John J. Puccio

If you enjoyed Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore’s Oscar-winning “Cinema Paradiso,” that fond remembrance of childhood and the movies, then you may also like his 2000 entry in approximately the same style, “Malena.” A period piece set at the beginning of…

Not every fruit falls from the tree fully ripened. Not every artist creates a masterpiece the first time out. It took Woody Allen the better part of a decade to hone his style well enough to produce a genuine classic.…