'Gomorra' to represent Italy at Oscars

ROME (AP): Italy's film board has chosen ``Gomorra,'' director Matteo Garrone's study of the criminal underworld in Naples, as the country's hopeful for best foreign language film at the Academy Awards. ``Gomorra'' won second place at the Cannes Film Festival this spring. It is based on a book by Roberto Saviano, whose expose on the Naples-based Camorra crime syndicate forced him... [read full story]