A downtrodden man experiences an ethical crisis and travels back to his hometown in rural Italy to recalibrate his moral compass. There he finds new purpose in reviving his grandfather's old vineyard, offering the small town of Acerenza a sustainable future, and reconnecting with his estranged family in the process.

Ten years after the passing of his wife and creative partner, Jeanne-Claude, Christo sets out to realize *The Floating Piers*, a project they conceived together many years before. Boasting uncensored access to the artist and his team, WALKING ON WATER is an unprecedented look at Christo’s process, from the inception through to the completion of his latest large-scale art installation, a dahlia-yellow walkway atop Italy’s Lake Iseo that was eventually...

In this issue of Videofashion Collections, we’re back in Milan for more from the Spring/Summer 2015 collections! Versace delivers serious sex appeal for spring, with an optic reinterpretation of the house’s signature Medusa motif, and silhouettes that leave very little to the imagination. For his Spring 2015 Emporio Armani collection, Giorgio Armani explores 50 shades of … blue! Take a first look at Roberto Cavalli’s ready-to-travel Spring/Summer...

Nostalghia is Andrei Tarkovsky's brooding late masterpiece, a darkly poetic vision of exile. It was the first of his features to be made outside of Russia, the home to which he would never return. Tarkovsky explained that in Russian the word "nostalghia" conveys "the love for your homeland and the melancholy that arises from being far away." This debilitating form of homesickness is embodied in the film by Andrei (Oleg Yankovsky, The Mirror), a Russian...

A forgotten classic, Crime of love is a story about two factory workers living in Northern Italy who form a romantic connection. The woman, torn between the freedoms of the North and her traditional Sicilian values, slowly allows herself to love, then marry, her co-worker. Soon after her wedding, she dies as a result of industrial pollution from her job. The film gives a good idea of the north-south mentality clash in Italy. The workers from the...

In this issue of Videofashion Collections, streetwear meets sports in a high-energy runway show from Peter Dundas’ collection for Emilio Pucci. Katie Grand Loves Hogan! The Editor-in-Chief of Love Magazine designs her third capsule collection for Hogan, with a presentation of playful polka dots and heart-shaped logos on pastel hued fine leather pouches, handbags and the brand’s signature platform sneakers. The designer duo of Aquilano.Rimondi...

In this issue of Videofashion Collections, we touchdown in Milan for the third leg of our multi-city fashion tour! The 70s get sophisticated and ultra-luxe on Frida Giannini’s Gucci runway! Designer Antonio Marras takes eccentric artist Carol Rama as his spring muse. Take a first look at Philipp Plein’s otherworldly “Abyss Apocalypse” Spring 2015 runway. Plus, Roberto Cavalli celebrates freedom and love with his vibrant and youthful Just Cavalli...

An epic tragicomedy from director Lina Wertmuller (Seven beauties), Love and anarchy plumbs the depths of fascist Italy from the perspective of a simple farm boy sent to kill Mussolini. Giancarlo Giannini (The seduction of Mimi) won the best acting prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his achingly sensitive portrayal of Tunin, a freckle-faced innocent who became an accidental anarchist. His contact in Rome is Salomè (Mariangela Melato), a prostitute...

A rare masterpiece and a wonderful example of Italian cinema starring two European film icons, Simone Signoret and Marcello Mastroianni, Adua and her friends tells the story of four prostitutes forced to fend for themselves when a new law closes the bordellos of Rome. They pool their savings to open a trattoria, but find they cannot get a license. A prominent fixer with connections obtains the license for them, on the condition that they conduct their...

Inspired by Pythagoras's belief in four-fold transmigration, by which the soul is passed from human to animal to vegetable to mineral, Michelangelo Frammartino's wondrous docu-essay traces the cycle of life through the daily rituals of life in the southern Italian region of Calabria.