Movies
A father is reunited with the seriously disabled son he abandoned in Gianni Amelio’s restrained, realistic ‘The Keys to the House.’
Dec. 22, 2004
An Italian director receives a performance of quiet strength and humor from a teen with multiple disorders.
Dec. 26, 2004
With more emotion than narrative, director Gianni Amelio follows a man’s sacrifices for his brother in a tumultuous Italy.
Feb. 8, 2002
The opening scenes of “Intrepido: A Lonely Hero” promise a sharp parable about workaday economic realities.
May 21, 2015
“Il Ladro di Bambini” translates as “Stolen Children,” but what is really stolen in this spare, faultless and almost magisterially melancholy Italian film is childhood itself.
March 12, 1993
Movie review: The Italian film is a touching story of personal and national identity set against the misery of Albania.
June 13, 1996
Peter Weir’s “Dead Poets Society” was named best foreign film over the weekend at the David of Donatello awards, Italy’s version of Hollywood’s Academy Awards.
June 4, 1990
‘Poets Society’ Gets Italian Oscar: Peter Weir’s “Dead Poets Society” was named best foreign film at the David of Donatello awards, Italy’s version of Hollywood’s Academy Awards.
June 5, 1990
“Open Doors,” the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, is an unusually rigorous and intelligent movie.
March 8, 1991
The American Cinematheque’s nine-film weekend offering “Italian Cinema Now” begins Friday at 7 p.m. at the Directors Guild, 7920 Sunset Blvd., with Gianni Amelio’s Oscar-nominated “Open Doors,” the 1989 film about a judge’s fight to save a murderer from the death penalty.
June 10, 1992