VENICE, ItalyVENICE, Italy — Giuseppe Tornatore’s heartfelt tribute to his Sicilian hometown, “Baaria,” could be about anyone’s hometown, as long as it’s the center of their universe, the director ...

The most Italian of current-day filmmakers is actually Sicilian. Giuseppe Tornatore, the man who made “Cinema Paradiso,” lays this fact out there in exhaustive — and sometimes exhausting — detail in ...

The Venice Film Festival got under way Wednesday with an epic and sentimental homage to the Sicilian Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore. By Eric J. Lyman, The Associated Press VENICE — The 66th ...

Italy’s movie and political worlds made for an explosive mix as the 66th Venice Film Festival kicked off Wednesday with Giuseppe Tornatore’s ambitious Sicilian epic “Baaria.” “Baaria,” the first ...

Italy's main animal rights group has asked prosecutors to stop further screenings of Giuseppe Tornatore's film "Baaria" because it features the gruesome slaughtering of a bull. By Daniele Mari, ...

Tight-lipped Tornatore is describing “Baaria” as “a very funny comedy with a melancholy touch.” Tale is understood to revolve around a couple in the Sicilian village between the 1930s and the 1970s, ...

Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore and Medusa Film CEOGiampaolo Letta unveiled the first details of Tornatore's $30.7m (Euro 20m) film Baaria that has been tightly under wraps since the project's ...

Cinema Paradiso (1988), Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore’s lyrical, semi-autobiographical story of a Sicilian childhood, charmed audiences worldwide. His latest film, Baaria, attempts to create a ...

ROMEROME — Organizers say this year’s Venice Film Festival will open with “Baaria,” a movie by Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore on his native Sicilian town. It is the first time in two ...

Giuseppe Tornatore's heartfelt tribute to his Sicilian hometown, "Baaria," could be about anyone's hometown, as long as it's the center of their universe, the director says. "Baaria," an epic tale ...

Baaria, directed by Italy's Giuseppe Tornatore, who won an Oscar in 1990 for Cinema Paradiso, will open this year's Venice Film Festival. It is the first time in 20 years that an Italian film has ...

Giuseppe Tornatore's heartfelt tribute to his Sicilian hometown, "Baaria," could be about anyone's hometown, as long as it's the center of their universe, the director says. "Baaria," an epic tale ...