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President Giorgio Napolitano on Wednesday nominated Enrico Letta, the deputy head of the Democratic Party, as prime minister, tasked with forming a government to lead the country out of weeks of political impasse after inconclusive national elections.
Claudio Giovannesi studied film directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Italy’s national cinema school. After graduating, he sneaked onto the sets of Matteo Garrone, the director of "Gomorra," to see how he worked. Giovannesi believes in taking a documentary-type approach to his fiction projects. Through that he attempts to learn as much as possible about the real-life setting that he explores in his features.
Over 100 films are being screened during the Tribeca Film Festival in New York this week, and this is the one we’d vote for if we were jurors: The Director: An Evolution in Three Acts. The documentary goes behind the normally-private world of Gucci creative director Frida Giannini’s design process to show her involvement in directing everything, from selecting final looks for runway shows to auditioning models (watch the trailer above). “
Always far flung, the Tribeca Film Festival reaches north and east this year, to MoMA PS1 in Queens, site of “Alberi,” an installation by the celebrated Italian artist and filmmaker Michelangelo Frammartino.
The pause button was hit once more on Tuesday evening as Italians waited to hear who will be tapped to form a government following a round of swift talks between re-elected President Giorgio Napolitano and Italy's parties.
The United States is "very happy" that Giorgio Napolitano has been re-elected Italian president to usher in a new government after two months of post-election stalemate, Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday.
When you are in a hole, stop digging. A wind of change is in the air. Yes, it is a mixture of tired old metaphors but that was the scolding and entirely justified message on Monday to Italy’s political class from a tired old man: face reality, he said; bring in long-delayed reforms; tell the truth.
Silvio Berlusconi's center-right indicated on Tuesday that it would consider backing the young center-left mayor of Florence Matteo Renzi as Italian prime minister after his name was suggested by the center-left Democratic Party (PD).
Italy's president held urgent talks on Tuesday aimed at naming a prime minister to head a coalition government backed by the rival parties on the center-left and center-right and end two months of post-election stalemate.
A group of activists were arrested Monday after they broke into an American military installation under construction in Sicily and climbed a giant antenna. Authorities say that at least seven people climbed over the fence surrounding the site to protest construction of a controversial US military satellite-communications system in the Sicilian town of Niscemi