Two brothers who own a failing Italian restaurant in New Jersey host a big night dinner to save their business. Along the way, they experience sibling rivalry, adultery, and pursuit of the American dream.
Certified Copy tells the story of a man and a woman, played by William Shimell and Juliette Binoche, who meet in a small Italian village. The man is an art expert who has written a book about copies, and the woman is a French gallery owner. They spend a day together, pretending to be a long-married couple, visiting a local antique shop, a water fountain, and a cafe. Throughout their conversations, they discuss their own troubled relationships, reflecting on the nature of love, authenticity, and art. As the story unfolds, it becomes unclear whether the two characters are actually strangers or if they have a deeper connection. The film explores themes of identity, truth, and the complexity of human relationships.
The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes. There is also the mini-series version consisted of three 90 minutes episodes, broadcasted by RaiDue.
Actor Jeremy Irons embarks on an epic journey through the halls of the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, two hundred years after its inauguration, along corridors where thousands of masterpieces of all time tell the lives of rulers and common people, and tales about times of war and madness and times of peace and happiness; because, as Goya said, imagination, the mother of the arts, produces impossible monsters, but also unspeakable wonders.
The Lost Leonardo is a gripping tale of mystery, deceit, and intrigue surrounding the painting Salvator Mundi, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. This thought-provoking documentary explores the controversial history, the art market, and the various players involved in the sale and restoration of this iconic artwork.
A short film by Peter Greenaway. It depicts the painting The Wedding Feast at Cana by Paolo Veronese, through mixed media and shows different perspectives.
A look into the films and career of cult film director Bruno Mattei.
Some years before WWI, art historian and priest Ciril from Ljubljana and his friend Fritz set out on a journey through Italy. Ciril hopes that his doctorate on Italian art would provide him inner peace, thus starting a new life. Emotionally disturbed Fritz, on the other hand, tries to escape everyday life, as well as from commitment he has to his female friend.
A portrait of the artist as a "sublime demon with the archangel's face", with an innovative musique concrète soundtrack.
In 2014 a large painting representing Judith Beheading Holofernes was discovered in an attic in Toulouse, France. A controversy ensued immediately about the attribution of the painting's authorship to Caravaggio. The documentary follows a famed art expert in charge of organizing the sale of the painting on behalf of the owners, while specialists debate on its authenticity.
A businessman swims away from time and reality...
Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana draw on the suggestions of Sicilian popular culture and the great iconic heritage of Italian Neorealist cinema, reinventing these twin sources of inspiration in a perpetually renewed code of endless stylistic contamination.
Artist Taylor Denise sets out to make her first painting, which also happens to be her largest work to-date. As she embarks on this creative process of making shit because it looks cool, she's met with comradery, debauchery, and people's brains interrupting art whatever way they want to-ery.
Portrait of the Italian sculptor Donatello (1386-1466), a precursor of the High Renaissance who considerably influenced sculptural art with his innovative way of conceiving space. Donatello is already a legend in his own lifetime. The sculptor is the forefather of the High Renaissance and pioneer for artists such as Raphael or Michelangelo. His bronze sculpture of the "David" or the "Pazzi Madonna" in marble are icons of art history and testify to his sculptural power of renewal.
Two strangers uncover astonishing connections as they search for a mysterious Renaissance painting.
Music and images that have made advertising history in Italy. This is a beautiful collection containing the commercials that Mina made for Barilla from 1965 to 1970, featuring the work of the greatest Italian directors, costume designers and make-up artists. This series of commercials bears the signature of set designer and costume designer (and, for the occasion, also director) Piero Gherardi, who sets the Barilla commercials in unusual and evocative locations and creates very special and imaginative outfits for Mina.
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