With the Academy Awards coming up three weeks from today, I’m thinking of handing out a statuette of my own. It would go to a 1949 Italian movie entitled “Bitter Rice.” The category would be “Best ...

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Inspired by my Nonna's love of rice — and the first film she ever starred in, "Bitter Rice" — this dish combines saffron, radicchio and cranberries for a balance of color and flavor. I order risotto ...

Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, ...

Giuseppe De Santis’s 1949 film hasn’t aged all that well, but it does contain wrinkles that offer their own satisfactions.