Compelling if messily constructed, Kim Longinotto’s Shooting the Mafia tells the story of 83-year-old photographer Letizia Batteglia who took on the Sicilian mafia in graphic detail thanks to brave ...

Beyond the Fulcis, Bavas and Argentos of the world, I have to confess that my experience of Italian cinema is very limited, so I’m coming to this boxset of Damiano Damiani and Franco Nero’s ...

The films of director Franco Maresco (“Belluscone: A Sicilian Story”) are an acquired taste, rarely developed by non-Italian palates, and “The Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be” is a prime example.

Italian auteur and Cannes veteran Marco Bellocchio, whose melodrama “Sweet Dreams” screened in Directors’ Fortnight, will make a high-profile film about Tommaso Buscetta, the first high-ranking ...

2001-01-21 04:00:00 PDT Cinisi, Sicily-- When Giuseppe Impastato was barely a teenager, he began defying his father -- no big deal, perhaps, even in this sleepy Sicilian village, except that his ...

Italians think hard about what they want on their graves. Traditionally, the elderly would book a special session with a photographer to have a picture taken for the headstone; they try to look their ...

O siciliano Matteo Messina Denaro, o último padrinho da Cosa Nostra, detido nesta segunda-feira depois de ter vivido 30 anos na clandestinidade, era um assassino implacável, que mandava tanto em ...

Killers gunned down a Mafia boss in Sicily on Monday as the Cosa Nostra flexed its muscles on the eve of the 25th anniversary of one of its most notorious murders. Giuseppe Dainotti, 67, was shot in ...