Big heart, passion for his Neapolitan identity, and pure feelings; marked mimicry, gestures, and a genuine Neapolitan dialect, which brought him closer to the people, characterized Massimo Troisi, an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Selected for the Berlinale Specials sidebar, the documentary plays at a sold-out screening on Saturday, on the eve of what would ...

On the day he would have turned 73, the legend of Massimo Troisi comes alive again in the heart of his Naples through a ...

The upcoming June 4th marks thirty years since the disappearance of Massimo Troisi. The weekly magazine Oggi on newsstands has interviewed his historic partner, Anna Pavignano, screenwriter of all the ...

The centerpiece of the American Cinematheque’s Nothing Left to Do but Cry: The Films of Massimo Troisi is inevitably the 1995 Oscar-nominated “The Postman” (Il Postino), which will be shown Saturday ...

Veteran auteur Mario Martone, whose Naples-set drama “Nostalgia” launched last year from Cannes, has quite a lot in common with Massimo Troisi, Italy’s beloved late comic actor-director who is best ...

Gloria Vocaturo takes it upon herself with her book 'Troisi, 'O ssaje comme fa 'o core', to bring together characters from the world of literature, journalism, and entertainment in a single event. 'In ...

With "Laggiù qualcuno mi ama" (international title: "Somebody Down Here Likes Me") Mario Martone presents an exceptionally beautiful documentary about Massimo Troisi at the 73rd Berlinale. Here is our ...

Italian auteur Mario Martone, who was recently in Cannes with “Nostalgia,” is set to direct a high-profile doc about the late Massimo Troisi, one of Italy’s most beloved comic actors who starred in ...

When edgy, groundbreaking comedians die young, they often achieve a sort of posthumous sainthood. Think of John Belushi or Andy Kaufman in the US, Tony Hancock in Britain, Coluche in France. Or ...

EXCLUSIVE: Italian director Mario Martone, who has been on the festival and awards circuit over the past year with Oscar submission and Cannes title Nostalgia, is at the Berlinale with his passion ...