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Alida Valli, Italy's sweetheart
Alida Valli, the "Italians' sweetheart," is the undisputed star of this nearly monographic issue of CulturaIdentità (March/April 2026). Twenty years after the death of the great Istrian actress, following the broadcast of the episode of "Inimitabili" on RAI that chronicled her life, the magazine edited by Edoardo Sylos Labini paints an in-depth portrait of this leading figure of twentieth-century Italian cinema. It begins with the fond memories of her nephew Pierpaolo De Mejo and delves into the biography of a great artist: the cinema of the "white telephones," recounted in an unmissable interview with Sylos Labini, taken from the episode of the Rai program...
Screenings of "Alida" 20 years after the Polesano actress's death
On Monday, April 27, Tuesday, April 28, and Wednesday, April 29, at 16:30 PM and 19:30 PM, the Giotto Cinema (Via Giotto, 8, Trieste) will screen the award-winning documentary "Alida" by Mimmo Verdesca, in memory of the great Istrian actress Alida Valli (Pula 1921 - Rome 2006), 20 years after her death. It was one of the very few international documentaries to be officially selected for Cannes Classics 2020, the prestigious section of the Cannes Film Festival dedicated to narratives about cinema, with the following motivation: "Director Mimmo Verdesca paints with great delicacy and affection the portrait of an Italian actress with a destiny and a...
The documentary film on Alida Valli was presented at Villa Colombaia in Ischia.
As part of the 2025 Ischia Film Festival, the documentary film "Alida" about the life of Alida Valli was presented on Wednesday, July 2nd at La Colombaia. This unique location is known for the bond Valli had with Luchino Visconti, her home on Ischia. A charming and intellectually atmospheric place, nestled in a park, divided between rooms and windows that offer cinematic sunsets. The screening was introduced by film critic Alessandro Cuk, vice president of Cinit (Italian Film Forum, the national association of film culture) and of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, as well as author of the book "Alida Valli, from Pola to Hollywood and...
Special Screening of “Alida” at the Ischia Film Festival
Venicefilm is pleased to announce that the documentary film “Alida”, directed by Mimmo Verdesca, has been selected at the Ischia Film Festival for a special screening dedicated to Alida Valli, on July 2, in the splendid Villa La Colombaia in Forio d'Ischia. A heartfelt tribute to her art and to the deep bond that the great Istrian actress had for the island of Ischia, in a place steeped in memory and meaning, where the ashes of Maestro Luchino Visconti, a great friend of the actress, rest. "Alida" was made in co-production with Kublai Film, in association with Istituto Luce Cinecittà and in collaboration with Rai...
Female Cinema at the Italian Film Festival in Rovinj
The 21st edition of the Italian Film Festival was inaugurated in the Sala Maggiore of the Italian Community “Pino Budicin” in Rovinj. This year's program focuses entirely on the figure of the “plural feminine”, with a selection of films that have marked the history of Italian cinematography, whose protagonists of this edition are the extraordinary interpreters of comedies and dramatic films. This year's edition of the Italian Film Festival is curated by Sabrina Benussi and is organized in collaboration with the “Circolo del cinema di Adria”, which since 2019, the year in which Emanuela Finesso took over the presidency, who still...
Alida Valli and the countercurrent stars
Back on newsstands after the summer break, Cultura identità, the monthly magazine founded and directed by Edoardo Sylos Labini, focuses in this September issue on the 90th anniversary of the Venice Film Festival and on the great Italian stars who went against the grain. On the cover, signed by Beatrice Buonaiuto, the most magnetic gaze of Italian Cinema of all time: Alida Valli. The Istrian diva of Telefoni Bianchi who said no to Hollywood is told by her grandson Pierpaolo De Mejo, who gives us an unpublished and emotional memory of his grandmother. Then Marcello Mastroianni, Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone “painted” by Raffaella Salamina, Alvaro Gradella and Francesco...
“The Istrian Trilogy in Franco Giraldi’s Cinema” at the Casa del Ricordo
On Friday 5 November at 17:00 pm at the Casa del Ricordo (Via di San Teodoro, 72 – Rome) the provincial committee of Rome of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmazia is organizing the presentation of the book by Alessandro Cuk (National Vice President of Anvgd and film critic) “The Istrian trilogy in the cinema of Franco Giraldi” (Alcione, Venice 2021). This book, also presented at the 2021 Venice Film Festival, focuses on three films by the recently deceased filmmaker from Gorizia, taken from stories set in Istria, of which some clips will be screened: The red rose (1973), from a novel by Pier Antonio Quarantotti...
The stall ended by talking about the Exodus, the Foibe and Alida Valli
Yesterday at the Bancarella was a day dedicated to memorials, on the last day of the event organized by the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture (CDM) in collaboration with the Provincial Committee of Trieste of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia. Over the course of the four days, the event attracted hundreds of people to the marquee in Piazza Sant'Antonio, always within the limits of the number allowed by the restrictions related to Covid. "From memories to history", this was yesterday's theme, during which the journey of the exiles was retraced once they had been exodused in the various camps...
Bancarella 2021: female perspectives on the Adriatic and closing dedicated to the Exodus
A day entirely dedicated to women, the third of the Bancarella 2021 Salone del Libro dell'Adriatico Orientale, the event organized in Trieste by the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture (CDM) in synergy with the Provincial Committee of Trieste of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia. “Queen” of the women of the Eastern Adriatic (Saturday's theme) was chef Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, received in the marquee of Piazza Sant'Antonio in Trieste like a real star. Young and old, young and old crowded (as much as possible given the period) the interior and immediate exterior of the...
A garden for Alida Valli at the Venice Lido
The green area adjacent to the Casino building will soon be named after the actress, who already won the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 1997 and is an icon of cinema. A tribute to an icon of the seventh art, in a place that is a symbol of Italian and world cinema: the Venice Lido. There are just over two weeks to go until the inauguration of the 78th Exhibition and recently the Venice City Council decided to name the green area adjacent to the Casino building, between Piazzetta Nicolò Spada and Via delle Quattro Fontane, after the legendary Alida Valli. Already a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 1997, her name will give even more value to one of the most significant places of the Exhibition and of...
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