Who’s hot right now? These guys are.
Alba Rohrwacher is everywhere these days and becoming one of Italy’s hottest properties. She starred in her sister Alice’s Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winner Le Meraviglie, won best actress at the Venice Film Festival for the English language film, Hungry Hearts, and stars in the soon to be released Tale of Tales, Matteo Garrone’s new English language film.
Having won literally every award available to an Italian movie star, Alba Rohrwacher is someone who Americans should get to know. Watch her today in Silvio Soldini’s Cosavogliodipiù (Come Undone) with Pierfrancesco Favino.
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Paolo Virzì’s a director that has been making great movies for a long time and this year for the second time one of his films is Italy’s submission to the Academy Awards.
If you want to be in on the next big thing, watch for Il Capitale Umano (Human Capital) in your city; it’s still making the rounds in the US.
Luigi Lo Cascio is not just my favorite actor, he’s in big demand these days and everything he does, he does well, from directing (La Città Ideale) to stage (this year, Othello), to starring in three of the best movies of 2014 (Il Capitale Umano, Marina, and I Nostri Ragazzi).
An Academy Award would be the icing on the cake of a brilliant career, starting with I Cento Passi and La Meglio Gioventù. Watch for him in Francesca Archibugi’s newest Il Nome del Figlio with Valeria Golino and Alessandro Gassman.
Watch him today in Salvo, the award-winning film from Antonio Piazza and Fabio Grassadonia.
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Asia Argento is horror director Dario Argento’s daughter but making a name for herself these days and clearly a force to be reckoned with. Sometimes I think my father gave me life because he needed a lead actress for his films.
She directed the 2014 film Incompresa (Misunderstood), selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, and she says she wants to stay behind the camera.
Toni Servillo, Paolo Sorrentino’s muse, is one of the finest actors working today. Star of last year’s Academy Award winning La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty), Toni’s other work is equally impressive and much of it easy to find in the US. If you haven’t yet seen it, try Sorrentino’s Il Divo.
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