Anselmo Ballester: the painter who gave a face to Italian cinema
Rome, 1897–1974. Half a century of posters that made the history of the seventh art.
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Dracula the Vampire (1958): The Hammer Masterpiece Returns in 4K with Censored Scenes
There is something profoundly cinematic about what is about to happen. Almost seventy years after its release in British cinemas, those cinemas where, according to contemporary accounts, some audience members fainted during the screening, Dracula the Vampire (1958) is preparing to return. Restored in 4K. Uncut. With everything the censors had torn away.This is cinema being reborn. And art history coming back to breathe.
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Averardo Ciriello: life and works of a genius of movie posters
Averardo Ciriello (Milan, May 28, 1918 – Rome, November 5, 2016) was one of the greatest poster painters in the history of cinema. Over a career spanning nearly seventy years, he created around three thousand sketches for both the Italian and international markets. Today, on his birthday, it is the right moment to tell the story of his life, his works, and a talent that remained in the shadows for far too long.
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Prophetic cinema: 10 films from the past that already foresaw the future.
The ten titles that follow don't just tell stories: they pose questions about technology, media power and human nature that still remain unanswered today. If you haven't seen them, now is the time. If you've already seen them, perhaps it's time to watch them again with fresh eyes.
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Marilyn Monroe: 100 Years Ago a Legend Was Born
On June 1, 1926, Norma Jeane Mortenson was born. We celebrate her centenary with three original Italian hand-painted movie posters: The Asphalt Jungle, The Seven Year Itch, Bus Stop.
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Rome at 6 Frames per Second
How the Eternal City became the world's most beloved film set — and why its vintage posters are still the most beautiful way to keep it at home
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Boccaccesco Cinema and the Decameron of the 1970s
A journey through the bodies, the pranks and the lost innocence of the Decameron-style cinema of the 1970s: when the flesh became the screen before the advent of consumerist degradation.
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Billy Wilder: cinema's romantic cynicTranslated with https://laratranslate.com
From European exile to the legend of Hollywood: a journey through the cinema of a masterful director who has managed to combine cynicism, irony and profound human truth in unforgettable noir films and timeless comedies.
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Cinema and Furnishings
Film posters, vintage posters and film-inspired designs transform homes, hotels and modern spaces into environments full of style and personality.
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Western-style spaghetti
The Western myth reinvented by Italian cinema
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Noir: the dark side of cinema
A journey through shadows, desire and moral ambiguity: film noir as an unstable form of modern cinema, where every image conceals an incomplete truth and every story reveals the most fragile side of the human being.
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New Hollywood: When American cinema changed forever
A journey through the New Hollywood revolution, the movement that transformed American cinema between the 1960s and 1970s, with visionary directors, bolder stories and films destined to become legendary.
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Actresses and the invention of self
A journey through the great actresses of Italian cinema who, between Neorealism and the 1960s, transformed the face of femininity on the silver screen, redefining beauty, identity and freedom of expression.
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Nouvelle Vague: the French cinema that changed historyTranslated with https://laratranslate.com
A journey through French Nouvelle Vague, the movement that revolutionised cinematic language in the 1950s and 1960s with creative freedom, realism and visual innovation, leaving a legacy that lives on in cinema and in the art of vintage posters.
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Anna Magnani: the authentic face of Italian cinema
The story of Anna Magnani, an iconic actress of Neorealism, spanning cinema, theatre and an unvarnished truth
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The Peplum: when the legend came back to life on screen.
A journey through Italian Peplum cinema, exploring myth, heroic figures and imagination, at a time when cinema was reinventing antiquity.
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Movie world: when cinema set out to tell the story of the world (and ended up chasing it).
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Censorship and film posters: when posters were ‘censored’
There was a time, not so long ago, when even a cinema poster could disturb the peace.
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Erotic posters and 'red-light' playbills: desire painted on the walls.
Even before entering the auditorium, the viewer was touched, provoked, almost called by name by those immense images that heralded promises greater than the film itself.
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Italian Neorealism
When cinema portrayed real life.
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The Rediscovered Poster
A major project in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna
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Vintage Posters: Painted Film Posters 1930–1980
Brushes, colors, and talent: this is how the poster painters of the 20th century transformed cinema into iconic images. From Fellini’s masterpieces to the noir films of the 1960s, painted posters told an entire story at a single glance.
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Exhibition in Bologna: The Great Posters of Auteur Cinema
In Bologna, the restored posters by SacWebphoto are on display: twelve masterpieces of Italian cinema printed on canvas between history and visual art.
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