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La Dolce Vita: Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni in a scene from Federico Fellini’s 1960 film available on Curzon Home Cinema.
Curzon Home Cinema: vivid selection of films to rent online

In 2017 the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) quite rightly recognised Curzon with an award for outstanding British contribution to (...)

Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli poses at the British embassy in Rome before receiving the medal of knighthood from the British ambassador to Italy in 2004. File photograph: Paolo Cocco/AFP/Getty Images
Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli dies at 96

Franco Zeffirelli, who directed the world’s greatest opera singers and brought Shakespeare to the cinema-going masses, has died. He was 96. In a stat(...)

Top of the list: Seven Samurai, directed by Akira Kurosawa. His Rashomon came in at No. 4
The 100 greatest foreign-language films revealed

Over the last few years, BBC Culture has been asking the world’s critics – including this writer and my colleague Tara Brady – to vote for their 100 f(...)

Naples is back on the map as a go-to city, thanks to the popularity of enigmatic author Elena Ferrante.
In search of Elena Ferrante’s Naples

‘Naples,” the thread begins, “I’ve been there many times and it just seems to get worse. Everything is a scam and there are crooks and small gangsters(...)

Two Days, One Night review: Marion Cotillard’s everywoman gets all fired up

To the same extent as any broad fantasist, the Dardenne brothers have created a universe. It looks very like our own, but it still plays by the Belgia(...)