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- Quentin Tarantino heavily criticised New Italian Cinema, saying that, ” “Recent films I’ve seen are all the same. They talk about boys growing up, or girls growing up, or couples having a crisis, or vacations of the mentally impaired.”
- Italian mainstream cinema is mostly made of films which prove to be popular thanks to easy plots and comedic/romantic themes. So, we have box office smashes like L’ultimo bacio (The last kiss) by Gabriele Muccino, which has also been remade by Hollywood; and other commercially successful rom-coms/dramas like Tre metri sopra il cielo (Three meters above the sky) and Notte prima degli esami (Night before the finals). Equally successful are the holiday-themed comedies, which feature cheap irony, constant sexual references and variations of the same plot.
- The decades of 1970s and 1980s brought along a profound crisis in the cinema of the whole Europe, mainly because of the advent of television and the diffusion of privately –owned broadcasters. Moreover, because of the deep connection between Italian cinema and society, the situation of uncertainty, confusion and sometimes, outright dismay and concern caused by Italian politics has caused an equal state of crisis in the film industry.
- Italian film production properly began in 1905 with the production by Alberini and fellow exhibitor Dante Santoni of La Presa di Roma (The Capture of Rome), Italy’s first dramatic film.
Lydia A 