Plot: Giancarlo De Cataldo's best-selling tale about three lifelong friends effectively take control of organized crime in modern-day Rome comes to the screen in this sweeping crime drama from director Michele Placido. Read More
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The Italian film awards were handed out over the weekend, and the two big winners were Nanni Moretti's The Caiman (which will be shown in competition at Cannes next month) and Crime Novel, director Michele Placido sprawling look at gangsterism in Italy....
Open Roads is an all-too-brief survey of new Italian cinema presented annually by New York's Film Society of Lincoln Center. Now in it sixth year, the series offers a wide selection of films, most of which will never see distribution in the US; this...
Please see installment one for the first part of this interview. Part two starts where yesterday's segment left off, and features Crime Novel costar Pierfrancesco Favino speaking more generally about acting, Italian culture, and his career.Again, please...
Crime Novel, an Italian film that had its North American premiere recently at the Tribeca Film Festival, is an epic, in-depth look at the rise and fall of a real-life Roman crime syndicate. Taking just a few central figures as its focus, the movie covers...
Recently honored with 14 nominations and eight wins at the Italian film awards, Crime Novel is a gangster film with something of an epic feel, despite a seemingly narrow focus on a small group of friends. Beginning in the late 1960s, when all of its...

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