Mark Franchetti and Andrew Meier were about to give up on their quest to tell the story of a soldier in the Sicilian Mafia who famously broke the code of silence when they discovered an important ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TORONTO — The original gangster-turncoat, Sicilian-born mob boss Tommaso Buscetta was the star witness in the biggest anti-Mafia ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Italian auteur and Cannes veteran Marco Bellocchio, whose melodrama “Sweet Dreams” screened in Directors’ Fortnight, will make a ...

Marco Bellocchio’s political drama 'The Traitor' revisits Italy’s big mafia trials through the angry eyes of Pierfrancesco Favino’s Tommaso Buscetta, a man of honor turned state’s evidence. By Deborah ...

“Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in!” Those words, emphatically spoken by Al Pacino, may be the only thing most folks remember from “The Godfather, Part III.” And they echo a theme ...

The 1986 Maxi Trial, in which 475 members of the Sicilian Mafia, known as Cosa Nostra, were indicted for their crimes, is an event absolutely ripe for cinematic adaptation. Held in a bunker of a ...

His testimony was a pivotal moment in history. Who is Tommaso Buscetta? The new documentary, Our Godfather, focuses on Buscetta, a top-level Mafia boss, who was the first of his title to testify ...

The family of Tommaso Buscetta, whose testimony figured in hundreds of Mafia convictions, agreed to appear in a new documentary. By Charles V. Bagli In 2015, Roberto Buscetta had been hiding for ...

It would seem to be hard to make a Mafia movie that bores, but Marco Bellocchio's "The Traitor" accomplishes this rare feat. Imagine making a movie about Al Capone, except the whole film takes place ...