertical Poetry-with her introduction, ŠZ, Ljubljana, 2006, ISBN 961-242-035-1 ), a book of Gao Xingjian ( Ribiška palica za starega očeta / Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather, 1986 – 1990, from French together with Drago Braco Rotar ) ( Didakta, Radovljica, 2001, ISBN 961-6363-62-X ), a book of poetry written by Lithuanian poet Neringa Abrutyte ( Izpoved, CSK, Aleph, Ljubljana, 2004, ISBN 961-6036-50-5 ) and a book of fairy-tails for kids by Lucy Coats ( 100 grških mitov za otroke / Atticus the Storyteller, 2004 ; MK, Ljubljana, 2004, reprinted in 2009, ISBN 978-86-11-16964-4.

although he's of Spaniard and Italian descent and raised in Mexico ), José Feliciano, ( folk rock singer and guitarist well known for infusing Light My Fire into Latin America ), Briel & Dagmar, Wilkins Vélez, Nydia Caro, Ednita Nazario, Lucecita Benítez, Obie Bermúdez, Ricky Martin, Luis Fonsi, Yolandita Monge and Noelia.

Rush published a diary of his frustrating time in Italy titled My Italian Diary, 1989.

" Blues singer Luella Miller recorded " Dago Hill Blues " about the area in 1926 and Charlie Patton referenced it in his 1934 single " Love My Stuff ;" at the time, the area was of mixed Italian and African-American ethnicity.

There's A Girl In My Soup was a long-running comedy opening in 1966 at the Globe Theatre ( now called the Gielgud Theatre ) and running for over 1, 000 performances, then becoming a worldwide smash hit with long runs on Broadway, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Sydney, Rome ( starring the famous Italian singer-songwriter-actor Domenico Modugno ), Vienna, Prague and many other places.

Many of his English-language records were released there and proved quite successful, especially " Crying My Heart Out For You " ( Italian No. 6, 1959 ) and " Oh!

The theme tune used in the beginning of both series and during the closing credits for the first is an excerpt from the spaghetti western My Name Is Nobody, composed by the Italian film composer Ennio Morricone.

Shortly thereafter, her autobiography Makeba: My Story was published and subsequently translated from English into other languages including German, French, Dutch, Italian and Spanish.

Awards that he has won for his work include the Francis Williams Book Illustration Award for Alice in Wonderland, the American Society of Illustrators ' Certificate of Merit, the W H Smith Illustration Award for I Leonardo, the Dutch Silver Paintbrush Award for Inspector Mouse, the Italian Critica in Erba Prize for That's My Dad, the BBC Design Award for postage stamps, the Black Humour Award in France, and several Designers and Art Directors Association Awards.

Upcoming projects include collaborations with ex-New Order member Peter Hook's Freebass, a guest spot on Joaquin Phoenix's rap album and Italian ghetto-tech duo The Crookers appear in 2009 as well as credit of Producer for new London band Hatcham Social, working with them on their double A single Til The Dawn / Penelope ( Under My Hat ) and debut album-You Dig The Tunnel And I'll Hide The Soil released in March 2009.

* 1963-Who Stole My Provolone / Hootennany Italian Style

* 1964-I Want To Hold Your Hand ( Italian Style ) / My Paisan's Across The Way

Charles Tessier dedicated his book of part-songs in French and Italian, Le premier livre de chansons, to " Madame Riche ", commending ( in Italian ) her musical judgement, and John Dowland composed " My Lady Rich's Galliard " in her honour.