VERY FUNNY THINGS. NEW AMERICAN COMEDY is the title of the thematic retrospective to be dedicated by this year's San Sebastian Festival to new trends in American comedy movies. Comedy, a genre that already had an extremely long-standing Hollywood tradition, has seen a revival in recent decades thanks to a contemporary angle with place for irreverence, non-political correctness and social satire. A new generation of directors, screenwriters, actors and comedians have become today's...

The American director John Landis, author of the cult-movie "The Blues Brothers" and the movie-clips seen in history "Thriller" (actor Michael Jackson), crown Zucchero "Sugar" Fornaciari 'King of Italian blues' by delivering the "Global Music Award "on Monday July 13 in Forio d'Ischia. The culminating event of the second day of the seventh Ischia Global Film & Music Fest, will see the presence of so many other big music world beginning with Sting and Paul Young with Zucchero has collaborated sev...