Italian Cinema Today

Written by Sergio Ragone After more than a year of closures caused by the fight against Covid, Italian catering restarts from Made in Italy and from the excellence of the territory. An example of how this strategy is successful is offered to us by the newly created platform "Officine La Rossa," a hub of Lucanian food and wine excellences, which recently opened in Rotonda, a village of extraordinary beauty and home of the excellent red aubergine DOP.  The creator of the project, which makes use of the collaboration with the Lucanian Coldiretti, is Franco Bruno who presented the basic idea of the Officine as follows: "Our challenge is to welcome the many tourists who come to Rotonda every year in the Pollino Park," explained Bruno. He went on to say, "In this structure, they can taste the best of agri-food products made in Basilicata; an initiative that aims to promote the best synergies between sustainable tourism and food combined with the typical hospitality o...

The trailer for a highly anticipated documentary film was recently presented at the 73rd Venice Film Festival. L'eleganza del cibo . Tales about food and fashion" is the product of an exhibition curated by Stefano Dominella that took place in Rome last year and then hit the road for a tour, which included a stop at the Chelsea Markets in New York City. The focus of both the exhibit and the film is on the relationship between food and fashion with many fashion items taking on a food theme. The exhibit and film also explore the presence and the importance of food in just about every aspect of life, whether the effect is positive or negative. Through clothing, accessories, photographs, videos, holograms, video mapping and visual-art, the creators of the exhibit and film have forged a path, which uncovers the extent to which fashion draws inspiration from nutrition.         I had a lot of questions about this unique ...