![]() ![]() It is way more interesting to take a look yourself at what Italy produced in recent years. Those golden days may be over, but of course the Oscars can hardly be considered a great quality indicator of a nation’s film industry. Besides, they still hold the record for receiving the biggest amount of foreign film Oscars: fourteen. Italy more or less dominated the best foreign film discourse from the 50’s up to the 80’s: between ’56 (the year the award was given for the first time) and ’81 an Italian film wasn’t nominated only four times. Hopefully Paolo Sorrentino put Italy back on the map as one of Europe’s (or the World’s) heavyweights in cinema, since we haven’t seen that many Fellini’s, Antonioni’s and Scola’s recently. La Grande Belezza was truly a masterpiece, but I will elaborate more on that later. About time, since the last Italian director who did so was Roberto Benigni with his sentimental but highly enjoyable La Vita é Bella in 1998. So at the 2014’s Academy Awards we finally saw a great new Italian film winning the Oscar for best foreign film again. Indeed, it is practically impossible to name just 10 great Italian movies, but we did it anyway. Written and directed by Richard Linklater, best known for Boyhood, Waking Life and Before Midnight, this beautifully animated movie is not only one of the best movies of 2022 but one of the best animated movies Netflix has ever released under its banner. Like France and Germany, Italy is among the European countries with a long and very rich film history. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood Picture: Minnow Mountain / Netflix. ![]() Related: Best new Spanish Movies in 2023 & 2022 (Netflix, Prime, Hulu & Cinema List) Best Italian TV Series out in 2023 & 2022 on Netflix & on TV The life and times of Silvio Berlusconi, one of the most controversial European leaders in contemporary history. Loro DIRECTOR: Paolo Sorrentino CAST: Riccardo Scamarcio, Toni Servillo, Chiara Iezzi Reluctant at first, Bianca is getting more and more attached to the old man and eventually unwilling to follow through with the initial plan Read more These ‘friends’, persuasive as they are, ask Bianca to help them rob an old, blind former actor (Rutger Hauer!) who lives alone in an isolated villa. ![]() The girl, who’s slightly older and thus has a stronger sense of responsibility, tries to cope with the situation the best she can, while she sees her brothers’ situation worsening as he befriends the wrong people. Netflix has ordered a new Italian original series titled Generation 56K from. Anyway, the story evolves around Bianca and Tomas, who’ve just become orphans after their parents died in a car crash. Because then you not only get a lot more Italian movies and shows. Il Futuro, which is based on Roberto Bolaño’s novel Una novelita lumpen, is a film that is hard to pigeonhole without using impossible and ultimately empty labels like ‘magical-realist coming-of-age crime romance’. Il Futuro DIRECTOR: Alicia Scherson CAST: Manuela Martelli ![]()
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